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An ever-expanding premier source for art and culture, Artscope Magazine encourages discourse and public engagement through timely, journalistic coverage of galleries, museums, exhibitions, artists, and communities. Artscope covers a wide spectrum of arts and highlights both national and international artists, who show in the New England and beyond. For the distribution site nearest you, please email us at [email protected].

02/14/2025

“All for one,” our February 13 Artscope email blast! features “M.J. Viano Crowe: Body and Soul” at the Art Center Gallery at Anna Maria College in Paxton, Massachusetts; “Tara Sellios: Ask Now the Beasts” at Fitchburg Art Museum in Fitchburg, Massachusetts; and “Tina Feingold: Wishful Thinking” at the Danforth Art Museum at Framingham State University, Framingham, Massachusetts.

Our latest blast! is sponsored by the New Britain Museum of American Art, League of NH Craftsmen, The Umbrella Arts Center, Paradise City Arts Festivals, Hopkinton Center for the Arts and Artscope Magazine Online.

Read the February 13 Artscope Magazine email blast! here: https://conta.cc/4aWp9og

02/13/2025

You still have time to advertise or list your upcoming events, openings or latest artworks in our March/April 2025 19th Anniversary Issue of Artscope Magazine. Contact us at [email protected] or call (617) 639-5771 to discuss how we can help you get the word out on the great things you have going on.

02/05/2025

“Africa Rising is the inaugural exhibition of Fitchburg Art Museum’s new collection of 21st-century Africa photography, a sampling of the recent explosion of fine art photography on the continent. The exhibition, which runs through February 23, includes photographs by internationally acclaimed artists Zanele Muholi (South Africa), Lalla Essaydi (Morocco), and Aida Muluneh (Ethiopia). Themes that recur across this visually stunning show include identity in the aftermath of colonialism, environmental exploitation and decay, female empowerment, and Afro-Futurism. Africa Rising, and the expansion of FAM’s collection, are supported by a generous grant from the Geneviève McMillan – Reba Stewart Foundation.”

02/05/2025

On a cold Thursday night in Worcester, Massachusetts, the Prior Performance Center parking lot was packed, and the Iris and B. Gerard Cantor Art Gallery College of the Holy Cross’s outer window shimmered with brilliance of all kinds. The gallery was packed with artists, friends, former students and College of the Holy Cross faculty as Michael Beatty gave a talk about “Fabrications,” his retrospective exhibit that’s on view through April 1. Artscope’s Madeleine Lord, there to review the exhibition for our March/April 2025 Anniversary Issue, files this report:

Beatty commented that he thought it looked better with no one in the gallery. And then expanded to describe how he had worked with a model of the room to design each placement. His aim was to give each visitor a way to wander as they chose. The installation creates visual alignments and threads that relate evolving and separate series.

He talked about the duality of being an art professional, and a professor responsible to encourage and enlighten students, which he described as a great joy and at times hard. He recalled a studio assignment to create an object which was emblematic of the students’ life in their family. “Hearts!” He exclaimed, “they all made hearts.” So, he nixed that image from their options. And yet later worked with the heart in his work Full Circle which alludes to circulatory movement through a central metal sleeve.

Beatty summarized his teaching role as provocateur, telling students to take risks. One former student remembered him asking the class to turn their works upside down, and comment on the results. She asked if he does that in his own process now. Beatty responded that he does view his work bottom up by lying on the floor and looking for new perspectives.

He clarified that he makes objects, not sculpture. His comfort in many media allows him to express many thought worlds in physical metaphors. He also agreed that what he sees and intends may never be what the visitor viewer sees as they are free to find their own meaning through resemblance, memory, experience. Beatty answered a question about how he combined the architectonic plywood portion of Scaffold to the 3D printed biomorphic piece perched on it.

