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

art artist artscope 15, July/August 2008   ceramics (deadline extended to May 15, 2008) Your work could be artscope magazine's next centerfold. Work of all mediums by established and emerging artists welcome. For the July/August 2008 issue, we will be accepting images of ceramics. Please send one to three digital images, 300 dpi, and your artist statement with contact information, to: centerfold@artscopemagazine.com no later than May 15, 2008 (deadline extended) Though smaller files should be submitted, images must be available to be reproduced up to 12" x 18," dependant on dimensions of work. Entries not following these specifications will not be considered. No resumes please; the cover piece will be selected bases on visual and/or conceptual quality, by a jury of one artscope writer, and two New England art professionals. artscope 14, May/June 2008   installation art     Coming May/June 2008. artscope 12, January/February 2008     art: carmela lily II artist: Marisa diPaola artist statement: I am a nomadic sculptor and installation artist. I create wearable site-specific work from found materials, and wear these pieces, as self-portraits, handmade as if by the characters that I am depicting. The work itself is a collection of psychological self-portraiture through an exploration of fairy tale characters interacting with this world. Not focusing on the "happily ever after" but at the moment of creation, and adaptation to their new journey and to their new habitat. The natural world became my focus as I began searching for the origins of humanity and the natural connections that bind us to the land. The series explored characters creating a home withing their found habitat, focusing on the beginning of the journey where the path originates. These sculptures are divergent, specific to sites in nature, chosen for their isolation and wilderness. The process of gathering and creation allows each character to investigate their habitat and their own domestication. The documentation appears as wildlife photography, capturing these characters in their habitat, living within their life. All explore the dynamic of self, of the journey, of creating a domestic space for oneself, handmade from the raw materials gathered around. Judges: Britt Beedenbender, writer, artscope magazine Craig Bloodgood, Special Projects Curator, The Art Complex Museum George Creamer, Dean of Graduate Admissions, Massachusetts College of Art artscope 11, November/December 2007     art: Back to the Future, torn and cut paper artist: Ekua Holmes artist statement: As a child, I would sit at my grandmother's desk where she had collected junk mail, greeting cards and old magazines for me. I would spend the afternoon cutting shapes out of these discarded items and creating new pictures out of them. Quietly absorbed in my own thoughts, the world of reality would disappear and my hopes, dreams and memories would emerge. It is the same process I encounter as I develop my ideas today. Jurors: Gretchen Keyworth, Director and Chief Curator, Fuller Craft Museum Andrew Mroczek, Director of Exhibitions, The Art Institute of Boston Gallery at University Hall artscope writer Gary Duehr artscope 10, September/October 2007 art: Temple Roof, photograph artist: Robert Castagna artist statement: This series of photographs from Kyoto, Japan present abstract views of shadows, detail, mystery and nature in the tradition of the haiku. My goal is to walk the line, capturing the zen spirit through abstraction and simplicity. Jurors: Frederick Osborne, President, Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts Vivian Zoe, Director, Slater Memorial Museum artscope writer Rick Agran artscope 9, July/August 2007 art: A Romantic Moment artist: Corey Corcoran artist statement: My paintings and drawings have always been tied to my love for stories. I like listening to stories. I like telling stories, and I like discovering when I am suddenly part of one. Many of my paintings and drawings take place at points of irresolution. The figures feel caught unexpectedly, and the moment is full of potential. Things could go sour or they might end up all right. My hope is that viewers take in this moment and decide on their own role in the painting. Jurors: Jan Howard, Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs at the RISD Museum Dr. Emil Willers, Executive Director of the Newport Art Museum artscope writer Sarah E. Fagan artscope 8, May/June 2007 art: Dance in the Bloom, oil on canvas, 45" x 43" artist: Yuko Adachi artist statement: Art is a universal language of the souls. I do not do any preliminary sketches for any of my art works. I just dive in to the unknown and experience where my energy takes me in the given moment. I wish to share with the viewers the joy of being alive through my works. Jurors: Center for Maine Contemporary Art Curator Britta Konau Coordinator of the Inst. of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art Linda Lambertson artscope writer Catherine Laferriere artscope 7, March/April 2007 Anniversary Issue   art: Bulbs with Pansy, drawing artist: Helen Meyrowitz artist statement: "Otto Rank in his book - 'Art and Artists' tells us that art is often born out of a fear of loss and change. In late 2002, I became an up-rooted New York artist in the throes of a very real fear of change and loss due to an unexpected move to Massachusetts. A subsequent series of mixed media drawings of bulbs reaching, striving to put down new roots to grow and eventually flower is my chosen metaphor for my personal effort to create a new beginning. Otto Rank understood that creative challenge." Jurors: Director of Phillips Exeter Academy's Lamont Gallery Karen Burgess Smith The Art Gallery of the University of New Hampshire Vicki C. Wright artscope writer James Foritano