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RICH IN MEANING AND MESSAGE: BULL’S BOOK OF PAINTING AND POETRY A GROUP EFFORT

// Current Issue, Issue Articles, January/February 2020

by Elizabeth Michelman

One of only a handful of women painters in Louis K. Meisel’s stable of top Photorealists in the early 1970s,Fran Bull, by the mid-‘80s, had quit the movement, moved to Vermont and turned toward a more nourishing figural and gestural abstraction. In the years since, she has created a distinctive and profound body of work. Bull’s paintings, etchings and relief sculpture have been prominently exhibited in Barcelona, Milan and the Venice Biennale. Now, rather than waiting for the retrospective that is her due, she’s charged ahead with a book that pits her poetry against her two-dimensional work of the past three decades. Voice is at the heart of both Bull’s poetry and her visual form — not surprising for a classically trained singer. Her semi-abstract imagery takes on the female body as a site of reverie, sensations, dreams, relationship and sound. Her fluid marks reveal rudimentary … [Read more...] about RICH IN MEANING AND MESSAGE: BULL’S BOOK OF PAINTING AND POETRY A GROUP EFFORT

Public and Private: John Buron and Abigael McGuire at AS220 Project Space and Reading Room

// Artscope Online, Featured, Visual Arts

by J. Fatima Martins

Two individual installations by John Buron and Abigael McGuire, opposites from one another in terms of materials, inception source and purpose, yet similar in how they reveal contemporary relevant concerns, are on view now through August 31 at AS220 in Providence, Rhode Island. The focus of today's contemporary culture is attention to addressing the interior personal (private lives) in combination with exterior tangible (public culture). How do Buron and McGuire do this? Abigael McGuire's "Energies and Poetries," exhibited in the Project Space, is a three-part collection of drawings — two series of flat mixed-media abstract line drawings, and a series of text scrolls - that explore the emotionality and power of gesture line showing that the line itself is both abstract and vague — energy — and also representative of reality — poetry. John Buron's "Displacement" is a mixed-media and … [Read more...] about Public and Private: John Buron and Abigael McGuire at AS220 Project Space and Reading Room

KASEY DAVIS APPLEMAN: CONNECTING THROUGH COMPOSITION

// 12th Anniversary, Current Issue, Issue Articles, March/April 2018

12 FOR OUR 12TH KASEY APPLEMAN WORK ON VIEW IN: TIME MACHINES MARY COSGROVE DOLPHIN GALLERY WORCESTER STATE UNIVERSITY 486 CHANDLER STREET WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS THROUGH MARCH 8 SANCTUARY GALLERY 263, 263 PEARL STREET CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS THROUGH MARCH 17 FOR MORE INFORMATION: KASEYAPPLEMAN.COM by Brian Goslow For as long as she can recall, Kasey Davis Appleman has been, “a collector, altar-maker and memento keeper,” the origin of her assemblages and “poetry objects” harking back to the days when she’d decorate cigar boxes – an exercise, and perhaps, long-forgotten activity that lights up the imagination and memories of people who see, and fall in love with, her work. After earning her bachelor of fine art degree in painting and printmaking from Emmanuel College in Boston, she began transferring her collections onto canvas. “But I somehow felt … [Read more...] about KASEY DAVIS APPLEMAN: CONNECTING THROUGH COMPOSITION

LIVING DELIBERATELY IN MAINE: CELEBRATING THE IDEA OF THOREAU

// Current Exhibits, Current Issue, Issue Articles, January/February 2018, Visual Arts

FEATURED MUSEUM MAINE MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS USM GLICKMAN FAMILY LIBRARY 314 FOREST AVENUE PORTLAND, MAINE THROUGH JANUARY 27 by Taryn Plumb At first, it appears to be a touching image of mourning: A man lies on his belly in a pastoral cemetery, leaning in so close to a gravestone that his head nearly grazes it. But take a closer look and you see that, well — he’s taking a closer look. Not at the headstone engraved with the surname “HUNT” but, rather, at a small patch of white flowers that have sprung up out of the ground at its base. He is a botanist at work; the grave is purely incidental. Captured by photographer S.B. Walker, the black-and-white image is part of a series taken in and around Walden Pond in Concord, Mass. It is among a variety of works in an exhibit honoring the 200th anniversary of the birth of the celebrated transcendentalist Henry … [Read more...] about LIVING DELIBERATELY IN MAINE: CELEBRATING THE IDEA OF THOREAU