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

JOE FIG: IN THE PAINTER'S STUDIO George Gerard Carroll and Sons 450 Harrison Avenue Boston From May 13 through June 27 ARTISTS APPROACH THE MAKING OF THEIR WORK IN PERSONAL AND UNIQUE WAYS. FROM STUDIO SPACE TO PART OF A HOME ADAPTED INTO A WORK AREA, FROM ROOMS FILLED WITH PAINTINGS OF EVERY COLOR AND SHAPE IMAGINABLE TO PILES OF DISCARDED FRUSTRATIONS — WHEN ENTERING AN ARTIST’S WORKSPACE, IT FEELS AS THOuGH yOU ARE PEERING INTO SOMETHING PRIVATE, AS THOuGH yOU HAVE DISCOVERED A TROVE OF CREATIVE POSSIBILITY. As the title suggests, “In the Painter’s Studio” is about a painter’s working space and process, not just from the perspective of Joe Fig’s own experience, but always presented by him in the most exacting detail. The collection of Fig’s work includes his own paintings, photographs of sculptures he has created, and sculptures ranging from miniature to life-size works depicting various artist studios, worktables, and so forth. He has collaborated with and captured the spaces of well-known artists including Chuck Close, Ross Bleckner, Inka Essenhigh, Steve Mumford, Jackson Pollock and Roy Lichtenstein. Fig originally trained as a painter in New York at the School of Visual Arts. As he painted over the years, he continued to expand his interests and explored new ways of painting. In particular he took a great interest in other painter’s work, and then the tools that they used to create their work. “I do not preconceive the direction my work will take; rather I follow the lead of one piece to another,” he said. “This evolution has developed, working in the following mediums: sculpture, photography, painting, audio and print. Each medium brings up additional questions and offers different creative possibilities while approaching the same subject — the artist in the studio.” Read the entire article in our magazine pages...