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Artscope publisher Kaveh Mojtabai has been raving about the “Therefore & Because: Decoding Norman Laliberté” exhibition at Montserrat College of Art’s Main Gallery, 23 Essex Street in Beverly on Massachusetts’ North Shore. The previously undisplayed collection, which is presented in six sections, includes traditional paintings and sculptures and less traditional painted burlap bags and books that utilize flowers, animals and “timeless figures” to present “universal themes” of life, beauty and love. “The theme behind the show tells a story of relationships and, at the same time, decodes the fundamental connections behind those relationships by referencing biblical tales, pagan games and ritual sacrifice, sexual communication, and the interplay between infinite dynamics and time,” Mojtabai said. With over 150 shows and design projects to Laliberté’s credit, including being design consultant for the memorable Vatican Pavilion at the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair (the sight of which is forever ingrained in this author’s memory), it’s well worth scheduling a weekday trip to catch this show that runs through July 26.
Few of our Cape Cod-based reviews don’t credit a Provincetown masters as being a guiding light for the artist profiled. While we’re spotlighting the current Sam Feinstein retrospective at the Cape Cod Museum of Art on Route 6A in Dennis elsewhere in this issue, we’d also like to direct
your attention to a show featuring disciples of Paul Resika at New York’s Parsons School of Design.
“Four Painters: one Common Ground” features passionate works by Donald Beal, Robert DuToit, David Paulson and Thaddeus Radell that can be seen through August 10 at the CCMA. Following Resika in taking artistic cues from Hans Hofmann, the four schooled, lived and studied together and, it would
seem, influenced each other’s work. “Our work differs as our natures differ, but there is a like spirit and feeling that runs through all the work and unites us,” Provincetown resident Beal noted in the show statement.
The scenic locale of Newport, with its high life mansions, music festivals, scenic views and art museum is an unlikely place for a landmark show devoted to inner city creativity. However, the Deblois Gallery at 136 Bellevue Avenue hopes to leave a lasting impression with “Street Art: In and out,” which will feature 23 artists. “Most are regional from Boston and Providence, but two are
from Connecticut, five from New York as well as one from Baltimore,” said gallery owner Ron Caplain. “All paint in the street tradition - some doing stickers, some spray can art, some stencils and some drawing and painting. Street art encompasses a great deal - and not just what we think of as graffiti and defacing property. These people are good artists - many of them are in the graphic arts business or are gallery artists.” The show runs from August 2 through September 2. Opening
night, which coincides with the Newport Folk Festival, and will run from 5 to 7 p.m., promises to be memorable. “Some of the artists (including the DBM Crew headed by Tips, D Dock and 5003) will be creating artwork in and on our gallery windows during the opening,” said gallery chair Kathy Armor. “Live, appropriate entertainment is also planned for the evening.”
Some other events to put on your summer calendars:
The Summer Stages Dance at Concord Academy cutting edge contemporary dance festival will
be present nothing but Boston area premiers from July 12 to 26 at 166 Main Street in Concord, Mass.;
affiliated performances will be given at the ICA Boston, Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline and a series of Tuesday night all-inclusive dinner and performance of “Showdown” by David Parker and the Bang Group at the Rialto in Cambridge. Full details at summerstagesdance.org.
The 16th rock river Studio Tour on the weekend of July 19 and 20 runs through the Southern Vermont
towns of Williamsville, Newfane and South Newfane, where 21 artists in a 12-mile radius will open their studios to visitors. Of the world class participating artists, Paula Melton said, “A museum visit resembles Rock River the way a stuffed lion resembles a safari.” There’s no better
way of saying how memorable your visit to this beautiful New England natural paradise will be. Download a tour map at rockriverartists.com.
That same weekend, Western Mass. painter Lorna ritz will be holding a studio art sale she’s calling “Breath of Summer” that’ll be held in her “Garden, Barn & Beyond” at 1245 South East Street in Amherst. She’s designating 10 percent of her sales to help the Myanmar cyclone victims through the Save the Children Fund. See her intense splashes of hot spicy color – originating from her visits to the warm climate of Columbia as well as our own unpredictable four seasons at lornaritz.com.
Ron Rosenstock’s “Fire and Ice” photographs of the landscapes of Death Valley and Iceland – which
aren’t as different as you’d think – can be experienced through July 28 at the Panoptican Gallery at the Hotel Commonwealth in Boston’s Kenmore Square.
artscope Magazine is proud to be a sponsor of the “Arts Affair on the Boardwalk” which will be held on August 2 and 3 at Marina Bay in Quincy, Mass. near our office and is expected to draw 7,000 art lovers. It’ll feature representation from many artists from art associations from throughout Massachusetts, including Dan MacCole, whose renderings of Jimmy’s Harborside and Red Sox slugger Big Papi David Ortiz should prove especially popular with buyers. Saturday’s hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. With Boston Harbor as the backdrop and free admission and parking, how can you go wrong?
Sculptor Andrew DeVries works have been displayed in the Chesterwood and Norman Rockwell museums; a
dozen of them are currently on view through September 30 in downtown Northampton. You can get a unique insight to the 2100 degree Fahrenheit process in which he creates his bronze sculptures when DeVries opens his studio on August 16 and 17 in the western Mass. town of Huntington at 36 East River Road. You can also see his work at DeVries Fine Art International, Inc. at 62 Church Street in Lenox. Directions for this wonderful summer roadtrip to the Berkshires can be found at andrewdevries.com.
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