Artscope 65, November/December 2016 art: Where it Comes From artist: Talia Lefton medium: felted wool Talia Lefton works with wool, yarn, and fabric to create tangible explorations of identity, transformation, and space. This piece uses the mutable qualities of felt to depict a period of self-examination. Drawing from a mythical representation of shapeshifting, an internal experience is represented through external transformation. “Where it Comes From” incorporates two opposing forces and creates a moment at which these are in balance. This balance is the internal push and pull that motivates the search for purpose, contentment, and a deeper meaning to life. Judges: LUCAS COWAN, Public Art Curator at Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy / KATHLEEN MOORE, Coordinator of Visual Arts at the Walter J. Manninen Center for the Arts at Endicott College … [Read more...] about November/December2016 Centerfold
November/December 2016
November/December 2016 Classifieds
Your work could be artscope’s next CENTERFOLD. Your work can be Artscope’s next CENTERFOLD. Work by established and emerging artists welcome. For the January/February 2017 issue we will be accepting submissions in the category of Nature-based art created only with natural elements. Send up to three images and your statement with contact information to: centerfold@artscopemagazine.com no later than December 10, 2016. Submit low resolution images for review. High resolution images must be available to be reproduced up to 9” x 12” according to the orientation of the work selected. The centerfold will be selected based on visual and/or conceptual quality, by a panel of three arts professionals. Call for Entries StoveFactory Gallery Call for Fine Artists & Artisans. Small Wonders Exhibition at the StoveFactory Gallery. Saturday and Sunday, December 3 & 4 and December 10 & 11 … [Read more...] about November/December 2016 Classifieds
November/December 2016
Article Excerpts: Welcome | A 2016 State of Mind: Printmakers Tackle the Issues | Plastic Imagination: An Illusionary Soul Comes to Life | Message in a Bottle: British Marine Art at Yale | Sweet Sixteen: DeCordova's NE Biennial | School Daze: Jerzyk and McCabe at Derryfield | Abstracts and Artifacts: Coming Together in Tiverton | Woven Power at Holy Cross: Communication Through Textile | Crafting the Elements: Embracing Imperfection at Fairfield | No Risk, No Return: Seeking Fertile Solitude at Mills | A Diverse Array in Bowdoin: The Renaissance, 19th Century and Robert Frank | Challenging Global Expectations: Poster Art at Thorne-Sagandorph | No Man's Land at Chazan: Ganz and Tibbs Make it Their Own | Hiding in Plain Sight: Light and Dark at Thompson | Back and Forth at Tufts: Portraits Explore Identity | Flora, Fauna and Fantasy: It's All Natural at Fountain Street … [Read more...] about November/December 2016
Sweet Sixteen
DeCordova's NE Biennial Elizabeth Michelman Spacious, spare and well ordered, this year’s deCordova New England Biennial — assembled by Jennifer Gross, chief curator and deputy director of curatorial affairs and Sarah Montross, associate curator — glows with conceptual clarity. The 16 artists hail from across the region and bring together aesthetics as varied as their ages, genders, races and national origins. While painting is the favored medium, the featured disciplines include poetry, dance, public art, sculpture, sound and video installation, books and photographic/ digital work. Even within the painting genre, we are exposed to conceptual, political, observational and surrealistic approaches, along with updated abstraction and minimalism./span> Cary Smith’s reductive canvases, vibrating with pure primary and secondary hues, challenge our complacent eye. In … [Read more...] about Sweet Sixteen
Welcome
Brian Goslow Welcome to our final issue of 2016, an issue in which we look at a wide array of group exhibitions showcasing New England artists, and once again prepare to celebrate those artists as an official exhibitor at Art Basel Miami Beach, where you will find our issue in the magazine collective booth. At the same time, Artscope’s J. Fatima Martins will be on-hand in a reporting capacity throughout the week, checking in on our Instagram, Facebook and Twitter pages. If you’re a New England gallery or exhibitor who’ll be in attendance, or an artist whose work will be on display, please email me the details so that we can stop by your booth. As a preview to this year’s event,Nancy Nesvet, who was in Basel,Switzerland on our behalf this past June, shares her “don’t miss” rundown of Miami Beach 2016. She’ll also be reporting from the Basel floor, along with Martins and … [Read more...] about Welcome
Plastic Imagination
An Illusionary Soul Comes to Life J. Fatima Martins Plastic is a devilish, enchanting and repulsive substance. It is the source material for much of today’s contemporary art. It’s a dichotomous and polarizing material, conjured up by Belgian-American chemist Leo Henricus Baekeland, the inventor of Bakelite. Synthetic objects are troublesome because they can be extraordinarily beautiful and useful, yet fraught with betrayal because they’ve replaced and displaced beloved warm-blooded materials. Appearing magical and alchemical, appreciated for its versatility, cheap egalitarianism, inherent pleasure and myriad functionality, plastic is also suspicious because it is a dead thing with an illusionary soul. For “Plastic Imagination,” on view at the Fitchburg Art Museum through January 15, 10 New England regional artists — Lisa Barthelson, Tom Deininger,Dana Filibert, Joseph … [Read more...] about Plastic Imagination