Elizabeth Keithline In collaboration with Jeff Keithline SMARTER/FASTER/HIGHER Curated by Elizabeth Keithline A TOOL IS A MIRROR Both through June 5, 2011 Danforth Museum of Art 123 Union Avenue Framingham, Massachusetts By Judith Tolnick Champa Framingham - The seated, forward leaning figure of Narcissus, stilled, entranced by its own layered reflection, is the core symbol of Elizabeth Keithline’s insistently graphic installation, Smarter/Faster/Higher, on view in Framingham through June 5. Her Narcissus is a genderless steel wire matrix, like all other figurative elements in the work. But Narcissus is uniquely and closely overlooking and captivated by technology that reads as a watery, glowing, cool blue “pool, ” in fact a grid of video screens. Do these absorbing reflections collectively imply a record? A monitor for behaviour? They do constitute an intriguing, if perplexing, … [Read more...] about Narcissus and technology is focus of Elizabeth Keithline’s work

by Sara Farizan BOSTON- Vessels Gallery in Boston’s South end is a unique art gallery dealing exclusively with ceramic art, a medium that does not always receive as much appreciation as oil paintings or photography. So when gallery director Bobbie Tunnard expressed that the Vessels Gallery’s current show is “one of the most beautiful shows the gallery has ever mounted”, artscope magazine had to investigate. “Lure” the new show at Vessels features the smooth and sleek crafting of artist Angela Cunningham, a full time artist in Somerville whose work can be found in collections throughout the United States. Her pieces are hand built in porcelain stoneware and she designs her own glazes, often coating each piece in about ten layers of glaze. When you do see one of her pieces you will know it is not only one of a kind, but by it’s appearance be shocked that it isn’t actually an organic … [Read more...] about Angela Cunningham will “Lure” you in

by Sara Farizan FRAMINGHAM- A one-man show is never an easy feat but landscape artist Roy Perkinson is ready to meet the challenge by displaying 70 pieces of work at the Fountain Street Fine Art gallery from May 6-29. Perkinson, who in recent years works in oils, pastels and water colors, does most of his painting on location and it comes as no surprise that his work evokes images and memories of places a viewer has once visited or would like to visit. But these landscapes are not merely snapshots, they are picturesque musings on a time gone past, a dreamlike version of everyday locations that the naked eye can take for granted. Colors bleed into one another, creating a moody haze and allowing the viewer total immersion into a location they have not yet visited but will now remember all too clearly. Perkinson is able to harness light and frame his view so effortlessly, it is obvious … [Read more...] about Roy Perkinson, One-Man Show