September/October 2018
In This Issue
MAKING CONNECTIONS WITH DONNA DODSON
Sally Eyring is a renaissance woman. She is equal parts studio artist in glass and fibers, innovator of 3-D loom techniques and fibre de verre glass casting techniques, proficient educator […]
CAPSULE PREVIEWS
Featuring “an accomplished group of professionals who are active practitioners of disciplines ranging from digital media, photography, drawing, painting and sculpture, to printmaking and artists’ books,” “SUMMA: Visual Arts Faculty […]
EARTH’S ADVOCATES: UNCOVERED AT CATAMOUNT
Gerry Bergstein and Gail Boyajian have been addressing the complexities of the human condition and threats to our natural world in distinctly different ways throughout their artistic working lives. Now, […]
CAUSE AND EFFECT: THREE VIEWS AT GALATEA
This October, Galatea Fine Art presents three concurrent shows featuring members Philip Gerstein, Barry Margolin and Ronni Komarow. Five-time Galatea exhibitor Gerstein will be showing a new series entitled “Sometimes […]
COMPLEMENTARY CONTRAST: BOBACK AND LEITNER AT GALATEA
Two coinciding solo-artist shows, Jo-Ann Boback’s “Revealing the Obscure,” and Rose Leitner’s “Quiet Chaos,” are on display at Galatea Fine Art this September. Both feature abstract and colorful pieces, and […]
FUNCTIONAL OR FANCIFUL? BROWN’S SCULPTURAL CONGLOMERATIONS
The motion and glint from the mirrors are the first things to catch your eye. Then you see it: a big metal fish — a yellowfin tuna, in fact — […]
KEEPERS OF THE FLAME: ROCKWELL AND FRIENDS IN STOCKBRIDGE
I first saw him standing beside the pool at a hotel in Lake Atitlán, Guatemala. Wavy grey hair, a slender, erect posture and his trademark cravat were unmistakable. It was […]
Welcome: From Brian Goslow
While most of our writers get to view the shows and work that they write about in person, our fall issue comes with the challenge of previewing shows that have […]
Traversing the Imagination: Wagner at Burlington City Arts
Burlington City Arts in Vermont is our own small-scale Centre Pompidou. I lived in the Marais district of Paris for close to seven years and the Pompidou, a short walk […]
Cornered: Heather Ferrell
As August was coming to a close, Heather Ferrell, curator and director of exhibitions at Burlington City Arts, took time from her busy schedule to discuss her vision and process […]
POEMS, PLASTER & PAPER: MORE THAN WORDS AT SIMMONS
On the walls of the Trustman Gallery, shadows from plastic wire, fiber and thread constructions hover over the soft grey texts of blown-up poems, plaster and paper reliefs and white-and-black […]
KINESTHETIC COMPOSITION: ARCH DEFIES GRAVITY
In her late summer, early fall exhibition at the Hess Gallery at Pine Manor College, Adria Arch explores the next stage of her painting evolution. It’s what she describes as […]
A BOLD ARTISTIC VOICE: SHABOTT AT FOUR ELEVEN
Laura Shabott is not only an artist who has undergone what she calls “circuitous” life processes to find herself back at painting, drawing and figurative art, she is also, undoubtedly, […]
SEEING IS BELIEVING: DODD AT OGUNQUIT
Technology says that an airbrush refines a painting. Tradition says it’s a paintbrush. Smart artists know that art is delivered by the eyes, which ignite the senses. Open your eyes […]
OUT AND ABOUT IN CT: WAA SCULPTURE WALK
Nestled within the hills and dales of northwest Connecticut lies a world-class sculpture exhibit that envelops you into its bucolic setting. With pieces as diverse as a “giant tulip” that […]
ROOM TO BREATHE: MALIK IN PROVIDENCE
Saberah Malik is a contemporary process artist deeply connected to the potential and integrity of her materials. She has a reputation of experimentation as a maker of emotive fabric sculptures. […]
PARTICIPATORY GUESSING GAME: UNTOLD STORIES AT FOUNTAIN STREET
The immediate condition and activity conveyed within the pictures made by painters Anita Loomis and Alexandra Rozenman is extrapolation. As the title of their current exhibition, “Untold Stories,” directly tells […]
START MAKING SENSE: HOULE QUESTIONS SPACE AND PLACE
On a recent visit to the sites of ancient cave drawings in France, Jenn Houle couldn’t help but be awed and humbled by their sheer majesty and history — but […]
GALLERY NIGHT PROVIDENCE: SHOWCASING URBAN VIBRANCE AND SYNERGY
The vitality of a city is evident from your first moments in it. Urban vibrancy comes from the synergy of different factors — economic opportunities; diversity in all its expressions; […]
FLOWERS OR SEX? CREATURE COMFORTS AT CAA
Four local artists will create an installation of “Creature Comforts” at the Cambridge Art Association’s Kathryn Schultz Gallery from October 6 through November 2. The installation will be accompanied by […]
COOPER AT LESLEY: CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE
In a world where image and imagination merge, Lesley University, in celebration of the recent opening of their newly expanded VFX/Animation Department, is enthusiastically highlighting Kyle Cooper’s signature work in […]
FROM BOGOTÁ TO BOSTON: STREET ARTISTS AT SSAC
Before Kim Alemian, graphic designer and webmaster for the South Shore Art Center, visited Colombia in 2015, she hadn’t seen street art (or graffiti) as a genuine art form — […]
ROCKING AND ROLLING: GONSON GOES BEYOND THE IMAGE
“Visages de Punk,” CambridgeSeven’s current exhibition, is Boston photographer JJ Gonson’s ode to Boston’s vibrant punk scene of the mid-to-late 1980s through the first half of the 1990s. This show […]
CHALLENGING BOUNDARIES: WICKED HARD AT ROOM 83 SPRING
Now entering its sixth year in a Watertown storefront, Room 83 Spring continues to insist local artists challenge their own artistic boundaries — and ours. To this end, directors Ellen […]
