May/June 2022
In This Issue
A NEW BEGINNING: MARJORIE KAYE FINDS INSPIRATION IN NORTH ADAMS
Upon reflection, the first thing that comes to mind when North Adams, Massachusetts, is mentioned is Mass MoCA, the giant, wondrous, football field of a contemporary art museum. The second […]
RETURN TO VACATIONLAND: COASTAL MAINE ARTISTS HOPE FOR A BANNER SUMMER
The summer art calendar in coastal Maine is jam- packed by design. During the cold depths of a northern New England winter, all of us involved in the Maine art […]
BALANCING NATURE AND ART: GLASSMAKER AARON SLATER RESETTLES IN VERMONT
As a child, Aaron Slater watched a PBS documentary film about glass artist Dale Chihuly. Soon, he was melting beer bottles and breaking glass in the basement, fascinated by what […]
A BELATED CELEBRATION: ART COMPLEX 50+1 INCLUDES JACKIE REEVES’ BIG PLANS
Using blackout-curtain fabric as her canvas, things happen to the pigments on its surface which suggest skin, parchment, old maps, architectural paper; things happen to the paint because of the […]
‘THE NEXUS OF CONTEMPORARY CRAFT’: MCGOUGH LEADS FULLER CRAFT TO ITS NEXT CHAPTER
Inspired by Denmark’s Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, the Fuller Craft Museum, built in 1969, fits snugly into New England’s wooded landscape as an important note of modernist architecture that […]
PRINT INSPIRING MORE PRINT: MARK TWAIN HOUSE & MUSEUM HOSTS PNSNE PRINTMAKERS
“The Evocative Mark Twain Inspires the Printmakers’ Network of Southern New England” is an immensely impressive exhibit featuring a wide breadth of accomplished veteran artists. Taking place at The Mark […]
WATCHING THE RIVER FLOW: KANNENSTINE’S ART PRESERVES OUR NATURAL SETTINGS
In 1970, Sally and David Laughlin of Woodstock, Vermont, had a bright, vastly unpopular idea: to clean up the Ottauquechee River, which had been polluted with runoff from local mills […]
INSPIRATION AND ENCOURAGEMENT: DOVER’S ART CENTER BUILDS VIBRANT ARTS COMMUNITY
Located at a deep bend of the Cocheco River in the beating heart of burgeoning Dover, New Hampshire, is where you’ll find the historic Washington Street Mills complex. Over the […]
‘A PAINTING IS A PRACTICE’: KIRSTIN LAMB’S FLORAL REMIX AT THE TERZIAN GALLERY
Providence painter Kirstin Lamb’s early paintings were mushrooming accumulations of appropriated images referencing the history of domestic décor, portraiture and still life. Rendered in a style of artless caricature that […]
POIGNANT REFLECTIONS: 400 YEARS OF METHODS AND TECHNIQUES AT RISD MUSEUM
Five exhibits are currently on display at the RISD Museum, “Drawing Closer: Four Hundred Years of Drawing from the RISD Museum,” “Trading Earth: Ceramics, Commodities, and Commerce,” “Striking Chords: Music […]
TRULY EXCEPTIONAL: ARGHAVAN KHOSRAVI’S POTENT PAINTINGS AT THE CURRIER
What do you think is the average time museum-goers spend looking at art? A study in 2001 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art indicated the average time spent looking at great works […]
DISPLACEMENT ACROSS CULTURES: SELF-REFLECTION & HEALING AT MOSESIAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Is the pandemic over? It looks like social behavior will be the determinant of that! So far, 2022 has been shaping up to be a memorable and celebratory artful year. […]
A TIME & PLACE FOR CELEBRATION: PAO ARTS CENTER’S ANNIVERSARY HONORS AAPI COMMUNITY
The dancers were like lit matches. We, on the other hand were five years late, and yet, on April 21, we are taken in like family at the Pao Arts […]
EXPRESSING WHAT WORDS COULD NOT: CRETELLA HODGE’S UKRAINE SERIES AT GALLERY 55
“An artist once said that paint picks up what life does to us. My practice has always been informed by my experience in the world. The act of painting is […]
‘MY PICTURES TAKE TIME’: HAMMERSTEIN’S IMPROVISATIONAL TONES AT MILLER WHITE
To appreciate the beauty of life is to see it change over time. A sunset morphs from beginning — when the sun first starts to dip and the sky comes […]
FROM PALESTINE WITH ART: A COLLATERAL EXHIBITION OF SURVIVAL AT LA BIENNALE D’ ARTE, VENICE
“From Palestine with Art,” an official collateral exhibition at La Biennale d’ Arte, “The Milk of Dreams” in Venice, Italy opened for the private days on April 19, 2022. Continuing […]
CAPSULE PREVIEWS: May/June 2022
“A fun silver lining of the pandemic has been the opportunity to witness the shift of wardrobes from traditional business casual to a more casual style filled to the brim with […]
WELCOME May/June 2022: From Brian Goslow
“Art is tactile, gives solace, reminds us to be grounded where we can have a dialogue and find ways to offer benefit and beauty.” Kaveh Mojtabai, Artscope’s publisher, shared these […]