While many abstract painters like to leave the origin and identity of their markings to the imagination of their work’s viewers, Carole Bolsey willingly revealed the inspiration for her “Levitation/Horsing Around” exhibition that’s on view through April 7 at the South Shore Art Center. “Sometimes these objects are barns with strong light casting shadows on land, sometimes boats, light, reflections, nothing,” she notes in her show’s mission statement. “In this series the objects are horses, space and gerunds: words ending in –ing indicating actions or states of being, as in ‘being.’ As in standing, grazing, wading and, in this series, Levitating.” She said the works aren’t “about horses,” but “of horses” — and space, movement, drawing and paint — without narratives, that capture creatures living as is, “unbridled, unsaddled, unridden and apparently untrained. Too wild or too young to … [Read more...] about Carole Bolsey: Levitation/Horsing Around At South Shore Art Center
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Me Love You Long Time (MLYLT) at Boston Center for the Arts
By Lindsey Davis Boston, MA - Beginning at the entrance to the Mill’s Gallery, the Boston Center for the Arts’ new exhibition, “Me Love You Long Time (MLYLT),” features contemporary art created since the 1990s by artists from Southeast Asia and the United States. The dynamic display incorporates multiple videos and large-scale installations, along with everything from conceptual art to representational oil paintings. Curated by Edwin Ramoran and organized by the Newark-based Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, the exhibition’s title borrows its name from Stanley Kubrick’s 1987 film “Full Metal Jacket,” set during the Vietnam War. In the movie, prostitutes solicit two U.S. soldiers by saying, “Me love you long time.” In a more direct way, this exhibition examines the powers of colonialism and its relationship to sexuality, along with sexual captivity’s influences on pop culture and … [Read more...] about Me Love You Long Time (MLYLT) at Boston Center for the Arts
“Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America” at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
By Lindsey Davis Boston, MA - Anders Zorn was a Scandinavian artist whose talent rocketed him to celebrity status during the Belle Epoque in Europe, his impressionistic perfection earning him scores of influential patrons across the cultural world. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s newest exhibition proves Zorn’s contribution to the modern art world, while also giving the viewer a behind-the-scenes look on Zorn’s personal life, focusing in on his relationship with his major patron in Boston, Ms. Isabella Stewart Gardner. Unfortunately Zorn was forgotten soon after his death, and his exceptional body of work still remains one of the most overlooked and understudied of his time. The exhibit was organized and curated by Oliver Tostmann, the Gardner’s William and Lia Poorvu Curator of the Collection, who remarked that Zorn’s career was “like a comet” because of its bright, fleeting … [Read more...] about “Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America” at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Third National Exhibition of Monotypes and Monoprints at Gordon College
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
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
Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 132nd Season
By Lindsey Davis Boston, MA - Last Thursday the technically perfected sounds of the Boston Symphony Orchestra filled Boston Symphony Hall — the first of four performances that will consist of these two particular pieces of musical art. The first was the exciting and bouncy ballet in one act, “Pucinella” by Stravinsky, which was followed by the slower, more classical piece, Haydn’s “Mass in Time of War.” Both works called for soloist vocals but Haydn’s “Mass” required a choir as well, represented here by the Tanglewood Festival Chorus. Veteran conductor Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos led the Orchestra, and although his age restricted him to an office chair while conducting, there was no emotional inflexibility whatsoever. Stravinsky’s “Pucinella” was clearly intended as a dance, each note getting whisked up by the last, and speeding past each other until the song erupted into a grand … [Read more...] about Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 132nd Season