May / June 2011
Volume 32, Issue 3
FEATURES
Jon Brooks: On Fire By Debbie Hagan
When a fire destroyed Jon Brooks’s art, tools, and studio, the furniture community rallied around their friend, rebuilt his studio, and restored his passion.
Totally Tommy By Kris Wilton
Connecticut artist Tommy Simpson has never stopped playing. His art breaks ground in furniture making, painting, printmaking, and sculpture.
Crafted to Order By Christine Temin
Special bonds often form between a studio furniture maker and his client as this writer and furniture lover discloses.
Art and Cinema in Conversation By Ethan Gilsdorf
Two film and video artists win major New England art awards and raise questions about the relationship between art and time-based media.
Outside the Artist Colony By Deborah Forman
Anne Packard calls herself “a loner,” even though she’s a celebrated artist, living and working in the center of bustling Provincetown.
COLUMNS
Letters
Of Note
Compiled by Joanna Michalowski
Art Buzz
Book Review
Alice Neel
Reviewed by Jeanne Schinto
Auctions
Skinner Fetches over $2.5 Million
by Jeanne Schinto
Museums
Edward Gorey’s Elegant Enigmas
by Christine Temin
Architecture
Experiments in Light
by James McCown
Art Safari
The Berkshires, MA
by Charles Bonenti
Field of Vision
Furniture Divas at Fuller Craft
by Barbara Wysocki
Drawing
The Maine Drawing Project
by Carl Little
REVIEWS
SPOTLIGHT
Maine Moderns: Art in Seguinland, 1900–1940 at the Portland Museum of Art
by Carl Little
CONNECTICUT
Monet’s Water Lilies: An Artist’s Obsession at the Wadsworth Atheneum
by Patricia Rosoff
Hope Gangloff at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
by Eve Perry
MAINE
Susan Hiller at Colby College Museum of Art
by Carl Little
Brian Shure at the University of Maine Museum of Art
by Carl Little
MASSACHUSETTS
David Loeffler Smith at the New Bedford Art Museum
by Dana Rae Laverty
Jessica Straus at Boston Sculptors Gallery
by Shawn Hill
Patricia Crotty and Betty Glick at Galatea Fine Art
by Robert Moeller
Berenice Abbott at Dean’s Gallery at MIT
by Susan Mulski
Francis Alÿs at the Davis Museum
by Sarah Baker
Warren Prosperi at Vose Galleries
by Susan Boulanger
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Esmé Thompson at the Hood Museum of Art
by Pam Bernard
Doug Prince at Soo Rye Art Gallery
by Rane Hall
RHODE ISLAND
Suzanne Volmer at Providence Art Club
by Alicia Faxon
Alan Metnick at Gallery Z
by Steve Starger
VERMONT
Marc Awodey at Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson College
by Amy Rahn
Keith Johnson at PhotoStop Gallery
by Stephen Vincent Kobasa
IN EVERY ISSUE
Focus On: The Berkshires, MA
Art Seen
RESOURCES AND LISTINGS
Guide to Art Schools and Workshops
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ON THE COVER: Warren Prosperi, Conversation by the Sea, Bass Rocks, Gloucester, MA, 2009, oil on canvas, 50 x 33″. See page 57.