artscope magazine: July/August 2007 Art Goes Wild: Innovation with Native Plants Niki Sarantos Pulp Function New Art Collective: Emerging Curators Select Emerging Artists Out of the Blue Gallery Robert Henry: Triptych Paintings, Elspeth Halvorsen: Constructions, Sky Power: Large Abstract Paintings, Selina Teriff: Drawings Lalie Schewadron: Synthesis Joel Janowitz: the Monotypes A World in Grosz Disarray: Works on Paper by George Grosz Michael Kenna: Hokkaido Jane Deering Galleries Somerville Madonnas: Photographs of Religious Iconography Jessie Morgan: New Paintings Ron Rosenstock: Hymn to the Earth Varujan Boghosian - A Survey: Collage, Watercolors, & Sculpture Inside/Outside/Small/Tall Still Life - Wild Life Sleight of Hands: Contemporary Hooked Rugs Making it New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy Summer Preview: Four Bigh Higway Highlights in the Little State of Rhode Island The Forest Hills Cemetary Educational Trust and Contemporary Sculpture Path Summer Theater on the Coast Sharp Lines and Mystyc Shadows: The Vision of Two Physicists artscope Capsule Previews Edward Hopper at the Museum of Fine Arts CURATOR’S CORNER - Carol Troyen on the MFA Boston's Hopper Exhibition

artscope Capsule Previews Brian Goslow Gallery Anthony Curtis, 186 South Street, Boston, has teamed up with the Mass Audubon Society for its next exhibition. “Kathleen Cammarata and Nancy Selvage: This is about us” opens on July 10 and continues through August 4. Cammarata’s recent paintings study how humans affect the planet, whether by plan or through overuse of its resources. The landscape of “Night’s Invention” is reduced to a bonelike scene with the planets hovering overhead as if they’re waiting to see if we’ll survive. The tiny flashes of green on the end of the earthly objects suggesting there’s still hope for reversing recent environment damage – if we act in time. Sculptor Selvage’s ceramic map vessels series communicate her social and environmental concerns as well; “Cathyall” utilizes a map of Massachusetts Bay to convey her concern on over fishing there while “Aridzona” captures a dry Arizona scene with lightning overhead that could be a forbearer of rains that could bring it back to life – or wash it away for ever. Staying with the environmental theme, Bates College Museum of Art, 75 Russell Street, Lewiston, Maine, is presenting “Green Horizons” through December 9. The organic exhibition is designed to study the nature and politics of greenness and sustainability via a combination of works by internationally renowned artists, including Alexis Rockman, whose “Manifest Destiny” portrays Manhattan in the year 5000, Maine artists Karen Adrienne, Mark Silber, Michael Shaughnessey, the Beehive Collective, and Bates students and organizations. The first show in seven years by Boston Museum School graduate Lee Newton: “Large Paintings and Intimate Notebooks” opens on July 20 and remains on view through August 12 at the Redmond Bennett Gallery, 1283 Main Street, Dublin, New Hampshire. The notebook works portray daily life through sketches, poems and musings while her canvas paintings capture her life in nearby Petersborough. Andrew Newman’s “Old and New” is a 10-year retrospective of the former Washington D.C. attorney’s paintings (he’s been a full-time artist since 1994) that document his progression from figurative portraits to landscapes and more recently, abstract canvases; it’s on display at Redmond Bennett from August 17 to September 4. A longtime Lyme Academy College faculty member who passed away in 2005 has been honored with a career retrospective at the school’s Chauncey Stillman Gallery, 84 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, Connecticut. “Drawn to Life: The Work of Deane G. Keller” can be seen through September 5. Keller was head of the Lyme’s life drawing and anatomy department for over 25 years as part of a four decade career; his teaching continues posthumously through his book, “Draftsman’s Handbook: A Resource and Study Guide for Drawing from Life.” His work is in the collections of the Wadsworth Atheneum, Brandywine River Museum and Slater Memorial Museum as well as a number of institutional galleries. Work by Lyme Academy students are being shown in a coinciding show at the Sill House Gallery. “Adorned & Embellished: The Art of Accessories 2” which opens on July 5 and remains on view through August 15 at the Concord Art Association, 37 Lexington Road, Concord, Massachusetts, features artists that create wearable art accessories. “We will be exhibiting a range of items, from elegant hand-dyed shibori silk wraps and kimonos to whimsical straw hats, as well as jewelry made with precious metals, flower petals and leaves and pencils,” said marketing manager Deborah Plunkett. “We will also be exhibiting mirrors (an accessory every fashionista can't live without) created by sculptors and woodworkers.” “form.a.t.: Drawings, Paintings, & Books works by Matt Aaron Templeton” features works by the Art Institute of Boston (AIB) at Lesley University graduate that recreate images of scientific and natural phenomena that leave the viewer pondering what’s real and what’s possible if nature’s elements collide. Using traditional inks, pigments and digital media, Templeton mixes his personal experiences with that of his scientific studies, in the past, he’s integrated in research text in a creative way that enhances the intensity of his work. The show can be seen from July 12 through August 25 at the AIB Gallery at Porter Exchange, 1815 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge. The annual Blue Ribbon Members’ Show hangs in the Bancroft and Dillon Galleries from July 20 through September 2 at the South Shore Art Center, 119 Ripley Road, Cohasset, Massachusetts. “It's an annual members show - each member puts in one piece,” said executive director Sarah Hannan. “There are four blue ribbons awarded by a judge (TBA) and several awards of merit. We typically have 200 or so pieces and the show is hung salon style in both galleries.” The show becomes a spectacular backdrop for a post-concert reception with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops after the orchestra’s July 28 appearance at the South Shore Music Center. The event benefits the SSAC’s education and exhibition programs. “The Faces of Rosie’s Place” feature self-portraits made by participants of the shelter’s art@rosie’s place program over a five-month period under the guidance of Kathy Parkinson and Sarah Kelley. Over 40 painted and drawn portraits are joined by a dozen quilts in the show that can be seen through July 27 at the Haley House Bakery Café, 12 Dade Street, Dudley Square, Roxbury, Massachusetts. The exhibit was the idea of Brett Cook and Clara Wainwright of the Faith Quilt Projects, an Allston based group devoted to bringing people of diverse faiths and beliefs together through quiltmaking. The Women’s Craft Cooperative Boutique at Rosie’s Place, 889 Harrison Avenue, Boston is open Tuesday through Thursday from 1 to 5 p.m. All works are built around buttons and allow the artisans staying at Rosie’s to get a feeling of self-empowerment and salary. What better way to celebrate the power of art? Read the entire article in our magazine pages...