January/February 2020
Contents
Volume 41, Issue 1
FEATURES
From Behind Closed Doors
By Julianna Thibodeaux
Inside the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s Artist-in-Residence Program
Falling Boulders and Mapping Weather
By Amy Lilly
2020 Vision: Vermont’s Statewide Exhibition
Breaking Ground
By Carl Little, B. Amore, Jodi Paloni and Helena Touhey
Four New Artist Residencies
COLUMNS
Publisher’s Letter
FlashPoints
Gallery FlashPoints
Studio Visit
Bradley Borthwick
By Carl Little
Studio Visit
Lavaughan Jenkins
By Stace Brandt
Profile
Colleen Randall
By Debbie Kane
Exhibitions
Warhol Redux: Raid the
Icebox Now at RISD
By A. Castro
New Spaces
Welcome to the Neighborhood:
NXTHVN Hits the Ground Running
By Lucy Gellman
Galleries
Soap Box Arts: Burlington’s
Newest Gallery
By Cynthia Close
Museums
MAAM: MassArt’s
New Art Museum
By Jack Curtis
Business
Going Public:
How Photographers Translate Art
By Charles Bonenti
REVIEWS & PREVIEWS
SPOTLIGHT
J.M.W. Turner: Watercolors from Tate at Thompson Exhibition Building of the Mystic Seaport
Museum by Susan Rand Brown
CONNECTICUT
Exiled: Harriet Diamond at Mercy Gallery, The Loomis Chaffee School by Jacquelyn Gleisne
Afrocosmologies: American Reflections at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
by Jacquelyn Gleisner
MAINE
Hew Locke: Here’s the Thing at Colby College Museum of Art by Carl Little
Eva Goetz: Think A Bot It at Cove Street Arts by Carl Little
MASSACHUSETTS
Gerry Bergstein: Body Politic at Gallery NAGA by Susan Boulanger
Local Ecologies at UMass Lowell, University Gallery by Lisa Reindorf
Soft Shoulder at Cambridge Art Association by Frances J. Folsom
Black Refractions: Highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem at Smith College Museum of Art
by Benjamin Cassidy
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Mosaics and Tangles: Clarity and Confusion: Chloe Feldman Emison at Rochester Museum of Fine
Art’s Carnegie Gallery by Cerys Wilson
Amy Stacey Curtis: Transfer at Museum of Art at the University of New Hampshire
by Christopher Volpe
RHODE ISLAND
Katarina Burin: Irrational Attachments at Providence College Galleries by Marie Costello
VERMONT
Richard D. Weis: Beyond Words at Ellenbogen Gallery by B. Amore
Travis Shilling: Tyrannosaurus Clan at Burlington City Arts by Cynthia Close
Time Lapse: Contemporary Analog Photography at Shelburne Museum by Cynthia Close
IN THIS ISSUE
Calendar
Focus On: Summer Residencies & Workshops
Guide to Schools and Workshops
Art Guide
Exhibition Listings
Classifieds
Art Seen
ON THE COVER: Richard D. Weis, Dancing for Matisse, 2018, acrylic on canvas, 17 ½ x 21 ½”. A
highlight of Richard D. Weis: Beyond Words at Ellenbogen Gallery, Manchester Center, VT. Courtesy
of Ellenbogen Gallery. See page 72.