By Brian Goslow Boston, MA - Along with being the director of Galatea Fine Art, in Boston’s SoWa District, Marjorie Kaye is an artist whose organic 3-D layered wooden sculptures are immediately identifiable as hers. Her latest collection of work, “The Magnetic Divine,” is now on view at the Galatea, sharing the gallery with Hope Ricciardi’s “Oya” and Joe Caruso’s “Postcards” exhibitions. Artscope’s managing editor, Brian Goslow, exchanged questions with Kaye about balancing her art career with running her own gallery, the work in her show and how it’s complemented by Ricciardi and Caruso, what it’s like to watch and listen to potential buyers as they look at your work, and when she expects to take a break. HOW DIFFERENT IS IT PLANNING FOR YOUR OWN SHOW COMPARED TO THAT OF OTHER ARTISTS, ESPECIALLY AT YOUR OWN GALLERY? Setting up the show is really referring … [Read more...] about Cornered: Marjorie Kaye
Exhibits
Conversation with the Curator: Winogrand’s Women are Beautiful at Worcester Art Museum
By Chad Sirois Worcester, MA - Interest in the work of Garry Winogrand has had a resurgence of late. With an exhibition of unpublished photographs at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA) (March-June, 2013), inclusion in a street photography exhibition at the Smith College of Art Museum (July-October 6, 2013), and an exhibition of his portfolio “Women are Beautiful” (August-November 10, 2013) now on view at the Worcester Art Museum, it is hard for the museum-going public to avoid his complex and ambiguous imagery. Heavily influenced by the likes of Robert Frank and Henri Carter-Bresson, Winogrand’s brand of photography is often open to speculation, interpretation, and criticism. Much like fellow street photographer Diane Arbus, his work is routinely marred as exploitative — particularly his portfolio, “Women are Beautiful.” I sat down with Nancy Burns, Curator of … [Read more...] about Conversation with the Curator: Winogrand’s Women are Beautiful at Worcester Art Museum
The Center for Contemporary Printmaking’s Miniature Print Exhibition
By Newlin Tillotson Norwalk, CT - With a magnifying glass in hand, I visited the Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk, Connecticut to explore an exhibition of mini prints. The 9th Biennial International Printmaking Exhibition features more than 800 miniature prints compiled from artists around the world. Lining the walls of the Grace Ross Shanley Gallery is more than 225 prints of various shapes and small sizes. There are woodcut prints, digital prints, dry point with chine collé prints, lithographs and legion paper prints — just to name a few. In addition to the prints hanging in the gallery space, loose-leaf binders around the center include more than 600 mini prints. With so much to take in, it is difficult to find a starting point. I started in the back with some colorful prints by Eugenie Lewalski Berg. “Roller Blades” was one of Berg’s woodcut prints … [Read more...] about The Center for Contemporary Printmaking’s Miniature Print Exhibition
“Locally Made” at the RISD MUSEUM Showcases Rhode Island Artwork
By Newlin Tillotson Providence, RI – With three galleries, and a participation of 300 artists, “Locally Made” is the Rhode Island School of Design Museum’s largest survey of work from the greater Providence area in more than 20 years. Continuing through November 3, “Locally Made” features demonstrations, collaborations and an exhibition of newly acquired work by 40 Rhode Island artists. In the Upper Farago Gallery, the newer acquisitions from local artists are displayed in a large white setting. It is an eclectic group of work ranging in size, style and mediums. Much of the art on display is descriptive of the state, with some pieces reflecting the close-knit and esoteric nature of Rhode Island culture. Allison Bianco’s piece, “The Sinking of Matunuck,” a soft-ground etching and color screen-print triptych on paper, is an eye-catching piece that includes some Rhode Island … [Read more...] about “Locally Made” at the RISD MUSEUM Showcases Rhode Island Artwork
Alison Horvitz Talks Painting, Inspiration and the Future
By Newlin Tillotson Boston, MA - Artscope's Newlin Tillotson spoke with abstract painter Alison Horvitz about her show "Room 325" at Galatea Fine Art in Boston. Alison explains her approach to abstract painting, inspiration and future projects in Artscope's first podcast. Alison Horvitz Audio … [Read more...] about Alison Horvitz Talks Painting, Inspiration and the Future
Preview: Severin Haines: Recent Landscapes at Dedee Shattuck Gallery
By Don Wilkinson Westport, MA- In anticipation of the July exhibition of the recent work of Severin (Sig) Haines at the Dedee Shattuck Gallery, I have made several visits to his studio in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, and although I have long been familiar with Haines and his paintings, I was delighted to see him pushing personal aesthetic boundaries, albeit within the genre he is best known for: the landscape. But when is a landscape painter not a landscape painter? When he is a formalist’s formalist. Close examination of the work reveals that, for Haines, the act of painting is not in service to the landscape, but rather, that the landscape is in service to painting itself. There are the comforting hallmarks and reassurances of the traditional landscape; the softening horizon line, brilliant dapples of sunlight, the calligraphy of tree branches and grass blades. However, the work … [Read more...] about Preview: Severin Haines: Recent Landscapes at Dedee Shattuck Gallery