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Visual Arts

EXPOSURE 2018: PHOTOGRAPHIC RESOURCE CENTER’S FIRST SHOW AT THE VANDERNOOT GALLERY AT LESLEY UNIVERSITY

// Artscope Online, Visual Arts

By Jacob Cutler With the recent move of the Photographic Resource Center from its original home at Boston University to Lesley University.  The PRC was eager to present its first show in its temporary space in the VanDernoot Gallery in Porter Square, . “Exposure 2018” is a juried group exhibition featuring the works of photographers from Massachusetts, New York, Maryland and beyond. Each artist has their own distinct style while complimenting the others. The show was juried by the acclaimed photographer, curator, editor and educator, Christopher Rauschenberg. While Rauschenberg has not revealed his requirements for the art that he chose, one can see distinct connections between the majority of the 11 photographers’ work that were chosen. Each artists work heavily featured humans or a human element. Upon looking at the work, one can see how each artist is making work that deals with … [Read more...] about EXPOSURE 2018: PHOTOGRAPHIC RESOURCE CENTER’S FIRST SHOW AT THE VANDERNOOT GALLERY AT LESLEY UNIVERSITY

1Percent Gallery

GALLERY SPOTLIGHT: BOSTON’S 1PERCENT GALLERY AND THEIR VISION TO “REDEFINE UNDEFINED SPACES”

// Artscope Online, Exhibits, Visual Arts

By Jacob Cutler Piano Craft Gallery located in the South End of Boston is a gallery space that rents out to various dealers, curators, and artist collectives. Its most recent show was a “featured artists” exhibition by 1Percent Gallery that closed on July 30. It featured artists of all mediums from painting and sculpture to textiles and prints with a focus on connecting artists from different worlds and creating a space in which these worlds collide and complement each other. As intriguing as the art was, the more interesting aspect of the show was the gallery putting it on. 1Percent Gallery is an online gallery that represents artists from all disciplines. They represent visual artists, musicians, fashion designers and skateboarders. As it doesn’t have its own permanent space, 1Percent Gallery travels from gallery to gallery and completely transforms the room. Its mission can be … [Read more...] about GALLERY SPOTLIGHT: BOSTON’S 1PERCENT GALLERY AND THEIR VISION TO “REDEFINE UNDEFINED SPACES”

Deborah Baldizar, Ruthenian Woman, earthenware clay and paint.

CORNERED: DEBORAH BALDIZAR

// Artscope Online, Current Exhibits, Exhibits, Visual Arts

Brian Goslow Sculptor Deborah Baldizar is one of eight artists featured in “8 Visions,” an exhibition taking place from August 1 through 31 at Attleboro Arts Center in Attleboro, Massachusetts; the show is previewed by Brian Goslow in Artscope’s July/August 2018 issue. Baldizar, an assistant professor of art at Lasell College, was unavailable when interviews for the story were conducted. Goslow caught up with her in late July as the show’s opening date neared to learn more about her work and an exciting group exhibition that she’ll be participating in at year’s end. TELL ME ABOUT THE WORK THAT YOU’LL BE EXHIBITING IN ATTLEBORO; IS THERE A THEME THAT RUNS THROUGH ALL THE PIECES? My work in “8 Visions” is a group of eight ceramic portraits inspired by a trip to Ellis Island. While there, I stood under a sea of larger than life size photos of immigrants taken between 1905-1920, … [Read more...] about CORNERED: DEBORAH BALDIZAR

RIGHT: Tatiana Flis, First-time Home Buyers, resin, wood and mixed media, 4" x 5" x 15".

TEN KINGSTON ASSOCIATES: ENTANGLED AT KINGSTON GALLERY

// Artscope Online, Exhibits, Visual Arts

By Jacob Cutler “TEN Kingston Associates: Entangled,” the latest show at Kingston Gallery, is a group exhibition that explores the connections between objects and ideas and how the process of making art begins to intertwine and become entangled by the concepts of shape, light, realism and abstractism. It features different interpretations of this prompt through a variety of mediums. Viewers are encouraged to ponder how both they and the artist react to the same ideas and feelings contained or transmitted by a work of art. For this writer, two artists stole the show. Anthony Falcetta’s abstract acrylic paintings of various color patterns and shapes explore how colors interact and how they can both fade into each but also have ridged divisions. His “Strange Overtones” features a wide array of red and blue hues in which some tones are leaking into others, while some of the shapes … [Read more...] about TEN KINGSTON ASSOCIATES: ENTANGLED AT KINGSTON GALLERY

Yinka Shonibare’s “The American Library” installation at Cleveland Public Library’s Brett Hall.

REVIEW: FRONT INTERNATIONAL: CLEVELAND TRIENNIAL FOR CONTEMPORARY ART

// Artscope Online, Audio/Visual, Exhibits, Movie, Theatre, Visual Arts

By Nancy Nesvet The FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, which opened on July 14, presented a new take on art exhibitions in this nation. In Cleveland, a city with multiple art venues, Akron and Oberlin with art, history and spaces of their own, 110 artists at 28 locations, including a Frank Lloyd Wright house, two churches and one decommissioned steamship, presented film, video, installation, painting, sculpture, performance and community art. Open until September 30, each venue contributed to a critical mass of art in three Northeast Ohio cities. The brainchild of Frederick Bidwell, an art collector on the board of The Cleveland and Akron Art Museums, FRONT refers, he said, to the Erie lakefront that Cleveland embraces, and to its standing at the forefront of art in the region. Artistic director Michelle Grabner, a celebrated painter and professor at the … [Read more...] about REVIEW: FRONT INTERNATIONAL: CLEVELAND TRIENNIAL FOR CONTEMPORARY ART

Claire Rosen, Parakeet No. 6977, 2012, archival pigment print, 25 1/2" x 17".

FLIGHTS OF FANCY AT PANOPTICON GALLERY

// Artscope Online, Exhibits, Visual Arts

By: Jacob Cutler “Flight of Fancy,” the newest exhibition at Kenmore Square’s Panopticon Gallery, is an ode to the spirit of summer. A group show featuring the works of Claire Rosen, Stephen Sheffield and Kerry Mansfield, each of the artists’ work use color and whimsical imagery to perfectly portray and encapsulate the meaning of the season and in one way or another represent the title of the show. Rosen chose to photograph live exotic birds in front of Victorian wall paper. Right off the bat, one notices her superb use of color. The backgrounds of each photo are not only beautiful in their own right, but they serve the photograph. The colors help bring attention to the bird while creating a whimsical world that only exists in that photograph. The photographer also personifies these birds through the way in which she captured them. When photographing the birds, she did not attempt … [Read more...] about FLIGHTS OF FANCY AT PANOPTICON GALLERY