The Griffin Museum’s Sixth annual summer showcase, “Vision(ary),” highlights 33 artists whose works are installed throughout downtown Winchester, Massachusetts in partnership with Photoville. The collection weaves together past cultural influences with inventions of today, creating an international and immersive experience that highlights each artist’s unique perspective and style, free for the public now through September 13. This series I found to be singularly captivating was Ukrainian-born photographer Michael Dorohovich’s black and white portrait series. With an emphasis on home and heritage, Dorohovich reveals the previously unseen members of an already underrepresented region in “Unique Families of the Roma Community of Keldelari.” If language is how we understand one another through spoken word, then art is how we understand one another through the lack of it. … [Read more...] about A GADJE ENLIGHTENMENT IN DOWNTOWN WINCHESTER

The Pulp Gallery, 80 Race Street Holyoke MA, is a treasure box. Artist and founder Dean Brown opened Pulp in April 2019 and named it to honor paper, the primary product of Holyoke, Massachusetts. Pulp is the interim product between trees and paper. Perhaps the gallery is the interim between artists, their works, their admirers and collectors. In 2019, Patrick O’Connor of the Springfield Republican celebrated the opening with an article in which Brown describes a gallery as the “white box” where artists want to display their works. Not surprisingly Pulp’s walls are all painted white. In a succession of rooms including the W.C., art is displayed with plenty of breathing room, alongside a scatter of Brown’s Holyoke artifacts, and his collection of Outsider and folk art. Brown also maintains a cabinet of flat works of multiple artists. He posts images of all gallery artists online on the … [Read more...] about A JEWEL TO BE DISCOVERED: WESTERN MASS.-BASED PULP HOLYOKE HOLDS PLEASANT SURPRISES