Tseng Illuminates At Tufts by Franklin W. Liu The beauty of viewing a retrospective collection of artworks is that it reveals the artist’s unique, life-long personal view of the world; when that body of work transcends the status quo, it often modifies our own perception spanning that same passage of time. Tseng Kwong-Chi was such an artist. Tseng Kwong-Chi (1950-1990) vibrantly lived a brief 39 years. Unhampered by conventional societal standards, he lived what must have been an enviable, charmed life — keeping the company of celebrated cultural icons like Andy Warhol and Madonna — while his contemporaries Cindy Sherman, Julian Schnabel and Jeff Koons were the influential artists of the day, all making waves in the rocking 1980s, shaping Tseng’s thinking. Tseng’s “deconceptual” photography-art was staged: it pushed back against the viewer’s preconceived notion of … [Read more...] about Performing For The Camera
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A NEW GENERATION AT CAA
UNDER-30 ARTISTS PUSH THE BOUNDARIES by Franklin W. Liu Cambridge, Mass. - Regardless of the prevailing generational societal values we identify with, is there an artist’s natural inclination to negate what came before in producing art that will be seen as a significant departure from previous generations’ work? The Cambridge Art Association (CAA) ponders these social dynamics when presenting the works of a select group of emerging artists aged 18 to 30 years old in its first exhibition of 2016, “30. Below.” Twenty-five artists were selected from a total of 150 artworks submitted for CAA’s consideration in what is CAA’s first emerging-artist exhibition bracketed by age category. Tinti was especially excited about “the breadth and diversity of eclectic materials, media and motiva- tions of the submissions,” and was further impressed by numerous works in which the … [Read more...] about A NEW GENERATION AT CAA
Classifieds Sept/Oct 2015
Your work could be artscope’s next CENTERFOLD. Your work could be artscope’s next CENTERFOLD. Work by established and emerging artists welcome. For the September / October 2015 issue we will be accepting submissions on Metal Work. Please send up to three images and your statement with contact information to: centerfold@artscopemagazine.com by November 10, 2015. Please send low resolution images for review. High resolution images must be available to be reproduced up to 9” x 12” according to the orientation of the work selected. No resumes please. The centerfold will be selected based on visual and/or conceptual quality, by a panel of one Artscope staff and two arts professionals. NORTHEAST ART WORKSHOP RETREATS Gets rave reviews! Internationally Acclaimed Artist Instructors, All levels & All media including: watercolor, encaustic, acrylic, oil, … [Read more...] about Classifieds Sept/Oct 2015
Inside/Outside: Cellblock Visions Traveling Exhibition at Forbes Library, Northampton
Northhampton, Mass. — A must see exhibition, “Folk Art and Artifacts: America’s Prison Culture,” a thoughtful presentation of almost 20 art objects assembled from the larger “Cellblock Visions” collection and traveling exhibition program curated and managed by art educator and advocate Phyllis Kornfeld, is on view until Thursday, July 30 at Northampton’s Forbes Library, 20 West Street. Artscope’s J. Fatima Martins visited the exhibition yesterday and shares this review with the hope you’ll get to see the show, even on limited notice: Kornfeld has been working with incarcerated people, as an arts educator, for three decades. She is an expert and leader in the study of “outsider” art as it is expressed specifically within prison culture. She is the author of the landmark book “Cellblock Visions: Prison Art in America” published by Princeton University Press, 1997. The best way to … [Read more...] about Inside/Outside: Cellblock Visions Traveling Exhibition at Forbes Library, Northampton
Lee Mingwei: The Living Room Project at the Gardner Museum
By John Paul Stapleton Boston, MA - In 1999, Lee Mingwei had his first solo residency at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum putting on what he calls, “the Living Room Project” where a host can bring their collection and give a presentation about it. Now, the Gardner has a room specifically designed as a Living Room for his project and he recently returned to recruit new hosts to show off their collections. The idea came about just after Mingwei graduated from his MFA program at Yale in 1997 and was featured in a show at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City a year later. Jen Gross, the Gardner’s contemporary curator at the time, came to Mingwei after seeing his work in this show and asked him to be a resident artist. After proposing and deciding against his first idea, Mingwei got inspired to make the Living Room Project happen by hanging out with the staff and … [Read more...] about Lee Mingwei: The Living Room Project at the Gardner Museum
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