artscope magazine: May/June 2009 Welcome Statement: Brian Goslow, managing editor Letters to the Editor ARTSWorcester's BIENNIAL 2009 GRIDWORK: Further explorations into the urban landscape featuring new work by Robert Maloney and Sean Thomas BEN ARONSON - LIGHT AND GEOMETRY: The Urban Signature RADKA DONNELL: THE WORK OF TOUCH DOROTHY SIMPSON KRAUSE: LOSING GROUND NATURAL WORLD: A BRICKBOTTOM ARTISTS' ASSOCIATION MEMBERS' EXHIBITION JOE FIG: IN THE PAINTER'S STUDIO POINT OF VIEW: OUTDOOR SCULPTURE GALLERY-BY-THE-FALLS THE SIXTH SENSE: CONTEMPORARY JEWELRY FROM KOREA Featured Artist: Dominique Boutaud FéLIX DE LA CONCHA: PRIVATE PORTRAITS/PUBLIC CONVERSATIONS 2009 PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART BIENNIAL SCULPTURES IN LOVE WITH ARCHITECTURE JESSICA GONACHA at YES Gallery and Studio THE BRIGHT & SHINING LIGHT OF IRREVERENCE: RICHARD SAJA AND THE HISTORICALLY INACCURATE SCHOOL WHERE HISTORY AND CONTEMPORARY MEET BRATTLEBORO-WEST ARTS PREMIER GROUP EXHIBITION SCOTT PRIOR (ongoing) and LARRY PRESTON / GREG GILLESPIE and LEONEL GóNGORA ANDIAMO! Art on the Hill Destination: Federal Hill, Providence’s Little Italy THIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF ENCAUSTIC PAINTING AXIOM CENTER FOR NEW AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDIA CAPSULE PREVIEWS

GALLERY-BY-THE-FALLS Taryn Plumb Montgomery Ward Building 112 Main Street Putnam, Connecticut THE WALLS ARE CONSUMED. TAKING UP NEARLY EVERY AVAILABLE INCH: WATERCOLOR PARROTS. LANDSCAPES EASING AWAY TO THE HORIZON. PAPERSTITCHED TRAINS SPLASHED WITH GRAFFITI. “If your heart and soul is in the piece, it gets put up,” noted Tim Oliver, owner and operator of the cozy — yet widely encompassing — Gallery-by-the-Falls. It is not a place of egos. Nor, stressed Oliver, is the tiny art house beholden to any specific style or genre. Opened by Oliver in fall 2007, it features a rotation of works from 20 area artists as well as Oliver’s own. Tucked in a corner of an old department store building, it is a small space of hardwood floors. Below, traffic clatters through downtown Putnam’s antique shopping district. Inside, wood sculptures by Margaret Young command the floor; a nursing mother features a blunt head and breasts, with baby snuggled in the curve of an arm. Paper assemblages by Christopher Hadfield dress one wall, their trains emblazoned with codes of colorful graffiti (“YKR 357”). Meanwhile, mosaic birdhouses and pots by Nikki Sullivan overcome one corner and fused glass pieces beckon closer looks in cases. Oliver’s body of work is a cacophony of styles: cut-outs, blind gesture and Read the entire article in our magazine pages...