Curated by artist and director Ellen Wineberg, “Paint and Poetry” is a collaborative show at Storefront Art Projects in Watertown, featuring the poems of Edison Dupree, and the abstract paintings of Pam Rajpal and James Kinny. Wineberg is skilled in organizing communities in the New England arts scene, knowing how to throw a small and intimate soirée of artists and writers. Wineberg described herself as a matchmaker in a past life. The small space is elongated by the abstract art and concise, stanza poetry on the wall. At first glance, it may seem like Kinny’s work is on one side while Rajpal’s is on the opposing, but the paintings are in every corner and crevice of the space, including a painting of Rajpals in a back hallway entering Wineberg’s own studio space. In addition to the full-scale paintings, sketches from Rajpal and Kinny are displayed under their works, … [Read more...] about Paint and Poetry As Reassurance
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‘WALK IN YOUR TRUTH’
Room 360 of the Massachusetts State House — The Governor's Reception — is lined with painted portraits of the Commonwealth’s leaders dating back decades. But during the month of February, a mixed media portrait of a Haitian immigrant grandmother hung just as high as those of former Massachusetts Governors Charlie Baker, Deval Patrick, Bill Weld, Michael Dukakis and others. In early February, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey and Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll hosted a celebration of Black History Month, which also marked the opening of a temporary art exhibition showcasing the work of “talented Black Artists who express the triumph, beauty and resilience of Black culture,” according to a press release. On Tuesday, Feb. 25, Healey welcomed back artists Marlon Forrester, a Guyana-born and Boston-raised full-time artist and educator; Chanel Thervil, a Haitian American artist and … [Read more...] about ‘WALK IN YOUR TRUTH’
HEALING THROUGH ART: DANIELLE MAILER’S AUTUMN REVERIES ON VIEW AT CONNECTICUT LIBRARY
Danielle Mailer is not author Norman Mailer and painter Adele Morales’s daughter for nothing. She shares the same socio-political sensibilities as her late father, but expresses them in a very different voice, through her visual art. She shares the same Latin American soul as her mother and highs and lows of heart. (She’s the second eldest of Mailer’s nine children by varied wives, who remarkably are all very close and very talented.) Danielle has put together an exhibition, "Autumn Reveries" of some 20 pieces — paintings, sculptures, print and collages and a new experiment, shadow boxes, all of which were birthed out of concern for the upcoming election. The exhibition which opens October 30 and runs through December 20 at the Jamie Gagarin Gallery at the Oliver Wolcott Library, 160 South St., Litchfield, Connecticut, has an opening reception on Thursday, November 7 from 5-7 … [Read more...] about HEALING THROUGH ART: DANIELLE MAILER’S AUTUMN REVERIES ON VIEW AT CONNECTICUT LIBRARY
“Lost Weekend” In Snapshots: Pang Shows Photographs 50 Years On
50 years ago, on a late-August night, standing naked out on his apartment’s balcony in Manhattan, John Lennon watched a UFO crawl by. May Pang, Lennon’s assistant and lover at the time, was getting dressed for a late-night pizza dinner when he called her out. Gawking as the spaceship moseyed down the river, Pang and the ex-Beatle got off shots from two cameras, though none of the images came out legible. In the liner notes of his then soon to be released studio album, “Walls and Bridges,” Lennon wrote: “On the 23rd Aug. 1974 at 9 o’clock I saw a U.F.O.” Pang’s time with Lennon occurred during his “lost weekend,” an 18 month-long affair that found her assisting the songwriter through the composition and production of “Walls” slick, dreamy sound. Spanning between New York and Los Angeles, the “weekend” was an extravagant time filled with both debauchery and glamor; glittering mid-70s … [Read more...] about “Lost Weekend” In Snapshots: Pang Shows Photographs 50 Years On
SAND TO SPLENDOR: VERMONT GLASS GUILD ARTISTS’ FAR-REACHING SHOW AT SVAC
Following a long, ascending road up the side of a mountain eventually leads to the campus of the Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester. Along the way, one finds installations of outdoor sculptures peppered amidst the trees and vast grassy meadows surrounding the complex. Getting out of the car, one feels instantly to be in a very welcoming place, buildings very accessible, and walking trails within easy reach. The 120 acres of land houses several buildings: The Yester House is the main building, built in 1917 as a private estate of the Webster family. It was bought by the Southern Vermont Artists in 1950, a mansion with endless rooms devoted to rotating exhibitions, including the iconic Solo Exhibition program. The Elizabeth De C. Wilson Museum is relatively new, having been built in 2000, a contemporary space which not only features rotating exhibitions, but also houses the … [Read more...] about SAND TO SPLENDOR: VERMONT GLASS GUILD ARTISTS’ FAR-REACHING SHOW AT SVAC
TWO GALLERIES, TWO TELLINGS, ONE HISTORY: THE WOODEN MARVELS OF DONNA DODSON AND ALISON CRONEY MOSES
We were crawling along Mass. Ave. at such a slow pace from Cambridge to Boston’s SoWa Arts District on Harrison Ave. in the South End that I thought my wife, plus myself, driving, would surely disappear in frustration. Then, there we were, sitting in an audience at the promised roundtable discussion between wood sculptors Donna Dodson and Alison Croney Moses, moderated by Dr. Beth McLaughlin, artistic director and chief curator of the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, Massachusetts — an agile moderator, quick to highlight a revealing word or phrase of two mature artists/crafters at the top of their games. And what were their games? Well, as befits talent strenuously, lovingly nurtured with education, mentors and self-discipline not to mention that critical ingredient of all work in the arts and crafts, joy, Dodson’s sculptures evidenced both shining exteriors, first-hand, as well as … [Read more...] about TWO GALLERIES, TWO TELLINGS, ONE HISTORY: THE WOODEN MARVELS OF DONNA DODSON AND ALISON CRONEY MOSES