A New Idea Pops Up in P-town by Brian Goslow There is a new way to reach new audiences: pop-up galleries. For more than a decade, Johniene Papandreas has featured her own large-scale, eye-catching paintings at her Commercial Street storefront in Provincetown. Located just a few doors down from the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, it’s as prime a location for an artist looking to showcase their work as you could ask for. This year, Papandreas decided to do things differently. “I’m now showing at other galleries and thought I could use more concentrated time in my studio in New Hampshire to paint,” she explained. “Since I’d been researching opportunities where I could show my own work in different cities for a week at a time, it suddenly occurred to me that I could offer that opportunity to fellow artists with my gallery. To read more, pick up a … [Read more...] about Gallery Voyeur Reaches Out
Johniene Papandreas
May/June 2016 Centerfold
Artscope 62, May/June 2016 art: Awakened artist: Johniene Papandreas medium: self-portrait, casein on muslin, 27” x 74,” 2005. A face is every experience of one’s life made manifest. The lines, the tilt of the head, and, oh … the eyes … the portals through which I enter the inner life of my subject and open the window into their emotional world. It’s about reading between the lines … tuning in to the unspoken … revealing a moment thought private, unobserved, when the guard is down. That exquisite moment before the retreat … the moment before the walls go up. To see more of Papandreas's work, visit www.voy-art.com. Judges: ELENA RUOCCO BACHRACH, Executive Director, Newburyport Art Association / IAN TORNEY, Visual Arts Chair and Nesto Gallery Executive Director, Milton Academy / NELLA LUSH, President of National Association of … [Read more...] about May/June 2016 Centerfold