“We can talk later” he replied with a grin, “I like to talk about why I make things, not how.” When you visit this exhibit, give yourself time to wander freely and read all the very helpful labels and artist statements on the walls. Enjoy the relationship of drawings and prints with their all their dimensional kin. It is a one-man world of a lifetime of art that invites and includes us all.

For more details, gallery times and dates of associated events, visit https://www.holycross.edu/iris-and-b-gerald-cantor-art-gallery/current-exhibition.

01/31/2025

“Not so familiar,” our January 30 Artscope email blast! features “— graphies,” works by Radius Collective members James Barkley, Massimiliano Cerioni, Padmini Chandrasekaran, Joshua Duttweiler, Christopher Field, Sarah Cadigan-Fried, Vaishnavi Kumar, Molly Haig & Kristen Mallia, on view through March 8 at University Gallery at UMass Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts; “Kenji Nakahashi: Strange Beauty,” opening next Thursday, February 6 and continuing through May 4 at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut; and “To See This Place: Awakening to Our Common Home,” featuring Athena LaTocha, Mary Mattingly, and Tyler Rai - whose work "resonates with the theme of two documents written by Pope Francis that calls for a response to climate change” can be seen through March 29 at the Fairfield University Art Museum in Fairfield, Connecticut.

Our latest blast! is sponsored by Bromfield Gallery, New England Watercolor Society, Shared Habitat Earth, Hopkinton Center for the Arts, Paradise City Arts Festivals and the Artscope Magazine Tablet Edition.

Read the January 30 Artscope Magazine email blast! here: https://conta.cc/3PWbZhv

01/29/2025

The artist reception (at 4:30 p.m.) and artist talk (at 5:30 p.m.) for “Camilla Jerome: Patient, Patient” is this Thursday, January 30, in the Oper Door Gallery in the Higgins Educational Wing, directly accessible through the Lancaster Street Entrance of the Worcester Art Museum, 55 Salisbury St., Worcester, Massachusetts.

“Patient, Patient is a testament to my lived experience of being silenced and disregarded as a woman in pain. Through a combination of past and present projects, I focus on the different methods of making, meditate on the process and materiality of healing, and express my embodied knowledge. My artistic practice has grown alongside my pain, and my life is inseparable from these images on paper, bedsheets, shells, and bone. Like a silver print developing in the darkroom, I’m bringing clarity to the surface by reaching out from the corners of my psyche to reclaim lost time and missed connections.” — Camilla Jerome.

“Time is expansive and enduring. Moments can be suspended in the vast subconscious, and if I, too, could just float, all my pain would dissipate. The fluidity of my chronically ill and disabled body, which often feels like it’s in a constant state of change and adaptation, mirrors the transformative power of the photographic medium. Digital and analog photographs, a book, cyanotypes, gelatin silver, lumen, and chemigram prints create multiple access points for deciphering and discernment, slicing infinite time into fractions of a second.”

The Open Door Gallery at the Worcester Art Museum is run in partnership with Open Door Arts Massachusetts, an affiliate of the Seven Hills Foundation; “Camilla Jerome: Patient, Patient” runs through March 10 in the Salisbury Cultural District, Worcester MA.

01/28/2025

“List Projects 31: Kite,” a solo exhibition of New-Media Work by the Oglála Lakȟóta artist, Kite, opens this Thursday, January 30 and continued through May 18 at the MIT List Visual Arts Center at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 20 Ames St., Cambridge, Massachusetts. The show explores machine learning, artificial intelligence, and dream interpretation as means of expressing Oglála Lakȟóta ontology and epistemology. “For over a decade, Kite has worked with digital interfaces for music and live performance while developing scholarship on what she calls, ‘Indigenous protocols for AI.’ Her musical compositions, installations, graphical scores, videos, and live performances often visualize the artist’s collaborations with human and nonhuman entities, like stones and the components of computers, and reveal her intricate process of investigation and iteration.”

