This essay appears in the catalog Henry Isaacs: New Works for an exhibition at Maine Art Shows, August 9-September 1, 2014. The New Landscape: A History For much of art history, when the artist painted the land, he did so only as a backdrop, as context, rarely as...
Collage is The Moment by Ric Kasini Kadour from Kolaj Magazine, Pre-Issue (Fall 2011) Note: Before we launched Kolaj Magazine, we released a “pre-issue” in which we asked our contributors two questions: Why collage? and Why now? The answers they gave...
ESSAY The Role of Organizations in Artist Communities In my role as editor of the Vermont Art Guide and in my writing about regionalism in a modernist context, I am interested in communities and the art they produce. The exhibition, “Connection: the Art of Coming...
Who Knows Who How Connections Came Together The exhibition, “Connection: the Art of Coming Together”, presents a survey of contemporary Vermont art organized by artist networks rather than aesthetics or media. As an experiment, I asked four artists or professionals...
This essay appears in the catalog Philip Frey: New Works for an exhibition at Maine Art Shows, June 27-July 16, 2015. Philip Frey: Lavish Attention The respect for and service to the viewer is, perhaps, one the best attributes of Frey’s paintings. “I am a student of...
Notes on The Practice A component of my art practice is altar making in the spirit of Betye Saar but with the ephemeral nature of Barbara Ellmann’s Flower Altar. The installation of the altar is a vehicle for engaging the view and an opportunity to...
