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, when they were … [Read more...] about CORNERED: DEBORAH BALDIZAR
Exhibits
TEN KINGSTON ASSOCIATES: ENTANGLED AT KINGSTON GALLERY
“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 have hard rigid … [Read more...] about TEN KINGSTON ASSOCIATES: ENTANGLED AT KINGSTON GALLERY
REVIEW: FRONT INTERNATIONAL: CLEVELAND TRIENNIAL FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
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 Art Institute of … [Read more...] about REVIEW: FRONT INTERNATIONAL: CLEVELAND TRIENNIAL FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
FLIGHTS OF FANCY AT PANOPTICON GALLERY
“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 to pose them or get … [Read more...] about FLIGHTS OF FANCY AT PANOPTICON GALLERY
Synaesthesia at Beacon Gallery
Beacon Gallery’s “Synaesthesia: Abstract Art & Creative Writing” is an exhibit featuring works by writers, poets and artists, some who have synaesthesia and some who do not. For those unfamiliar with the term, synaesthesia, it is the perceptual phenomenon where the stimulation of one sense automatically and involuntarily stimulates another. A person who has synaesthesia, or a synesthete, can see sounds or taste colors. Sometimes individual letters and numbers are associated with specific patterns or colors; a smell can prompt a specific sound to the synesthete’s ear; shapes can have their own tastes, or sounds can have their own textures. The focus of this exhibit is on abstract works of art accompanied by short poems or stories reacting to these pieces of art. Color and texture were unifying themes in the art pieces, while emotion was the biggest unifier between the pieces of … [Read more...] about Synaesthesia at Beacon Gallery
CAPSULE PREVIEWS: CAMBRIDGE ART ASSOCIATION, CREATIVE ARTS WORKSHOP, GARY MAROTTA FINE ART & MAINE MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS
Selected from 103 entries, the Cambridge Art Association’s “2018 Emerging Artists Exhibition,” which has its opening reception on Thursday, July 12 from 6-9 p.m. at the Kathryn Schultz Gallery, 25 Lowell St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, scored loudly on the annual exhibition’s intent of serving as a showcase for “a selection of work the reflections current trends in the visual art world, our present moment in time, and the vision of our curator.” The show was curated by Kate Mothes, founder of Young Space (yngspc.com), an independent online and nomadic curatorial platform emphasizing contemporary art by emerging, early-career and student artists. Commenting on the collection as a whole, Mothes said, “a fairly large portion of submissions addressed themes of identity, relationships, home and current events, which struck me as an honest response to uncertain times, and made the entire … [Read more...] about CAPSULE PREVIEWS: CAMBRIDGE ART ASSOCIATION, CREATIVE ARTS WORKSHOP, GARY MAROTTA FINE ART & MAINE MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS