Article Excerpts: Welcome | Cornered: Debbie Nadolney, Art Market Provincetown | A Contemporary Showcase: CMCA Gets a Fresh Start | Redefining the Sublime: Man vs. Nature at Hall Art | A Cross-Section of Craft: NH Craftsmen Keep It Interesting | Identity and Community at the Crossroads: CCMOA's Summer of Storytelling | Life in the Fast Lane: Eileen Myles at Schoolhouse | Ogunquit Art Association: Members Shine in Summer | Hot Chicks at Silver Circle: Bigger is Better | Bierstadt in New Bedford: An Unlikely Partnership Makes Sense | Photographic Evidence at Griffin: Cassandra Klos' Abductees | Museum of the Massachusetts Landscape: The Trustees' Public Art Initiative | South County Invitational: Showcasing Connections and Contrasts | CoSo's Salute to Summer: From Ship to Shore to Newbury Street | Speaking a Different Language: The Walshes in Williamstown | Everything's … [Read more...] about July/August 2016
July/August 2016
A Contemporary Showcase
CMCA Gets a Fresh Start by Eric J. Taubert Maine has tendrils. They reach out across the country and twist in intertwined curlicues around the globe. They’re tendrils of culture, influence, business, skill, notoriety and creativity. Oftentimes they’re not easy to see, until a few of them spiral together into something more organized and the root system is revealed. This is exactly what’s happening right now at the brand new Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA) facility in Rockland. The CMCA has been supporting, exhibiting and sustaining arts and artists with ties to Maine since its founding in 1952. The story of this organization’s journey — from its beginnings as a scrappy upstart presenting shows in barns and backrooms to evolving into the leading contemporary arts organization in the state of Maine — is almost as unlikely as it is inspirational. “In 1967,” … [Read more...] about A Contemporary Showcase
Life in the Fast Lane
Eileen Myles at Schoolhouse by Brian Goslow Eileen Myles is always busy. Since last fall’s publication of “I Must Be Living Twice:New and Selected Poems 1975-2014” (Ecco), she’s been featured in The New York Times T Magazine (“The Poet Idolized by a New Generation of Feminists”); had the audio version of her 1994 breakthrough autobiographical novel “Chelsea Girls” released; flown to New Zealand, Australia and England for a series of readings and put out “Aloha/irish trees,” a record of new and old poems (Fonograf Editions). Now she’s about to have her first art exhibition, featuring 20 photographs culled from the nearly 3,000 images she’s posted on Instagram. The show is the idea of longtime friend and Schoolhouse Gallery director/owner Mike Carroll, who said Myles was an early adaptor to Twitter and Instagram at a time when many people were skeptical about … [Read more...] about Life in the Fast Lane
Visions of Land and Sea
An Annual Toast to the Coast by Kristin Nord The “Visions of Land and Sea” exhibition at Susan Powell Fine Art Gallery, an annual affair now in its 13th incarnation, has become as eagerly awaited as that annual first swim or cookout on the beach. The Madison, Conn., business has become a must–go place for contemporary art for home owners and businesses, offering its “Whole House Art” for the new art collector, as well as working closely with individual and corporate clients to meet custom needs. Powell brings to the business a lifelong appreciation of art, kindled as a child and developed as an art history major at Connecticut College. In her early years, she honed her skills by working for the Smithsonian Institution, and later was a hugely successful seller at Doyle Auction House in New York City. Then, in 2003, she traveled to Madison on assignment, and fell in love … [Read more...] about Visions of Land and Sea
Identity and Community at the Crossroads
CCMOA’s Summer of Storytelling by Brian Goslow If you grew up in New England in the 1950s and ‘60s, one of summer’s most memorable experiences was a journey to Storyland Cape Cod, a magical village that stirred many a child’s imagination. This summer, a modern version will arise at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, thanks to Susan Danton, owner and director of Miller White Fine Arts on Route 134 in South Dennis, Mass., who has playfully crafted “At the Crossroads: Six Narratives at the Intersection of Identity and Community,” an exhibition featuring a half-dozen unique artistic experiences. The show is part of CCMOA’s “A Summer of Storytelling,” also featuring “William Hemmerdinger: The Duxbury Merchant.” Danton has assembled a group of artists who through their work tell stories relevant to issues going on in our world today: the need for family and friends, community, … [Read more...] about Identity and Community at the Crossroads
Connecticut’s Native Son
Charting Weir's Artistic Evolution by Kristin Nord Julian Alden Weir’s art was shaped, according to collector Duncan Phillips, by a “reticent idealism,” while at the same time reflecting a wide-ranging, inquiring mind. “Home is the starting place,” said Weir, and for four decades he made this “quiet little house among the rocks,” now the Weir Farm National Historic Site, one of two main summer homes. After marriage into the Baker family in Windham, he split his summer months between the farm in Western Connecticut and the Baker farm in what is known as Connecticut’s “Quiet Corner.” Reared in a large, artistic household, he was the youngest son of Robert W. Weir, longtime drawing instructor at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Like his older brother John Ferguson Weir, a painter who was the director at the Yale School of Art for 40 years, J. Alden Weir … [Read more...] about Connecticut’s Native Son