September/October 2014
In This Issue
Welcome
Welcome to our September/October 2014 issue; As is normally the case at summer’s unofficial end, we’ve put together this issue at a time when most shows that’ll be on view […]
Cornered: Cecil Touchon
Cecil Touchon fits into a lot of categories, but would you expect anything else from the founder of the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction, who spent the early […]
Second Home
ALICE O’NEILL, COLGATE SEARLE AND DAN O’NEILL GROW UP As an attention grab for audiences visiting Jamestown Arts Center in late summer and early fall, a glowing neon glyph set […]
Fiberart International 2013
DIVERSE METHODS FIND A COMMON THREAD The traveling “Fiberart International 2013,” exhibition is organized to be a benchmark presentation in the field of contem- porary textile/fiber art. Jury member and […]
Transformations
ENCAUSTIC ARTISTS CHALLENGE BOUNDARIES Life is about transformation, change, transition, growth. Art, as a component of life, also follows that path. At its most fundamental level, art-making is always about […]
Sammy Chong
THE MONSTER WITHIN We all feel a sense of isolation at times, wandering crowded streets full of people disconnected from their surroundings, plugged into their electronics, eyes glued to screens […]
Beyond the New Yorker
ROZ CHAST SHOWS HER CRAFTY SIDE Artist Roz Chast has long been a master at probing the subterranean landscape of family life, whether charting the anxiety passed on to children […]
Ruth Rosner
CREATING WITH A STRONG YET SUBTLE VOICE Influence, like conjuring, is hard to measure, but we try, since art history without connections would present a falsely static picture of a […]
Far from Indochine
TRACING THE IMPACT OF COLONIALISM AND TECHNOLOGY ON SOUTHEAST ASIAN CULTURE With a specific curatorial theme that challenges art enthusiasts to reflect on Southeast Asian societal issues that transcend the […]
Labor of Love
NORTH BENNINGTON IS TRANSFORMED INTO AN OUTDOOR SCULPTURE PARK “We’re going on an art hunt — you can model with the sculptures and I’ll send the pictures to the editor!” […]
Out of the Abyss at The Sharpe Gallery
MURRAY EXPLORES NEW DIMENSIONS Against a scratched and striated, formless blushed blue backdrop, a portal gapes. Bubbles emanate from its black depths, and cascading out of it — yet still […]
Art and Nature Connect at Blithewold
SCULPTURE EMBRACES HORTICULTURE A trend among stately mansions from the past — many of which are now museum-like non-profit institutions — is the idea of boosting tourist interest through the […]
Between Realism and Abstraction
EXPLORING THAT HARD-TO-DEFINE PLACE Three very different artists bring artwork of great power and strangeness to the three exhibition spaces at AVA Gallery as they explore questions of the body, […]
Delightful, Delicious, and Disgusting
MIA BROWNELL MIXES ART AND SCIENCE AT HOUSATONIC In the still-life paintings of the 16th and 17th centuries, memento mori motifs — “remember you will die” — often appear. The […]
Song of the Universe
FINDING CONNECTIONS AT LESLEY Japanese artist Rinko Kawauchi feels connections. Connections to and between the personal and the universal. Connections between heaven and earth. Ying and Yang. The living and […]
David Edgar
AUSTRALIA’S OUTER REACHES IN BLACK AND WHITE On the other side of the world on a tiny remote island, David Edgar finds inspiration. Seven of his large-format charcoal drawings will […]
Provincetown Art Association and Museum
THE COUNTRY’S OLDEST ARTS COLONY CONTINUES TO INSPIRE Twenty-three miles east of the Cape Cod Canal, on a natural spiral of sand, sits the oldest continuous arts colony in the […]
Between Form and Freedom
TRAILBLAZER KARL KNATHS A brilliant retrospective of 20 stunning masterworks by modernist pioneer Karl Knaths is part of the centennial celebration at the Provinc- etown Art Association and Museum. Curated […]
Seafoam Palace, Detroit
A CABINET OF CURIOSITIES Boston filmmaker Bryan Papciak and Collision Works founder Shel Kimen develop Seafoam Palace: A Museum of Curiosity in Detroit. When Seafoam Palace opens in a decaying […]
Capsule Previews
Tom Paiement’s eighth solo exhibition at Portland’s Greenhut Galleries, “Ongoing Explorations,” originated during several weeks spent drawing at and around the Venice Beach boardwalk in February, 2014. “It was inspiring […]
September/October 2014
Excerpts Welcome |Cornered: Cecil Touchon | Second Home | Fiberart International 2013 | Transformations | Sammy Chong | Beyond the New Yorker | Ruth Rosner |Far from Indochine | Labor […]