“THROUGH LINE,” an exhibition featuring works by Katherine Mitchell DiRico, Carly Glovinski, Lynne Harlow, Rachel Perry, Patricia Rangel and August Ventimiglia takes place from September 5 through November 23 at the Lamont Gallery at Phillips Exeter Academy, Frederick R. Mayer Art Center, 26 Tan Lane, Exeter, New Hampshire. The show “celebrates basic mark-making as a foundation for the remarkable. Each of the six artists on view explores line through the lens of their distinct practices and mediums, ranging from marker to string, chalk, and even dirt.” Her own work complemented by that from her own collection by Elaine de Kooning, Romare Bearden, Louise Bourgeois, Philip Guston, Sol LeWitt, Yoko Ono, Alice Neel and Cindy Sherman, the “Louise McCagg: The Artist’s Eye” exhibition from September 7 through December 15 at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum, 625 Williams St., New London, Connecticut, … [Read more...] about CAPSULE PREVIEWS: September/October 2024

Photographers Bremner Benedict, Ville Kansanen, Ellen Konar, Steve Goldband, Jason Lindsey, Connie Lowell, Simon Norfolk and Camille Seaman seek “to shed light on the critical issues of climate change and the water cycle, using the power of photography to evoke awareness, empathy and action” in “Ceding Ground” that opens September 8 and continues through October 15 at the reopened Griffin Museum of Photography, 67 Shore Rd., Winchester, Massachusetts. “Through their distinct lenses, these artists explore the intricate relationship between human activity, climate patterns, and the earth's life-giving waters.” “Portrait of an Unlikely Space,” a historical-contemporary exhibition “bringing together small-scale portraits — from miniatures and daguerreotypes to silhouettes on paper and engravings in books — of African American women, men, and children from the pre-Emancipation era,” will be … [Read more...] about CAPSULE PREVIEWS: SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2023