November/December 2015
In This Issue
Welcome
Welcome to artscope magazine’s final issue of 2015, an issue we’re proud to be sending to Art Basel Miami Beach, where it will be exhibited and available in the Collective […]
November/December 2015 Issue
Article Excerpts: Welcome |Heading South to See and Be Seen | Team Players | Land Ho! | You Can’t Get There From Here | Hassan Hajjaj’s Rock Stars | Putting […]
Heading South to See and Be Seen
Artscope and New England Artists Prepare For Art Basel Miami Beach by Suzanne Volmer (Editor’s note: artscope magazine is proud to have been selected to be included at this year’s […]
Team Players
Art League Rhode Island Members’ Exhibition by Suzanne Volmer As a clearinghouse, the mission of Art League Rhode Island (ALRI) “is to provide a venue for the growth and encouragement […]
Land Ho!
Fitchburg Pairs Historical with Contemporary by Donna Dodson “Land Ho!,” the impressive new show at the Fitchburg Art Museum (FAM), is a must-see. Mary M. Tinti’s sixth curatorial project is […]
You Can’t Get There From Here
The 2015 Portland Museum Of Art Biennial by Jamie Thompson You can’t get there from here. This timeworn Maine saying has become a kind of cultural touchstone for the state, […]
Hassan Hajjaj’s Rock Stars
Rockin’ The Casbah And Beyond by J. Fatima Martins With great rhythm and swanky style, photographer-filmmaker-designer Hassan Hajjaj brings his inclusive visual language to the Worcester Art Museum (WAM) this […]
Putting Out Feelers
BCA’S 24TH Drawing Show by Elizabeth Michelman Flat, Flatter, Flattest. “Feelers,” the Boston Center for the Arts’ 24th Drawing Show at the Mills Gallery, is a biennial juried selection of […]
Olitski and McCullough In NH
Answering The Call Of The Wild by Arlene Distler The paintings and prints in the Jules Olitski “Lakes, Mountains, Seas” exhibition currently on view at Keene State College’s Thorne- Sagendorph […]
Wood At Montserrat
Only The Strong Survive by James Foritano With so many icons crowding into our national, if not global, consciousness, you have to wonder if wood, just wood, holds any longer […]
Nora Valdez: Relocations
Ancient Tradition Meets Modern Vision by Elizabeth Michelman Nora Valdez’s stone sculpture follows ancient traditions, but the insights found in her surrealistic visions are very much of our time. Born […]
Drawing On, In, Out
Scott Tulay In Brattleboro by Greg Morell I happen to love color the more bold and brash, the better. I also have a proclivity toward figurative depiction and symbol. So […]
Newly Renovated
Museums Shine In Connecticut by J. Fatima Martins The New Britain Museum of American Art (NBMAA, 1903) and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (1842) recently reopened after major building […]
Bunny Harvey At Wellesley
Exploring The Seen and Unseen by Meredith Cutler Bunny Harvey can locate the very place and moment in time that cemented her knowledge that she was, and would always be, […]
Cut.Paper.Fold
The Mundane Goes Exotic by James Foritano We all know by now – having been told over and over again — that Americans didn’t invent paper. Well, what’s done is […]
Richard Heller
Expression Emerges Through Process by Marguerite Serkin Richard Heller’s background in literature led him to the visual arts as a way to express ideas and sentiments words cannot reach. “I […]
Gabrielle Rossmer
“Rigid Mobility,” a solo sculpture exhibition by Gabrielle Rossmer at HallSpace, consists largely of open space, broken up by seven polychromed pillars strategically dispersed throughout the gallery. Almost entirely composed of pedestal, they grow upward from a flared foot to culminate at eye-level
Robin Frisella
Pure and Simple At Coso by Linda Chestney “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” — Edgar Degas And what you make others feel, according […]
Following A Call to The Sea
William R. Davis At The Guild by Marguerite Serkin William Davis began his life as a young sailor in and around Cape Cod. This early, visceral introduction to the sea […]
Let There Be Light
Artists Shine At Three Stones by James Foritano I must have passed nearly a million trees as I drove past Walden Pond en route to the broad granite steps of […]
Katrina Then And Now: Artists As Witness
Rebuilding Lives Through Art by Brian Goslow Born and raised in New Orleans, multi-media artist Dawn DeDeaux had been working on “lots” of large-scale digital works when Hurricane Katrina hit […]
Boston Printmakers 2015 Biennial
A Labor of Love And Imagination by Franklin W. Liu A disciplined process of experiential application pushing an extraordinarily flexible medium, fueled by an unyieldingly inquisitive, artistic mindset forged on […]
Lynsey Addario’s Veiled
Every Picture Tells A Story by Brian Goslow It is a stunning collection: a 25-year-old woman giving birth to twins at a Faizabad hospital; veiled women worshiping at a shrine […]
Head At Umass Amherst
Portraits Take It From The Top by John Paul Stapleton The Hampden Gallery is almost hidden in the city that is UMass Amherst’s south- west residential area. Its current show, […]
Carol Gove At Regis
A Continued Dialogue with Paint by Taryn Plumb For Carol Gove, it’s all about the dynamism, the fluidity and the lively play between texture, lines and shapes. “It’s the back […]
Water, Water Everywhere?
Naoe Suzuki’s Thirst For Awareness by Taryn Plumb Especially in first-world countries, water is a resource that’s very often taken for granted – it comes out of the tap, streams […]
Artup
A Win-Win For Artists, Patients and a Health Center by James Dyment ArtUp is not your average exhibition. The viewers are here for a different reason — they are visiting […]
Classified Nov/Dec 2015
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 January/ February 2016 issue we will be […]
Through The Lens of History
Grand Circle Pays Tribute To Selma and The Civil Rights Movement by Franklin W. Liu On November 4, 2008, Reverend Jesse Jackson sobbed openly on live TV as the nation’s […]
