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September/October 2016

Ctenophore

2016 Biennial at Fuller Craft

// Current Issue, September/October 2016, Visual Arts

Resplendent in Divergence by Don Wilkinson To paraphrase an appropriate Robert Fripp lyric from 1980: “They are resplendent in divergence” — they being the participants in the 2016 Biennial Members Exhibition as selected by guest juror James Lawton, professor of ceramics and director of the Department of Artisanry at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. With over three-dozen member-artists and artisans working in photography, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, fine furniture making, bead weaving, mixed-media work, fiber art, quilt making and other categories, the show highlights the strength, intelligence and passion that grows out of diversity. The participants include “students, emerging makers, mid-career artists and established professionals.” The work ranges from the utilitarian to the contemplative, from soberingly serious to playfully inane, from touching on … [Read more...] about 2016 Biennial at Fuller Craft

Triple Self-Portrait

Provincetown in Autumn

// Current Exhibits, Current Issue, September/October 2016, Visual Arts

A Cornucopia of Art by Laura Shabott The Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) is at the very tip of Massachusetts (next stop: Azores) with a cultural impact that is extraordinary. In its 102nd year, the vitality of the museum and school can be measured by the 250 volunteers who support a highly effective staff stewarded by director Chris McCarthy. Under her direction, PAAM is much larger than its physical size and location, reaching around the globe with its membership and quality of shows. September and October are lovely months in Provincetown, with the changing of the light that has inspired artists for over a century. It’s the perfect time to attend the upcoming shows and events...   To read more, pick up a copy of our latest issue! Click here to find a pick-up location near you or Subscribe Here. … [Read more...] about Provincetown in Autumn

Alicia Eggert

Eggert at T+H Gallery

// Current Exhibits, Current Issue, September/October 2016, Visual Arts

A Moving Commentary by Suzanne Volmer The mission of T+H Gallery, celebrating its first anniversary in Boston’s SoWa Arts District this fall, is to “create a dynamic intercultural dialogue by showing both regional and international artists and providing a platform for experimental projects and ideas.” It aims toward this goal by utilizing an interesting floor plan of two spaces bisected by a semi-public concourse. Inviting and intriguingly visible upon entering 460 Harrison Avenue’s entrance C, an entire wall of T+H’s gallery space is plate-glass. A transparent expanse perched high in a split-level lobby overlooks the main entrance, providing an architectural effect that extends the gallery’s informational flow to breathe interactivity, sparking curiosity and dialogue. T+H Gallery’s sidecar exhibition space works in tandem with the primary gallery and flanks a … [Read more...] about Eggert at T+H Gallery

Untitled

Building On Life Lessons

// Current Exhibits, Current Issue, September/October 2016, Visual Arts

Thompson and Scheibler in Newton by James Foritano First things come second at Newton’s New Art Center. Two lives of different length take a turn at mid-career. One from philosophy, the other from medicine, both with the equally large ambition of documenting the other side of the brain, the insistent one not sanctioned by the academy or the workplace. I’m looking at “Triangulation” by Irwin E. Thompson, M.D. It’s a rich impasto of blues, oranges and greens, a fruit salad of oils, so juicy they belie the dry measurement implied by the title and process of triangulation. And they’ll never locate a point by meeting physically, since they all swim at such different depths of the picture plane; the hot colors push forward, the cool ones recede. Adding to this complication, the triangles pictured, though insistently pointing forward, seem to be disintegrating in … [Read more...] about Building On Life Lessons

Moon Over the Beach

RiverSea and ArtDover-NH

// Current Issue, September/October 2016, Visual Arts

A Hive of Artistic Activity by Greg Morell A grand vestige of New Hampshire’s industrial past, Dover’s One Washington Center, a glorious old red brick mill of enormous size and height, is being re-invigorated as a hive of entrepreneurial enterprise and creative invention, serving as the new home of the RiverSea Gallery and headquarters of its companion organization, ArtDover-NH. The genesis of this new arts endeavor is the partnership of Rebecca Proctor and John Arens, long-time tenants at One Washington Square. Proctor ran her RSP Studio Custom Framing shop in one unit of the building while Arens had a fine arts studio, Frederickson Fine Art, on the fifth floor. They combined their resources earlier this year and rented out a 4,000-foot space on the third floor that serves as their gallery, art laboratory and office space. Proctor and Arens have a shared vision to … [Read more...] about RiverSea and ArtDover-NH

Popups in P-town

Gallery Voyeur Reaches Out

// Current Issue, Exhibit Openings, September/October 2016, Visual Arts

A New Idea Pops Up in P-town by Brian Goslow There is a new way to reach new audiences: pop-up galleries. For more than a decade, Johniene Papandreas has featured her own large-scale, eye-catching paintings at her Commercial Street storefront in Provincetown. Located just a few doors down from the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, it’s as prime a location for an artist looking to showcase their work as you could ask for. This year, Papandreas decided to do things differently. “I’m now showing at other galleries and thought I could use more concentrated time in my studio in New Hampshire to paint,” she explained. “Since I’d been researching opportunities where I could show my own work in different cities for a week at a time, it suddenly occurred to me that I could offer that opportunity to fellow artists with my gallery.   To read more, pick up a … [Read more...] about Gallery Voyeur Reaches Out