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Capsule Previews

CAPSULE PREVIEWS

// Capsule Previews, May/June 2026

by Brian Goslow

Investigating “the progressive directional flow of currents in nature — tides, air, sound, and time,” Margaret Swan’s new series of polychrome aluminum wall sculpture, “Current,” will be on view from May 7 to June 7 at Boston Sculptors Gallery, 486 Harrison Ave., Boston, Massachusetts. Her organic gestural, curvilinear forms are, “intersected and punctuated by bright swirling aluminum tubing, create counter movement, suggesting rivulets of water, creeping vines, or musical notation, and coaxing the curving leaf-like, wave-like forms into a rhythmic stream of luxurious movement.” Swan’s show shares the SoWa Boston space with Leslie Wilcox’s “Firebrands,” her third in a series of shows using found weather-beaten driftwood fortified by metal screening intended to provide a protective armament against further damage and destruction and conveying the urgency of avoiding cascading global … [Read more...] about CAPSULE PREVIEWS

CAPSULE PREVIEWS

// Capsule Previews, March/April 2026

by Brian Goslow

Artists of Stonington, Connecticut’s Velvet Mill, home to a thriving creative community of artists, entrepreneurs and businesses, will showcase the great variety of artistic styles and practices found there in “Extending the Dialogue,” a 20-artist group show running from March 28 through April 25 at the Hygienic Gallery, 79 Bank Street, New London. “The group is excited to share their art and unique camaraderie with a wider audience in southeastern Connecticut.” “Home Land,” a solo exhibition of paintings by Putney-based artist Finn Campman that explores “the intimate relationship between place, memory, and artistic practice,” is on view through May 10 at Next Stage Arts, 15 Kimball Hill, Putney, Vermont. “My process is about the act of reaching out to make sure I know where I am — to check my coordinates, to mark a signpost for my memories — as if to say, ‘This is where I am now,’” … [Read more...] about CAPSULE PREVIEWS

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// Capsule Previews, January/February 2026

by Brian Goslow

Drawing inspiration from music, dancers, color, and the quiet moments that define movement, “Conversation in Movement,” which opens January 3 and continues through the end of the month at the Loading Dock Gallery, 122 Western Ave., Lowell, Massachusetts, “delves into the poetic relationship between dance and visual art. Inspired by the unspoken language created when gesture, color, and form meet, the exhibition invites visitors to experience an emotional and sensory exchange unfolding across the space.” Participating artists Nino Gordeladze, Dina Mordeno, Ed Porzio, and Johanna Tiemann noted that this exhibition grew from the natural dialogue that forms between the visual and performing arts and that their works are united by a rhythm and flow through their painted forms, playful color, whimsical detail, and captured motion. “The Stars Are Out Tonight,” a multimedia exhibition featuring … [Read more...] about CAPSULE PREVIEWS

CAPSULE PREVIEWS

// Capsule Previews, November/December 2025

by Brian Goslow

Looking for a new fall destination? The recently opened Westerly Museum of American Impressionism, 79 Watch Hill Road, Westerly, Rhode Island, features 11 galleries dedicated to American Impressionist art from the 1880s to 1920s. “The collection includes works by celebrated artists such as Childe Hassam, John Singer Sargent, Edmund Tarbell, Jane Peterson and Lilla Cabot Perry, alongside exceptional works by lesser-known artists whose contributions merit greater recognition.” Longtime Westerly residents Dr. Thomas and Cynthia Sculco collected the approximately 150 paintings on view over four decades. WMAI is currently open Thursday through Sunday from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Fifteen previously unseen watercolor paintings by Andrew Wyeth go on view November 1 at the Farnsworth Art Museum, 16 Museum St., Rockland, Maine. The works in “Along the Goose River: Andrew Wyeth’s Secret Subject” were … [Read more...] about CAPSULE PREVIEWS

Arthur Nichols, Untitled

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// Capsule Previews, September/October 2025

by Brian Goslow

Drawing from a series of works addressing ideas of impossible architecture, liminal spaces and temporal and spatial distance, “The Long View: Paintings by Marcia Santore” will be on view from September 2 through 30 at the Belknap Mill Museum Riverside Gallery, 25 Beacon Street East, Laconia, New Hampshire. “As someone who has moved many times, both as a child and as an adult, houses seen from within and without, rooms and hallways, doors and windows, and the roads and landscapes seen through and from them have multiple meanings for me,” Santore said. “They are places full of mystery and possibility, suggestive of many potential futures or outcomes.” Inspired by the 22 Major Arcana Tarot cards which represent significant life lessons, archetypes and spiritual themes, stone sculptor Elisa Adams has used Tarot as a tool for inner reflection and a mirror for the soul. Adams challenged … [Read more...] about CAPSULE PREVIEWS

Capsule Previews

// Capsule Previews, July/August 2025

by Brian Goslow

“Smiling Out Loud,” paintings by DaNice D. Marshall “depicting ordinary life with smiles of joy,” opens July 1 at the Hopkinton Center for the Arts, 98 Hayden Rowe St., Hopkinton, Massachusetts. “It is a familiar thread that reminds us that we’re more alike than we are different,” with the viewer invited, quietly, to experience “a moment without words and to feel lighter” as if you were walking into a room full of strangers, “who look at you and smile and you, in return, smile right back, without one word having been spoken.” “Vastness,” abstract paintings, landscapes and textile works by Tarja Cockell, Sandrine Colson, Nan Hockenbury, Suzanne Hodge and Margarita Krylova, opens July 2 with a July 5 reception from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Loading Dock Gallery, 122 Western Ave., Lowell, Massachusetts. “Oceans, space, deserts, and the imagination are vast. These artists’ works, realistic to … [Read more...] about Capsule Previews