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 July/August 2017 issue we will be accepting submissions in the category of Wood medium. Send up to three images and your statement with contact information to: centerfold@artscopemagazine.com by June 15, 2017. 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 Gallery 444. Artist Wanted for Pop Up Shows @ Gallery 444, 444 Commercial Street-Unit 2, Provincetown, MA. Contact: gallery444ptown.com. Rockland Sculpture Race. Event: August 12. Submission Deadline: June 1. Submit a design proposal … [Read more...] about May/June Classifieds
Issue Articles
TRANSCENDENCE
EXPRESSING FREEDOM AT MILLER WHITE Laura Shabott There is a Chinese curse [that] says “May he live in interesting times.” Like it or not, we live in interesting times. They are times of danger and uncertainty; but they are also the most creative of any time in the history of mankind. — Robert F. Kennedy, 1966 As cultural institutions defend their existence in 2017’s political climate, Susan Reid Danton — artist, gallery director and museum show curator — is responding with “Expressing Freedom: Transcendence through Art” at Miller White Fine Arts. The invitational arts show, with painting, sculpture, interactive installations and poetry, opened on April 28 and runs through June 9. It is one of over 30 events that are part of a new arts festival, ArtSpring Cape Cod. Miller White Fine Arts is nestled in the back of a commercial building along Route 134 in South Dennis, … [Read more...] about TRANSCENDENCE
RIVERA’S FANTASY ISLAND
AN ODE TO HER HOMELAND Suzanne Volmer This June, Shey Rivera Rios will combine an immersive art installation with live storytelling performances in exploring socio/political issues shaping Puerto Rico today through her monthlong “Fantasy Island/La Isla Fantastica” exhibition at AS220’s Project Space. The installation/ performance artist, who lives in Providence, can relate to displacement, having arrived in Rhode Island seven years ago from Puerto Rico. In talking with her for this article, she emphasized three key points: her connection to her homeland, the sense of displacement she experienced in leaving her roots and the acceptance she’s found at AS220, where she serves in an administrative capacity as its artistic director. Rivera said she has always been interested in performance and arts management, and while studying at the University of Puerto Rico, her mentor … [Read more...] about RIVERA’S FANTASY ISLAND
ART, SCIENCE AND SPIRITUALITY
NANCY HAYES’ UNIVERSE Don Wilkinson In anticipation of the early-April opening of “Anatomy of a Small Universe,” an exhibition of works by painter Nancy Hayes at the de Menil Gallery, I visited Hayes’ spacious basement studio in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Paintings were carefully propped up on makeshift tables of milk crates and cinder block. Clamp-on lights provided illumination to the immaculate space in a good approximation of a gallery setting. While a few of the paintings are singular selfcontained panels, the majority are polyptychs, or multi-paneled works. All are acrylic on medium density fiberboard. I have long been familiar with Hayes’ ceramics work, in which her subject matter delved into organic forms, objects that rose like tendrils seeking some greater truth from the light. In her transition from the three-dimensional world of ceramics to painting’s … [Read more...] about ART, SCIENCE AND SPIRITUALITY
WORTHINGTON’S TRANQUIL REALITY
A HANDS-ON APPROACH Taryn Plumb We are looking out on craggy rocks and an ocean inlet: evergreens border a subdued surf, a mottled sky lazily settles into dusk. The scene has a familiar quality, classically Maine — but yet, there is an inherent whimsicality to it. The water, land and sky are uneven, as if different dimensions have attempted to meld and are now equally vying for the eye’s attention. Such is the essence of Catherine Worthington’s work: The Brunswick textile artist crafts tranquil scenes of the natural world that she then cuts and pastes, allowing her to create a reality all her own. “It is a combination of abstraction and representation,” said Worthington. “It gives you a feeling that you know what place that is, but not necessarily the exact place. People can relate to it.” Viewers now have that opportunity to do just that with the exhibit “Textile … [Read more...] about WORTHINGTON’S TRANQUIL REALITY
ARTCOUNTRY
LIVE. LOVE. LEARN. J. Fatima Martins ArtCountry, a new cultural initiative launched in March 2017, is a collaborative consortium of five leading cultural organizations, “nestled in the Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts and at the foot of the Green Mountains in southern Vermont,” that are working in partnership to create visual art exhibitions and performance productions in theater and music that complement each other for both pleasure and learning. At the core of its cultural character is the landscape itself — the forested mountains and hills, historic trails and rivers and agricultural industry, which form the backdrop motifs of the region’s particular New England rural-modern intellectualism and economy. Its rural-meets-industrial New England location makes it a vibrant place to engage in dialogue about identity, which you can do this summer when you can … [Read more...] about ARTCOUNTRY