Read the rest of managing editor Brian Goslow’s Capsule Previews featured in the January/February 2025 issue of Artscope Magazine, available at partnering galleries, museums and art organizations throughout New England, via mail order and through digital download at tablet.artscopemagazine.com and here: https://artscopemagazine.com/2025/01/january-february-2025-capsule-previews/

01/27/2025

Called “A National Treasure” by Artscope’s Lee Roscoe, Jay Critchley’s “Democracy of the Land: FLAGrancy” opens Tuesday, January 28, with a performance & reception from 6-8 p.m. at the Montserrat Galleries at the Montserrat College of Art, 301 Cabot St., Beverly, Massachusetts.

“The theme of this show, Critchley said, is “our connection or disconnection to the land, earth, and soil; showing the respect for the personhood of land, the rights of Nature. Who controls and has access to it, to extract from it and how do we replenish the earth with what we use from the earth? So, it’s Land to Land as in Farm to Table; we need land to land. And of course, the underlying theme is, the corporations own the land,” Roscoe writes.

The exhibition runs through March 5.

Read Roscoe’s complete feature in the January/February 2025 issue of Artscope Magazine, available digitally for tablet and iPad reading at tablet.artscopemagazine.com, by mail order, or free pick up at partnering museums, galleries and art centers throughout New England; for another excerpt and a list of venues closest to you, visit https://artscopemagazine.com/2025/01/a-reimagining-of-land-and-power-critchleys-flagrant-ecological-reckoning/

01/26/2025

On a day that called for great warmth, ArtsWorcester delivered with its latest exhibitions: “Artist Shoeboxes” and “Fusion: A Juried Members' Exhibition of Collaborative Work.” Both exhibitions continue through February 16; the ArtsWorcester Gallery, 50 Portland St., Worcester, Massachusetts, is open Thursday through Sunday from noon-5 p.m.

01/24/2025

Using mixed media mosaics, Mary Tapogna, who became a Vermont resident three years ago after living on the West Coast, started her series of “Black Lives Matter” mosaic portraits during the pandemic. It’s a project she intends to continue. “It seems that as a society, we lose the intense interest in news stories when something else comes along,” she said. “Creating these tributes to the Black individuals that we have lost is my way
of saying ‘never forget.’ The portraits have impact individually, but the idea of the expanding number of completed portraits is a statement within itself. As the series grows, I want the exhibit to travel to different venues across the country, and especially to places where these people once lived.” “Black Lives Matter - A Portrait Series by Mary Tapogna” runs through March 1 at Studio Place Arts, 201 North Main St., Barre, Vermont.

You can read the rest of managing editor ’s Capsule Previews featured in the January/February 2025 issue of Artscope, available at partnering galleries, museums and art organizations throughout New England, via mail order and through digital download at tablet.artscopemagazine.com, here: https://artscopemagazine.com/2025/01/january-february-2025-capsule-previews/

01/23/2025

The opening reception for “One Future: Life in the Age of Climate Change: Aspirations, Loss, Challenges — and Hope,” the latest presentation by Shared Habitat Earth, a group exhibition by 23 artists “who remind us that all life on our planet is connected and that we are in this moment together” is this Thursday, January 23, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Mosesian Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal St., Watertown, Massachusetts.

“Through painting, sculpture and photography they celebrate the beauty of a world which humanity has enjoyed for thousands of years, showcase the danger it is facing now, and present efforts to save it.” The exhibit will include educational material and provide information on how to become active in the response to climate change and engage in the fight for life on our planet. The exhibition runs through February 2; regular gallery hours are Wednesday through Friday from noon-6 p.m. or by appointment.

You can read the rest of managing editor Brian Goslow’s Capsule Previews featured in the January/February 2025 issue of Artscope Magazine, available at partnering galleries, museums and art organizations throughout New England, via mail order and through digital download at tablet.artscopemagazine.com, here: https://artscopemagazine.com/2025/01/january-february-2025-capsule-previews/

01/22/2025

These are the final days to see the Attleboro Arts Museum’s 2024 Members Exhibition, that closes this Friday, January 24. The museum is open from 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

“This is a group show with added depth and intrigue; members may submit up to three works which allows a deeper look into the work of an artist,” writes Madeleine Lord, reviewing the show in our latest issue.

