By Lindsey Davis Boston, MA - Audio Concepts’ Experience Center is comprised of numerous showrooms decked out in high-tech home theater systems — a store disguised as side-by-side living rooms and open aired spaces. Now, work from local artists and art students will cover these walls until August, as part of a new fine art exhibition called “State of the Art.” The title plays with the dynamic created between technology and art, which is fitting since each room uses both to create its own distinct character, a character embodied by the room’s first impressions as you enter. Each room is named after a well-known literary figure like Thoreau, Kerouac and Verne whose personalities inspire the mood of each space, each dedicated to one artist like the wet abstract impressionism of Bonnie Lanzillotta and the bright architectural scenes of Arlene Greenspan. The work of abstract artist Connie … [Read more...] about Audio Concept’s “State of the Art”
Exhibits
Free Fall at Soo Rye Art Gallery
Rye, NH - “Free Fall,” Scott Bulger and Gregory Scheckler’s thematically focused artwork of birds, opens Saturday, March 16 at the Soo Rye Art Gallery, 11 Sagamore Road, Rye, New Hampshire, with an opening reception that evening at 5 p.m. Scheckler’s work revolves around capturing birds in their natural habitats through paint, while Bulger’s work focuses on freezing birds in motion using black-and-white photography. Both artists have been working for many years in their respective mediums and teach, work and live in New England. The show continues through April 19. For more information, call (603) 319-1578. … [Read more...] about Free Fall at Soo Rye Art Gallery
The Pastel Society of New Hampshire’s Eighth Annual Members’ Exhibition
Peterborough, NH - The Pastel Society of New Hampshire’s Eighth Annual Members' Exhibition continues through April 26 at the Sharon Arts Center Gallery, 30 Grove Street, Peterborough, NH. Dedicated to the appreciation of soft pastels as a fine art medium, the Pastel Society of New Hampshire hosts a juried exhibition and a members’ show each year. Workshops of varying duration with pastel artists of national renown are offered with membership meetings scheduled four times per year that typically include a brief business meeting followed by a program of critiques, demonstrations, paint-outs and guest speakers leading discussions of art-related topics. The Pastel Society of New Hampshire is a member of the International Association of Pastel Societies (IAPS), linking their members with the world of other pastel societies and their members. “Founded in January 2006 by a group of pastel … [Read more...] about The Pastel Society of New Hampshire’s Eighth Annual Members’ Exhibition
Carole Bolsey: Levitation/Horsing Around At South Shore Art Center
While many abstract painters like to leave the origin and identity of their markings to the imagination of their work’s viewers, Carole Bolsey willingly revealed the inspiration for her “Levitation/Horsing Around” exhibition that’s on view through April 7 at the South Shore Art Center. “Sometimes these objects are barns with strong light casting shadows on land, sometimes boats, light, reflections, nothing,” she notes in her show’s mission statement. “In this series the objects are horses, space and gerunds: words ending in –ing indicating actions or states of being, as in ‘being.’ As in standing, grazing, wading and, in this series, Levitating.” She said the works aren’t “about horses,” but “of horses” — and space, movement, drawing and paint — without narratives, that capture creatures living as is, “unbridled, unsaddled, unridden and apparently untrained. Too wild or too young to … [Read more...] about Carole Bolsey: Levitation/Horsing Around At South Shore Art Center
Me Love You Long Time (MLYLT) at Boston Center for the Arts
By Lindsey Davis Boston, MA - Beginning at the entrance to the Mill’s Gallery, the Boston Center for the Arts’ new exhibition, “Me Love You Long Time (MLYLT),” features contemporary art created since the 1990s by artists from Southeast Asia and the United States. The dynamic display incorporates multiple videos and large-scale installations, along with everything from conceptual art to representational oil paintings. Curated by Edwin Ramoran and organized by the Newark-based Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, the exhibition’s title borrows its name from Stanley Kubrick’s 1987 film “Full Metal Jacket,” set during the Vietnam War. In the movie, prostitutes solicit two U.S. soldiers by saying, “Me love you long time.” In a more direct way, this exhibition examines the powers of colonialism and its relationship to sexuality, along with sexual captivity’s influences on pop culture and … [Read more...] about Me Love You Long Time (MLYLT) at Boston Center for the Arts
“Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America” at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
By Lindsey Davis Boston, MA - Anders Zorn was a Scandinavian artist whose talent rocketed him to celebrity status during the Belle Epoque in Europe, his impressionistic perfection earning him scores of influential patrons across the cultural world. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s newest exhibition proves Zorn’s contribution to the modern art world, while also giving the viewer a behind-the-scenes look on Zorn’s personal life, focusing in on his relationship with his major patron in Boston, Ms. Isabella Stewart Gardner. Unfortunately Zorn was forgotten soon after his death, and his exceptional body of work still remains one of the most overlooked and understudied of his time. The exhibit was organized and curated by Oliver Tostmann, the Gardner’s William and Lia Poorvu Curator of the Collection, who remarked that Zorn’s career was “like a comet” because of its bright, fleeting … [Read more...] about “Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America” at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum