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THE COLOR OF SPRING: GREEN MEMBERS’ EXHIBITION AT BRICKBOTTOM 

// Artscope Online, Exhibits, Featured, Visual Arts

by Olivia MacDonald

The color green is one of healing, growth and renewal. It is the color of plants, youth, good luck, camouflage, money and even envy. After a long winter, Brickbottom Gallery’s new exhibit “GREEN” invites viewers into their white wall gallery fully immersed in the color green through the artwork on the walls. Developing and established artists showcase their work together, providing their own interpretations and visions about this color that surrounds our everyday lives. Many reach towards nature for inspiration, crafting their pieces with various materials. As spring brings rain to the New England area, this exhibit provides a small retreat to feed our creativity and imaginations. On three vertical canvases, Pauline Lim’s acrylic and gold metal leaf painting, “Leave No Trace,” carries viewers atop forests dabbled with lime and olive greens. In the first canvas, a small girl in a red … [Read more...] about THE COLOR OF SPRING: GREEN MEMBERS’ EXHIBITION AT BRICKBOTTOM 

ARTSCOPE REVIEW: BRICKBOTTOM’S 30TH ANNUAL OPEN STUDIOS

// Audio/Visual, Exhibits, Featured, Visual Arts

By Sabrina Garvin SOMERVILLE, MASS. --- At this year’s Brickbottom Open Studios, held on November 18-19, there was so much artwork it was dripping from the staircases. As one of the largest, oldest and most well-attended open studios events, there was something for just about anyone’s artistic tastes, from elegant photographs, jewelry, oil paintings and pottery to remarkable found art, large installations, kinetic sculptures and mosaics. The Brickbottom Artist Association’s membership covers an incredible range of art forms and styles. Mix in live music and great snacks with crowds of excited people and artists, and that formula is the recipe for one awesome weekend-long art party. With over 70 artists’ studios in three repurposed A&P Grocery factory buildings, and its main gallery open to the public, there was plenty to do and look at. The Brickbottom Gallery itself held … [Read more...] about ARTSCOPE REVIEW: BRICKBOTTOM’S 30TH ANNUAL OPEN STUDIOS

David Campbell, Boston Skyline & Northern Suburbs.

OUT THE WINDOW & AROUND THE TOWN

// Visual Arts

CYNTHIA MAURICE & DAVID CAMPBELL AT THE BRICKBOTTOM GALLERY By Rhiannon Leigh Somerville, Mass. - Cartoons are not typically considered for the philosophical canon, but one New Yorker cartoon captioned “The meaning of life is having a spectacular view” gave meaning to much of the work featured in “Out the Window & Around the Town” at the Brickbottom Artist Association’s Gallery. Featuring work by David Campbell and Cynthia Maurice, the exhibition draws from the changing cityscape overlooking Boston between 1987, when the Brickbottom Artist Association first opened, through today. As I walked into the workspace of Cynthia Maurice, with the aroma of freshly brewed coffee filling the room and the mid-afternoon light poured in from the large glass windows overlooking the city, I noticed several works of flowers not far away from a vase of daffodils on the countertop and it was … [Read more...] about OUT THE WINDOW & AROUND THE TOWN