Artscope Magazine

New England's Culture Magazine

Artscope Magazine | November/December 2020

Subscribe to the Magazine

A vibrant, dynamic magazine with arts news, reviews and info you can use, delivered right to your door!

Subscribe now

Sign up for our Email Blasts!

Special Artscope updates in your inbox every two weeks!

Sign up

Capsule Previews

Capsule Previews: January/February 2020

// Current Issue, Issue Articles, January/February 2020

by Brian Goslow

The new year traditionally brings with it the introduction of the next lineage of artists welcomed into the Copley Society of Art through its New Members Show. “Selected by the Membership Committee of the Copley Society of Art, new members are accepted for membership only if their work is truly outstanding. This year, our new artist members represent a great diversity of backgrounds and media, including pastel, photography and watercolor.” Joining CoSo’s roster are C.R. Bryant, Wray Clifford, Meghan Cochran, Scott Crystal, Whitney Dellea, K.E. Duffin, Pedro Gonzalez, Christy Gunnels, Whitney Heavy, Lai Sin Hew, Sandra Kavanaugh, Maryann Lucas, Amy Roberts, Jed Sutter and Melissa Post van der Burg. The exhibition takes place from January 9 through February 9 at the Copley Society of Art, 158 Newbury St., Boston. “Natural Lineage,” an exhibition featuring paintings by father and … [Read more...] about Capsule Previews: January/February 2020

TOP LEFT: Nancy Diessner, "Boat Grasses," at Anna Maria College. TOP RIGHT: Heidi Whitman, "Ozymandias," at Chandler Gallery at Maud Morgan Arts. BOTTOM LEFT: Kate Shaffer, "Nina Simone," at Carney Gallery at Regis College. BOTTOM RIGHT: Patricia Brace, "BRACE 2020," at POP-UP 265 Gallery.

CAPSULE PREVIEWS

// Current Issue, Issue Articles, March/April 2019

by Brian Goslow

“Renewal” is the theme of this year’s “Annual Juried Members Show” that opened on February 28 at the Copley Society of Art, 158 Newbury St., Boston. The exhibition, which continues the gallery’s tradition of covering a wide variety of mediums, including painting, photography, graphite and pastel, was curated by Meg White, director of Gallery NAGA. First prize was awarded to Acadia Mezzofanti’s illusionistic photograph, “Self-Portrait: Untamed;” Carolyn Latanision’s watercolor painting of a rusted steel engine, “Powered Down, Bethlehem Steel,” took second prize while Mary Hughes earned third p rize for her abstract painting, “Ice Flow I,” which evokes winter-ice surfaces. The show runs through March 28. Art League Rhode Island is presenting “Twisting Fibers — An Art for All Reasons,” an open juried national exhibition that opens on March 8 and continues through May 8 at the Blackstone … [Read more...] about CAPSULE PREVIEWS

Capsule Previews Nov/Dec 2017

// Contact Us, November/December 2017

By Brian Goslow With approximately 30 mem- bers, New England Wax’s mis- sion is “to promote excellence in fine art made with encaustic” through professional, juried exhi- bitions. “Shifts: Approaching Encaustic from All Angles,” on view through November 26 at the Fuller Craft Museum, 455 Oak St., Brockton, Mass., was curated by Dedee Shattuck Gallery chief curator Ben Shattuck. “No other medium has as much ver- satility as encaustic, which can encompass two dimensions with depth via its translucency and a build-up of layers, or sculpted and altered while still warm.” “Inner Beauty,” an exhibition of works by AJ Oishi and Jung Hur, continues through November 27 at Gallery BOM, 460 Harrison Ave. B-7, Boston. Oishi’s multicol- ored circular designs, which reveal a relaxingly endless intensity the more you look at them, are created with the eraser side of a #2 pencil and a … [Read more...] about Capsule Previews Nov/Dec 2017

Jul/Aug 2016 Capsule Previews

// Current Exhibits, Exhibits, July/August 2016, Visual Arts

by Brian Goslow The National Association of Women Artists (NAWA) Massachusetts Chapter is presenting two exhibitions this summer: “Continuum: Tradition Meets Innovation,” continuing through August 6 at Fountain Street Fine Art, 59 Fountain St., Framingham, Mass., and “Breaking Ground,” featuring 55 works by 46 artists, running through September 16 at the Walter J. Manninen Center for the Arts at Endicott College, 376 Hale St., Beverly, Mass. NAWA was founded in 1889 as a not-for-profit organization of professional women in fine art and is the oldest art association for women. The Mass. Chapter, formed in 2013, offers an active program of exhibitions, seminars, community outreach programs and educational activities. -- “Kaleidoscopic Pathos,” paintings by Bennington-based Renée Bouchard, will be on view from July 5 through September 30 at the Vermont Governor’s Gallery, … [Read more...] about Jul/Aug 2016 Capsule Previews

Capsule Previews

// March/April 2016

by Brian Goslow “Deco Japan: Shaping Art and Culture, 1920–1945” remains on view through April 24 at the Middlebury College Museum of Art, Mahaney Center for the Arts, 72 Porter Field Rd. (just off Route 30), Middlebury, Vermont; the show, organized by Art Services International, is built around nearly 200 works drawn from the Levenson Collection, the world’s premier private collection of Japanese art in the Deco and Moderne style, as well as 20th-century examples of metalwork in traditional styles. The five-section show spotlights the “cultural, formal and social aspects of Japanese Deco.” Alicia Dywer’s “Body of Armor” exhibition, on view from March 9 through April 1 at ArtSpace Gallery, 63 Summer St., Maynard, Mass., combines sculpture, painting and drawings that explore how “armor dress can translate into a metaphor of how women protect their bodies/selves in the … [Read more...] about Capsule Previews