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

POINT OF VIEW: OUTDOOR SCULPTURE George Gerard L'Attitude Gallery/Sculpture Garden 218 Newbury Street Boston Through May 31 This eclectic show is presented on the outdoor deck of L’Attitude, and includes a Broad Mix of sculptures from artists Ian Mogavero, Rob Lorenson, Barbara Ottmar, Russ Vogt, Shirley Erickson, Kim Radochia, Jamie Burnes, Patrick Pierce, Steve Zaluski and Sherman Hay. When first walking onto the deck, a myriad of color, texture and shape make themselves readily available. Work from each artist is juxtaposed against one another, but it is nonetheless easy to focus on one piece at a time. Two friendly steel children crafted by Ian Mogavero immediately greet you (the sculpture is titled “Devotion Redux”). Their hair is windblown and they are holding hands, their rusted color immediately bringing to mind the possibilities of such a sculpture peeking out from between trees in a backyard, or casually posed along a pond. A rusted COR-TEN steel and cedar wood bear by Jamie Burns, titled “Tashtego,” sits in the right-hand corner of the deck, its posture protective and calming. Each piece of “Point of View: Outdoor Sculpture” interacts. Every artist brings something new in his or her perspective, whether the work is abstract or figurative, serving a function or genuinely festive in nature. In the corner opposite and across the deck from “Tashtego” sits a piece by Rob Lorenson titled “Dynamic Rotation.” Lorenson’s work repeatedly focuses on the circle. Through the interaction between supports for the circles and the circles themselves, the sleek, abstract forms are able to evoke the concept of cycles and renewal in nature. “Abstract sculpture is at its strongest when it utilizes Read the entire article in our magazine pages...