artscope magazine: March/April 2009 Welcome Statement: Brian Goslow, managing editor Letters to the Editor Master of Reality: Kanishka Raja, Angela Dufresne, Chie Fueki, Francesca DiMattio and Matthew Day Jackson BEBE BEARD: WITH OR WITHOUT YOU LAURA SCHIFF BEAN: JOURNEY ARTIST BIO: KATHY HALAMAKA AND GARY DUEHR SIDNEY HURWITZ: FIVE DECADES BÉATRICE DAUGE KAUFMANN SHELTER: UNIQUE VISIONS OF A UNIVERSAL SUBJECT THROUGH ARTIST'S BOOKS MASKS: THE MAGIC OF TRANSFORMATION KAYROCK & WOLFY: WHEN ART IMITATES LIFE IMITATION ART SHEPARD FAIREY: SUPPLY AND DEMAND AZ FINE ARTS PULL OF GRAVITY: PHOTOGRAPHS BY ELIJAH GOWIN AND EMMET GOWIN JUDITH SOWA: VERMEER REVISITED DEREK HARDING AND JASON GREEN NEW/NOW THE AMALGAMATE: NICOLE DUENNEBIER RENEWAL: PRINTMAKERS FROM THE NEW NORTHERN IRELAND MORE THAN BILINGUAL: WILLIAM CORDOVA AND MAJOR JACKSON GLASS MASTERS LUX PERPETUA: PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOSEPHINE SACABO PEARLS OF COTUIT: A COMMUNITY CELEBRATES ITS ARTISTS WHAT CAN A WOMAN DO? WOMEN, WORK, AND WARDROBE 1865 - 1940 CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF CASA DE LA CULTURA/CENTER FOR LATINO ARTS REDISCOVERING ART WITH KRISTINA BIRD SURVIVING IN A DOWNTURN

NEW/NOW THE AMALGAMATE: NICOLE DUENNEBIER Tayrn Plumb New Britain Museum of American Art 56 Lexington Street New Britain, Connecticut;/br> Through April 26 Woods of dusk and smoky brown shadows. A felled tree, ribbon of encircling red attracting moths, butterflies, caterpillars, dragonflies. Willowy and near transparent in the nighttime wilderness, they are greedy, festering, chewing. At the edge of the swirling feast, lizards — tongues lolling, bellies fat, gulping larvae. Entitled “Tumult,” this is a scene of life and death; growth and decay; beauty and revulsion. Its creator, young artist Nicole Duennebier, who graduated from the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts and the Maine College of Art and now lives in Somerville, Mass., explores such contradictions of the natural world in this exhibition. Her 21 canvases share a muted and dank color scheme: rust-charred reds, rotting browns, murky greens. The few bursts of vibrancy act as highlighters — flamboyant coral or crimson — and represent the rarity and fleeting quality of beauty. “Caviar Snare,” for instance, draws eyes with a formless, floating elegance of luminescent red caviar. Beneath it, in a rot of brown, shadows of antennaed bugs and slugs crawl and creep. Upon closer inspection, more can be seen in the haze — amoebas, Read the entire article in our magazine pages...