No “bad art” to be seen in the Duxbury Art Association “Winter Juried Show!” Juried art exhibitions are a visual treat because of the diversity of topics, media and surprises. American artists, both professional and amateur, are exceptionally skilled due to the high quality of art classes offered by schools, museums, art associations and private teachers. The 85 artworks, selected from among 600, are exemplars of this high quality. Once again, curator Craig Bloodgood has installed the diverse works in a pleasing pattern at the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, Massachusetts. Decayed, decrepit, rusted-out automobiles in Ken Tighe’s oil painting, “Alchemy,” along with paint-peeling signs for motels and gas, depict an evil of our overconsuming society. Fully deserving the “Best in Show” award, Tighe meticulously paints every hubcap, flat tire and dusty windshield of old cars piled one on … [Read more...] about DUXBURY’S SKILLED DEDICATION: HIGH QUALITY, IMAGINATION AT ART COMPLEX
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A Modern Spectrum: Fresh Watercolors at the Art Complex
Existential tensions of contemporary life are addressed head-on by many of the watercolor painters in the New England Watercolor Society’s Biennial exhibition. Following in the watercolor traditions of the great masters, Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent, many of the paintings deal with the stresses of life. No one has painted a despairing fisherman’s wife looking out to sea for her lost husband or Italian marble quarry workers cutting stone. But the artists do address addiction, loneliness, homelessness and anxiety. In an exhibition dominated by conventional watercolor motifs of fruits and flowers, seaside shacks, birds, boats and beaches, several artists grapple with the problems of modern life. Courageously, they turn their eyes away from the romantic symbols of beaches and boats, often with exceptional technical skill. Carolyn Latanision’s “Ladles and Cranes Ready; … [Read more...] about A Modern Spectrum: Fresh Watercolors at the Art Complex