artscope magazine: January/February 2010 Welcome Statement: Brian Goslow, managing editor Letters to the Editor roundtable - Three Professionals. One Question. cornered: a conversation with an art exhibition attendee FEATURED ARTIST GEORGE NICK - Reflections of an impermanent world Not Your Typical Photo Place - PHOTOPLACE GALLERY TARO SHINODA: LUNAR REFLECTIONS ODDLY PRETTY PAINTINGS - HANNAH COLE TANGIBLE EXPERIENCE: BRIAN KEITH STEPHENS Belonging and Longing - Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons: Works on Paper FIXED CHAOS at Montserrat SILENT CIRCLES: THE HEALING - Barbara Gagel FEATURE - Evolution: Five Decades of Printmaking by David Driskell FEATURE - Historic Japanese Kiri-E and Contemporary Tibetan Thangka GOLDEN LEGACY: Original Art From 65 Years Of Golden Books DECEIVINGLY SIMPLE - Charles Duback: Collages EMMA AMOS: HEROES AND FOLK GHOSTS OF THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE: ZUGUNRUHE wanderlust - The (Right) Brainpower Triangle: The Finest Free Art in Somerville and Cambridge community - THE KATE: A Little Gem With A Movie Star Name industry focus - BUY WHAT YOU LOVE education - SPACE TO DISCOVER: MASSART/FAWC LOW RESIDENCY MFA Capsule Previews

Not Your Typical Photo Place - PHOTOPLACE GALLERY Alexandra Tursi PhotoPlace Gallery Three Park Street Middlebury, Vermont AN EDGY NEW GALLERY, SEET IN THE OLDEST BUILDING IN MIDDLEBURY, VERMONT, IS THE FIRST IN THE STATE TO OFFER AN ONGOING SERIES OF JURIED FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITIONS. “We’re not your typical Vermont gallery,” Kirsten Hoving, co-owner of PhotoPlace Gallery said. “There are no scenic photographs of pastoral Vermont on our walls. We want to introduce new photographic voices and expand the horizons of our visitors. What they get is something unconventional and unusual.” Launched in June 2009 in a building erected in 1790, PhotoPlace Gallery is a labor of love for Hoving, a Middlebury College professor of art history and architecture, and an author, who has called Vermont home for the past 27 years. It’s also a culmination of Hoving’s re-exploration of her own passion: taking pictures. Though she has taught the history of photography at Middlebury College as long as she has lived in Vermont, it was a workshop in Sante Fe two years ago that got her snapping her own shots again. Every month, PhotoPlace offers viewers 40 different takes on a given theme (January’s is “Floral,” while February’s is “Animal Magnetism”). Though firmly rooted in Middlebury, the gallery introduces visitors to photographs by artists in such far-flung locales as Norway, Bulgaria, Bangladesh and the United Arab Emirates. Guest jurors past, present and future include Aline Smithson, a photographer and former fashion editor; Larissa Leclaire, an anthropologist; and Jon Willis, a professor of photography at Marlboro College. Serendipity plays a crucial role in how Hoving lands on a theme for each call for entries. More often than not, she will wake up in the middle of the night with a brilliant idea. Always, her aim is to keep themes broad, to appeal to a wide spectrum of artists, while maintaining a specificity that will imbue cohesion upon the works when they are placed alongside each other. Past shows include “Dreams & Fantasies” and “Alternative Processes.” Whereas the former inspired the submission of Neo-Surrealist works, the latter drew Read the entire article in our magazine pages...