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

THE BRIGHT & SHINING LIGHT OF IRREVERENCE: RICHARD SAJA AND THE HISTORICALLY INACCURATE SCHOOL Alexandra Tursi Shelburne Museum U.S. Route 7 Shelburne, VT;/br> May 17 through October 25 YOU MIGHT THINK IT’S CRAZY TO INVITE AN ARTIST KNOWN FOR CREATING “HISTORICALLY INACCuRATE” WORKS TO A MUSEUM THAT PRIDES ITSELF ON THE ACCuRACY OF RECREATING HISTORIC HOMES AND SPACES — BuT THAT’S JuST WHAT THE SHELBURNE MUSEUM IS DOING THIS SUMMER. By INVITING NEW YORK-BASED TEXTILE ARTIST RICHARD SAJA TO DECK OUT ONE OF ITS 39 BUILDINGS, THE SHELBURNE MUSEUM HOPES TO SHOW VIEWERS THAT OLDER, PERHAPS FORGOTTEN TEXTILE AND FABRIC STYLES, ARE JUST AS RELEVANT TODAY AS THEy WERE yESTERDAYS AGO — ALBEIT IN THE CHEEKY MANNER FOR WHICH SAJA IS SO WELL-KNOWN. Saja’s show at the Shelburne Museum is a happy coincidence: he first visited two years ago and was so enamored by the place, he dreamt of having a show there. As luck would have it, three weeks later, Kory Rogers, associate curator at the Shelburne Museum, gave him a call and invited him to have free reign in the museum’s Kalkin House, an innovative two-story prefab structure unveiled by the museum in 2001. The Kalkin House was originally intended to be a temporary structure, but the 20’ by 80’ space, made from three trans-oceanic shipping containers, soon became a visitor favorite. Three years ago, Rogers decided to turn it into a “meta-lab” for non-traditional exhibits by turning the space over to contemporary artists, particularly up-and-coming artists. Rogers invited Saja to transform the industrial building into a decidedly untraditional 19th century salon. Read the entire article in our magazine pages...