At the respectable age of 88, the annual Fitchburg Art Museum’s (FAM) juried “Regional Exhibition of Art and Craft” is a highly anticipated, competitive and well attended event. Boundaries are tricky for artists in general and FAM blurs the concept of a rigid geographic region to include members of other arts organizations including LexArt (the Lexington Arts & Crafts Society) and ArtsWorcester. As a result, this exhibit represents artists from 58 towns. This year’s juror, Gabriel Sosa, deputy director of the Essex Art Center in Lawrence, Massachusetts, selected a stunning array of 109 works that FAM’s new curator, Emily Mazzola, wanded into place like a Harry Potter wizard. Each is placed to be seen without interruption but also in combinations where color, material, gesture, surface treatment or shape may be echoed. Like the Everly Brothers close harmonies, Mazzola’s visual … [Read more...] about BRILLIANTLY PLACED IN FITCHBURG: DEL GUIDICE ENHANCES MASTERFUL 88TH REGIONAL SHOW

TurnPark Art Space is a 16-acre sculpture park, gallery, event destination and architectural vortex situated in West Stockbridge in the Berkshires. There are many minds that have come together to bring TurnPark into fruition. It was created and manifested by Igor Gomberg and Katya Brezgunova in collaboration with architects Alexander Konstantinov and Moscow-based Ekaterina Vlasenko. The surrounding landscape, comprised of rolling hills, trails, snippets of wildflower habitats, serve to not only offer itself as a mooring for the gallery spaces and sculptures, but work in a partnership with the whole, becoming another interdependent art form. The landscape is interspersed with a performance platform, amphitheater style, as well as set-in stone topical designs within the grasses, and the trails meander in and out of sculpture areas. The light hits the sculptures acutely at important … [Read more...] about A HARMONIOUS MESHING: ART, SCULPTURE ENERGIZE WEST STOCKBRIDGE’S TURNPARK