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artscope magazine: May/June 2009
Welcome Statement: Brian Goslow, managing editor
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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
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CAPSULE PREVIEWS
Featured Artist: Dominique Boutaud
Linda Pilgrim




“I create a world that I choose where colors mix up and push away, juxtapose and superpose.”



Dominique Boutaud paints abstract compositions with two distinct layers — one painterly and one symbolic — just as ripe for peeling apart as for examining as one surface.



Conversations take place on her canvases, where colors symbolize people and shapes indicate what they are saying. Strip these paintings of Boutaud’s artistic intention, and the compositions still flourish with the dynamic “push and pull” of abstract forms.



Boutaud’s paintings inhabit two distinct worlds of abstraction and symbolism parallel to the public and private realms of life — appearing to exist independently, but strongly tied at the core. She often paints with lots of primary colors right out of the tube, their mixing done on the canvas. Boutaud attends to the hues, tones and complementary colors with several tools, including a paintbrush, paint eraser and palette knife.


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