The Monotype Guild of New England’s “Third National Exhibition of Monotypes and Monoprints” featuring 94 unique prints selected by Mark Pascale, Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, is now on view at Gordon College’s Barrington Center for the Arts. The works reflect the range of techniques employed by artists from across the country to create contemporary one-of-a-kind prints. The show’s opening reception is this Saturday, March 2 from 3:30-5:30 p.m. Pascale will be on-hand to discuss his selection of award-winning prints For a complete list of participating artists, visit http://www.mgne.org/2013NationalShowCFE.html#artists. The Monotype Guild of New England is a non-profit organization founded in 1985 by Beverly Edwards and a group of artists working with her in monotype workshops at the Fuller Museum in Brockton and at the Cope Cod Conservatory in … [Read more...] about Third National Exhibition of Monotypes and Monoprints at Gordon College
Exhibits
Richard Kattman: Painted Abstractions at Fountain Street Fine Art
By Brian Goslow In advance of Richard Kattman’s month-long “Painted Abstractions” show at Fountain Street Fine Art, artscope magazine’s managing editor, Brian Goslow, exchanged questions with Richard about the show, his current projects and whether or not the world would get to see an exhibition of his fascinating photos, many which capture the same abstract elements of his paintings. BG: Tell us about the work included in “Painted Abstracts …” RK: “Painted Abstracts” is a compilation of recently completed large paintings delving into ideas and concepts of “What is Abstract?” experienced in the concrete reality of placing paint on canvas. These works are in series, as they relate through mark making, the use of color, considerations of nature and the landscape, and through the searching for a higher plane of thought and/or experience. Meditations and reflections on life are essential … [Read more...] about Richard Kattman: Painted Abstractions at Fountain Street Fine Art
“Visible Merge” at Barbara Krakow Gallery
By Lindsey Davis Boston, MA - The Barbara Krakow Gallery’s current exhibition presents the works of Frank Egloff and John Stezaker, two artists with their own methods of questioning reality within their work. Frank Egloff combines inkjet prints on Mylar, printing one on top of the other so that the two images fade into one another, some suggesting a sense of movement and others a distorted reality. Many of the photographs he works with were captured decades ago, allowing Egloff to combine images that span up to a half-century within a single composition. Egloff’s print combination, “After Patricia Faure 1972/Janice Guy 1979.3,” reveals a woman with tussled dark hair eyeing the camera casually, overlaid by a landscape print of a similar woman leaning left, with a camera in front of her face. This play between photographer and the photographed would be lost without the realization that … [Read more...] about “Visible Merge” at Barbara Krakow Gallery
“Lost Horizons” at Howard Yezerski Gallery
By Lindsey Davis Boston, MA - Line and color cut across the canvas chaotically, separated into thick blocks that wave and reverberate inside each rectangular world. Full of whimsical shapes and abstraction, these oil on linen paintings are the most recent work of Barbara Grad, currently on view in her solo exhibition, “Lost Horizons,” at the Howard Yezerski Gallery at 460 Harrison Ave. in Boston. Some works are busier than others, filling every inch with intersecting lines, but all are complex and deep with layers of design that makes it seem possible to look past what’s right in front of you to something else, something more concrete. “Smarter View” shows disjointed segments of the same patterns floating above empty space, pieces of different puzzles shuffled against an ever-abstract background that fades to sketching, and finally to empty faded linen in the bottom-left corner. All … [Read more...] about “Lost Horizons” at Howard Yezerski Gallery
Incommensurabilities? Paint and the Expanded Real at the Bromfield Gallery
By Lindsey Davis Boston, MA - The works on the walls at the Bromfield Gallery exist somewhere between painting and sculpture. They’re limited to rectangles and hung the way two-dimensional works would be, but each piece is being consumed by thick paint that strikes the viewers eyes as well as a couple centimeters of their space. Martin Mugar’s works are the first you encounter — miniature cotton candy colored paint clumps taking over boards of different shapes and sizes, exploring both the surface of paint and its impact on the viewer. “This is not a world of people and things, nor of the distinct forms of abstract rationalism,” declares the Bromfield Gallery’s artist statement for the show. “The individual units of the painting are an impulse themselves, as Mondrian’s flat units are questioned as a basis for painting.” Mugar’s colored paint clumps assume patterns of different … [Read more...] about Incommensurabilities? Paint and the Expanded Real at the Bromfield Gallery
Susan Lyman: Sculpture in Wood at Boston Sculptors Gallery
By Lindsey Davis Boston, MA – Susan Lyman’s new show “Sculpture in Wood” stars 28 exotic pieces of woodwork, all lined up across the wall at eyesight level. Taller ones occupy the inner gallery space, and although only a few of them have defined body parts, the display as a whole looks like a zoo of fairytale creatures, made of wood and frozen in time. Most of these little beings contain amorphic shapes that bubble and connect with straighter parts, each its own little paradoxical combination of round and straight, smooth and rough. The taller standing pieces contain even more life, rising from the platform with a sense of stretch and reach that mimics how most of us get out of bed in the morning. “Seduction” is made of cedar, birch, poplar and beech, and features two long skinny necks emerging from a smooth, polished trunk. At the tops of these necks sit two reaching ovals, their … [Read more...] about Susan Lyman: Sculpture in Wood at Boston Sculptors Gallery