artscope magazine: July/August 2010 Welcome Statement: Brian Goslow, managing editor cornered: a conversation with an art museum attendee featured artist - INGRID ELLISON: painting beyond nature through the lens - FRAMING THE CURATORIAL MIND: SURPRISING PAIRINGS FROM THE SMITH COLLEGE COLLECTION museum spotlight - CHASING THE IDEAL: CORNISH COLONY MUSEUM PRESERVES a Lesser-Known Legacy JOHN STORRS - machine-age modernist THE COLORS OF WHITE: PHOTOGRAPHS BY DEBBY KRIM IT TAKES A VILLAGE - TWO YOUNG VERMONTERS ARE PROOF POSITIVE Art Needs Community and Community Needs Art WIDE-ANGLE PAINTING, Joerg Dressler in Provincetown by way of these eyes - the sublime, exotic and familiar MENTOR | PUPIL | PUSH | PULL INDUSTRIAL INSPIRATION MINGLES WITH MAINE'S NATURAL MUSE A LABYRINTH LINE EXISTENCE - Amber Maida VOICEOVER: narrative in sculpture IN DELICATE BALANACE - GEORGE SHERWOOD A MIX OF MARRIAGES - couples exhibition features a wealth of talent and variety wanderlust - PORTSMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE: NO BETTER HARBOR wanderlust - A WEEKEND IN LOWELL, CITY OF CULTURE theater - LIVING THE COMMUNAL FAIRYTALE: DOUBLE EDGE THEATRE industry focus- portrait of the artists' mother: SUZANNE SCHULTZ AND THE ART OF REPRESENTATION Capsule Previews

industry focus- portrait of the artists' mother: SUZANNE SCHULTZ AND THE ART OF REPRESENTATION Mark Drummond Davis THE FIRST THING THAT SURPRISED ME ABOUT ARTIST REPRESENTATION MOVER AND SHAKER SUZANNE SCHULTZ WAS THAT SHE'S NOT A SHARK. After reading of her remarkable success, I arrived at our interview expecting to joust with a pushy careerist, but instead spent a cordial hour with a well-intentioned and endearing art lover. The second thing was that this flourishing businesswoman — whose Boston-based representation firm Canvas Fine Arts has accrued over 30 clients since its 2007 inception — spent over a decade outside the workforce as a stay-at-home mom. Ironically, Schultz cited these years as a major contributor to her success. Just as a mother will feed her children, support their goals, and oversee their activities (play dates, soccer practice, etc.), so Schultz cooks her clients lunch for the first consultation, works toward that dream gallery or museum show, and helps coordinate promotional events and artwork transportation. The analogy doesn’t stop there. As with most mothers and their children, Schultz is both her artists’ confidant and their biggest fan. “I have to like my artists’ work, because if I don’t like it, I can’t sell it,” she told me. “They have to trust me, and I have to trust them. I really believe in my artists.” She described her process as interactive. Instead of goading her clients or pressuring venues, she takes a sensitive, respectful tact, working closely with both parties to further their goals rather than her own. In this era of Goldman-Sachs grotesquery, it was refreshing to hear Schultz describe such a wholesome approach — and to remember that financial success does not always entail greed and deception. At the same time, her claims sounded a little too good to be true. To weed out any sampling bias, I sought another side of the story and contacted a few of her clients. Sure enough, everything checked out, even the “lovely lunch” she cooks for the first meeting. Ladies and gentlemen, Suzanne Schultz is the real deal. The most inspiring testimonial came from Patrick Pattillo, a Boston painter who originally hails from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Working in acrylics, Pattillo creates abstract compositions from carefully framed slices of his everyday of Boston carefully framed to lend them a Parisian resemblance — into a group show in Le Pecq, France, and displayed in a solo show at the French Cultural Center of Boston. “An artist, like an actor, needs an agent,” Dzamba wrote by e-mail. “There really are two businesses in any creative venture — the art itself, and the marketing. Each one is a full time job, and there just isn’t time to do both.” Then again, not everyone wants to be a full-time artist. Eric Roth is primarily a commercial photographer who’s looking to expand into artistic territory. He sought out Canvas Fine Arts in order to, as he put it, “develop my fine art without taking too much time from my livelihood.” Roth has a wonderful eye for color and form, and whether he is shooting Las Vegas or a rural cottage, his compositions engage the viewer on a purely formal level while conveying a powerful sense of place. Since partnering with Schultz, he has seen his work appear in five different shows around Boston, and he has a sixth one coming up in Bermuda. If Schultz thinks of herself as a mother to her clients, it’s clear that she’s one of those impeccably organized, plate-spinning supermoms. With inexhaustible energy, she organizes openings, talks, competitions and open houses at a wide variety of venues. Plus, she’s now appearing Monday nights at 6 p.m. on the Boston Neighborhood Network show “It’s All About Arts.” I admit I had my doubts about her at first, but after doing my homework, I’m convinced that Schultz is a tremendous Read the entire article in our magazine pages...