by Lydia Whitcomb
by Tristan Pinnock
Video and Images by Lydia Davison Whitcomb
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"Shippwrekked (BR15-108'') (acrylic on fabric), by Brent Ridge, in show "Liz Gargas and Brent Ridge,'' at the New Art Center, Newton, Mass., March 4-April 10. The gallery says that Mr. Ridge "operates in a land of abstraction rooted in appropriation, landscape, and post-industrial aesthetics''
"Smoke'' (installation view, two-channel video, looped), by LISA OPPENHEIM, in the "Film as Medium and Metaphor'' show at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, Mass.
"Pond, through forest'' (oil on panel), by ROY PERKINSON, at Fountain Street Fine Art, Framingham.
Photo by Lydia Davison Whitcomb
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'Spawtlight: The Horrible Truth About Boston'
"The parody trailer by comedy network Above Average explores a world in which the dedicated Spotlight team finishes their work on sexual abuse in the Catholic church and investigates what else is wrong with Boston: everything."
'Better Angels: Firefighters of 9/11,' by Dawn Howkinson Siebel, at the Wood Museum, Springfield, Mass through July 10, 2016
Her work features 343 portraits, one for every New York City firefighter lost in the attacks on the World Trade Center. The images are along a 21-foot-long wall, allowing visitors to come face to face with men who made a living out of risking their own in order to save others.
"Saturday, March 21 {1965}. Afternoon. Taken on my arrival in Selma {Ala.}, at the Brown Chapel area," by JAMES H. BARKER, in the show "Through the Lens of History: Selma & Civil Rights,'' Grand Circle Gallery, Boston, through January.
"Consumable Sugarhouse,'' in Norwich, Vt.
āA sap run is the sweet good-bye of winterā
"Window 60 Autumn,'' by Maira Reinbergs in the "Color Passages'' show at ArtProv gallery, Providence, through Feb. 17.
"Hydrogen 1,'' by Sarah Hulsey, in her show "Schemata,'' at Chandler Gallery, Cambridge, Mass., through March 11.
How curious that middle- and lower-income Americans who feel with some justification that they have been treated with disdain by an increasingly arrogant and selfish plutocracy turn for leadership to a sleazy, arrogant and narcissistic member of the plutocracy.
"What Lies Beneath #1'' (mixed media on board), by JAMISON FAUST at the Art League of Rhode Island's "2016 Open Juried Exhibition'' at the Veterans Memorial Auditorium Gallery, Providence, Jan. 28-March 19.
"Snowy Beach,'' by PAUL GEORGE, at Alpers Fine Art, Andover, Mass.
"You Don't Say'' (oil on panel), by JULIA PURINTON, at Alpers Fine Art, Andover, Mass.
"Frog Prince,'' by MAXFIELD PARRISH, at the show "The Power of Print,'' at the Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, N.H., through Jan. 10. Mr Parrish did much of his work in New England at the artists' colony in Cornish, N.H.
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"Whale's Jaw, Dogtown,'' from the archives of the Cape Ann Museum, in Gloucester.
by Lydia Davison Whitcomb
by Lydia Davison Whitcomb
"Unihemispheric Existence'' (detail) (steel, wood, gallery wall), by WILSON HARDING LAWRENCE, in the show "Nuanced: open-endedness, capaciousness and other provocative conditions of making,'' at the Dedee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, Mass., through
"Scott City'' (encaustic, oil and archival inkjet prints on wood panel), by PAIGE BERG RIZVI, in the "Terrain Show'' at Fountain Street Fine Art through Jan. 10.
"Winter Light'' (oil on panel), by SUSAN CHARLES, at Alpers Fine Art, Andover, Mass.
"Shock" (digital photomontage), by PETER WISE, in the "Visual Alchemy'' show at Fountain Street Fine Art, Framingham, Mass., Jan. 2-25.
"The Market Is a Snake,'' by MICHAEL YEFKO, in the show "Further on Down the Yellow Brick Road,'' at Hera Gallery, in Wakefield, R.I., through June 20. In it he explores "temporal aspects of geometry.''
"Winter Studio'' (oil on masonite), by MICHAEL DOYLE, at Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery, Center Sandwich, N.H.
"Bodyscape'' (oil on plaster), by BETSYANN DUVAL, at Bromfield Gallery, Boston.
"Sailing Off Morris Island (Chatham, Cape Cod),'' by BOBBY BAKER (copyright Bobby Baker Fine Photography).
"Blue Filter,''by SUSAN ALMEIDA, at the New Art Center, in Newton, Mass., in show Oct. 28-Nov. 15, 2015 called the "MCC {Massachusetts Cultural Council} Artist Fellows and Finalists in Painting''.
"Physicality'' (photography, oil, narrative text and resin on panel), by SHERRY KARVER, in her show "Objects of Affection,'' at Lanoue Gallery, Boston, through Oct. 31.
(acrylic on panel), by SHAWN KENNEY
"Karl with Honeybears'' (oil on canvas), by DAVID PETTIBONE, at the Corey Daniels Gallery,
"Smoke'' (installation view, two-channel video, looped), by LISA OPPENHEIM, in the "Film as Medium and Metaphor'' show at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, Mass.
"Nero'' (Marquina marble), by PAUL BLOCH
"New Orleans Sketchbook, March 1-17, 2007, Lower Ninth Ward,'' by JEFFREY MARSHALL, in the show "Katrina Then and Now: Artists as Witness,'' through Oct. 10, at Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester.
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Photo in Krasnoskamensk, Russia, March 2006, by SERGEY MAXIMISHIN, in the show "Siberia Imagined and Reimagined,'' at the Museum of Russian Icons, Clinton, Mass., through Jan. 10.
"Arcology'' (detail; gouache and Lascaux acrylics on archival papers), by Ilona Anderson, in her show "Arcology,'' at Kingston Gallery, Boston.
"Resonance: book in time II'' show at Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, Mass., Dec. 6-Jan. 16. It's a collection of individual and collaborative artists' books by Ann Forbush, Ania Gilmore and Annie Zeybekoglu.
"Civil Rights Marchers Walking from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, on Monday, March 23, 1965,'' photo by JAMES BARKER, in the show "Through the Lens of History: Selma & Civil Rights at the Grand Circle Gallery,'' Boston, through January.
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"Pine Needles'' (traditional analog photography) by KRISTI BEISECKER, in the "Visual Alchemy: Tangible Evidence of Experimentation, Discovery and Transformation'' show at Fountain Street Fine Art, Framingham, Mass., Jan. 2-25.
" Winter Portrait" | Hampton Beach State Park, New Hampshire Ā© Bobby Baker Photography
"Fish Heads'' (acrylic and oil on canvas), by ANGELA ALES, in her show "Archtypes,'' at Galatea Fine Art, Boston, Jan. 2-31.
by Lydia Davison Whitcomb
"Two Crows,'' by JAMES REED, in his show at Gallery19, in Essex, Conn., through June 30
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"Unquiet City XXA'' (pigment print on canvas) in the "Boston Through the Eyes of Robert Hesse Collection'' at the Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery, Center Sandwich, N.H.
"Humming II'' (mixed media and resin on panel), by SUSAN GOLDSMITH, at Lanoue Fine Art, Boston.
Gerda Peterich, Central Park Strollers, 1939-46, gelatin silver print, Collection of the Museum of Art, UNH, Gift of Lily Hoffman 1977
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Older technology, better service?
"The Summit at Dusk,'' by ROY PERKINSON, in his show "The Poetry of Light: New Work by Roy Parkinson.''