Contents
Volume 43, Issue 2
Features
30 Savoring Milton Avery
By Susan Rand Brown
Sweeping Retrospective at the Wadsworth Atheneum Hits the Sweet Spot
34 Emerging New England Artists
By Carl Little, Jennifer Mancuso, Maureen Canney, Nicola Alexander, and Shanta Lee Gander
A New Panel of Nine Elevates the Voices and Visions of an Exceptional 10
COLUMNS
9 Publisher’s Letter
10 FlashPoints
12 Studio Visit
Rania Matar
By Emily Avery-Miller
14 Studio Visit
Ekua Holmes
By Jack Curtis
16 Spotlight
Lesley Dill at Bates
By Carl Little
18 Profile
The ICA Boston Sponsors
Simone Leigh: GRITTIN at the
59th Venice Biennale
By Cynthia Close
20 Book Review
Museum of Fine Arts Boston:
1870 to 2020, An Oral History
by Charles Giuliano
By John A. Tyson
21 Film
Poetry in Motion: Svadba
By Loren King
22 Color
Evening’s Wrap—
Violet and Mauve
By Dian Parker
24 Exhibitions
A Faustian Bargain
By Kristin Nord
26 Exhibition(ist)
The Art of (Ripping Off?) Banksy
By Christopher Volpe
Reviews & Previews
SPOTLIGHT
57 Mike Kline at Galerie Oiseaux by April Claggett
58 Armenian Heritage Park on the Greenway by Frances Folsom
59 Pride 1983 at Vermont Folklife Center Vision & Voice Gallery by B. Amore
60 Each/Other: Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger at Peabody Essex Museum
by Julianna Thibodeaux
CONNECTICUT
54 Lennart Anderson: A Retrospective at Lyme Academy of Fine Arts by Kristin Nord
MAINE
54 Nicola López: Visions, Phantoms, and Apparitions at Center for Maine
Contemporary Art by Carl Little
55 Human/Nature at Alice Gauvin Gallery by Carl Little
MASSACHUSETTS
55 Pell Lucy: In Praise of Form at Piano Craft Gallery by B. Amore
RHODE ISLAND
56 Sheida Soleimani on the Wall: Ghostwriter at Providence College Galleries
by Elizabeth Maynard
VERMONT
56 Unpacked: Refugee Baggage at Fleming Museum of Art by Dian Parker
In this Issue
28 Calendar
44 Art Directory
50 Art Guide
53 Guide to Schools and Workshops
61 Exhibition Listings
71 Classifieds
72 Art Seen
On the cover: Justin Levesque, Diffuse
(Color Bleed), 2018, archival pigment printwith pink vinyl-wrapped frame, 30 x 24″. Courtesy of the artist. See page 34.
Publisher: Tim Montgomery
Associate Publisher: Rita A. Fucillo
Interim Editor: Rita A. Fucillo
Writers This Issue: Jack Curtis, Shanta Lee Gander, Jacquelyn Gleisner, Deb Hemley, Loren King, Carl Little, Jennifer Mancuso, Elizabeth Maynard, Kristin Nord, Dian Parker, Susan Saccoccia, Christopher Volpe
Editorial Interns: Autumn Duke, Ella Edwards
Art Director: Lori Pedrick
Associate Art Director: Judith Fogge
Senior Account Executive: Susan Baker
Account Executive: Meredith Davis
Vice President, Operations: Tyler J. Montgomery