Welcome to our July/August issue; while it took longer than usual for temperatures to reach the level that causes New Englanders to abandon their spring (and in some cases, winter) clothing, as June took hold, crowds started to fill the streets of summer resort and vacation locations throughout the region. We received wonderful feedback on our May/June issue’s extended wanderlust presentations; you’ll find the second half of our New England art road trip suggestions in the pages ahead: Jamie Thompson runs down the galleries along Maine’s Coastal Route 1 in Freeport, Brunswick and Bath; J. Fatima Martins introduces you to Northern Connecticut’s not-so “Quiet Corner,” while further south, Kristin Nord visits the state’s midcoastal region; and Alexandra Tursi gives you a series of reasons to spend a good part of August in Vermont’s Mad River Valley.” It’s … [Read more...] about Welcome
Issue Articles
Objects in a Mirror
FREDERICO URIBE REFLECTS “I don’t have a drawing in my head, I have a feeling, and I build it,” said Columbia-born, Miami-based, internationally exhibiting Federico Uribe during a telephone interview describing his work methods. The starting point of his highly organized compositions is “mindfulness,” which he attempts to achieve during countless hours of meditation. The word “emotion” rises up often during conversation, as does the body-mind holistic concept where all the senses are united during creative play. The result of this active centering and psychological analysis is an explosion of focused, multilayered, obsessively composed narrative and theatrical installations that fill entire gallery spaces — ceiling, floor and walls — and are transformed into energetic passion plays. Uribe’s final forms evoke large-scale pop-up books. The three-dimensional realism is … [Read more...] about Objects in a Mirror
Steampunk Springfield: Re-imagining and Industrial City
In 1862, Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (1830-1886) of Amherst, Mass., well-established today as one of the most important poets of the American Victorian era, published these enigmatic lines in an untitled poem: “They put me in the Closet — Because they liked me ‘still’ — Still! Could themself have peeped — And seen my Brain go round — They might as wise have lodged a Bird. For Treason — in the Pound.” Her literary forms, first printed without attribution in Springfield’s Republican newspaper starting in the 1850s, tell the story of a unique perceptive mind. In the vast and multidimensional exhibition “Steampunk Springfield,” Dickinson’s persona is re-examined through the lens of science-fiction reality. Let’s reconsider her modernist, deeply introspective sentence fragments, not as written by a woman struggling with identity and freedom during the great transitions of the 19th … [Read more...] about Steampunk Springfield: Re-imagining and Industrial City
Welcome
Welcome to our May/June issue, our kick-off to the summer season with a series of exhibitions we hope you’ll find road-trip worthy. This time around, we’re featuring an expanded number of wanderlusts, taking advantage of the knowledge and enthusiasm of our writers throughout New England to introduce you to parts of the region you may be unfamiliar with. Not only did I ask them to suggest art venues, but also to share their favorite coffee shops and restaurants to add to your experience. Marcia Santore takes you on a trip up New Hampshire’s Interstate 93, from Manchester to Littleton, exploring such diverse venues as the Currier Museum of Art, a knitting store that doubles as a gallery, an outdoor sculpture garden and an eatery billed as “one of the 10 best neighborhood restaurants in America.” Alexandra Tursi brings us to Johnson, Vermont, home of the Vermont … [Read more...] about Welcome
July/August Centerfold
Artscope 57, July/August 2015 WATERCOLOR art: Stewardship artist: Greg Mort medium: watercolor, 14" x 18", 1991. " "As a professional artist I had the privilege of witnessing the dialogue between a work of art and the viewer. This sweet spot, the two-way street, the often-surprising connection discovered in the wonder of the intersection of two minds, is a gift to all concerned." To see more of Greg's work, visit: gregmorteditions.com/ Judges: Anne LaPrade Seuthe, Hampden Gallery Nancy Gaucher-Thomas, Providence Art Club CENTERFOLD CONTEST Artscope 58, September/October: Costume Design Your work could be Artscope magazine's next centerfold. Work by established and emerging artists welcome.For the September/October issue, we will be accepting submissions of Costume Design. Please send up to three … [Read more...] about July/August Centerfold
July/August 2015
Excerpts Welcome |Boston Printmakers Look Again | Maurer at the Vangaurd of Modernism | Paul Resika in P-Town | Byzantium to Russia | I am Woman | It's a Mystery | It Must Be Maine |Touching Base: Pawtucket's Public Art Profile | An Off the Wall Community of Artists | Coming of Age | Art in Nature | Rock River Open Studios | Provincetown's Art Colony | Litchfield County, Connecticut | Robert Saunders | Boughton's American Home | Two Views II | The Tenacity of the Human Figure | | A Catalyst for Art Education | | Art's International Showcase 2015 | Capsule Previews … [Read more...] about July/August 2015