Pigeons, a common name for gray doves, symbolizes peace. They often roam urban epicenters and make home wherever they land. The resilience of their spirit is often overlooked because we see them often. Dina Nazmi Khorchid’s textile and installation work draws from the metaphor of the pigeon to talk about her migration story. Khorchid is like what surrealistic blues poet aja monet calls “born of distance between now and then” as the sediments of inherited trauma and migratory patterns influence Khorchid. She migrated from Lebanon to the United Arab Emirates then Lebanon, again, and then the United States. While her story is deeply personal, it connects to a broader narrative of her Palestinian culture. I wish we did not have to admire her for her strength because strength is a burden. Her vulnerability is on display through her recent pigeon series. Pigeons started appearing in her work … [Read more...] about SOARING SOLILOQUIES OF HOME: DINA NAZMI KHORCHID’S PALESTINIAN-ROOTED ART
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A WELL-DESIGNED CAREER: GUILD OF BOSTON ARTISTS CELEBRATES “FRITZ” KUBITZ
Frederick “Fritz” Kubitz’s retrospective exhibition of oil paintings, “All About Boston,” will take place at the Guild of Boston Artists in their Newbury Street gallery, concurrent with the Boston Marathon and One Boston Day on April 15. Kubitz is also a distinguished architect who trained at MIT and worked for the renowned Eero Saarinen, and other firms, and then ultimately for himself. He was involved in the design of many institutional structures such as the avantgarde TWA Flight Center at JFK International Airport (recently repurposed into a hotel), the American Embassy in London, buildings at Harvard and Tufts universities and the remodeling of Fenway Theater/Biltmore Hotel into the Berklee College of Music — as well as the designs of airports such as Dulles and Logan. He talked about the latter as career high points because of the excite- ment of interacting with the president of … [Read more...] about A WELL-DESIGNED CAREER: GUILD OF BOSTON ARTISTS CELEBRATES “FRITZ” KUBITZ
CORNERED: MIRA CANTOR
Mira Cantor has taught color theory, drawing and painting for 40 years, 25 of them as a tenured professor in the Art and Architecture Department at Northeastern University. She has always been driven to learn as well as to teach through her art. Artscope Magazine’s Elizabeth Michelman “Cornered” Cantor in her studio a month before her March 2024 exhibition at Boston’s Kingston Gallery to discuss the paintings and drawings she’d completed during her 2023 sabbatical. Cantor has spent the last 17 summers in County Clare, western Ireland, teaching an art semester abroad in the village of Ballyvaughan. She paints the world in a studio near the historical and geological refuge of The Burren, on the lip of the Atlantic Ocean. Over the years she has hiked the beaches, caves and riven pavements throughout this upthrust primeval seabed. From the eroding cliffs of its rolling limestone terrain, … [Read more...] about CORNERED: MIRA CANTOR
WELCOME March/April 2024: FROM BRIAN GOSLOW
Welcome Artscope reader, As we celebrate our 18th anniversary with this issue, we open it with stories on two artists celebrating their own milestones and serving as inspiration to us all. Frederick “Fritz” Kubitz, who at 95 still finds himself painting, is feted in “All About Boston” at the Guild of Boston Artists. In her preview, Lee Roscoe profiles his time as one of the world’s great architects — including his designing of the iconic TWA Flight Center at JFK International Airport — and how that eye allowed him to paint Boston’s iconic architecture just a little bit differently. Mira Cantor may have reached 80 years on Planet Earth, but she’s not slowing down. Elizabeth Michelman “Cornered” her to discuss the work in her “Dig” exhibition at SoWa Boston’s Kingston Gallery this March, while sharing an in-depth explanation of how her appreciation for geology, archaeology and dance … [Read more...] about WELCOME March/April 2024: FROM BRIAN GOSLOW
CAPSULE PREVIEWS: January/February 2024
Casting a net into the Northern Berkshires community and attracting a wide range of artists since opening in mid-2022, Future Lab(s) Gallery, 43 Eagle St., North Adams, Massachusetts, has collected a membership and orbiting friends who enjoy their exhibitions. The “Berkshire Invitational,” the opening of which coincides with North Adams FIRST Fridays, takes place from January 5 through 27 and features “a myriad of methods” of art by Ricky Darell Barton, Jenny Bergman, Carlos Caicedo, Richard Criddle, Brian George, Ghetta Hirsch, Jane Hudson, Karen Kane, Maria Mikuszeswski, Kelsey Shultis, Fred Kasha Simon, and Sarah Sutro. “A Sense of Place,” featuring several printmakers that have traveled abroad for international artist-in-residence programs, including Suzanne Artemieff, Liz Chalfin (Cuba), Lindsey Clark-Ryan (Argentina), Edda Valborg Sigurðardóttir, BZ Reily (France), Annie Silverman … [Read more...] about CAPSULE PREVIEWS: January/February 2024
CHANGE ARRIVES IN BOSTON SOWA: FOUNTAIN STREET TO CLOSE; BEACON MORPHING INTO SHOWUP
There are great seismic shifts in the realms of the arts presently, and many of them are taking place in the Boston area. It is no secret that the creative economy is the foundation and cornerstone for the building up of once difficult and avoidable parts of the city into thriving and desirable destinations. The SoWa Art + Design District is one of those areas. The last 20 years have seen infinitesimal changes, and the momentum keeps growing and morphing, both reflecting trends in creative output as well as maintaining a bottom line of recognizable gallery structures. When Marie Craig and Cheryl Clinton brought Fountain Street to Boston in 2017, it had already had six years under their care in Framingham, in a large space in a converted mill building that rapidly fell out of code to the point that the gallery and the artists whose studios were based there were forced to move. It was … [Read more...] about CHANGE ARRIVES IN BOSTON SOWA: FOUNTAIN STREET TO CLOSE; BEACON MORPHING INTO SHOWUP