artscope magazine: July/August 2008 Welcome Statement: Brian Goslow, managing editor Letters to the Editor Past, Present, Future: ANISH KAPOOR ANDREW SAFTEL: How do we get there? WEDDED BLISS: The Marriage of Art and Ceremony A POLITIC, Gallery XIV El Greco To Velázquez: Art during the reign of Philip III Luisa Rabbia: Travels with Isabella, Travel Scrapbooks 1883/2008 Collector's Choice: Late 19th Century Vibrations OFF THE WALL: 2008 Annual members’ Juried exhibition Featured Artist Laurence Young An Artful Touch: An Artful Touch Gallery Everday Monuments: the Photographs of Jerome Liebling: SAM FEINSTEIN (1915-2003): A retrospective DORA ATWATER MILLIKIN: Geometry of Place Nancy Craig: New Paintings and Works on Paper, and Romolo Del Deo: New Sculpture and Bronze Furniture ALEX KATZ AND FRIENDS / THE GLEANERS BLACK WOMANHOOD: Images, Icons, And Ideologies of the African Body 215 College Street Artists' Cooperative Gallery Kevin Gilmore: Recent Paintings Paintings: Stephen Courbois, Sculpture: Pat Musick Penelope Jencks: Sculpture in Bronze, Terracotta and Plaster Theater: Counter Productions Theater: Ko FEST Music: Marblehead Summer Jazz Concerts and Festival of Arts Dance: Bates Summer Dance Festival Musings: FUNG WAH ADVENTURE Capsule Previews: May/June 2008

Penelope Jencks: Sculpture in Bronze, Terracotta and Plaster Hope Stockman BigTown Gallery 99 North Main Street Rochester, Vermont Through July 30 PENELOPE JENCKS’ SHOW AT THE BIGTOWN GALLERY IN ROCHESTER, WHICH IS LOCATED IN THE GREEN MOUNTAINS OF VERMONT ALONGSIDE THE WHITE RIVER, IS AN INTRIGUING JUXTAPOSITION OF HUMANITY AND NATURE, OR THE MINUSCULE AND THE MONUMENTAL. JENCKS’ SCULPTURES ON DISPLAY ARE FOCUSED ON SHAPE AND SCALE, AND INCLUDE MORE RECENT DUNE LANDSCAPES, AS WELL AS BEACH-GOING FIGURES DATING BACK TO THE 1970s. The theme in both series is attached to her childhood memories from summers spent on the coastal town of Wellfleet, Mass. Jencks still finds her inspiration from the Wellfleet seaside, where she keeps a studio. “The landscapes out here are the way things should be,” she said. As a child, Jencks’ parents and their bohemian friends would spend their summer days nude on the beach of this small Cape Cod town, engaging in intellectual banter about art and beauty. As such, the height and proportions of many of Jencks’ beach figures provide a child’s perspective of these towering, naked grown-ups. The figures channel universal childhood nostalgia for the seaside, as do the sweeping, almost maternal curves in her dune landscapes. “There are bodies in the dunes,” Jencks observed. “As a child, I thought that looking at the dunes was like looking at bodies.” Indeed, her dunescapes mimic the curves of reclining feminine forms, sometimes even literally, with an identifiable belly button here or there. However, Jencks is inspired as much by her memories as she is by the honesty of figures in a natural state of undress. “When a model takes a pose, it has Read the entire article in our magazine pages...