SPOTLIGHT ARTIST EXPLORING THE MYTHS OF JAMES DYE WORCESTER ART MUSEUM 55 SALISBURY STREET WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS THROUGH SEPTEMBER 2 It didn’t take long after James Dye had heard his name announced as the winner of the Sally R. Bishop Prize for Best in Show at the 2017 ArtsWorcester Biennial for the enormity of what had just occurred to set in. Along with a cash prize, he would receive a solo exhibition at the Worcester Art Museum — and he had 11 months to pull it together. His 40” x 27” “The Temple of the Burdened Host” dip pen and India ink drawing was selected as the top work by juror Samantha Cataldo (contemporary arts curator at the Currier Museum of Art), who in her statement explaining her decision wrote, “While the technique and imagery evoke art of the past — such as medieval manuscript illuminations or relief carvings on Hindu temples — the visuals of the … [Read more...] about THE POWER OF MYTH: JAMES DYE AT WAM