Printmaker Lynne Kortenhaus is exhibiting 10 of her pieces at the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown as an homage to her memories of the past. The theme she says is “homeward.” “It’s rare these days to hear someone say they had a lovely childhood but mine was idyllic,” the artist said. Her Kortenhaus grandfather, a land surveyor, farmed 26 acres of New Jersey land. Lynne helped him, picking (and eating) the fruits and vegetables. (She liked the raspberries best.) Her father ranched mink. She got to nurse babies rejected by mums, and with her father holding on to adults, pet their soft furry middles. The family would head into New York city for museums and to shop. On the way back they’d stop at a blueberry farm (eponymously named) where her mum would get oodles of berries for pies and pancakes. Her grandma and great grandma taught Lynne to crochet, which, with the animals, and the … [Read more...] about VARIED TEXTURES OF HOME LYNNE KORTENHAUS AT SCHOOLHOUSE GALLERY

Painterly relief constructs by Audrey Goldstein in her show “Intimate Toxicities,” on view through June 10 at Gallery Kayafas in Boston’s SoWa District, build upon benchmarks in contemporary art, creating a dialogue of continuum. Her “Conversation Quilt” has kinship with Robert Rauschenberg’s combine sensibility notably “Ram” (1959) and “Interloper” (1982). Goldstein’s approach toward poetic balance, roaming exploration of quintessential American landscape and the world, relates to his thinking, but a difference is Goldstein’s aesthetic lens is trained on recent global ecological disturbances dramatically re-shaping the ideal. The centerpiece of Goldstein’s show, “Conversation Quilt,” is her largest combine and is presented in a dedicated exhibition room at Gallery Kayafas. Physically attached to the wall, it has a large protuberance of quilted unbleached muslin that pushes out onto the … [Read more...] about Audrey Goldstein’s “Intimate Toxicities” at Gallery Kayafas