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 in low relief will greet them just inside the door. Reminiscent of the emblem of a super- hero’s belt or a computer command key, this stylized cloverleaf by Colgate Metcalf Searle III invites entry into the unique three-person exhibition “Second Home.” The show includes neon/mixed-media sculptures by Searle, artworks by Alice O’Neill (her drawings, etchings and cyanotypes), and a projection installation by her muralist brother, Daniel O’Neill. The three artists grew up together in Providence and received under- graduate degrees from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). If familial pedigree matters, then note that Alice and Daniel O’Neill’s father is a professor in RISD’s film department and Searle’s dad … [Read more...] about Second Home
September/October 2014
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 part of his career as a member of Fluxus in New York City? Three works from his “Post Dogmatist Painting” series will be on view in September at Lanoue Fine Art, 450 Harrison Ave. #31, Boston. Artscope managing editor Brian Goslow “Cornered” Touchon by phone at his studio in his new home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. TELL ME ABOUT THE WORK THAT’LL BE ON DISPLAY AT LANOUE FINE ART ... Cecil Touchon: These three particular paintings that I’m sending up right now, which the gallery selected out of about 10 that were available, happened to all have an underlayment of paper from antique 1880s Webster’s Dictionary pages. That’s not particularly important, because it could be any paper, but since my work, at … [Read more...] about Cornered: Cecil Touchon
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 this fall have yet to be installed, and we’ve had to be creative in how to preview the exhibitions we wished to spotlight. That can mean writers get the opportunity to visit artists in their workspaces so they can see the work before it’s shipped to a gallery or museum; or, when it came to previewing David Edgar’s first United States exhibi- tion at Half Crown Design in Cambridge, Mass., it meant Greg Morell Skyping with the charcoal and pastel artist at his studio in Tasmania, Australia. And wouldn’t you have loved to listen in as artscope’s Kristin Nord spoke by phone with beloved New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast about her “Being, Nothingness and Much, Much More” exhibition at Connecticut’s Bruce Museum? I’m one of … [Read more...] about Welcome