Robert Brodesky has been making his art since his 20s when as a younger man he was convinced that was what he should do. He grew up in Brooklyn New York and his large figures drawn with chalk and painted with acrylic are like saints from urban sidewalks. He works from an inner memory, no models, just the flow of life well observed and cherished. The title of his recently completed solo show, “What Remains Unsaid,” implies that these images are snapshots of imagined narratives, where the couples or individuals have history and may or may not have a future.” I was spellbound by their scale, audacity, confidence and beauty when I entered the gallery at the James Library & Center for the Arts, its formal room with Greek scroll ornament wallpaper somber gray walls and generous windows the perfect space for Brodesky’s exhibit or recent works that are heroic, truthful and loaded with … [Read more...] about ROBERT BRODESKY’S IMAGINED NARRATIVES

In her solo exhibition, “Holding Thoughts,” currently at ArtsWorcester, Virginia Mahoney’s works are composed of sliced paintings covered with handwritten heart leaking words woven into floating vessels. Thousands of hand inked words from years of journals, are copied onto the strips and some embroidered on top of the ink. Mahoney wrote in an IG entry that stitching was portable, in a year of health issues she could reinforce her own thoughts with needle and thread wherever she was.  Mahoney initially is talking to herself, but as she says in her statement she is “putting what’s inside out in the open”. Her titles read like Emily Dickenson and e. e. cummings in conversation: All The Rabbit Holes — 1, 2, Am I There Yet, Anxious, Cradled, Elizabeth’s Memory,  It Weighs on Me, Little Time for Solitude, Look Back to Go Ahead, Maybe Shorthand, One on One, Opening, Peeking Through, Please … [Read more...] about LOOKING BACK TO GO AHEAD

“Kate Hamilton: The Changing Room,” which recently closed at Cape Cod Community College’s Higgins Gallery, was yet another cutting-edge show curated by savvy and hip art professor Nathalie Ferrier, a French transplant to our Atlantic shores. Featuring Hamilton’s conceptual fabric art, the work derived mostly from her experience as a costumer for experimental, imagist, absurdist theater, much of it staged in Zurich, Switzerland. A light and airy, white-walled space led to an equally light and airy mostly white collection. The first artifact was a huge poncho-like blouse of a “Pussy Bow, Untied” into a scarf of yards of paper attached to an old-fashioned Remington typewriter. Visitors were invited to type on it, words of rebellion and freedom preferably, for the walk-in blouse and scarf is representative of women undoing the construction/constriction of male inspired clothing/domination. … [Read more...] about KATE HAMILTON’S CHANGING ROOM