March/April 2019
Contents
Volume 40, Issue 2
FEATURES
10 Emerging New England Artists
By Michelle Aldredge
A Jury of Six Selects an Extraordinary 10
Looking Back
By Carl Little, B. Amore and Cynthia Close
Three Critics Reflect on Why They Write
COLUMNS
Publisher’s Letter
FlashPoints
Gallery FlashPoints
Studio Visit
Jaclyn Conley
By Jacquelyn Gleisner
Studio Visit
Christopher Myott
By Corwin Levi
Profile
Laurie Simmons
By Jacoba Urist
Curator’s Eye
A Closer Look at William Matthew
Prior’s Mrs. Nancy Lawson and
William Lawson Portraits
By Katie Wood Kirchhoff in
conversation with Sarah Baker
Theater
Front Porch’s Theater for Actors of Color
By Jared Bowen
Culture
Valley Arts District: Rebranding
the Artistic Heart of Providence
By Elizabeth Maynard
Schools
The Art of the Game
By Katy Kelleher
Book Arts
Illumination and Sculptural
Invention in Maine
By Carl Little
REVIEWS & PREVIEWS
SPOTLIGHT
Liz Magor: BLOWOUT at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
by Julianna Thibodeaux
CONNECTICUT
Rick Shaefer: Three Trees, Life-Size Drawings at Silvermine Arts Center
by Susan Rand Brown
Blue Collar Ornament at Joseloff Gallery
by Jacquelyn Gleisner
MAINE
Big Rock Candy Mountain: Zach Horn at University of Maine Museum of Art
by Carl Little
Changing New York: Photographs by Berenice Abbott at Farnsworth Art Museum
by Carl Little
MASSACHUSETTS
Xylor Jane: Counterclockwise at The University Museum of Contemporary Art, UMass Amherst
by John W. Arvanitis
Dualities: Drawings and Sculptures by David Raymond at McCoy Gallery, Rogers Center for the Arts
by Debbie Kane
The Bay State: A Multicultural Landscape—Photographs of New Americans at Brookline Arts Center, Boston City Hall Mayor’s Neighborhood Gallery
and Haverhill Public Library
by Stace Brandt
Graciela Iturbide’s Mexico at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
by Cerys Wilson
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Neon Wilderness at Kelley Stelling Contemporary
by Corwin Levi
Chromatic: Linda Behar at 3S Artspace
by Elizabeth Maynard
RHODE ISLAND
Brooke Hammerle: Chasing the Ephemeral (Press to Play) at The Hunter Gallery, St. George’s School
by Alexander Castro
Alchemical Reactions: Susan Freda and Allison Paschke at Chazan Gallery at Wheeler
by Loren King
VERMONT
Rebecca Weisman: Skin Ego at Burlington City Arts
by Cynthia Close
Positive, Negative and Intertwining Spaces at stART Space
by B. Amore
IN THIS ISSUE
Calendar
Destination: Rhode Island
Guide to Schools and Workshops
Art Guide
Exhibition Listings
Classifieds
Art Seen