May/June 2016
In This Issue
Welcome
Welcome Statement, May/June 2016 by Brian Goslow Welcome to our May/June 2016 issue. For the second straight year, Artscope publisher Kaveh Mojtabai will be heading to Art Basel Switzerland (which […]
Cornered: Art Collectors Liz Augustine and Robert Praetorius
by Donna Dodson Sculptor and Artscope correspondent Donna Dodson “met” Liz Augustine on Facebook one day when she sent her a text asking her if she showed her art in […]
Ninety Years Young
Varujan Boghosian in Provincetown by Marguerite Serkin Varujan Boghosian works from a place of poetry. Born and raised in New Britain, Connecticut in the 1920s, Professor Boghosian has not forgotten […]
It’s Only Natural
Debra Claffey Waxes Poetic by Marcia Santore “I’m after the sensation of being with the plants I paint and experiencing their shapes and edges, transformed in line and mark, to […]
With a Little Help from his Friends
David A. Lang’s Journey by J. Fatima Martins “Journey…” is David A. Lang’s masterpiece self-portrait. The sculpture and installation is the story of how he circled back to himself. Rotating […]
May/June 2016
Article Excerpts: Welcome | Cornered: Art Collectors Liz Augustine and Robert Praetorius | Ninety Years Young: Varujan Boghosian in Provincetown | It’s Only Natural: Debra Claffey Waxes Poetic | With […]
Megacities Asia
Thinking Big at the MFA by Suzanne Volmer Al Miner, assistant curator of contemporary art at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, and Laura Weinstein, Ananda Coomaraswamy curator of South Asian […]
Off the Wall at Gardner
A Collector Displays her Gems by Franklin W. Liu Without acknowledgment of tradition, art is like a sightless adult; without innovation, that adult is comatose. Thus, only with an artist’s […]
Rock Solid
Robert Manning at Catamount by Marguerite Serkin For an artist or any interpreter of time, one’s personal past and the historical past provide a fount of material from which to […]
Bucolic Innuendo
Joan Baldwin’s Marshes by Elizabeth Michelman At its inception following World War I, Surrealism was a mostly male enclave. Its female adherents went unacclaimed until later, when their work was […]
To Shock and Provoke
Everything is Dada at Yale by Kristin Nord Nonsense “sound” poetry, nonlinear musical compositions, irony-laden cinematography and the blurring of lines between fine and applied arts were considered highly radical […]
Photo-Secession at Springfield
Exploring the Roots of a Fine Art by Brian Goslow Intended to celebrate “an intrepid and colorful group of photographers at the turn of the 20th century on both sides […]
Cubist Chicks and Robot Turkeys
O’Donnell is Seriously Humorous by Molly Hammill When I pulled up to the house Patrick O’Donnell’s grandfather built on the North Shore of Boston, he was standing on the front […]
Outside/In at PAC
Landscape as a Portrait of Humanity by J. Fatima Martins Be it skyscape, seascape or cityscape, the art of landscape is a much-loved ubiquitous and eclectic subject. It can be […]
Hope Springs Vernal
Mill Brook Beckons in Full Bloom by Marcia Santore Signs of spring were few and far between in April in New Hampshire this year, but Pam Tarbell, owner of Mill […]
An Ancient Medium Evolves
Compelling Progressions at Art Complex by Elizabeth Michelman The encaustic paintings of Pat Gerkin, Donna Hamil Talman and Charyl Weissbach being shown on the walls of the ArtComplex Museum in […]
CAA 15th Open Juried Show
National Prizes for a Wealth of Talent by Brian Goslow In jurying the Cambridge Art Association’s 15th National Prize and Open Juried Show, Paul C. Ha, director of MIT’s LIST […]
Beyond Pots and Figurines
The State of Clay in Lexington by Taryn Plumb Clay: What does the word bring to mind? Earthenware pots sold along a desert road amidst swirls of dust? Armies of […]
Exploring Light and Shadow
Casavant’s Seasonal Expressions by Taryn Plumb For Arnie Casavant, it’s not the subject itself that entices — but the light hitting it, giving it life, shadow, color, dimension, personality. “It’s […]
Is It What It Is?
Gary Duehr Isn’t Just Looking by Franklin W. Liu To Gary Duehr, photographic art offers a precious, unique opportunity: a rich, life-long visual conduit to examine, to deliberate and to […]
Modern Art and Television
Addison Seeks A Connection by James Foritano An extremely ambitious, some would say busy, exhibition at the Addison Gallery of American Art curated by Maurice Berger intends to reveal the […]
Spreading Joy in CT
Liz MacDonald’s Ceramics by Kristin Nord I’m descending a steep stone staircase to Elizabeth MacDonald’s studios — past banks of glistening myrtle and her well-appointed kitchen garden. The property itself […]
LeBow in Groton
Unleashing What Lies Beneath by Elizabeth Michelman Ellen Raquel LeBow’s large sgraffito paintings in her “Every border can be cross” exhibition at the Groton School resemble the familiar grade-school project […]
Under, Above, Everywhere
Enfolding Natural Processes at Groton by Elizabeth Michelman For some artists, the practice of their art form permits them to experience a meditative separation from the incursions of an urbanized, […]
Karen Margolis’ Sonogram
A Living Narrative by J. Fatima Martins Installed in a shoebox-shaped gallery, “Sonograms” by Karen Margolis offers a dialogue about the hybridization of conceptual art, domestic craft, alternative abstract painting […]
In, On, and Around Music
Contemporary Works at Sharon Arts by Brian Goslow The New Hampshire Institute of Art is celebrating the grand reopening of its Sharon Arts Center Gallery with an exhibition built around […]
Nowhere Everywhere
Looking for Direction at Thompson Gallery by Ali Russo It’s the first piece I see and, from a distance, it almost looks like a photograph: a man and his son […]
May/June 2016 Capsule Previews
by Brian Goslow Art work of dresses and shoes by Patricia Canney, Susan Freda, Holly Gaboriault, Larisa Martino, Kelly O’Neal and Kyle Ragsdale are on view through May 27 in […]
Diverse States of Existence
Instinctive Formations at Shattuck by Don Wilkinson Westport, MA – Midway through April and in anticipation of an exhibition at the Dedee Shattuck Gallery in Westport, Mass. that would not […]
May/June 2016 Centerfold
Artscope 62, May/June 2016 art: Awakened artist: Johniene Papandreas medium: self-portrait, casein on muslin, 27” x 74,” 2005. A face is every experience of one’s life made […]