“Executive Director Mim Fawcett and staff are masters of curation. They have massive movable walls to manage a distinct layout for each exhibition. The walls are rendered in a scale model in Fawcett’s office where she can design each exhibit footprint.

“It takes curatorial expertise to display the outpouring of art at the scale. Director Fawcett has a gift for combining what she calls “art works separated at birth,” finding visual clues in color, shape, subject or dramatic gesture to place works together.”

You can read Lord’s complete review in the January/February 2025 issue of Artscope Magazine, available through digital purchase at tablet.artscopemagazine.com, by mail order, or at partnering museums, galleries and art museums throughout New England, a listing of which, and another excerpt from the feature, can be found here: https://artscopemagazine.com/2025/01/art-abounds-at-attleboro-members-exhibition-celebrates-talent-vision-and-unexpected-connections/

01/20/2025

Tonight! Opening reception for “Sensory Garden,” an exhibition curated by Artscope correspondent Chenoa Baker, takes place on Monday, January 20 from 5-7 p.m. at the New Art Corridor, 245 Walnut St., Newton, Massachusetts.

“At the New Art Corridor, artists offer a wintertime oasis amidst political, social, and cultural transition. Fostering a connection with nature, art, and ourselves through all our senses, grounds and preserves us. We invite sight, smell, touch, and taste in this self-contained artistic terrarium or sanctuary. We honor and prompt your experience as a lodestar for self-awareness and emotional healing through paintings, ceramic works, and time-based media.

“Join the New Art Center in celebrating the opening of the 2025 “Sensory Garden” exhibition and mingle with some of this year’s 23 participating artists, while exploring over 54 pieces in this year’s sale.” The show runs through February 28 with an artist talk on January 30 and curator guided tour on February 12.

01/19/2025

Always looking to follow the latest works by regional artists and discover new ones, Artscope Magazine’s managing editor, Brian Goslow, visited the Worcester Art Museum’s just-opened “Art in Dialogue” exhibition for which New England artists of all ages were asked to create a piece in response to a work in the WAM collection. “As an artist you can re-imagine the art, ‘talk back’ to it, be inspired by it, or converse with it. The piece you choose can be currently on view or off view.”

The show’s opening reception is scheduled for this afternoon, Sunday, January 19, from 2-4 p.m. and will remain on view through February 23.

01/18/2025

Artscope Magazine publisher Kaveh Mojtabai and correspondent Elayne Clift was on hand for last night’s opening reception at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth for its "Cara Romero: Panûpünüwügai (Living Light)” exhibition that’s on view through August 10 in Hanover, New Hampshire.

“Cara Romero: Panûpünüwügai (Living Light”) explores the narrative artistic practice of Chemehuevi photographer Cara Romero. Spanning the past decade of her work, this exhibition presents a thematic examination of Romero's complex and layered images, which celebrate the multiplicity, beauty, and resilience of Native American and Indigenous experiences. This is Romero's first major solo exhibition.”

Look for Elayne Clift’s review of the Cara Romero show in the March/April 2024 19th Anniversary Issue of Artscope Magazine.

01/17/2025

With their stated goal of deconstructing “trash and capitalism,” MaiaChao and Fred Schmidt-Arenales, in collaboration with curator Laurel V. McLaughlin, Director of the Collective Futures Fund at Tufts University Art Galleries, is presenting “Waste Scenes,” opening tonight, Friday, January 17 from 6-9 p.m. through March 29 at the Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts, 551 Tremont St., Boston, Massachusetts. Using video, print and performance, they offer “a creative exploration of trash, value, and desire within the context of corporate culture and neoliberal capitalism.” Created during their time in the Philadelphia-based Recycled Artist in Residency (RAIR) program, Chao and Schmidt-Arenales gathered discarded materials from construction and demolition sites throughout the Tri-state region, using their collected objects, film, and audio from trash piles to create a new two-channel video installation.

