artscope magazine: September/October 2008 Welcome Statement: Brian Goslow, managing editor Letters to the Editor Arno Rafael Minkkinen: In Print DressRedress MATERIAL MEDITATION Channing Penna: Movingline Social Justice 2008 and Other Works: THE GRAPHIC ART OF LUBA LUKOVA NATURE & BALANCE 2008 ZINE ART THE SUM OF ITS PARTS PERSPECTIVE & VISION:THE GLASS OF MARTIN ROSOL AND JOSH SIMPSON Museum Spotlight: Fuller Craft Museum Green Door Studio Through the Lense: SHIFTING PERSPECTIVES: Esteban Pastorino Diaz Featured Artist: JOHN DOWD and the Light of Cape Cod Industry Focus: Diana Levine Fine Art RUMINANT BOUNDLESS BEAUTY MYONG HEE KIM: Peace Masks and XI CAI: Infinity Within Beyond the Borders - KEN TAKASHI HORII: OF MIND AND MATTER Beyond the Borders - DAVID H. WELLS: LIGHT STUDIES Beyond the Border - ANSELM KIEFER: Sculpture and Paintings Beyond the Borders - AMERICAN DREAM: Sally Curcio and Jeff Vespa Community: Somersworth, New Hampshire MAIN STREET MURAL PROJECT Community: Roslindale Open Studios Theater: HARBOR LIGHT STAGE PRESENTS “Three Viewings” by Jeffrey Hatcher Music: DREAM OF MUSIC AND ART at the Bowersock Gallery Capsule Previews: September/October 2008

Beyond the Borders - AMERICAN DREAM: Sally Curcio and Jeff Vespa Greg Morell Wünderarts Gallery 383 Main Street Amherst, Massachusetts September 13 through October 19 A FEW SHORT YEARS EARS AGO GO, WHILE ATTENDING AN OPENING AT THE A.P.E. GALLERY IN NORTHAMPTON, I WAS HAUNTED BY MY FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH SALLY CURCIO’S WORK. CONFRONTED WITH A CHANDELIER OF STERILE HOSPITAL BLOOD BAGS IN A CALDERESQUE MOBILE, MY FIRST IMPULSE WAS TO RUN. Personally, I faint at the sight of blood. Upon waking, my vision fogs, everything turns blue and I remain dizzy, distressed and disoriented. I gingerly approached Curcio’s installation, housed in a very tight claustrophobic space and was glad to make it out alive. When I discovered my assignment for this issue of artscope was to meet and interview Sally Curcio in her studio and preview her upcoming exhibition at the Wunderarts Gallery, I was again overcome with Chekovian dread and the desire to run. But, much to my surprise, Curcio and her works are delightful, lighthearted, smartly imaginative, spirited and playful. Armed with an arsenal of straight pins and a limitless supply of beads, Curcio has created a series of mini-mosaics neatly presented under glass. With Buddhist concentration and a deft ability to manipulate the minuscule, Curcio has crafted precious jewel-like compositions. These tableau reliefs are not mounted on the wall but sit embedded Read the entire article in our magazine pages...