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
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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
A WHOLE NEW VIEW: NOWINSKI’S GROTESQUE BEAUTY
ARTIST PROFILE BERKSHIRE ART MUSEUM 159 E. MAIN STREET NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS JUNE THROUGH SEPTEMBER FOR MORE INFORMATION: MAGGIE NOWINSKI INSTALLATION ARTIST MAGGIENOWINSKI.ORG Viewing Maggie Nowinski’s “wHoles” is akin to studying the basic building blocks of yourself. Look into a microscope at your own skin. What might you see? Could those millions of cells inhabiting your internal spaces transform into braided rings of yarn, hair scrunchies or floating jellyfish hoods? Deceptively simplistic on the surface, these complex circular discs we call cells are the models for Nowinski’s newest large-scale drawing installation, which will exhibit at the Berkshire Art Museum in North Adams, Mass. this June through September. What was once a spontaneous sketch Nowinski created in the summer of 2016 quickly became a recurring image in her drawing practice. Always … [Read more...] about A WHOLE NEW VIEW: NOWINSKI’S GROTESQUE BEAUTY
LAYERS OF CALM AT BOWDOIN: POUSETTE-DART GOES DEEPER
FEATURED MUSEUM RICHARD POUSETTE-DART: PAINTING/LIGHT/SPACE BOWDOIN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART 245 MAINE STREET BRUNSWICK, MAINE THROUGH SEPTEMBER 16 An idyllic and incredibly expensive prestigious liberal arts college, Maine’s Bowdoin College boasts a fabulous art museum. The campus and the museum reek of history, gorgeous architecture and a gleefully rich endowment. The current direction of the museum is the hands of three refugees from Washington’s Smithsonian. Most uniquely, the titular heads of the institution, the co-directors, are actually a husband and wife team. The concept of co-direction is familiar to me in football and sports, but most surprising in the world of aesthetics and art. I was able to interview co-director Anne Collins Goodyear on my recent visit, as her husband Frank was away at a photography caucus in Rochester, New York. My efforts to glean … [Read more...] about LAYERS OF CALM AT BOWDOIN: POUSETTE-DART GOES DEEPER
THE POWER OF MYTH: JAMES DYE AT WAM
SPOTLIGHT ARTIST EXPLORING THE MYTHS OF JAMES DYE WORCESTER ART MUSEUM 55 SALISBURY STREET WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS THROUGH SEPTEMBER 2 It didn’t take long after James Dye had heard his name announced as the winner of the Sally R. Bishop Prize for Best in Show at the 2017 ArtsWorcester Biennial for the enormity of what had just occurred to set in. Along with a cash prize, he would receive a solo exhibition at the Worcester Art Museum — and he had 11 months to pull it together. His 40” x 27” “The Temple of the Burdened Host” dip pen and India ink drawing was selected as the top work by juror Samantha Cataldo (contemporary arts curator at the Currier Museum of Art), who in her statement explaining her decision wrote, “While the technique and imagery evoke art of the past — such as medieval manuscript illuminations or relief carvings on Hindu temples — the visuals of the … [Read more...] about THE POWER OF MYTH: JAMES DYE AT WAM