What struck me about a recent conversation with Kyungmin Park was her clarity — clarity in what she tries to convey as an artist and in how she wants people to see her work. A figurative ceramic sculptor, Park has been recognized nationally and internationally as a gifted emerging artist in her field. She is the featured artist in “Ceramic Sculpture Culture: Uniting the Figure” at Endicott College, where Park is an assistant professor of 3D studio art. The exhibit’s title references the group of professional ceramic artists who have come together to share information on gallery opportunities, future exhibitions and to provide funding and scholarships for emerging ceramic artists. As co-curator of the exhibit, Park has selected works by fellow members of the Ceramic Sculpture Culture — recently renamed Ceramic Sculpture Collective — from throughout the United States to display in … [Read more...] about KYUNGMIN PARK: CERAMIC STORYTELLER SEES THE WORLD THROUGH HER FIGURES
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A CLEAR REFLECTION: CHISHOLM AT ENDICOTT
REVIEW JAMES CHISHOLM: REFLECTIONS: OCEAN WAVES, INLAND STREAMS CAROL GRILLO GALLERY ENDICOTT COLLEGE WALTER J. MANNINEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS 376 HALE STREET BEVERLY, MASSACHUSETTS THROUGH FEBRUARY 8 by James Foritano Driving homeward from Endicott College’s North Shore campus toward Boston, keeping time with the traffic’s imperative to move this car — this metal carapace — along, or risk being moved rudely by a sudden bump from behind or the side, both unpleasant, I thought of the slow time I’d experienced on assignment in the Walter J. Manninen Art Center’s Carol Grillo Gallery. A handful of oil paintings explores with impressionist punctiliousness the way light flickers and gilds, sluices or merely dampens at edges the woods and fields along the banks of the Ipswich River — depending on the year, the season, the time of day. “Handful” is a good word for the … [Read more...] about A CLEAR REFLECTION: CHISHOLM AT ENDICOTT