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

ENTANGLED: JANE HESSER, DOROTHEA VAN CAMP AND MARC VAN CAUWENBERGH James Foritano Trustman Art Gallery Simmons College 300 The Fenway Boston November 12 through December 17 "Entagled" is an apt title for the works of three artists whose own entanglements in the complex interplay of process and concept afford us as viewers a rich experience, at once sensuous and cerebral, seductive and disturbing Jane Hesser’s photographs are perhaps the boldest illustration of the title of this exhibition. Using an old large-format view camera, she brings us up close to what could be tangled nests of hair or twisted branches of some twiggy bramble. If our eye focuses on the innumerable crossings of these branches/ hairs trying to quantify and simplify them into a schema, we can easily feel lost and frustrated. But, if we allow ourselves to explore the depth of field with both our eye and our imagination, we can experience a pleasing fluidity of movement, a seductive ambiguity of essence. Hesser’s brambly nests recalled to me the folk tale of “Brer Fox.” In the version I read as a child, enemies who intended to do him ill captured Brer Fox. Trussed and trundled along in their hands, he pretended to be so discomforted by the sight of a nearby briar patch that they threw him in. But Brer Fox ran off between the brambles, crowing, “I was born in de briar patch!” We experience in Hesser’s work both the pretended fear of Brer Fox at the impossibly tangled and thorny briar patch and also his sense of freedom as he instinctively threads his way between its homely intricacies in a leaping run. Read the entire article in our magazine pages...