The weeks leading up to this issue’s publication have made us feel as if we were working out of a variety of offices, which — during the period publisher Kaveh Mojtabai was attending Art Basel Switzerland — we were. While those of us back home were putting this issue together, Mojtabai was transmitting reports and images from exhibition halls filled with people of all ages and experience in the art world, from a 21-year-old just out of college, to three generations of family members, to 35th-time collectors at the fair, along with many of the world’s most successful galleries. We were proud to represent New England at this great event, and we appreciate comments such as the one saying that artscope is unique in its ability to maintain a regional flavor while celebrating exhibiting artists from outside the area, allowing collectors an opportunity to see others’ perceptions of an … [Read more...] about Welcome
Issue Articles
September/October 2014
Excerpts Welcome |Cornered: Cecil Touchon | Second Home | Fiberart International 2013 | Transformations | Sammy Chong | Beyond the New Yorker | Ruth Rosner |Far from Indochine | Labor of Love | Out of the Abyss at the Sharpe Gallery | Art and Nature Connect at Blithewold | Between Realism and Abstraction | Delightful, Delicious, and Disgusting | Song of the Universe | David Edgar | Provincetown Art Association and Museum | Between Form and Freedom | Seafoam Palace, Detroit | Capsule Previews … [Read more...] about September/October 2014
Capsule Previews
Tom Paiement’s eighth solo exhibition at Portland’s Greenhut Galleries, “Ongoing Explorations,” originated during several weeks spent drawing at and around the Venice Beach boardwalk in February, 2014. “It was inspiring in its energy. I liked the blocky shapes and intricate overlays of the boardwalk stores and buildings against the broad colors of the sky, beach, grass and ocean,” he said. “They became my basic forms, palette and horizontal platform.” A month in Merida, Mexico in March of this year deepened and enriched Paiement’s color palette. “It became the colors of heat. The wood-cut line work of the flowers changed as well, influenced by the iron filagree work throughout the city and the fluid line of graffiti in both Merida and Venice.” You can see the end result from September 4 through 27 at Greenhut, 146 Middle Street, Portland, Maine. “inMOMENTtime,” an installation of … [Read more...] about Capsule Previews
Seafoam Palace, Detroit
A CABINET OF CURIOSITIES Boston filmmaker Bryan Papciak and Collision Works founder Shel Kimen develop Seafoam Palace: A Museum of Curiosity in Detroit. When Seafoam Palace opens in a decaying historical office building on Detroit’s east side in late 2015, Boston filmmaker Bryan Papciak will be an important engine behind this updated Renaissance “Wunderkammer,” or cabinet of curiosities. The museum’s orchestration of urban detritus, art and interactive installations grows from a collaboration of a score of artists united by curiosity about forgotten places and objects. In the midst of others constructing interpretive activities and displays based in fact, fantasy and absurdity, Papciak and writer/photographer Julia Solis are composing the aesthetics and historical, scientific and sociological thematics underlying the museum’s vision. In August, Papciak’s live-action animated … [Read more...] about Seafoam Palace, Detroit
Between Form and Freedom
TRAILBLAZER KARL KNATHS A brilliant retrospective of 20 stunning masterworks by modernist pioneer Karl Knaths is part of the centennial celebration at the Provinc- etown Art Association and Museum. Curated by Donald Beal, Robert Dutoit and John Frishkopf, this beautiful selection of paintings, on loan from private collectors and lending museums, spans from 1927 to 1970. Born at the end of the 19th century (1891) in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Karl Knaths attended the Chicago Institute of Art in 1912. Working as a museum guard, he saw the 1913 Armory show when it came to Chicago from New York, and was so taken with the modern works of Paul Cézanne that his way of painting permanently shifted. He moved to Provincetown in 1919, meeting his future wife, Helen, a musician and pianist, and her sister, artist Agnes Weinrich. They had just traveled to Europe, learned about Cubism and shared … [Read more...] about Between Form and Freedom
Provincetown Art Association and Museum
THE COUNTRY'S OLDEST ARTS COLONY CONTINUES TO INSPIRE Twenty-three miles east of the Cape Cod Canal, on a natural spiral of sand, sits the oldest continuous arts colony in the United States. Provincetown, at the tip of Cape Cod, Mass., is drenched in oceanic light that is a painter’s paradise. Artists began to discover its beauty in 1873 after expanded rail service brought them to an unspoiled fishing village. It was painter and teacher Charles Hawthorne (1872-1930) who attracted thousands of people to the Cape Cod School of Art, which he founded in 1899. Revered as a great teacher, he shaped his tenets around the French Impressionist School, the academic standard for training painters. His students learned using only a palette knife working from a model sitting on the beach. The weekly critiques, held in the Hawthorne barn atop Miller Hill, became legend. Other teachers of … [Read more...] about Provincetown Art Association and Museum