Article Excerpts: Welcome | Cornered: Debbie Nadolney, Art Market Provincetown | A Contemporary Showcase: CMCA Gets a Fresh Start | Redefining the Sublime: Man vs. Nature at Hall Art | A Cross-Section of Craft: NH Craftsmen Keep It Interesting | Identity and Community at the Crossroads: CCMOA's Summer of Storytelling | Life in the Fast Lane: Eileen Myles at Schoolhouse | Ogunquit Art Association: Members Shine in Summer | Hot Chicks at Silver Circle: Bigger is Better | Bierstadt in New Bedford: An Unlikely Partnership Makes Sense | Photographic Evidence at Griffin: Cassandra Klos' Abductees | Museum of the Massachusetts Landscape: The Trustees' Public Art Initiative | South County Invitational: Showcasing Connections and Contrasts | CoSo's Salute to Summer: From Ship to Shore to Newbury Street | Speaking a Different Language: The Walshes in Williamstown | Everything's … [Read more...] about July/August 2016
Cassandra Klos
Photographic Evidence at Griffin
Cassandra Klos' Abductees by Emily Avery-Miller "Photos or it didn't happen." Cassandra Klos, a 25-year-old fine art photographer from Boston, calls that mantra into question by following it to its next logical step. If there are photos, did it happen? And what was “it,” exactly? In Klos’s “The Abductees,” on view at The Griffin Museum of Photography this summer, “it” appears to be an encounter with another kind. The story seems to start with “U.S Route 3 II,” as a mid-century Chevy climbs a mountain road. “The Arrival” shows the backs of a man and a woman silhouetted against a white oblong vessel in a forest clearing, skirted with a green glow. “Betty” shows the woman face-on, wearing the blank shock of one who, like the viewer, has seen something she does not quite understand. There are crumpled typewritten documents. A view of the night sky in autumn. An … [Read more...] about Photographic Evidence at Griffin