artscope magazine: November/December 2008 Welcome Statement: Brian Goslow, managing editor Letters to the Editor Tara Donovan Juan Angel Chavez: Speaker Project JULIA FEATHERINGILL: INDELIBLE ANNE HARRIS: SELECTED WORKS Adel Abdessemed: Situation and Practice ENTANGLED: JANE HESSER, DOROTHEA VAN CAMP AND MARC VAN CAUWENBERGH RYAN WALKER: THE RECYCLER THOREAU RECONSIDERED "LATER THAT NIGHT..." NOCTURNAL IMAGES BY CHRISTIAN WAEBER LOSSLESS: A VIDEO INSTALLATION BY REBECCA BARON AND DOUGLAS GOODWIN THE WINNER'S CIRCLE: ANNA ISAAK-ROSS, YANICK LAPUH, GREGORY WRIGHT Luis Villanueva and Colo Colo Gallery RISD'S NEW CHACE CENTER BRIDGES THE DIVIDE Industry Focus: THE EXPOSURE PROJECT KAREN DOLMANISTH PAUL CLANCY BALAM SOTO THREE TO WATCH IN 2009: MASSART/FINE ARTS WORK CENTER OF PROVINCETOWN GRADS NANCY WINSHIP MILLIKEN, LOUIS THEODORE OLLIER AND KATIE JURKIEWICZ CENTERFOLD CONTEST OUTTAKES ANDY WARHOL:POP POLITICS CHIHULY AT RISD BESSIE POTTER VONNOH: SCULPTOR OF WOMEN BUSHWACHKED: KELLY JO SHOWS SAYS GOOD-BYE TO BUSH IN SEVERAL MEDIUMS Jules Olitski: An Inside View THE ALLURE OF ITALY: PHOTOGRAPHY, FASION DESIGN SINCE 1945 ELIZABETH KING: THE SIZES OF THINGS IN THE MIND'S EYE WORKS BY DOZIER BELL, LAUREN FENSTERSTOCK AND ALICE SPENSER TWISTED lONGWOOD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA The Music Hall Capsule Previews: November/ December 2008

BESSIE POTTER VONNOH: SCULPTOR OF WOMEN Taryn Plumb Florence Grisworld Museum 96 Lyme Street Old Lyme, Connecticut;/br> Through January 11, 2009 It is the immortalizer of the gallant, the victorious and the mythological: generals flashing swords. Soldiers hoisting flags in victory. Greek gods and goddess dignified and elegant in their nudity. But to American Impressionist sculpture Bessie Potter Vonnoh, bronze could be tender, humble, textural and abstract. With it, she crafted busts of mothers cascaded with fabric and nursing infants, less fortunate caregivers hunched with babies in the cold, sleeping children, and demure sprites exposed in ethereal skirts. Thus, at turns, her sculptures are lovely, touching, free spirited and sobering. “There’s a warmth to bronze that you don’t have in other media,” noted Amy Kurtz Lansing, curator at The Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Conn., which is hosting the first exhibit dedicated to the influential female sculptor. “It can translate a lot more of the texture imparted by the artist, it can preserve movement.” Vonnoh capitalized on the material’s rich qualities; she is celebrated for her intricacies, such as folds of gauzy fabric, willowy hair, shades of smiles on mothers’ faces and innocently seductive Read the entire article in our magazine pages...