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Exhibits
Multiplicity at Fountain Street Fine Art
By Brian Goslow Framingham, MA - The first thing you notice about “Multiplicity” is that from the moment you enter the gallery, each of the works is calling for your attention — and that each of them could do so for an extended period of time. Perhaps the best place to start is with “Armature,” a living-breathing object composed of three steel hoops, chicken wire, tracing paper and 10 gallons of wheat paste where you can crawl inside at its ends or lie on your back and gaze up underneath that hangs serpent-like in the middle of the gallery from three of its historic graffiti-marked pillars, the work of curators Carrie Childs-Antonini and Denise Driscoll with Sara Fine-Wilson. “It was being birthed as the show was going up,” Driscoll said. “We finished the day before the opening.” The idea for the 19-artist show started at a gallery members’ meeting last spring; the intention was … [Read more...] about Multiplicity at Fountain Street Fine Art
Beverly Sky & Mario Kon: Narrative/Non-Narrative
By Jess Rizkallah South Boston, MA - When you first walk into the Fort Point Arts Community Gallery, the contrast in the expression of Beverly Sky and Mario Kon's work is staggering. On the left: Sky’s visual narrative exploration. On the right: Kon’s bold trail of ideas exploring technique. The work that compiles “Narrative/Non-Narrative: Two Artistic Approaches” was juried by Barbara Krakow Gallery gallery director Andrew Witkin. In her series, “We Shall Not Cease from Exploration: Windows on the Universe,” Beverly Sky has literally designed the fabric of the Universe — well, a fabric of the Universe — and out of a lot of fabric and a lot of ideas. Using fragmentation and recombination, Sky constructs an exploration of the Universe both technically and narratively. A fusion of fabric, poetry, science, pop culture, social issues and spirituality, she translates the innate … [Read more...] about Beverly Sky & Mario Kon: Narrative/Non-Narrative
Regarding Landscape: Armstrong and DiRado at Worcester State University
By Brian Goslow Top: Frank Armstrong, Cashe River, Arkansas, 1986. Bottom: Stephen DiRado, Aquinnah, MA, Juliet and Tom, July 19, 2014. WORCESTER, MA - As the crowds flowed in and out of the opening reception for the “Regarding Landscape: Armstrong and DiRado” exhibition at Worcester State University’s Mary Cosgrove Dolphin Gallery, visitors discussed the process in which Frank Armstrong and Guggenheim fellow Stephen DiRado, longtime best friends and professional counterparts at Clark University, created their work. And while the show serves as the chance for them to shine together, one has to believe they also intended for the show to serve as a way of making those who’ve admired their work over the years — and those who discover it for the first time through this show — think about much more than the finished product and expand their engagement with … [Read more...] about Regarding Landscape: Armstrong and DiRado at Worcester State University
M. C. Escher: Reality and Illusion at Currier Museum of Art
By James Foritano Manchester, NH - Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898 -1972), or simply M. C. Escher, resides at the Currier Museum in Manchester New Hampshire through January 5 in a comprehensive exhibit titled “M. C. Escher: Reality and Illusion.” I’ll expose my bias right away by admitting that I was captivated by the reality. The illusion, in my bias, can be seen anywhere and everywhere, since it reproduces so well. Who wouldn’t be a-goggle at the staircases of “Relativity” running upside down and downside up, yet with anonymous figures clinging to both with the assurance of their own personal gravity field. Water runs uphill in “Waterfall.” Who wouldn’t stop and applaud such ingenuity? I, also, stop and admire the artistry and imagination of not only conceiving but also meticulously crafting these woodcuts, lithographs and mezzotints by a master of all those difficult … [Read more...] about M. C. Escher: Reality and Illusion at Currier Museum of Art
Fran Bull’s Stations at Chaffee Downtown Gallery and Castleton Downtown Gallery
By Elizabeth Michelman Rutland, Vermont - After early commercial success as a Photorealist painter in the 1970’s, Fran Bull bolted from a mechanical illusionism to pursue her own artistic truth. A powerful mind and a maverick bent drove her beneath the surface to explore psychological, political and existential questions through a feminist lens. Her range of output, which encompasses abstract and expressionistic painting, poetry, thematic installations and cycles of large-scale etchings, has expanded to include hybrid sculpture-paintings. Her most recent work, a phantasmagoria of sculpted figures emerging from their bedroom worlds, justly rewards a critical look. Intrigued by Jungian and contemporary psychology, Bull evokes the dream state to witness a more profound truth than everyday consciousness. Her current sculpture cycle of 14 Stations calls forth the forces of the psyche, … [Read more...] about Fran Bull’s Stations at Chaffee Downtown Gallery and Castleton Downtown Gallery