Past Centerfolds: 2012 artscope 36, January/February 2012 Art: Perpetuity Artist: Liang Guo Medium: oil on canvas Artist Statement: Painting is a way to express my opinions, is a carrier for my spirits, and is a tool to show my thinking and philosophy. Realism painting is much better to express the abstract thinking and profound philosophy. In my paintings, I turn the space of human life into the space of think, into the space of soul, into the expression of inner spirit. More of Guo's work may be seen at liang-guo.com Judges: Claude Cernuschi, Boston College Art History Professor Christina Godfrey, Assistant Director of the Sunne Savage Gallery Kaveh Mojtabai, Artscope Publisher artscope 37, March/April 2012 Art: Nahmakanta Artist: Janice Anthony Medium: acrylic on linen Artist Statement: For me the magic of the … [Read more...] about Past Centerfolds 2012
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Past Centerfolds 2007
Past Juried Covers: 2007 artscope 6, January/February 2007 Art: The 6th Sense Artist: Kimberly Ryan artscope 7, March/April 2007 Anniversary Issue Art: Bulbs with Pansy, drawing Artist: Helen Meyrowitz Artist Statement: "Otto Rank in his book - 'Art and Artists' tells us that art is often born out of a fear of loss and change. In late 2002, I became an up-rooted New York artist in the throes of a very real fear of change and loss due to an unexpected move to Massachusetts. A subsequent series of mixed media drawings of bulbs reaching, striving to put down new roots to grow and eventually flower is my chosen metaphor for my personal effort to create a new beginning. Otto Rank understood that creative challenge." Jurors: Karen Burgess Smith, Director of Phillips Exeter Academy's Lamont Gallery Vicki C. Wright,The Art Gallery of the … [Read more...] about Past Centerfolds 2007
Past Centerfolds 2008
Past CenterFolds: 2008 artscope 12, January/February 2008 Art: carmela lily II Artist: Marisa diPaola Artist Statement: I am a nomadic sculptor and installation artist. I create wearable site-specific work from found materials, and wear these pieces, as self-portraits, handmade as if by the characters that I am depicting. The work itself is a collection of psychological self-portraiture through an exploration of fairy tale characters interacting with this world. Not focusing on the "happily ever after" but at the moment of creation, and adaptation to their new journey and to their new habitat. The natural world became my focus as I began searching for the origins of humanity and the natural connections that bind us to the land. The series explored characters creating a home withing their found habitat, focusing on the beginning of the journey where the path … [Read more...] about Past Centerfolds 2008
Outsider Art Series: Judy Taylor’s Maine Labor History Mural Part 1
By Nancy Nesvet When people think about Maine, they often remember Winslow Homer’s paintings of roiling seas and drenched fishermen standing against the wind, John Marin’s beautiful Maine vistas, Fairfield Porter’s scenes of clapboard houses standing strong and lonely, and other artists’ work too numerous to mention. Maine has been a mecca for visual artists for many decades, attracting artists and people eager to view their work. Former Maine governors Angus King (now a Maine Senator) and John Balducci supported that work. A recent episode, now resolved, affected the arts in Maine has threatened to spoil that reputation, shamed Mainers, proved instrumental in keeping supporters of the arts and artists from practicing and viewing art in the state and instigated an ongoing debate about the responsibility of the government to make government-supported public art available for … [Read more...] about Outsider Art Series: Judy Taylor’s Maine Labor History Mural Part 1
Classifieds March/April 2014
Your work could be artscope’s next CENTERFOLD. Work by established and emerging artists welcome. For the July/August 2014 issue we will be accepting submissions on the theme of ABSTRACT. Please send up to three images and your statement with contact information to: centerfold@artscopemagazine.com, no later than April 15, 2014. No resumes please. Please send low resolution images for review. High resolution images must be available to be reproduced up to 9” x 12” dependent on your work selected. The centerfold will be selected based on visual and/or conceptual quality, by a panel of one Artscope staff and two arts professionals. Artist’s Resource Trust (A.R.T.) Fund Grants available in painting, sculpture, printmaking, or mixed media to midcareer artists with financial need in New England and Columbia and Northeast Dutchess counties, NY. Non-profit … [Read more...] about Classifieds March/April 2014
Allen Frame at Gitterman Gallery, NYC
By Cole Tracy New York, NY – Those who know of Allen Frame’s work prior to this exhibition may see cinematic still images that are distilled with an uneasiness and ambiguity. As a gay man who grew up in the south, he was used to dealing with a severe duality of the conservatism touted by the south, as well as the progressive and accepting community in which he found himself a central figure within while spending several years in his hometown after college in Greenville, Mississippi. His images usually revolve around personal experience, yet always transcend into an unknowable narrative and mysterious quality that is evocative of cinema. Or, like myself, you may recall his images embedded in your memory from being on the cover of books by cult writer Roberto Bolano. The publishers smartly paired these two artists together, and it’s easy to see why. In Bolano’s “Last … [Read more...] about Allen Frame at Gitterman Gallery, NYC