November/December 2014
In This Issue
Welcome
Welcome to our final issue of 2014. Many of the stories are the result of longterm planning, including Kristin Nord’s artist profile of Michael Madore, whose work has been on […]
THREE EASY PIECES: Simon Fujiwara
Simon Fujiwara’s aesthetic vocabulary is varied and inclusive. In his exhibit at Harvard’s Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, he skips lightly between media — shuffling text, sculpture, photographs and video […]
IMPRESSIONS OF NEW ENGLAND XIV – PORTRAYING THE HUMAN SPIRIT
Approaching The Bennington Center for the Arts, one is reminded of landscapes quintessentially Vermont. Built in a field off Gypsy Lane on the outskirts of Bennington, this is not the […]
Viewpoints: 20 Years of Adderly
Featuring an impressive list of names and focused on artists of color, “Viewpoints: 20 Years of Adderley,” on view through December 6 at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, spotlights […]
Castellology
MADORE SHATTERS THE SPECTRUM Michael Madore claims he began as a furtive artist, drawing in the seclusion of the woods, in the garage, or sometimes up in a tree. Family […]
70 Years of Printmaking
Clare Romano and John Ross are major figures in the world of printmaking as both artists and educators, with independent voices that share subject focus. Their target is structure, and […]
On Her Own Terms
CLARA LIEU EXPLORES HER HEART OF DARKNESS Images of people in states of extreme suffering evoke a range of responses: sadness, anxiety, fear, empathy and, sometimes, instinctive recoil. When approaching […]
Cover Story: Two Painters
KEHOE AND GOSCH ARE BREAKING BAD The so-called “bad painting” movement, as championed and celebrated by alternative art publications such as Hi-Fructose and Juxtapoz, certainly has less adherents in the […]
To Borrow, Cut, Copy, and Steal
AARON T STEPHAN LAUGHS WITH US Aaron T Stephan’s work critiques the exclusivity of the art world with a dose of satire and a splash of eccentricity. A bit like […]
Unnaturally Beautiful
JOO LEE KANG QUESTIONS NATURE Initially one is struck by the detailed, precisioned control Joo Lee Kang exercises over her medium — a Bic ballpoint pen. Her renderings draw you […]
Manna
TUFT’S FEAST FOR THE SOUL Culled from Tufts University’s permanent art collection, “Manna” is a commanding, panoramic and wonderful art-feast curated by its director of galleries and collections, Amy Ingrid […]
Boston Printmakers and Claudia Flynn
PALATE TO PLATE: PRINTS AND RECIPES FROM MEMBERS OF THE BOSTON PRINTMAKERS Two unrelated exhibitions, one a large collection of works on paper by various artists, the other an intimate […]
Coyote Connections
HONORING ONE OF MAINE’S NATIVE SONS Geri Vistein and Anne Zill have co-curated “Coyote Connections,” a group show featuring over 30 artists from Maine. Through paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs […]
Medley
DERRYFIELD GOES FOR THE GOLD “MEDLEY,” a group exhibition at the Lyceum Gallery at Derryfield School in Manchester, N.H., brings together four talented artists from four decades of Derryfield graduates. […]
The Centennial Exhibition
THE GUILD OF BOSTON ARTISTS’ LEGACY CONTINUES When you visit the Guild of Boston Artists, celebrating 100 years at its Newbury Street location this November, you’re quickly reminded of how […]
Suffer a Sea-Change
CATHY WYSOCKI’S OUT-LANDISH CREATURES Having hopped off the Red Line at the JFK/UMass stop, then wending my way along Dorchester Avenue to #950, I morph from commuter to intrepid reporter […]
Art in the Cemetery
A LOWELL LANDMARK COMES ALIVE Art in the cemetery? “That’s odd.” “Why make art in a cemetery?” “That sounds gloomy.” These are typical responses to the above question but, as […]
Mitchell-Giddings, Brattleboro
SHOWCASING VERMONT’S ART TOWN While singled out by Style Magazine as one of the nation’s top art towns, and Smithsonian Magazine as one of the best small towns to live […]
Walking the Walk
REVITALIZING PAWTUCKET’S ART SCENE In Pawtucket, “Chalk Wall,” a text-based installation by New Orleans artist Candy Chang, curves around a building’s retaining wall on the city’s Main Street. The sweep […]
Balwin Lee: Black & White
PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE AMERICAN SOUTH For six years in the 1980s, Baldwin Lee, an Asian-American man from New York, accompanied by “an antique-looking wooden camera and tripod,” explored the impoverished […]
Capsule Previews
Al Miner, assistant curator of contemporary art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, reviewed almost 800 images before selecting the 75 pieces on view in the South Shore Art […]
November/December 2014
Excerpts Welcome |Three Easy Pieces: Simon Fujiwara | IMPRESSIONS OF NEW ENGLAND XIV – PORTRAYING THE HUMAN SPIRIT | Viewpoints: 20 Years of Adderly | Castellology | 70 Years of […]