By Christina Huang Bristol, RI - With only three events left this year, the next ART Night: Bristol & Warren, Rhode Island, which takes place this Thursday, September 27 from 5-9 p.m., is fast approaching. Walking down Main Street Warren, one would be surprised to see the number of the cars and trucks that drive by the small street adorned with a variety of small stores. Lane Poor, owner and photographer at Main Street Gallery, runs a joint photo shop and gallery that is appealing for all visitors; its Kids’ Corner is especially popular during ART Night. Immediately to the left of Main Street Gallery is Betty Harrington’s Studio 67 with the Coffee Depot, a great place to stop for an afternoon pick-me-up, is directly across the street. Then explore the historic Cutler Mills, which have transformed into artist studios, and the nearby Mudstone pottery and ceramics studios. Students … [Read more...] about ART Night in Bristol & Warren, Rhode Island
Exhibits
Re-Visioning in the Garden of Eden at UMass Lowell
By James Foritano Lowell, MA - With my GPS barking at me, I rolled into the visitor parking lot at UMass Lowell’s McGauvran Student Center only half a week after the opening of my friend and fellow artist Chehalis Hegner’s exhibit “Re-Visioning in the Garden of Eden.” Better late than never. Besides, I’ve always held that inspiration doesn’t have a shelf life, and what I saw in the “Garden of Eden” confirmed my belief. Irony, subversive humor, lyricism, craft all bloomed, fresh as creation, in this ‘re-visioned’ garden. Where to start? Ever notice how when your GPS stops barking, you have to orient yourself? O.K. I said, I’m in the Garden of Eden, obviously post-modern, so what has happened since then? Uhhh…complications! Individual choice! Doubt! Competition! And whoa…EVIL. Now sometimes evil is creative destruction, as the economist Joseph Schrumpeter and, no doubt, a benevolent … [Read more...] about Re-Visioning in the Garden of Eden at UMass Lowell
Capsule Preview: Printivale! at Sharon Arts Center Gallery
Contemporary, traditional & installation printmaking are spotlighted in “Printivale!” now on view at the Sharon Arts Center Gallery in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Peterborough book artist/printmaker, Erin Sweeney, curated the show which features works by Bryan Baker, Amanda Benton, Tia Blassingame, Chad Creighton, Amanda D'Amico, Christine Destrempes, Tim Donovan, Soosen Dunholter, Nick Fournier, Rebecca Gilbert, Joseph Hart, Amos Kennedy, Rian Kerrane, Sarah Lewtas, Colette Lucas, Pilar Nadal, Bobby Rosenstock, Annie Silverman, Paige Simpson, Erin Sweeney and Caroline Ziegler. "Erin has an extensive knowledge of the contemporary printmaking that is taking place not only throughout the region, but on a national level," said gallery director Camellia Sousa. “Printivale!” continues through October 27 at Sharon Arts Center Gallery, 30 Grove Street, Peterborough, New Hampshire. For … [Read more...] about Capsule Preview: Printivale! at Sharon Arts Center Gallery
Capsule Preview: Create at the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery
Worcester, MA - The College of the Holy Cross is hosting a two-part exhibition featuring and celebrating artwork created over the past two decades at three pioneering California-based programs for artists with disabilities. “Create” gathers together work made at Creatively Explored (San Francisco), the Creative Growth Art Center (Oakland) and National Institute for Art and Disabilities Art Center (Richmond). Artist and educator Florence Ludins-Katz and psychiatrist Elias Katz developed the programs in the 1970s using methodology that combines access to group studio and professional work practices and provides artists with disabilities an inroad to the broader arts community. In whole, the show features 135 pieces by 20 artists, leading to it being spread over two calendar periods: the first runs through October 6 while the second takes place from October 22 through December 8 at the … [Read more...] about Capsule Preview: Create at the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery
“Walk Into My Heart”: An Installation by Deborah Bohnert
By James Foritano On the first Saturday of the summer of ’12, I walked into an affair of the heart with other invitees dressed in the requested white. It was not my first such affair — I’m no stick in the mud — but the first with a specific address: 78 Front Street, Marblehead. And it was, I have to say, a total immersion. I had met Deborah Bohnert before in her studio, but then it was strictly artist to art reporter since I was writing up her recent exhibit at the Simmons College gallery. You can imagine me as all ink-stained, bowed over my clipboard and interested only in the cold, if intriguing facts. This was very different. Walking off the cobblestones of Marblehead’s picturesque harbor, I met Ms. Bohnert as a hostess, warmly welcoming and bidding me to walk into a capacious heart she’s been assembling for years from her own paintings, photographs and sculptures as well as a … [Read more...] about “Walk Into My Heart”: An Installation by Deborah Bohnert
Cornered: Interview with Marilyn Kalish of The Vault Gallery (Part Two)
The “cornered” feature in the May/June 2012 issue of artscope features J. Fatima Martins’ interview with Marilyn Kalish, owner of The Vault Gallery in Great Barrington, Mass. Space restrictions didn’t allow us to run the full interview in the issue so we’re sharing the portion that didn’t make it into the magazine here. How did you find your working ritual? Marilyn Kalish: Organically. People like us trust the process. It’s a matter of how long can you stay in the space without answers. We are comfortable with the process and we are trusting in the uncomfortablility. It’s ritual, ritual, ritual until the answers arrive, and they always do. How have you managed challenges and mistakes? MK: I have mentors; people who understand my working method and how I think. That’s very important. The answers don’t come quickly... search, search, search and I will find a truth and it’s visceral, … [Read more...] about Cornered: Interview with Marilyn Kalish of The Vault Gallery (Part Two)