Welcome to the 79th issue of Artscope Magazine, which celebrates our 13th anniversary. It features our annual special section in which we’ve asked our writers which artists they may have wanted to write about over the past year but the chance hasn’t presented itself. This year’s “13 for Our 13th” features a wide variety of New England artists that work in landscape and light, sculpture and color fields, marquetry and performance art, assemblage and mathematically-based constructions, documentary photography, and oil, glass and ceramic — and “heavy metal” nutcrackers. Some of these artists’ work will be on view as part of regional exhibitions in the months ahead, others can be seen in their workspaces during open studio weekends and others are regularly showcased in galleries and showrooms. One of the most pleasurable aspects of overseeing Artscope over the years has been following … [Read more...] about WELCOME: FROM BRIAN GOSLOW