You can read the rest of managing editor Brian Goslow’s Capsule Previews featured in the January/February 2025 issue of Artscope Magazine, available at partnering galleries, museums and art organizations throughout New England, via mail order and through digital download at tablet.artscopemagazine.com, here: https://artscopemagazine.com/2025/01/january-february-2025-capsule-previews/

01/17/2025

“Pushing boundaries,” our January 16 Artscope email blast! features Ernest Stonebraker’s “Fluid Fantasies,” opening Saturday at 6 Bridges Gallery in Maynard, Massachusetts; “Camera-less” photographs by Joanne Dugan, Amanda Marchand, Anne Arden McDonald and Liz Nielsen, now on view at Flinn Gallery at Greenwich Library in Greenwich, Connecticut; and “Shattered,” a show curated by Tadhg Slater "exploring themes of brokenness, identity, memory, transformation, and perception” at the Salem Arts Association in Salem, Massachusetts.

Our latest blast! is sponsored by Long River Gallery, New England Watercolor Society, Shared Habitat Earth, New Britain Museum of American Art, Multicultural Arts Center and the Artscope Tablet Edition.

Read the January 16 Artscope Magazine email blast! here: https://conta.cc/42iXbRo

01/15/2025

“Garments hover above the stages, mirroring their color explosions. The garments are made of vestiges of the common contemporary experience — plastics, toys, discarded fabrics — all put together in a cacophony of energy — beauty in the potentially discarded, brought to life, loved and revered. Some have messages, such as “All the things that led to this exact moment,” which is a current of intensity throughout the exhibition.” — Marjorie Kaye, reviewing the Jeffrey Gibson’s “Power Full Because We’re Different” exhibition that’s on view through June 2026 at MASS MoCA, 1040 MASS MoCA Way, North Adams, Massachusetts.

Read Kaye’s complete review in our January/February 2025 issue of Artscope Magazine, available at partnering museums, galleries and art centers throughout New England, through digital purchase at tablet.artscopemagazine.com or by mail order. For more details and another excerpt, visit https://artscopemagazine.com/2025/01/a-tapestry-of-moving-color-gibsons-vision-of-two-spirit-identity-and-liberation/

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Our September/October 2024 issue that arrives later this week includes managing editor Brian Goslow’s review of the “Blue Profundity: Contemporary Artists Revisit a Color” exhibition that has its opening reception at the Cantor Art Gallery College of the Holy Cross this Thursday (Sept. 5) from 5:30-7 p.m. “The five-artist show, intended to connect the historical timeline of the use of blue in art, was curated by Gallery Director Lauren Szumita. It features artists Adam Chau, Ifé Franklin, Heather Evans Smith, Michelle Samour& Andrea Pettway Williams. “It was important to me that the color blue was a necessary factor in the conceptual understanding of the work, and not incidental,” Szumita explained. “I was looking for artists who explored the layered histories and long-running traditions associated with the color, like blue-and-white porcelain, indigo, and the association of sadness with the color blue.” The Cantor Gallery is located in the Prior Performing Arts Center at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts. For more details, visit https://www.holycross.edu/iris-and-b-gerald-cantor-art-gallery/current-exhibition

Here's a video visit to the “Art Celebrated” exhibition featuring sculptures by Suzanne Volmer, paintings by Alma Cummings, Mary N. Hurwitz, Judith Klein, Theresa Manning and Barbara Roessner, and photography by Sheila Oliveira that has been extended to January 28 at the Judith Klein Art Gallery & Studio at The Kilburn Mill at Clark’s Cove, 127 West Rodney French Blvd., New Bedford, Massachusetts. For more information and gallery hours, visit .judithkleinartgallery.com.

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