If I ever find myself thinking about paper or printed art, my mind hardly ever wanders off to ghosts. However, as I browsed through Stelo’s group exhibit, “Coalesce,” I couldn’t get the ghosts out of my mind. On each piece of the show hangs the ubiquitous and disturbing spirit ofRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy Kate Gridley’s “Bittern” In this journal, we usually make lists of seven, rather than the more typical 10. Admittedly, the smaller number makes it more difficult to sort out favorite shows from, in this case, a whole year of viewing art. Thus, some selections are basedRead More →
“There’s a Woman of All Colors: Black Women in Art” has been on display at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art since mid-September and runs through January 30. If you haven’t seen it, it’s well worth it, both for the way it fills one of the most gaping holes inRead More →
Clear mist by Jackie Stevenson RSW Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh **** With over 300 works on display, the 141st exhibition of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolor (RSW) occupies the main galleries of the Royal Scottish Academy. It hangs elegantly and with a light and spaciousRead More →
There are so few sculpture exhibitions in Maine that the very appearance of an exhibition is a special occasion. This is certainly reason enough to go to the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockland where “Spatial Relations” (until January 9) occupies the main gallery. But it also turns outRead More →
Lobster Telephone, by Salvador Dalí and Edward James PIC: National Galleries of Scotland, purchased by the Henry and Sula Walton Fund, with assistance from Art Fund. News, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh **** The National Galleries of Scotland buying fund would likely not cover the buyer’s premium whenRead More →
Click to enlarge Courtesy of Cathy Cone “A Capella Crack” Like visual analogues of a foreign language, Cathy ConeThe black and white photographs of escape easy interpretation. Viewers may wonder what happened just before an image was created, or if any clues to the mystery lurk beyond the frame. WhatRead More →
If I want to be an art critic who complains about the immersive Van Gogh exhibits, I’m late to the party. The offerings have already been skewered in the press; the most common complaint compares the experience to stepping into a Van Gogh screensaver. Is the experience like stepping intoRead More →
Motherhood and the way we define and value it is something we have all worked to understand at some point in our lives. Maybe no one is more criticized and criticized than the person who fills the role of mother. One of the best exhibits on display in Northeast OhioRead More →
Click to enlarge Pamela Polston © ️ Seven days Extract from the installation “Objects of Empire” by Bradley Borthwick Bradley Borthwickthe exhibition of “Empire Items“conveys more than it first appears. In the gallery on the second floor of Burlington’s BCA Center, warm spotlights focus on two rather austere installations. TheRead More →