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
Hall Art
Redefining the Sublime
Man vs. Nature at Hall Art by Elizabeth Michelman For Victorian critic John Ruskin, the “sublime” described an aesthetic experience of awe and magnificence accompanied by subjective and even violent emotion. Guest curator Joel Sternfeld, a photographer and videographer teaching at Sarah Lawrence College, re-visits this concept in “Landscapes After Ruskin,” selecting from over 6,000 works of post-World War II art in the collections of the Hall family and Hall Art Foundation. Quaintly staged in the buildings of a former Vermont dairy farm, the exhibition asks whether we can ever separate the human mark from nature. Its imagery challenges us to recognize a world outside that increasingly fails us as we fail it. Sternfeld favors digital and photographic imagery, painting, and drawing, with a smattering of sculptures, installations, and videos. Familiar German names — Joseph … [Read more...] about Redefining the Sublime