It's All Natural At Fountain Street Meredith Cutler Not 48 hours after an editorial obituary for the Great Barrier Reef sent viral waves of indignation through social media, I found myself staring into the flat depths of artist Mary Spencer’s imaginary oceans. The news story turned out to be an exaggeration; the Great Barrier Reef is not quite dead — just “almost” dead. But the damage was done. Visions of over a thousand miles of bleached coral left a collective retinal impression, the tipping point of Mother Nature rendered in textured bone-whites and rippling blues. On exhibit at Fountain Street Fine Art, as part of its “Wind and Water” exhibition, Spencer’s strangely flat “Fossil Fantasies” are undersea views with luminous, matte background blues strung with low relief, reef-like details. Some incorporate actual plant matter, like her painting “Squid and Coral Fan,” … [Read more...] about Flora, Fauna and Fantasy
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Museum of the Massachusetts Landscape
The Trustees' Public Art Initiative by Meredith Cutler World’s End … The Old Manse … names that ring of landmarks on a fictional map. Look at a map of Massachusetts, and you’ll discover that these are very real destinations. Located in seaside Hingham and historic Concord, respectively, World’s End and The Old Manse are just two of 116 properties managed by the not-for-profit conservation and preservation group, The Trustees of Reservations. In celebration of 125 years of land conservancy and historical site stewardship, The Trustees have launched a two-year public art initiative titled “Art and the Landscape.” The project is curated by Boston-based independent curator Pedro Alonzo in the “museum of the Massachusetts landscape — wild nature herself,” as described by Trustees President and CEO Barbara Erickson at a launch event and public art forum held in early … [Read more...] about Museum of the Massachusetts Landscape
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, an artist. Trailing her fashionable mother through the streets of mid-town Manhattan, the smell of oil paint wafting from the Art Students League of New York drew her in like a siren’s song. Always a creative child with a love of drawing, “that sensory experience was really the beginning of my art,” Harvey recounted. Through this fall semester at Wellesley College, visitors to the institution’s Davis Museum can view an ambitious retrospective of work by Harvey, Elizabeth Christy Kopf Professor of Art from 1976-2015. This exhibition was one of the first assignments for curator Meredith Fluke, who marks the completion of her first year at Wellesley as Harvey celebrates her last. As the two began to peel … [Read more...] about Bunny Harvey At Wellesley
We Are You International
Latino Artists in The Spotlight by Meredith Cutler For those of us living in Boston’s MetroWest region, it’s a given that for the best pupusas, or to catch a Capoeira practice, a visit to Framingham is a sure bet. The town is a known enclave of Latino businesses, from hole-in-the wall taco stands to Columbian bakeries to Brazilian ... everything. But “Latino,” this pan-ethnic label of a population predicted to claim the US majority by 2070, can be hard to pin down. To help us access the enormity of the Latino identity and the idea of “Latini- zation” today from an art world stand- point, enter Framingham’s Fountain Street Fine Art (FSFA). This summer, FSFA hosts the New England edition of “We Are You Project International,” a traveling exhibition of 36 contempo- rary Latino artists and poets with roots in over a dozen Latin American nations. Launched in 2012 by artist … [Read more...] about We Are You International
Flat Depth
PAUL ROUSSO ADDS ANOTHER DIMENSION by Meredith Cutler Candy wrappers. Currency. Newspapers, movie posters and comic books. At once crisp, well-worn and confrontationally familiar, Paul Rousso’s larger-than-life sculptures are ... unavoidable. A Southern child matured in the post-Pop, neo-expressionist Bay Area and New York City cultural scenes of the late 1970s and early ‘80s, Rousso iconizes paper with a curatorial eye, a wealth of culture- buff detritus and an obsessive attention to finish detail straight out of the commercial design world where he started his “on paper” career as an art director for Revlon Cosmetics. Rousso’s work focuses around an idea he’s coined “flat depth.” Noting that the arc of Western art history has traced artists’ attempts to first render the illusion of perspective on a flat surface and then to refute depth in modern and post-modern art Rousso’s … [Read more...] about Flat Depth
Welcome
Welcome to our September/October 2015 issue, compiled during the dog days of summer, which are always a challenging time to put together a fall issue due to some Boston galleries taking time off in late August before their regular clientele returns from their summer getaways, many college campus galleries being on break till their school year commences, and artists being away on well-earned vacations and even more well-earned residencies. But, thanks to our dedicated writers and museum, commercial and campus gallery owners, curators and publicists and exhibiting artists accommodating our timely deadline date, we’re confident we’ve put together a collection of stories that’ll make you want to hop in your car to see more than just the New England foliage. Lissa Cramer, the exhibitions coordinator at the Tufts University Gallery, arranged for Franklin W. Liu to meet with Shahzia … [Read more...] about Welcome