May/June 2015
In This Issue
Welcome
Welcome to the 56th issue of artscope magazine, which we’re honored to be bringing to Art Basel Switzerland, where we’ve been selected to join publications from around the world in […]
Finding the Art in Dartmouth
Diverse Perspectives at Alumni Biennial Apart from poet Robert Frost, who attended Dartmouth for all of two months, one of the best-kept secrets of this small Ivy League college is […]
May/June 2015 Classifieds
Your work could be artscope’s next CENTERFOLD. Your work could be artscope’s next CENTERFOLD. Work by established and emerging artists welcome. For the July / August 2015 issue we […]
Joan Jonas’ Multimedia Dream World
Driving Toward Complexity and Control Far from being “random” events, dreams and their symbolic features are, Sigmund Freud maintained, overdetermined from multiple sources and masked in daily experience. They function […]
Knitting Together The Urban Fabric
The Story of Janet Echelman’s Greenway Aerial Installation World-renowned artist Janet Echelman is creating an aerial installation for Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway to be unveiled on May 11, 2015. Her […]
Stereotype
International Artists Explore Font as Art The momentous emergence of the alphabet and subsequent typeface design endowed mankind with a pivotal, durable form of communication. The current exhibition, “StereoType — […]
What Remains at CoSo
Zanger and Hamil Talman Go Deep Here are two women with their sleeves rolled up. I’m in Ginny Zanger’s studio in Jamaica Plain, Mass., watching and listening as she shows […]
Aithan Shapira
A Worldly Voice With a Local Flavor Art and travel are often woven together. Travel informs art and process; art prompts and guides exploration. But the results aren’t always as […]
Word + Image
Combining The Verbal And the Visual The Chandler Gallery’s salon-style show of small works combining language and image raises surprisingly large issues. Juror Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons has focused on jarring […]
Maine’s Spring Expo
Celebrating A Renaissance in Rockland Once in a great while we encounter a single piece of art that makes us forget where we are and become completely immersed in the […]
Warhol By The Book
“The Idea Is Not To Live Forever, It Is To Create Something That Will” “A friend had written me a note saying that everybody we knew was writing a book […]
Shaking It Up In Connecticut
Collecting Icons From A Progressive Culture When Stephen Miller paid his first visit to the Hancock Shaker Village in Hancock, Mass., it was not the light-filled interiors, or the glorious […]
Lia Rothstein
Photography Is Just The Beginning Working with light projections, digital and hand drawing, encaustic waxes, oil paints and other media, Lia Rothstein is transforming her photographs into highly abstracted, texturally […]
Displacement
Anna Shapiro, Artist and Catalyst Anna Shapiro’s installation and performance sensibilities are about form blending feminism with cultural commentary, and it has a politicized relationship to place. In her “Make […]
Rose Marasco
New Perspectives on Familiar Themes Through Rose Marasco’s lens, disparate worlds — from the urban jungle to the domestic sphere of women — are revealed through intimate details and quiet […]
Local Color And Beyond
18th Annual Juried Show At Newburyport Art As you would expect of any show centered in a location as picturesque as Cape Ann, the Newburyport Art Association’s 18th Regional Juried […]
Light Shines in Providence
Two Shows Exuberantly Celebrate Summer Celebrating summer, the Providence Art Club presents two exhibitions: “Color and Light” is a solo showcase of colorful interpretations of Italian landscape by the exuberant […]
Turning The Page
Cuban Artists Escape The Routine Cuba is turning a new page in its international relations as we speak, but flip back some in the book of Cuba’s history and you’ll […]
Easy Does It In Groton
Controlled Capriciousness in 2-D and 3-D Emphatic whimsies are on display at two separate, unrelated exhibitions in Groton, Mass. “Past, Present, Paper,” at the Conant Gallery is a group exhibition […]
Tyler Vouros
After-Life At Seen Gallery Sunflowers in the drawings of Tyler Vouros are really portraits of flora mort super-sized and emerging from the depths of their velvety black backgrounds. Through May […]
Tom Culora: Shock and Awe
Asking Questions at Van Vessem In anticipation of an exhibition featuring the work of painter and mixed-media artist Tom Culora, I visited his studio in a wasabi-green cinderblock building that […]
Amy Arbus
After Images The woman, eyes closed, body tinged an earthen orange-red, gently caresses the breast of an attendant crow cradled in her hand. It is a tender image, for she […]
C. Parker Gallery
Art Blooms in Greenwich Spring on Connecticut’s Gold Coast and the outside world is imbued with light, scent and color. At the C. Parker Gallery in Greenwich, the “Art in […]
Paradise City Arts Festival
A Celebration of Craft in Northampton If you really need an excuse to visit Northampton, the Paradise City Arts Festival is a good one. Two times a year, over the […]
Sam Talbot Kelly
The Artist Wears Many Hats Artist. Teacher. Blogger. Filmmaker. Vermont’s Samantha “Sam” Talbot-Kelly fits into all of these categories, and many more. “I’m not a filmmaker yet,” she responds, modestly, […]
May/June 2015
Excerpts Welcome |Cornered: Julie Barros, Boston’s Chief of Arts and Culture | Knitting Together The Urban Fabric | Joan Jonas’ Multimedia Dream World | Stereotype | What Remains At […]
Capsule Previews
We’ve never forgotten the surrealistic experience of finding ourselves in Jay Critchley’s beach sandbox at the Schoolhouse Gallery in the early days of this magazine — especially since it was […]
Cornered: Julie Burros, Boston’s Chief of Arts and Culture
On April 9, 2015, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh launched Boston Creates, an 18-month assessment of the city’s cultural health that will culminate in a long-range Arts and Culture Plan for […]
