New England's Premier Culture Magazine 3 4 17 11TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE BEAUTY, HISTORY AND TRANSIENCE: THE CAA’S ANNUAL MEMBERS PRIZE SHOW THE SYRIAN HOMELAND CONNECTION: MOHAMAD HAFEZ AT LANOUE GALLERY AND GROTON SCHOOL | STRETCHING THE BOUNDARIES OF PERCEPTION: SOO SUNNY PARK AT THE CURRIER | UNLOADED AT THE ICA AT MAINE COLLEGE OF ART | PRINTMAKING REIMAGINED AT WHEATON COLLEGE ELEVEN FOR OUR ELEVENTH: ROYA AMIGH | DONALD BEAL | DUKEN DELPE | HARRIET DIAMOND | RON FORTIER | ELIZABETH GODDARD | BARBARA OWEN | JANE PARADISE | DAVID ROHN | BRIAN WALTERS | KRZYSZTOF WODICZKO March/April 2017 Free or $5.99 mailed copy Mark Cooper a site-specific 2016–2017 (DETAIL), installation Uncertainty UNCERTAINTY March 18 – April 15, 2017 Reception for the artist: Thursday, March 30, 6 – 8pm Roberts Gallery | Lunder Arts Center | 1801 Massachusetts Avenue | Porter Square, Cambridge Open Monday–Wednesday, Friday: 9 – 5 | Thursday: 9 – 8 | Saturday + Sunday: 12 – 5 | www.lesley.edu/galleries | 617.349.8002 LESLEY UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN LUCAD-Cooper-Artscope.indd 1 2/15/17 1:07 PM New England on Paper Contemporary Art in the Boston Athenæum’s Prints & Photographs Collection Mark Cooper Alex de Constant, Moonlight, Rye on the Rocks, 2011. Reduction woodcut, Boston Athenæum. a site-specific 2016–2017 (DETAIL), installation Uncertainty UNCERTAINTY April 6—September 3, 2017 March 18 – April 15, 2017 Reception for the artist: Thursday, March 30, 6 – 8pm Roberts Gallery | Lunder Arts Center | 1801 Massachusetts Avenue | Porter Square, Cambridge Open Monday–Wednesday, Friday: 9 – 5 | Thursday: 9 – 8 | Saturday + Sunday: 12 – 5 | www.lesley.edu/galleries | 617.349.8002 Boston Athenæum LESLEY UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN 10½ Beacon Street Boston, MA 02108 | www.bostonathenaeum.org | 617-227-0270 LUCAD-Cooper-Artscope.indd 1 2/15/17 1:07 PM Artscope_Mar-Apr2017.pdf 1 2/14/17 10:12 PM Montserrat College of Art's Spring Auction to Benefit Student Scholarships ARTRAGEOUS! 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TAUBERT, JAMIE THOMPSON, Intern SONGDI WEI ALEXANDRA TURSI, SUZANNE VOLMER, DON WILKINSON, Cambridge Art Association’s University KRISTIN WISSLER. Place Gallery. seen this spring at the Mitchell•Giddings Gallery in Brattleboro as well as the Next Stage Arts Project in Putney, Vermont. Those craving summer will appre- ciate Jane Paradise’s “Dune Shacks WELCOME of Provincetown” series at the Galatea Gallery in March that will, along with Laura Shabott’s profile of her, have you Welcome to our Eleventh Anniversary talk about her nomadic installations, which on the phone booking your reservations Issue with special thanks to our readers and Michelman writes, “fold into a carry-on for this year’s stay on the Cape. advertisers, all of the galleries, museums, bag, but their whispers can fill a room.” If you’re looking for an early spring Artscope interactive artists and publicists we have worked with Nancy Nesvet traveled to Galerie adventure, consider setting your GPS for tablet edition gives you pan and zoom, and, especially, our devoted writers whose Lelong in New York City to interview Artists Corner & Gallery in West Acton, slideshows, in-depth hard work has filled our pages. Krzysztof Wodiczko, director of the Mass. after reading Flavia Cigliano’s It would be an understatement to School of Planning and Architecture at audio/video and more, gallery profile on the venue that recently available anytime, say the past few months have been an Harvard University, about his career and celebrated its first anniversary. Cigliano emotional rollercoaster for those living working with his Harvard students. Wodic- anywhere worldwide on talked with owner Margaret Burdine your iPad. To subscribe in the United States, and this has seemed zko’s installations have played an impor- about her decision to leap from her search Artscope in your especially true for its artists. tant role in speaking out against injustice own artistic career as a fiber artist and App Store. Some are addressing their emotions here and around the world. photographer to overseeing directly through artworks whose message Molly Hamill visited Endicott College the work of nearly 50 artists needs no interpretation; others need the to review an exhibition of photographs while establishing a commu- solitude now, more than ever, of a canvas by faculty members Maria Cusumano nity gathering spot for classes, or large installation piece to escape the and Mark Towner taken during a recent workshops and special events. New England's Premier Culture Magazine everyday discourse. trip to India. The bright colors of “Om Tat We always aim to have our 7 16 We’ve attempted to address these Sat: Reflections from Mumbai to Kolkata” stories contain a series of 8 feelings in compiling this issue, which will warm up your late winter day and “touchpoints.” I asked Ron continues our tradition of using the also provide insight into the minds of two Fortier, who recently relocated annual issue to introduce a group of artists documenting a vacation while to Portugal from New Bedford, artists previously not featured in these pondering its place as art.