July / August 2014
CONTENTS
Features
Jazz Is Playing at Bates College
By Ric Kasini Kadour
Art-making inspired by Jazz—One of America’s few indigenous art forms
Performance Place
By Sandrine Schaefer
The performing arts through a transdisciplinary lens
Call of the Coastline
By Britta Konau, Susan Landry, and Jan Lhormer
Attitudes and creative practice along the Atlantic
COLUMNS
Letters
FlashPoints
Gallery FlashPoints
Performing Arts at a Glance
Maine Studio Visit
John Bisbee
By Andres Azucena Verzosa
Vermont Studio Visit
Leslie Fry
By Charlet H. Davenport
Summer Reading
What’s on your reading list? A New England Compilation
By Rachel Shipps
Graffiti
A Mockery of Graffiti
By Stephen Vincent Kobasa
A Provincetown Centennial
Karl Knaths (1891–1971): A Painter’s Life in Provincetown
By Christopher Busa
Painting
Jamie Wyeth: Another Breed of Realism
By Judith Tolnick Champa
Films on Artists
Three New Films in Release:
For No Good Reason; Nan Goldin:
I Remember Your Face;
Tim’s Vermeer
By Ethan Gilsdorf
Realism
Richard Estes: A Realist’s World View
By Carl Little
Breaking New Ground
out of bounds 2014
By Rita A. Fucillo
Destination Cape Ann
More Than One View on the Art of Tradition
By Jasmine Bigelow
Destination Maine
The Downeast Highway of Art
By Daniel Kany
Destination Cape Cod
Provincetown, Truro and Wellfleet: An Interlocking Cultural Landscape
By Susan Rand Brown
Reviews & Previews
SPOTLIGHT
Joe Zane: Who Should a Person Be? at Carroll and Sons Art Gallery by Judith Tolnick Champa
CONNECTICUT
Waterways III at Heather Gaudio Fine Art by Claire Hunter
Overview of Fernando Luis Alvarez Gallery by Susanna Jackson
MAINE
Paintings: Mark Wethli and Douglas Witmer at ICON Contemporary Art
by David Raymond
Tom Burckhardt: Recent Work at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art by Carl Little
MASSACHUSETTS
Barbara Cohen +9: Venetian Slings at Art Market Provincetown by Susan Rand Brown
Helen Payne: Here I Sit, Brokenhearted at Bromfield Gallery by Robert Moeller
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Four Men—Four Botanicals at Mill Brook Gallery and Sculpture Garden by Debbie Hagan
Portraits in Contemporary Photography at Drift Gallery by Debbie Hagan
RHODE ISLAND
Overview of GRIN Gallery by Anya Ventura
Heather Leigh McPherson: Hot Salad at 186 Carpenter by Anya Ventura
VERMONT
Cape Ann Artists in Vermont at Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery by Meg Brazill
The Appearance of Clarity: Works in Black and White at Helen Day Art Center by Meg Brazill
IN THIS ISSUE
Guide to Schools and Workshops
Art Guide
Art Seen
CAPTIONS
Leslie Fry creating work in Arts/Industry, a long-term residency program of the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Inc. Arts/Industry takes place at Kohler Co.
Karen Tusinski, Blue Poppy Field No. 3, oil on canvas, 36 x 36″.
Joe Zane, This one 8, 2014, acrylic on canvas, 24 x 24″. Photo: Julia Featheringill.
On the cover: Judith Larsen, SHIMA, 2013, photograph, 37 x 40″. Featured in the out of bounds 2014 exhibition. See the column by the same name on page 30. From the artist: “This work continues
to explore human interaction with complementary forces which enrich our internal dynamics. The investigation is inspired by a constant metamorphic search for a fluid current of illumination.”