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

CAPSULE PREVIEWS Brian Goslow Trinidad-born Alison Wells came to study at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, in the middle of the decade. Since then, her works have slowly evolved from a colorful portrayal of the Caribbean lifestyle she grew up in to an edgier interpretation of the affects of tightly woven urban life. “Flesh or Fantasy” continues through May 28 at the Colo Colo Gallery, 25 Centre Street in New Bedford, Mass. You’ve got to love any art event that has a fire-code imposed crowd limit and a closed-circuit broadcast to ensure that those who want to participate in the bidding war for the work won’t miss out on the action. “PAiNT THE TOWN!” was the challenge given to 90 plus participating artists of the Concord Art Association. Its preview show, with “Buy Now!” price tags on the work, can be seen from May 11 through 15 with the remaining works — as well as those being created that day — up for auction beginning at 5 p.m. the evening of May 16 at the CAA, 37 Lexington Road in Concord, Mass. Full details can be found at concordart.org. Large scale intaglio prints by Israeli-born Yizhak Elyashiv, whose work is in the permanent collections of the British, Fogg Art and Brooklyn Museums, and marble sculpture by Swiss artist Sibylle Pasche, who has exhibited her other-worldly pieces in New York and throughout Europe, can be seen from May 16 through June 23 at the Spheris Gallery, 59 South Main Street in Hanover, New Hampshire. The long-awaited grand reopening of the American Textile History Museum takes place on May 17 with the opening of three exhibitions. Contemporary artists Jerry Beck, Claudia Bucher, Johnny Carrera, Diana Coluntino, Annet Couwenberg, Kim Salerno and Clara Wainwright weave science, fashion, history, politics and technology in “Threads: The Weaving of Stories,” on display through September 27. Meanwhile, historian Stephanie Hatch shares her personal collection in “What Followed Me Home: Collecting Antique Quilts, Fabrics, and Tools,” which runs through August 23. If you plan a trip, make sure you bring the kids to get “hands-on” experience through “Textile Revolution: An Exploration through Space and Time,” at the ATHM, 491 Dutton Street, Lowell, Mass. Constructionist/photographer Erik Hansen and ceramic sculptor Bill Cohn will combine photography, ceramics and constructed scenes to stimulate the imagination and invite both dialogue and introspection during their “industrial/ Organic-Echoes of Man in a New World” exhibition, which runs from June 3 through 27 at the ArtSpace Gallery, a short drive from Route 2 at 63 Summer Street in Maynard, Mass. The artists promise viewers “a journey into spaces where elements have collided in order to regenerate, where the sheer act of survival requires a meshing of life forms that have endured.” The ArtSpace studios host 80 artists; for more details, visit artspacemaynard.com. Sand T has chosen “TOuCH ME NOT” as the theme of her latest exhibition, on view from June 14 through July 17 at the Willow Community gallery in LynnArts, 25 Exchange Street, Lynn, Mass. A fitting title, she said, because her work pushes the “no touching” policy of galleries and museums to new heights of temptation. A special piece, “PLEASE DO TOUCH,” one of the 10 works here, will be part of a larger December exhibition in Penang, Malaysia. Her new acrylic glass panel works use epoxy resin and graphite to create “a meditative visual experience with basic elements of dot, line, color, surface and light” that “suggest abstract concepts such as time, concentration, and the meditative energies of motion.” The Montanaro gallery has relocated from Newport to 2967 East Main Road in Portsmouth, Rhode Island and been given a new moniker, Montanaro Contemporary Arts. The first show at the new venue — which is located across the street from the Inflecting Ink Tattoo parlor — is the Asian illustration inspired “Kabuki Soul Kontroll,” featuring acrylic, paint pen and spray paint works by Andrew Jacob (from the Super Bikes! show on the Speed Channel) and Sharpie marked wood works (that are a lot cooler than that description suggests) by Justin “Skr!Bner” Pilotte, who lists Banksy, Piet Mondrian, Takashi Murakami and Chiho Aoshima amongst his many influences. For more details, visit montanarogallery.com. Read the entire article in our magazine pages...