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Current Exhibits

Triple Self-Portrait

Provincetown in Autumn

// Current Exhibits, Current Issue, September/October 2016, Visual Arts

A Cornucopia of Art by Laura Shabott The Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) is at the very tip of Massachusetts (next stop: Azores) with a cultural impact that is extraordinary. In its 102nd year, the vitality of the museum and school can be measured by the 250 volunteers who support a highly effective staff stewarded by director Chris McCarthy. Under her direction, PAAM is much larger than its physical size and location, reaching around the globe with its membership and quality of shows. September and October are lovely months in Provincetown, with the changing of the light that has inspired artists for over a century. It’s the perfect time to attend the upcoming shows and events...   To read more, pick up a copy of our latest issue! Click here to find a pick-up location near you or Subscribe Here. … [Read more...] about Provincetown in Autumn

Alicia Eggert

Eggert at T+H Gallery

// Current Exhibits, Current Issue, September/October 2016, Visual Arts

A Moving Commentary by Suzanne Volmer The mission of T+H Gallery, celebrating its first anniversary in Boston’s SoWa Arts District this fall, is to “create a dynamic intercultural dialogue by showing both regional and international artists and providing a platform for experimental projects and ideas.” It aims toward this goal by utilizing an interesting floor plan of two spaces bisected by a semi-public concourse. Inviting and intriguingly visible upon entering 460 Harrison Avenue’s entrance C, an entire wall of T+H’s gallery space is plate-glass. A transparent expanse perched high in a split-level lobby overlooks the main entrance, providing an architectural effect that extends the gallery’s informational flow to breathe interactivity, sparking curiosity and dialogue. T+H Gallery’s sidecar exhibition space works in tandem with the primary gallery and flanks a … [Read more...] about Eggert at T+H Gallery

Untitled

Building On Life Lessons

// Current Exhibits, Current Issue, September/October 2016, Visual Arts

Thompson and Scheibler in Newton by James Foritano First things come second at Newton’s New Art Center. Two lives of different length take a turn at mid-career. One from philosophy, the other from medicine, both with the equally large ambition of documenting the other side of the brain, the insistent one not sanctioned by the academy or the workplace. I’m looking at “Triangulation” by Irwin E. Thompson, M.D. It’s a rich impasto of blues, oranges and greens, a fruit salad of oils, so juicy they belie the dry measurement implied by the title and process of triangulation. And they’ll never locate a point by meeting physically, since they all swim at such different depths of the picture plane; the hot colors push forward, the cool ones recede. Adding to this complication, the triangles pictured, though insistently pointing forward, seem to be disintegrating in … [Read more...] about Building On Life Lessons

Asleep

Safarani Sisters at Adelson

// Current Exhibits, Current Issue, September/October 2016, Visual Arts

Uncovering the Mystery by Kristin Wissler From a young age, Farzaneh and Bahareh Safarani, better known as the Safarani Sisters, were enamored with the arts. Growing up in Iran, the twin sisters spent all their free time drawing and painting. While they took swimming, volleyball and gymnastics lessons, the real fun for them was coming home afterwards and drawing. By age five, they knew they wanted to be artists, and at age 13 they met and began learning from Iranian artist Farimah Farhatnia. They went on to study art at Tehran University, majoring in painting, but also taking classes in music, theatre, dance, poetry and other art forms. They went on to Northeastern University to pursue their MFAs in studio art, a joint program between Northeastern and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, both in Boston. In May of this year, I covered the Safarani Sisters’ MFA Thesis … [Read more...] about Safarani Sisters at Adelson

Flooding Florida

Reindorf at Galatea

// Current Exhibits, Current Issue, September/October 2016, Visual Arts

Man Vs. Nature by Joshua Ascherman Lisa Reindorf is no stranger to political art; she’s received acclaim for a series of gesturally painted panels depicting the expansion of Syrian refugee camps as seen from the air. This October, in a show at Galatea Fine Art in Boston’s SoWa District called “Building Into Water,” the artist tackles another vital political issue: the environment. The great tension in Reindorf’s paintings is between human and nature; it’s a dichotomy that isn’t novel but into which she breathes new life. For her, the natural systems that have been disturbed by the expansion of man-made infrastructure are not passive — rather, they apply their own counter-pressure to human society in response to disturbances. Reindorf’s work aims to represent this tug-of-war. This is indeed true in the case of the paintings that will show in “Building into Water.” They … [Read more...] about Reindorf at Galatea

Michals and Avery at Bennington

// Current Exhibits, Current Issue, September/October 2016, Visual Arts

Making Their Own Rules by Marguerite Serkin DUANE MICHALS Duane Michals has never played by the rules. Almost exclusively self-taught, his storied approach to photog-raphy has grown out of years, now decades, of hard work and experience. On view at the Bennington Museum, “Duane Michals: Photographs from the Floating World” represents the photographer’s more recent work, from 2005 to the present. “A great wave of melancholy swept over Tanya” portrays a young woman in traditional Japanese garb, appearing in sharp deꔀnition against the softer focus of the trees and brook behind her. By contrast, in “Vincent Van Gogh,” sun똀owers dominate, with an almost incidental ꔀgure carrying a ladder, making his way among the blooms. This balance and counterbalance between human form and natural surroundings invite the viewer to look more closely, drawn in by the artist’s riveting … [Read more...] about Michals and Avery at Bennington