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

SCULPTURES IN LOVE WITH ARCHITECTURE Taylor Polites Provincetown Art Association and Museum 460 Commercial Street Provincetown, Massachusetts;/br> Through May 31 Fabio Fernández and Tom Lauerman, two artists who have collaborated through the artists’ collective known as Telegraph, have created a new collaboration. “Sculptures in Love with Architecture,” or SiLwA for short, features a series of 74 diminutive but intriguing ceramic sculptures that are inspired by — you guessed it — architecture. Fernández, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, works at the Society for Arts and Crafts and Lauerman, based in Chicago, divides his time between his artwork and teaching. The two artists initially met in graduate school at the Cranbrook Academy of Art and became familiar with each other’s work through Telegraph. “More often than not,” Fernández explained, “the work that Tom and I presented at Telegraph exhibitions shared an interest in craft, scale and architecture.” Fernández had also become more interested in ceramics after participating in a ceramics residency at Lauerman’s studio. When Fernández was invited to exhibit at the architecture and design firm Sasaki Associates, Inc. in Watertown, Massachusetts, he invited Lauerman to join him. “We were both familiar with the work of John Hedjuk and particularly his book ‘Architectures in Love’ (Rizzoli, 1995),” Fernández said. “We decided that the title of our exhibition would riff off Hedjuk’s book and thus ‘Sculptures in Love’ with Architecture was born.” Read the entire article in our magazine pages...