Fine Arts
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Carlos Caicedo at Eclipse Gallery in North Adams
Pencils Make a Point
By: - Sep 07th, 2024Colombian born, Carlos Caicedo, is an award winning graphic designer, artist/ photographer, and fashion creator. His remarkable range of skills is on vivid display in a dense installation at the Eclipse Gallery in North Adams.
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Gabrielle Barzaghi and Susan Erony Seminal Gloucester Artists
On View at Matthew Swift Gallery
By: - Sep 11th, 2024Both Gabrielle Barzaghi and Susan Erony are among the contemporary women artists whose work is on view at the Cape Ann Museum through September 29. They are having solo shows at Gloucester's Matthew Swift Gallery.
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ICA Showcases East Boston Artists
Harboring Creativity
By: - Sep 13th, 2024Get ready to immerse yourself in the rich tapestry of East Boston’s artistic community at “Harboring Creativity,” an exhilarating two-day art event happening for its second year at the iconic ICA Watershed on November 16 and 17, 2024, from 11 AM to 4 PM with a reception on Saturday from 4pm – 6pm with food donated by local restaurants.
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Zombie Formalism
In the Trenches of Art War
By: - Sep 13th, 2024Zombie Modernism is Modernism without the authoritative stance of self-consciousness. There is no one home.
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Provincetown Artist Tony Vevers
Showed with Sun Gallery and Long Point Gallery
By: - Sep 17th, 2024The British born Tony Vevers served as a Staff Sargent for two years during WWII. After which he studied fine arts at Yale on the GI Bill. He and his wife, artist Elspeth Halvorsen, settled in Provincetown. He did carpentry to pay the bills. He showed at the legendary Sun Gallery and was later a founding member of the prestigious Long Point Gallery. Their daughter Tabitha is an artist married to artist/ photographer, Daniel Ranalli.
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Joanna Klain and Richard Criddle at Eclipse Gallery
Multi-Media Works
By: - Sep 18th, 2024Both artists have their own extensive exhibition histories. Both have in recent years have become more playful and experimental in their independent approaches. Synchronicity exists between their recent work. Each separately builds and composes imaginary imagery that reflect interior preoccupations with the mysterious and the mischievous. Reception Saturday the 19th of October at 3pm.
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The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art
Coming to Salem's Peabody Essex Museum
By: - Sep 19th, 2024The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art, will premiere on October 18, 2025 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and subsequently tour North America from 2025–2027. The exhibition will be on view at Peabody Essex Museum from February through June 2027.
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Provincetown Artist and Jeweler Earle Pilgrim
Exhibition and Discussion with Peter Stebbins
By: - Sep 24th, 2024Earle Montrose Pilgrim (1923-1976) was an artist, jewelry maker, and experimental filmmaker. His role in the advanced art of Provincetown remains unheralded. With his wife Lily they resided in the back of their jewelry shop at 393 Commercial street. They invited artists like Lester Johnson and Alan Kaprow to show their work. After 1954 their shop housed Sun Gallery.
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Power of the People: Art and Democracy
Agit Prop at the MFA
By: - Oct 02nd, 2024Organized against the backdrop of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, Power of the People: Art and Democracy at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), presents diverse perspectives on democracy through 175 works of art that include ceramics, coins, inscriptions, paintings, sculpture, prints, photographs, posters, and fashion
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Benny Andrews: Trouble
Ruth Arts Foundation in Wilwaukee
By: - Oct 04th, 2024Created in close dialogue with the Andrews-Humphrey Family Foundation, Trouble combines Benny Andrews’ (1930–2006) extensive archive with a selection of his paintings and works on paper to reflect the fullness of the artist’s practice, life, and advocacy, and the ways they are intertwined.
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Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde
NYU's Grey Art Museum
By: - Oct 06th, 2024In her candid memoir, Pow! Right in the Eye!—recently translated into English—Weill described herself as having a "difficult personality." She wasn’t wrong. Her sharp tongue and uncompromising attitude were well known. Picasso biographer John Richardson even described her as a "peppery, homely Jewish spinster with spectacles thick as goldfish bowls." Yet it was her fiery personality and unrivaled intuition for spotting talent that made her a key figure.
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Richard Criddle and Joanna Klain
Yin and Yang at Eclipse Gallery
By: - Oct 06th, 2024Upon initial exposure the work of Richard Criddle and Joanna Klain could not be more different,. With further contemplation, however, there are many commonalities. They share an experimental and adventurous approach to materials, in her case collaged paintings, and in his assembled sculptures from found objects. Both artists evoke narrative in their work. Her's are inspired by dreams and night mares while his entail the darkest of humor.
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Spectacular Gift to Clark Art Institute
311 Works of Art and Endoment for New Wing and Curator
By: - Oct 28th, 2024The 331 works of art in the gift include 132 paintings, 130 sculptures, thirty-nine drawings, and thirty decorative arts objects, creating an important addition to the Clark’s holdings. The entirety of the Tavitian gift will be on view when the new Aso O. Tavitian Wing opens. Following an introductory presentation at the time of the new wing’s opening, the works on paper included in the gift will be made available for study purposes and be presented in periodic displays. The majority of paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts objects will be shown on a continual basis, both in the new Tavitian Wing and in the Clark’s permanent collection galleries.
