Article Excerpts: Welcome | Cornered: Michael Mansfield| A Retrospective Ode To Fearlessness | The Artist's Eye Draws Us In | Bearing Witness To Tragedy | Boston Athenaeum's Works On Paper | Michelman Makes Space | Going With The Grain | Young Russians At Shattuck | Expressing Freedom At Miller White | A Synergistic Blend In Ptown| Paul Forte, Visual Poet | An Ode To Her Homeland | Nancy Hayes' Universe | A Hands-on Approach | Live. Love. Learn. | Extolling Walden's Hallowed Shores | Closer Readings At UNH | Time Stands Still At Smith | NBMAA's 47th Members' Show | Looking Beyond And Reaching Out | Mclane's Global Impact | Dreamscapes of A World Contained | Spazuk Plays With Fire | Kat O'Connor In New Haven | A Generosity of Spirit | … [Read more...] about May/June 2017
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WONDERMENT AND CONFUSION
PAUL FORTE, VISUAL POET Suzanne Volmer It is rare for an AS220 Project Space exhibitor to get extra square footage for an exhibition. However, this luxury is provided to Paul Forte for his “The Alchemy of Collage — Selected Works 2005-2016” collection of visual poetry in order to give breathing room to the show’s complex and thoughtful compression of data. The simplicity of the layout will give audiences the benefit of receiving Forte’s conceptual information without peripheral distraction. Forte had just finished planning the arrangement of his art when I recently visited him at his studio, and he had a list of titles jotted on a copy of the gallery floor plan. The show’s layout positioned “Mantle (After a Fashion),” a three-dimensional arrangement, to be visible from the front window. A number of large two-dimensional collage works, including “Desert Parcel (Book … [Read more...] about WONDERMENT AND CONFUSION
May/June 2017 Centerfold
Artscope 68, May/June 2017 art: The Well artist: James Dye medium: dip pen and india ink theme: Outsider/Visionary Art Through the methodical application of detail, I explore the ritual nature of art and the symbiosis of image and story. I draw inspiration from mythology both personal and established to create works that speak to the imagination.Jurors: DON CADORET, Founding Member, South Coast Artists / SUZANNE GILBERT LEE DANTON, Executive Director, Rocky Neck Art Colony/ BORIANA KANTCHEVA, Gallery Coordinator, Chandler Gallery, Maud Morgan Arts. CENTERFOLD CONTEST Artscope 69, July/August: Wood Your work could be Artscope Magazine's next centerfold. Work by established and emerging artists welcome.For the July/August 2017 issue, we will be accepting submissions of in the category of Wood medium. … [Read more...] about May/June 2017 Centerfold
TRANSCENDENCE
EXPRESSING FREEDOM AT MILLER WHITE Laura Shabott There is a Chinese curse [that] says “May he live in interesting times.” Like it or not, we live in interesting times. They are times of danger and uncertainty; but they are also the most creative of any time in the history of mankind. — Robert F. Kennedy, 1966 As cultural institutions defend their existence in 2017’s political climate, Susan Reid Danton — artist, gallery director and museum show curator — is responding with “Expressing Freedom: Transcendence through Art” at Miller White Fine Arts. The invitational arts show, with painting, sculpture, interactive installations and poetry, opened on April 28 and runs through June 9. It is one of over 30 events that are part of a new arts festival, ArtSpring Cape Cod. Miller White Fine Arts is nestled in the back of a commercial building along Route 134 in South Dennis, … [Read more...] about TRANSCENDENCE
RIVERA’S FANTASY ISLAND
AN ODE TO HER HOMELAND Suzanne Volmer This June, Shey Rivera Rios will combine an immersive art installation with live storytelling performances in exploring socio/political issues shaping Puerto Rico today through her monthlong “Fantasy Island/La Isla Fantastica” exhibition at AS220’s Project Space. The installation/ performance artist, who lives in Providence, can relate to displacement, having arrived in Rhode Island seven years ago from Puerto Rico. In talking with her for this article, she emphasized three key points: her connection to her homeland, the sense of displacement she experienced in leaving her roots and the acceptance she’s found at AS220, where she serves in an administrative capacity as its artistic director. Rivera said she has always been interested in performance and arts management, and while studying at the University of Puerto Rico, her mentor … [Read more...] about RIVERA’S FANTASY ISLAND
ART, SCIENCE AND SPIRITUALITY
NANCY HAYES’ UNIVERSE Don Wilkinson In anticipation of the early-April opening of “Anatomy of a Small Universe,” an exhibition of works by painter Nancy Hayes at the de Menil Gallery, I visited Hayes’ spacious basement studio in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Paintings were carefully propped up on makeshift tables of milk crates and cinder block. Clamp-on lights provided illumination to the immaculate space in a good approximation of a gallery setting. While a few of the paintings are singular selfcontained panels, the majority are polyptychs, or multi-paneled works. All are acrylic on medium density fiberboard. I have long been familiar with Hayes’ ceramics work, in which her subject matter delved into organic forms, objects that rose like tendrils seeking some greater truth from the light. In her transition from the three-dimensional world of ceramics to painting’s … [Read more...] about ART, SCIENCE AND SPIRITUALITY