May/June 2021
In This Issue
Welcome May/June 2021: From Brian Goslow
Welcome to our May/June 2021 issue, which I hope finds you in good health. When we started planning this issue, our team was in full self-protection mode, going out, at […]
CAREFUL RAYS OF COLORFUL LIGHT: NEWBURY STREET RETURNS TO WHAT THEY DO BEST
On the day after Patriots Day, 14 months after my last visit to Newbury Street, there’s a small sign of pre-Covid life as outside restaurants are busy and visitors are […]
A NEAR-PERFECT PIVOT: ANXIETY, BEAUTY AND NATURE ON DISPLAY AT SSAC
What a feeling of freedom! Two Covid vaccine shots, a beautiful spring day and an opportunity to see, in person, inspiring works of art at the South Shore Art Center […]
FROM TRINIDAD TO NEW BEDFORD: ALISON WELLS’ URBAN ORGANICS & PURPOSEFUL STREAKS
As a mixed media artist who has long combined acrylic paint with a wide variety of collaged elements, Alison Wells knows all about layering, and the way in which complex […]
THE ART OF LONELINESS: YOUNGSHEEN A. JHE FEELS AT HOME AT GALATEA
Artist Youngsheen A. Jhe paints everyday scenes with rare resonance. After an initial glance, her work quietly deepens in both tone and symbolism; it conjures the world as a space […]
A GOLD MEDAL INSTALLATION: OLYMPIC ARTIST JENNIFER WEN MA’S NEW BRITAIN SHOWCASE
Jennifer Wen Ma’s massive “An Inward Sea” installation, which opens on May 13, is part of the New Britain Museum of American Art’s 2020/20+WOMEN initiative celebrating female-identifying artists throughout American […]
JO ANN ROTHSCHILD AT HALLSPACE: A YEAR OF LOOKING BACK AND PAINTING FORWARD
Painter Jo Ann Rothschild has always registered the political through the personal. The daughter of a prominent Chicago civil rights lawyer, she arrived in Boston as the Vietnam era was […]
CRAFT REVIVAL AT LAISUN KEANE: MICHAEL C. THORPE’S PROFOUNDLY HONEST DREAM QUILTS
Michael C. Thorpe is a working artist. Unlike many of his young age and position, he doesn’t have a second job to buoy his passion; he doesn’t teach. His artistic […]
TRANSIENT, TIMELESS DREAMSCAPES: THE CAHOON’S SCOTT PRIOR EXHIBITION FEELS LIKE HOME
When Scott Prior walked into the Cahoon Museum of American Art in Cotuit, he said it was a “very emotional experience — after such a difficult year — to look […]
A PASSIONATE OPENING: KEENE’S NEW LEAF GALLERY FILLS A REGION’S NEED
Nestled between a candy shop and an upscale eatery in downtown Keene, New Hampshire, The New Leaf Gallery inhabits a sun-drenched single room on the second floor of a shared […]
BEACHTIME IN SOWA: THE BEACON HOSTS MEHTA’S SUN-DRENCHED PAINTINGS
As a reviewer, it is a pleasure to discover more in an artist’s body of work, the more closely one looks. I often have to own my subconscious prejudices as […]
DIGITAL BREATH AT NEWPORT: VIDEO ARTISTS SHOCK US BACK TO REALITY
According to Tom Robbins, in a 2014 article in Harpers, “…When Oscar Wilde allegedly gestured at the garish wallpaper in his cheap Parisian hotel room and announced with his dying […]
WE THE ARTISTS: AMERICA 2021: HERA EXHIBITION PULLS THE COUNTRY TOGETHER
While many galleries and museums have, and are holding Covid-era art exhibitions, almost historical retrospectives displayed while the period is still in-progress, with its upcoming “Turmoil and Transformation” exhibition, Hera […]
THE NEW WORLD OF DIGITAL IMAGERY: WILL NFTS MAKE TRADITIONAL GALLERIES OBSOLETE?
Changing each day, and sometimes each hour, the art world has been digitally revolutionized as discoveries are made and challenges met within this new world we are all experiencing. We […]
Capsule Previews: May/June 2021
As we enter the second half of spring in dire need of inspiration and the feel and warmth of the familiar, here are a series of exhibitions to slowly move […]
CAPSULE PREVIEWS FOR ARTSCOPE 92
As we enter the second half of spring in dire need of inspiration and the feel and warmth of the familiar, here are a series of exhibitions to slowly move […]
