Artscope 67, March/April 2017 art: Golden Abstract artist: Wilda Squires medium: photography theme: Artficial Intelligence My entrance into the world of abstract photography began serendipitously ten years ago. Unable to sleep very early one morning, I watched the shadows that the rising sun created within the folds of the bedroom window curtains. The longer I looked, the more I became aware of patterns that resembled things like mountains and faces. I was witnessing a new type of creation coming forth from the natural beauty of fabric so I instinctively grabbed my camera and began taking one photograph after the other, following the path of the sun as it traversed across the curtain material. I then explored the subsequent images in search of other surprises hidden within all of the shadows and fabric folds. It was at this point that I … [Read more...] about March/April 2017 Centerfold
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March/April 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 May/June 2017 issue we will be accepting submissions in the category of Outsider/Visionary Art. Send up to three images and your statement with contact information to: centerfold@artscopemagazine.com no later than April 10, 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 StoveFactory Gallery. Call for Artists: Annual Spring Art Exhibition at the StoveFactory Gallery, March 31st, April 1st, April 2nd. Application can be found on our web site: www.artistsgroupofcharlestown. Application … [Read more...] about March/April Classifieds
Capsule Previews
Brian Goslow “… and the journey continues …,” mixed media works by Northeast Kingdom artist Kathy Stark representing the progression of her work from the 1980s to the present, will be on display through March 30 at the Spotlight Gallery at the Vermont Arts Council, 136 State St., Montpelier, Vermont. The five series being shown, in chronological order, are Color Poems, White Works, Words, Collage and Checker Board. “I have been working with pattern, mark making and repetition for the past 35 to 40 years,” said Stark. “I work in series, each series lasting three to six years, often with transitional pieces bridging the change.” “30 Years of Women’s History,” featuring fine art in all media by over 30 area women artists in celebration of the 30th anniversary of March being Women’s History Month, is on exhibit from March 1 through 31 at the University of Rhode Island … [Read more...] about Capsule Previews
11 for 11: Brian Walters
TAKING HISTORY TO HEART Kristin Nord Brian Walters’ metal sculptures have been stored over the years behind a stand of old-fashioned lilac bushes on the Bethel, Conn. property where he grew up. Even in winter, the bushes provide a natural screen of branches and buds that protects his works-in-progress. Within the next few days, works from his “Urban Totem” series will be loaded up and transported to Hartford’s ArtSpace Gallery for a month-long exhibition that uses “Behind the Lilac Bush” as its title and its cue for collaboration. Curated by poet Jim Whitten and more than a year and a half in the making, this show will give visitors the chance to encounter fractals, or recurring patterns of beauty that surface in nature, and sun-drenched color that will change as sunlight traverses origami sculptor Ben Parker’s 90-foot sheets of rice paper. Abstract landscape painter … [Read more...] about 11 for 11: Brian Walters
11 for 11: Duken Delpe
MOSAIC OF ART AND SCIENCE Lisa Mikulski Artist Duken Delpe is a very busy man these days, with a spate of international and local events. In 2016, Delpe designed the main stage for the South Shore Indie Music Festival with the theme “Art Sustains Us,” and he will do the same for the 2017 show. Also this year, the award-winning artist will participate in Art Olympia in Tokyo, Japan while also undertaking his long list of submissions and projects. With a degree in chemical engineering from the University of Massachusetts, it is not the first time an artist has combined scientific and artistic vision, but as Delpe explains, he not only uses his scientific background for artistic methodology and technique, but also in the selection of his materials. Using recyclable and found objects, he sands, shapes and weaves together thin strips of metal from aluminum cans and utilizes … [Read more...] about 11 for 11: Duken Delpe
2017 WHEATON BIENNIAL
PRINTMAKING REIMAGINED Brian Goslow The “2017 Wheaton Biennial: Printmaking Reimagined,” featuring work by 60 artists from 30 states, Canada and Sweden, is an exciting show thanks to the many facets and techniques of the printmaking genre it presents . From traditional linocuts and lithographs to the more modern relief prints and works presented on tissue, cot ton and Asian-made papers that have found a welcoming audience in the expanding craft shows and markets that have blossomed over the past decade, along with the screen prints that became such a major part of the art and culture component of the 1960s and are making a comeback, as both an advertising and political tool, plus works created in the new frontier of digital and 3-D printmaking, this show promises to be a rich experience for its viewers. When the call for entries for the 2017 Wheaton Biennial went out in … [Read more...] about 2017 WHEATON BIENNIAL