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Gloucester Artists Gabrielle Barzaghi and Susan Erony
At Matthew Swift Gallery
By: - Nov 08th, 2024The Matthew Swift Gallery recently paired two of the leading contemporary Gloucester artists. There is compelling synergy though the artists are quite different. Gabrielle Barzaghi reflects on her family heritage with inventive mythology. The range of Susan Erony embraces the cosmos in minute detail. They breathe the salt air that has inspired generations of leading Cape Ann painters. They thrive in a community that has long been indifferent to the experiments of modernism.
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Provincetown Artist and Chef Sal Del Deo
Co-founded Ciro and Sal's
By: - Nov 15th, 2024We viewed the stunning 2017 retrospective “Salvatore Del Deo: A Storied History” at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis. In 2023, then 95, he was the subject of national news when there was an attempt to evict the renowned artist and chef from his historic summer Provincetown dune shack.
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Leonora Carrington: Dream Weaver
January Opening at Rose Art Museum
By: - Nov 18th, 2024A pioneer of Surrealism, Carrington’s work crosses boundaries and mediums, embodying a boundless curiosity and unorthodox spirit that transcends the conventional. Born into a staid upper-middle-class Anglo-Irish family, Carrington would spend her life freeing herself from the gendered strictures imposed upon her.
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Adams Plein Air Painter Alvin Ouellet
Ellipticals on View at Images Cinema in Williamstown
By: - Dec 03rd, 2024The Adams based plein art artist Alvin Oueliet is presenting Ellipticals, a suite of new paintings, at Images Cinema in Williamstown. There will be a reception for the artist on Wednesday, December 11.
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Gloucester Modernist Umberto Romano
At Annex of Cape Ann Museum
By: - Dec 04th, 2024The modernist Umberto Romano (1906-1982) is the subject of a retrospective, curated by Martha Oaks, at the annex of the Cape Ann museum through December 29, 2024. The main museum is closed for renovation. The exhibition is free to the public in the 12,000 square foot Janet & William Ellery James Center, which was completed in 2020. It includes 2,000 square feet of flexible exhibition and community programming space.
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Ellen O’Donnell Rankin in 1984
Former Director of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum
By: - Dec 12th, 2024In the summer of 1984 I started research in Provincetown. Ellen O'Donnell (Rankin) got me started by setting up contacts for interviews. Our interview provides a window into a time when Provincetown was still affordable for artists. In my archive I have a receipt for an inn at $35 a night. Things have changed since then and not for the better. Provincetown is no longer a viable option for young artists
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Legendary Diacono Gallery Resurfaces
Man in Space Variations on a Bauhaus Theme
By: - Dec 13th, 2024Now in his 90s, the Italian born Mario Diacono is a revered legend of the Boston art world. He was known for exhibiting single works by renowned artists. These were accompanied by theoretical essays written in Italian and then translated. Few of the works entered Boston collections but found their way to Europe. He has emerged from retirement. To visit the gallery one must 1.open the gold box. 2.click on Faros Directory 3. Enter the name Mario Diacono Gallery 4. Next, click on call 4. Proceed to open the door. 5. Prepare to be amazed.
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Umberto Romano (1906 - 1981) and the New Deal
Exhibition at Cape Ann Museum
By: - Dec 16th, 2024The striking work of Cape Ann modernist, Umberto Romano, is on view at the annex of the Cape Ann Museum. The artist, curator, and historian, Susan Erony, delivered a lecture on the murals that the artist created during the Depression years of the 1930s. Erony is currently working on a history of the art of Cape Ann.
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Master Class Workshops and Back to the Woodshed
January at Eclipse Mill in North Adams
By: - Dec 18th, 2024In January the Eclipse Mill in North Adams offers Master Class Workshops with Jim Peters and Arnela Mahmutovi?. Also 12 artists may apply to participate in Back to to the Woodshed. .
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Katherine Porter Drawing
Lost and Found
By: - Dec 20th, 2024In 2023, the last year of her life, and 100th anniversary of surrealism, Katherine Porter sent me a small automatic drawing and a letter. It got lost in the studio's detritus. Recently recovered it offers poignant glimpses into the endgame of her life and work.
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Prototype Festival to Begin New Year
New York's Most Adventuresome Program Music
By: - Dec 28th, 2024The Prototype Festival produced by Beth Morrison starts the avant-garde music world off from January 9 to 19. One work has been around the city in various forms for a while. Black Lodge dives into William Burroughs’ life. Queer, the film starring Daniel Craig, has brought Burroughs mainstream attention. The film with music by David T. Little, wrestles with movies as canned opera.
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Artist Activist Benny Andrews
From Georgia Sharecropper's Son To NEA Administrator
By: - Jan 05th, 2025Benny Andrews was one of ten children of Georgia sharecroppers. After serving in the Air Force he studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago on the GI Bill. He showed regularly in Provincetown where we met. He formed a group to protest the racist Harlem on My Mind at the Met. The group helped initiate but subsequently boycotted an exhibition of black artists at the Whitney Museum. Collage was an element in his figurative expressionist works.
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