January/February 2015
In This Issue
Welcome
Welcome to our first issue of 2015. Between the holiday season and later exhibition opening dates at the start of the new year for many venues, putting together our January/February […]
Artistry Times Two at Fuller Craft
MEMBERS SHOW & RECENT ACQUISITIONS STRENGTHEN COLLECTION There are any number of shifting elements that contribute to the longterm success of a non-profit art institution, including endowments and fund raising, […]
Mystical, Meditative, Mirthful
COSO’S NEW MEMBERS ARE FOR REAL If you are seeking some good examples of contemporary realism, look no further than the Copley Society of Art’s New Members’ Show 2015, introducing […]
Peter Halley: Big Paintings
SIZE MATTERS For nearly three decades, Peter Halley has deployed his geometric icons — “solid cells,” “gridded prisons” and “linear conduits,” using modern geometry as raw source material. He dissects […]
Masters in the Studio
BONNIE FAULKNER AND CAROLANN TEBBETTS As a girl, Bonnie Faulkner recalls endlessly drawing circles — “circles and circles and circles,” as she emphasized — and, inspired by the way light […]
Fine Arts Work Center Fellows
ALEXANDRIA SMITH AND BRIDGET MULLEN Provincetown’s Fine Arts Work Center’s Fellowship Program provides a unique opportunity for 10 artists and 10 writers to serve seven-month residencies during the developmental stages […]
Public Art: PLACEMAKING
NEW ENGLAND PUBLIC ARTISTS LAY THE GROUNDWORK FOR OTHER REGIONAL ARTISTS TO FOLLOW As the garage door to Susan Champeny’s workshop studio opened, it revealed the test version of her […]
Artist Profile: Two Heads are Better than One
THE STORY OF LESLIE FRY’S COLOSSAL ACORNHEAD Leslie Fry had a vision for her work and set out to find the means to realize it. A temporary installation she created […]
The Perils of the Possible
WE ARE ALL CURATORS, NOW! Artists and curators often seek attention through impulses as subversive as they are creative. In a recent attempt to gather a range of curatorial concepts […]
Kiss the Ground
FINDING THE “NEW” ARMENIA The question is: What does the “new” Armenia look like? While attempting to understand “Kiss the Ground,” I kept an impression from a quote by famed […]
Business: Timing is Everything
PROVIDENCE: ENTREPRENEURIAL VENTURES ARE IN When Rhode Island found itself in the recent recession with one of the highest unemployment rates in the country, Providence decided to re-brand itself and […]
Community: Climate Change in Providence
FRESH CURATORIAL AND ARTISTIC PERSPECTIVES It is noticeable, looking at artwork made in Providence as we enter 2015, that the flavor of the city is changing. Facilitated by a re-branding […]
Sight, Sound and Tactility
THE SENSES COALESCE AT BEARD AND WEIL Thanks to its cross-cultural and historically deep in-house permanent collection of approximately 6,000 objects in a wide variety of media, as well as […]
Good Vibrations
NIHO KOZURU AT HESS GALLERY Niho Kozuru rides the razor’s edge between craft and sculpture in a purposeful and inquisitive way. Best known in Boston’s art circles for her otherworldly […]
A Body in Fukushima
THE GUILD OF BOSTON ARTISTS’ LEGACY CONTINUES The radioactive land cemetery that is Fukushima may have been overshadowed in recent years as news outlets have trained their lenses on other […]
The Blue Prophetic Alphabet
JULIA ZANES EMBRACES CONTRADICTIONS There is a magical realm of flora, fauna, celestial bodies and mystical beings at the Dianich Gallery in Brattleboro through January, brought to you by sorcerer […]
Open House: A Portrait of Collecting
People collect everything! Really! Everything! Pokémon. Famous peoples’ autographs. Bars of soap from all over the world. Historical peoples’ hair. Toasters. Happy-Meal toys. Penises (honestly, a man in Iceland has […]
Five Tips to Protect your Creative Work on the Internet
Online image theft is one of greatest concerns for artists in this digital age. How do we protect our intellectual property once it’s uploaded onto the Internet? One solution is […]
Capsule Previews
While creating his installation “Divination X,” which will be installed on the Anne H. Fitzpatrick Façade from January 6 through June 29 at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 25 Evans […]
January/February 2015
Excerpts Welcome |Artistry Times Two at Fuller Craft | Mystical, Meditative, Mirthful | Peter Halley: Big Paintings | Masters in the Studio | Fine Arts Work Center Fellows | Public […]