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

TARO SHINODA: LUNAR REFLECTIONS James Foritano Isabella Steward Gardner Museum 280 The Fenway Boston Through January 31 “WHETHER IT'S HIS ARTIST'S EYE OR THE TECHNOLOGY TARO SHINODA HAND-BUILT INTO HIS TELESCOPE, THE RESULT IS A STRONG AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE, AND THE BEST KIND OF VISION - ONE THE VIEWER FEELS HE HAPPENED UPON HIMSELF JUST BY TURNING THE CORNER INTO THIS SMALL/BIG EXHIBIT. Taro is the latest of 65 artists working in a spectrum of media who have been invited to the Gardner Museum’s Artist-in-Residence Program since 1992. Artists spend a month in the museum’s quarters while enjoying the leisure and stimulation that the Gardner and Boston provide. There are no strings to this residency in that the artist may take his or her profit and leave without a tangible result. But since most artists selected are “go-getters” as well as aesthetes, most return for a lecture, a concert or in Taro’s case, for an installation inspired by his visit. Arch traces and paints the “glyphs” over what are mainly acrylic silk-screened backgrounds on wood and paper. “The shapes are faithful to the original, albeit in much greater form,” she said. “I just place them where I place them and change the color.” One of the works has been transcribed into a 10-foot high scroll and more recently, she’s been turning them into sculpture. According to residency program manager Tiffany York, Taro’s inspiration struck immediately. After a disorienting twelve-hour flight from Tokyo, Taro sat down in the Gardner’s courtyard and became intensely aware of the moonlight tranquilly flooding through the arched glass roof, three stories high. At that moment, his gaze must have been tugged in two directions; downward toward the beauteous flowers and ferns growing in the Gardner’s carefully tended courtyard; and upward to the same moon which had shone down on him half a day ago in Tokyo. Taro remembered traveling with his father to the United States as a boy. With childish ingenuity, he had allayed his homesickness by sending a message to his mother at home by pasting it to the moon — the same moon that rises and Read the entire article in our magazine pages...