Your work could be artscope’s next CENTERFOLD. Your work can be Artscope’s next Centerfold. Work by established and emerging artists welcome. For the July/August 2017 issue we will be accepting submissions featuring typography. Send up to three images and your statement with contact information to: centerfold@artscopemagazine.com by August 15, 2017. Submit low resolution images for review. High resolution images must be available to be reproduced up to 9” x 12” according to the orientation of the work selected. The centerfold will be selected based on visual and/or conceptual quality, by a panel of three arts professionals. Call for Entries Connecticut Women Artists Connecticut Women Artists 87th Annual National Open Juried Exhibition. To be held at Arts Center East in Vernon, CT, from Sept. 1 – 29, All women artists in USA are invited to submit. Online submission deadline July … [Read more...] about July/August Classifieds
Issue Articles
A GALLERY CRAWL: THE BEST OF THE OUTER CAPE
by Laura Shabott When Artscope’s publisher Kaveh Mojtabai and managing editor Brian Goslow asked me to do a gallery crawl in the arts colony of Provincetown, I was daunted by the sheer quantity and quality of art available on the Outer Cape in the towns of Wellfleet, Truro and Provincetown. What possible parameters could I use when there are hundreds of artists worth noting? First, I wanted to create a walking experience so art lovers could jump on the ferry from Boston, or hop in the car, and stay for the day, the week or however long. Within this suggested 1.1-mile crawl, there are over 45 galleries and studios to visit! Second, I focused on figurative work and landscapes that move me, especially in unexpected ways as in the art presented here. Last, I wanted to give the reader a taste of the work being shown on Commercial Street (with a side jaunt to Pearl Street). We will … [Read more...] about A GALLERY CRAWL: THE BEST OF THE OUTER CAPE
IT’S ALL ON PAPER: FEEL THE POWER AT GALLERY 4
by Suzanne Volmer “The Power of Paper,” at Gallery 4 at Historic Tiverton Four Corners through July 30, includes works on paper created by 12 artists. Conceived by Chas. Hickey in collaboration with Elaine Hill and Alix Campbell, this exhibition is weighted toward small and mid-range artworks. It tests the waters on this year’s ease of purchase, and is meant to encourage experimentation among collectors who might obsess over that one big purchase. The more daring big-ticket item, in the form of a commanding statement piece, can also be purchased at Gallery 4. In viewing this show, there is a first impression of fascination about compelling tiny works made into larger constellations of low relief by Jaynie Crimmins. Her artworks in three separate series included in this show are made of shredded household mail meticulously rolled and assembled by hand into organic looking … [Read more...] about IT’S ALL ON PAPER: FEEL THE POWER AT GALLERY 4
THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX: 52 WEEKS AT FULLER CRAFT
by Beth Neville Ellen Schiffman pushes the limits of Fiber Art in her “52 Box Project” solo exhibit at the Fuller Craft Museum. Moving away from cotton, wool, linen, felt and synthetic fiber, she works with unorthodox materials. Reaching a “milestone” birthday (age not revealed), Schiffman made a pledge to herself that she would make a new fiber installation each week for a year, sort of a shortened version of Julie Powell’s “365 days” take on Julia Child. All of Schiffman’s 52 fiber works are encased in 9” x 9” wood boxes, displayed together as an ensemble on the wall. The 52-box result is an almost overwhelming diversity of raw materials, styles, patterns and complexity. Schiffman’s materials include Q-tips, felting, embroidery, woven fabric, knotted and dyed fabric, beads, rocks, metal washers, wood, wire, string, photographs and more. Each box has its own motif and … [Read more...] about THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX: 52 WEEKS AT FULLER CRAFT
LIVE AND LEARN: DRAWING ON HISTORY IN CT
by J. Fatima Martins In News & Views, the Mystic Museum of Art’s (MMoA) newsletter, Dawn E. Salerno, MMoA’s deputy director for public engagement and operations, asks in her “Art Education and National Welfare” essay, “Can a museum teach empathy or inspire good citizenship?” She goes on to reference a study that found that “even a single museum experience improved a student’s empathy for people who lived in a different time and place.” Salerno’s essay highlights a fundamental element of art: it is a product of culture, and culture tells the story of people. It is therefore, a teaching tool — an example of a specific colorful moment that can only be fully understood through preservation and continued reexamination. For this reason, MMoA’s two concurrent exhibitions, “Robert Brackman: Thinking in Color” and “Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts 106th Annual Exhibition,” are … [Read more...] about LIVE AND LEARN: DRAWING ON HISTORY IN CT
COWAN’S RE/COLLECTION: AN UPDATED GLASS MENAGERIE
by Beth Neville Among contemporary young artists, it is unusual to find someone in full control of her medium, with the emotional maturity and imagination to produce art that is both decorative and deeply emotional. This is even more unusual in the burgeoning field of American crafts over the past 50 years. Amber Cowan is such an artist. Her art, crafted glass, goes beyond the inherent decorative beauty of translucent and opalescent glass to form sculptures with significant symbolic content. A solo show of her work, “Re/Collection,” is on display at Fuller Craft Museum through October 8. “Hands and Handkerchiefs,” an assemblage of four pairs of green-glass hands originally made to display fashionable rings, immediately stands out. Cowan curved the fingers, using hot sculpting, so that they hold wires from which melted white cake plates dangle downward. It looks simple, but … [Read more...] about COWAN’S RE/COLLECTION: AN UPDATED GLASS MENAGERIE