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Interview

CORNERED: JANUARY/FEBRUARY ARTSCOPE COVER ARTIST DANIELLE KLEBES

// Artscope Online, Cornered, Interview, Visual Arts

by Brian Goslow

“Stray,” the painting by Danielle Klebes featured on the cover of our January/February 2021 issue, can now be seen at Springfield Museums as part of its “This Is Us: Regional Portraiture Now: Phase Two” exhibition. While she lives, and works in North Adams, Massachusetts, since earning her Master of Fine Arts degree in Visual Arts from Lesley University College of Art and Design in 2017 and after serving as MASS MoCA Artist in Residence, Klebes has spent a great deal of her time out-of-town participating in artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and Monson Arts in Vermont, various national programs in Ohio, Nebraska, Georgia and Michigan and international residencies in Quebec and Norway. She’s had a series of solo exhibitions in Massachusetts, Vermont, Pennsylvania and Quebec and participated in group exhibitions in New York and Colorado. Klebes, who mainly works in … [Read more...] about CORNERED: JANUARY/FEBRUARY ARTSCOPE COVER ARTIST DANIELLE KLEBES

INTERVIEW: BARBARA ROSE TALKS WITH DON KIMES

// Artscope Online, Featured, Interview, News, Visual Arts

by Barbara Rose

I met Don Kimes in the Nineties and have watched his work develop and change over time in response to both personal and artistic challenges. We have had an ongoing dialogue ever since. Recently I saw the work he is including in his exhibition at Denise Bibro Gallery in New York City and we had a chance to talk about how he views his own work and the contemporary art scene in general. Barbara Rose: How Do you feel your work is related to current practice? Don Kimes: Current practice is wide open. Anything, anywhere, without fixed judgement and dependent only upon personal circumstance and acuity. I still tend to wince at the word “practice”, like it’s an out of place interlocutor in the lexicon, though it became commonly used overnight. But it sounds like a nod to the professions, like being a dentist or an attorney, like I should hang a brass shingle outside my studio door with the … [Read more...] about INTERVIEW: BARBARA ROSE TALKS WITH DON KIMES

CORNERED: CLAUDIA FIKS

// Interview, September/October 2020

by Brian Goslow

Claudia Fiks has spent over two decades working in the arts and culture non-profit sector, acquiring invaluable entrepreneurial, management, fundraising and partnership development expertise that she’s put to good use as the founder of Arts Administration Association New England (AAANE). During the pandemic, the organization has given arts administrators the chance to network and share ideas on how to navigate the landscape of a region where each state has different guidelines and benchmarks to reopen– and close – in a field where lower occupancy numbers, ticketed and timed visits, and quarantined requirements for out-of-staters was exactly the opposite of their usual goal of working towards attracting as many visitors, customers and collectors as possible. Every Thursday at 4 p.m., since May, Fiks and co-host Alicia Chick, the development director at the Eliot School of Fine and Applied … [Read more...] about CORNERED: CLAUDIA FIKS

Ellen Grobman, Last Minute, 2017, oil on wood.

CORNERED: ELLEN GROBMAN AT HAMPDEN GALLERY, UMASS AMHERST

// Artscope Online, Cornered, Exhibits, Interview, Visual Arts

by Brian Goslow

Amherst, MA - For Amherst, Massachusetts-based painter Ellen Grobman, painting sounds like an exhausting and exhilarating process in which she starts with an idea, aims to pull it in a new direction and then sees what’s left when she tries to leave as little of the original thought as possible by the time she’s finish. Her website describes her work as being powered by, “This drive to bring something into being, disrupt it, and then flirt with its destruction — the boundary of something existing and then not.” Depending on the piece, there are touches of 19th century furniture wallpaper patterns, abstract expressionism, fauvism, symbolism and whatever connections each swash of paint ignites in her mind. These explorations continue in her current exhibition, “There, Not There,” on view through March 31 at Hampden Gallery in the Southwest Residential Area at the University of … [Read more...] about CORNERED: ELLEN GROBMAN AT HAMPDEN GALLERY, UMASS AMHERST

Lennie Peterson, Philip Glass, Giclée print and gator board (left); Josephine Baker, brush, ink, and acrylic on weathered canvas (right).

Synesthesia: Music-Inspired Art and Mindscapes by Lennie Peterson at the Narrows Art Center

// Artscope Online, Audio/Visual, Exhibits, Interview, Visual Arts

by J. Fatima Martins

Lennie Peterson’s “Synesthesia,” on view through October 15 at the Narrows Art Center in Fall River, Massachusetts, is a must-see exhibition of over 40 original mixed-media drawing-paintings (and a few reproductions of originals in Giclée on board), a hanging sculpture and a behind-the-scenes video of Peterson at work. In the video, we see Peterson creating with a live-performance format, which he is now famous for doing, and get a glimpse of some of his lesser known and fascinating practices. There is a revelation in the video: he takes a substrate and places it in water and sand in a beach environment, allowing the materials to arrive at a natural unrehearsed condition. This act is important because it is Peterson’s fundamental guiding force — flow. The exhibition itself features some of Peterson’s best-known and best-loved portraits of many iconic musical figures, including … [Read more...] about Synesthesia: Music-Inspired Art and Mindscapes by Lennie Peterson at the Narrows Art Center

Embedded Memory, 2018, cast paper, plaster, polymer, thread, 27” x 20” x 6”.

POEMS, PLASTER & PAPER: MORE THAN WORDS AT SIMMONS

// Interview, Issue Articles, September/October 2018

by Elizabeth Michelman

On the walls of the Trustman Gallery, shadows from plastic wire, fiber and thread constructions hover over the soft grey texts of blown-up poems, plaster and paper reliefs and white-and-black print-collages. “Linger and Shift” is a collaboration between Boston sculptor Julia Shepley and Scottish-born poet Audrey Henderson. Their separate, yet deeply intermeshed works grew out of monthly conversations begun over a year ago. The longtime friends were spurred to parallel play by a Boston Sculptors Gallery exhibition featuring verbal-visual collaboration. It intensified their psychic bond to discover that, as children undergoing family vicissitudes and illness, they both developed artistic sensitivities in an enforced solitude. “Being alone in rooms without adult intervention, life goes on, and you’re left to survey the passage of time,” Henderson mused. “You don’t know about time, so you … [Read more...] about POEMS, PLASTER & PAPER: MORE THAN WORDS AT SIMMONS