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A GRAND RE-ENTRANCE
By Elizabeth Michelman
“Abstraction focuses on a private world,” muses Erica H. Adams in “Spirit in the Dark,” an exhibition of 23 small watercolors at the Moakley Federal Courthouse through March 30. For […]
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CLEAR AND PRESENT
By Elizabeth Michelman
“There’s all kinds of life-experiences that come to one unasked-for,” said sculptor and painter Marjorie Minkin while showing me her light-filled Lexan relief sculptures one November evening on her Waltham […]
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CANDID AND UNHEEDING
By J.M. Belmont
The camera is ubiquitous. Embedded in our phones, it sits in every pocket and purse; drilled into the walls of businesses and subway stations; fixed to traffic lights and the […]
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SOLITARY SURVIVORS
By Linda (Chestney) Sutherland
This is a love story. A mesmerizing tale about two people who’ve shared their life more than 51 years, but, in actuality, the “love story” began long, long before that […]
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FLIPPING TRADITION ON ITS HEAD
By Evan Bieder
“Designing the Dream State” is a solo exhibition by Hartford Art School’s inaugural Whitney Artist-in-Residence Chiraag Bhakta. The show will be held in the Joseloff Gallery from February 23 to […]
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MOSAIC MASTERPIECES
By Lee Roscoe
Lisa Houck’s solo exhibition at the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, Massachusetts, features her prolific and vivid versatility, with about a dozen watercolors, small (6” by 7”) to large (50” […]
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BECOMING ONE
By Suzanne Volmer
Recently I visited sculptor Nora Valdez at her studio at Humphreys Street Studios in Dorchester, Massachusetts, to get a preview of her upcoming exhibition “A Common Thread,” which takes place […]
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A REMARKABLE COLLECTION
By Claudia Fiks
New England’s legacy of textile and innovation relives its heyday. Its fiber art time! We have seen a resurgence of fiber art, and the trend is rising. Historically most associated […]
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THE ART OF THE CLOWN
By Hannah Carrigan
The 30-foot-long wall of Stephen LaPierre’s Rocky Neck studio is covered from top to bottom with paintings of clowns. LaPierre’s oldest clown painting, the impetus for this wacky yet cerebral […]
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WILSON’S INSPIRED WORKS AT COLBY
By Eric J. Taubert
For the second-ever exhibition in their newly constructed Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art at the Paul J. Schupf Art Center in downtown Waterville, Maine, the Colby College Museum of […]
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A STRONG, DREAMLIKE INTENSITY
By Marjorie Kaye
Kelly Slater is an artist that I have known for a number of years, mostly from my years at Atlantic Works Gallery in East Boston, when our memberships overlapped. I […]
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ROBIN REYNOLDS
By Brain Goslow
While most of New England waits for spring, few are more eager for the first blossoms of the season as Robin Reynolds, whose floral paintings of her North Brookfield, Massachusetts […]