by Brian Goslow, Managing Editor bgoslow@artscopemagazine.com We were putting this issue together as publisher Kaveh Mojtabai and national correspondent Nancy Nesvet were preparing to return to Switzerland for Art Basel 2018, where once again, Artscope has been selected to have its latest issue (the one you’re holding) available at the Collective Booth in the Magazines Sector. We always take pride in bringing the best of the season’s exhibitions and artists from the New England region to the penultimate art fair. We’re also proud to be continuing to circulate our magazine to over 700 distribution points throughout the region, free of charge. At a time many people are re-evaluating their relationship with Facebook due to security concerns, we’re renewing our focus on the print version of our product while working to expand the number of people who subscribe to the … [Read more...] about WELCOME: FROM BRIAN GOSLOW
May/June 2018
SKYE GALLERY PROVIDENCE:DIVERSE AESTHETIC CONTENT
GALLERY SPOTLIGHT SKYE GALLERY 381 BROADWAY PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND In developing her Providence-based gallery, Jonny Skye’s modus operandi involves supporting creative voices that she views as under-recognized. Her hope is that artists’ works can “bubble up from the Earth’s crust to express their truths.” In a recent conversation, Skye discussed her commitment to support artists’ dialogues of diverse aesthetic content. Economic empowerment and fair trade practices for artists are concepts that she has made intrinsic to the gallery’s paradigm. With her stewardship, she hopes to have artists worry less about paying rent and buying food. By lessening these pressures, her plan is to further direct their attention to their creative processes. Her approach blends business acumen with social justice, and this sentiment may have been what appealed to longtime friend Charlie … [Read more...] about SKYE GALLERY PROVIDENCE:DIVERSE AESTHETIC CONTENT
A THOUGHTFUL OBSERVER: KALIAN BEARS WITNESS AT COSO
COVER STORY LUCY KALIAN: WITNESSES COPLEY SOCIETY OF ART 158 NEWBURY STREET BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS MAY 17 THROUGH JUNE 17 Lucy Kalian always wanted to be an artist. As a young child, she enjoyed sitting in the kitchen watching her Armenian female relatives mold edible shells to fill with food. The shells seemed to be sculpted, she recalled. “I was always making things and everything I saw or heard excited me,” Kalian said. “I was unusually observant and highly sensitive. Every morning I woke early and went into the wooded valley between our home and a farm where my favorite fallen tree harbored my cherished pencils and paper. I had a deep sense of yearning and urgency that had to be confronted. Not much has changed.” Approaching midlife, Kalian began taking art classes and attending art workshops. Then she discovered the Grand Central Academy in New York City, now … [Read more...] about A THOUGHTFUL OBSERVER: KALIAN BEARS WITNESS AT COSO
THE TIES THAT BIND: RELATED VISIONS ON THE CAPE
ARTISTS SPOTLIGHT ODELL ART STUDIO AND GALLERY 423 MAIN STREET CHATHAM, MASSACHUSETTS RELATED VISIONS: CAROL ODELL, TOM ODELL AND JOHN HOWELL WHITE PROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM 460 COMMERCIAL STREET PROVINCETOWN, MASSACHUSETTS MAY 4 THROUGH JUNE 24 According to W. J. Clinton, “Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together.” Carol Odell, Tom Odell and John Howell White are bound together by art, blood and commitment. Carol and Tom are husband and wife. Their upcoming exhibition, “Related Visions: Carol Odell, Tom Odell and John Howell White” opens May 4 at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum on Cape Cod. John Howell White is Carol’s brother. While Carol and John are painters, Tom is a metalsmith/jeweler. Together, they share a similar approach and vision in their work … [Read more...] about THE TIES THAT BIND: RELATED VISIONS ON THE CAPE
PARAMNESIAC IN NEWPORT: BELIEVE THE IMPLAUSIBLE
REVIEW CRISTI RINKLIN: PARAMNESIAC NEWPORT ART MUSEUM 76 BELLEVUE AVENUE NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND JUNE 15 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 2 In her artist statement, Boston-based painter Cristi Rinklin notes that she is inspired by the visual language of constructed reality that permeates the history of pictorial space. Through that declaration, she seems to have given herself permission — with inspiration from and full respect to those who’ve painted before her — to utilize anything and everything from the past in making her futuristic-looking works. “This is pretty much true,” she said. “I’m fascinated by the flexibility of painting, and how it can be a window or an object, how it can be self-referential or become something else entirely. Painting, when done well, can present an impossible set of conditions but convince us entirely that these conditions are plausible. The idea that … [Read more...] about PARAMNESIAC IN NEWPORT: BELIEVE THE IMPLAUSIBLE
DIVING TO DYNAMIC DEPTHS: SEA OF HEARTBREAK AT NEWPORT
REVIEW JOAN HALL: SEA OF HEARTBREAK NEWPORT ART MUSEUM 76 BELLEVUE AVENUE NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND MAY 19 THROUGH JULY 29 “Plastic is here to stay — what matters is what we do with it; if my art falls into the ocean it’s going to biodegrade, and that’s exactly what I want it to do,” explained artist Joan Hall while describing the process of making organic paper pulp for her newest major installation, “Sea of Heartbreak,” at the Newport Art Museum. The exhibition features five large-scale, nontoxic and plant-based printed and painted abstract expressive three-dimensional wall constructions, and a circular site-specific glass and sand multi-component floor piece. The glass sculpture is a collaborative work with glassmaker Benny Giguere of Gather Glass in Providence, Rhode Island. Trained as a printmaker and working from the perspective of a sculptor, Hall builds sculptures … [Read more...] about DIVING TO DYNAMIC DEPTHS: SEA OF HEARTBREAK AT NEWPORT