March/April 2016
In This Issue
Message In The Madness At Fairfield
Koren’s Capricious And Compelling Voice by Kristin Nord In this era of incivility there is something wonderfully touching about the inquiries of Edward Koren’s often clueless hairy creatures. Whether they […]
I Will Go On…
Koren’s Capricious And Compelling Voice by Molly Hamill “Keep Calm and Carry On.” This motivational phrase produced by the British government in 1939 in preparation for the Second World War […]
Cameron Davis
A Visual Conversation With Nature by Alexandra Tursi Cameron Davis is a painter and senior lecturer at the University of Vermont. Her work includes paintings, installations and community art projects […]
Laura Evans
Magic From The Mundane by Elizabeth Michelman It’s not hard to discern how Laura Evans’ ironic objects are made — it’s what they’re made for that’s puzzling. Her forms are […]
Classifieds March/April 2016
Your work could be artscope’s next CENTERFOLD. Your work could be Artscope’s next CENTERFOLD. Work by established and emerging artists welcome. For the May/June 2016 issue we will be accepting […]
Welcome, March/April 2016
Welcome by Brian Goslow Ten years ago, I received a phone call asking me if I’d be interested in being the copy editor for a new arts magazine that was […]
What On Earth?
Beard & Weil Makes It Clear by J. Fatima Martins Upon entering the Beard & Weil Galleries, we’re immediately affected by the hypnotic fairy-power of clear glass. The first installation […]
Beautiful Decay
Still Life Transforms at Danforth by J. Fatima Martins Danforth Museum of Art curator Jessica Roscio is disrupting the stillness of the popular and bucolic still-life arrangement. While studying the […]
Performing For The Camera
Tseng Illuminates At Tufts by Franklin W. Liu The beauty of viewing a retrospective collection of artworks is that it reveals the artist’s unique, life-long personal view of the world; […]
Wamala At Whistler
Still Waters Run Deep by James Dyment A studio artist at the Brush Art Gallery and Studios (aka “The Brush”) for more than a decade, Pamela Wamala is an artist […]
Jason Smith’s Cultural Assessment
Mythic Imagery At Newport Art by Suzanne Volmer “Outer Myths,” Jason Smith’s solo exhibition, on view at the Newport Art Museum’s Wright Gallery through May 1, explores Smith’s fascination with […]
The Occuprint Portfolio
The Beginning Is Near At Bates by Jamie Thompson The highly publicized Occupy Wall Street protest in New York City’s Zuccotti Park in 2011 inspired the international Occupy Movement, which […]
Pictures At An Exhibition
Sight And Sound Harmonize At Rivier U. by Greg Morell When music and the visual arts conspire, a unique synthesis is explored. An interesting experiment opened on February 8 at […]
Question Bridge At UMass Amherst
Black Males Get The Conversation Going by John P. Stapleton Over the past few years, there has been an ongoing conversation about race in the United States. The #BlackLivesMatter movement […]
A Woman’s Perspective
Current Visions At South Shore Art by Don Wilkinson For 127 years, the National Association of Women Artists has worked relentlessly to foster public awareness and interest in the work […]
Looking Good On Paper
Artworks A Cut Above At Fuller Craft by Don Wilkinson Paper may be the most ubiquitous man-made material on the planet. Even in an increasingly digital world in which cash, […]
A Feast For The Senses
Gallery Seven Whets Our Appetites by Brian Goslow Several times a year, artscope publisher Kaveh Mojtabai is asked to judge and/or curate exhibitions. For “FEAST: Images of the Edible,” on […]
Dancers Of The Nightway
Navajo Artists Weave Magic by J. Fatima Martins There’s a Navajo/Diné story in which Spider Woman, the ancient goddess who mapped out the universe and invented the weaving loom, rubbed […]
Kate Gilbert
Keeping Up With The Active Activist by Donna Dodson In addition to being a fabulous administrator of public art as the director of the Boston-based non-profit organization Now + There, […]
Emma Hogarth
Time Machine To The Present by Sarah Rushford “Compound Vision,” Emma Hogarth’s site-responsive interactive video installation, is a time machine that delivers us to the present. Currently featured in the […]
Kirstin Lamb
Much Of A Muchness by Elizabeth Michelman “Did you ever see such a thing as a drawing of a muchness?” the Dormouse asks Lewis Carroll’s Alice at the Mad Hatter’s […]
Nathan Miner
It’s About Time by Suzanne Volmer During a visit to Nathan Miner’s Somerville studio located near the intellectual epicenter of Harvard and MIT, the artist described his paintings as being […]
Beverly Rippel
Layered In Intensity by Brian Goslow Beverly Rippel’s work has many layers, both in materials and subject matter. Whether it’s her not-so-traditional still-lifes, abstract bodyscapes, dramatic renderings of seemingly unworthy […]
Gail Smuda
Don’t Judge A Book… by Marcia Santore With paper and fabric, stitches, ribbon, lace, embroidery and reclaimed antique objects, Gail Smuda uses the contemporary art form of the artist’s book […]
Wen-Ti Tsen
A Colorful Social Conscience by Kelly Kasulis The evidence of Wen-Ti Tsen’s colorful life congests his at-home Cambridge art studio. Shelves are heavy with rolled papers and sketchbooks, slumping downward […]
Homer Wells
Emotion In Motion by Marguerite Serkin A winding, grooved sidewalk leads down a short hill to the Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury, Vermont. Reminiscent of the historical charm of Old Montreal, […]
A Rugged, Resplendent Seacoast
Three Artists Muse On Maine by Eric J. Taubert With its rustic authenticity, picturesque harbors, hidden coves, sentry lighthouses and the grand drama of sun-glittered surf ceaselessly smashing in salty […]
Robert Andrew and Geoffrey Parker
A Joyfully Lugubrious Family Affair by Kristin Nord Catching up with Robert Andrew Parker and his son Geoffrey proved the perfect antidote to a grey and rainy day not too […]
Encouraging The Bloom
Estey Exuberantly Welcomes Spring by James Foritano We wound our way north from Boston on Interstate 95, through its outlying industrial districts, marshes and bird sanctuaries, before leaving the highway […]
340 Years Young!
The Eliot School’s Divine History by James Foritano After exiting Jamaica Plain’s Green Street Station, I channeled the intrepid spirit of the Reverend John Eliot (1604-1690), “Minister to the Indians,” […]
Fine Drama in Portland?
That’s Good Theater! by Greg Morell As artscope magazine makes its 10th anniversary victory lap, keeping its unique eye on the New England arts scene, I thought it prime time […]
Capsule Previews
by Brian Goslow “Deco Japan: Shaping Art and Culture, 1920–1945” remains on view through April 24 at the Middlebury College Museum of Art, Mahaney Center for the Arts, 72 Porter […]
Mar/April 2016 Issue
Article Excerpts: Welcome | What On Earth? | Message In The Madness at Fairfield | I Will Go On… | Beautiful Decay | Performing For The Camera | Wamala at […]