(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Call Me Melville, featuring Herman Meville-inspired paintings by Berkshire artists Paul Graubard and Rebecca Weinman, opens at Ferrin Gallery on Saturday, May 26, 2012, and runs through June 17, 2012. There will be an opening reception with the artists on Saturday, May 26, from 4 to 6 pm. Call Me Melville coincides…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – To assemble the exhibition Oh, Canada, opening to the public on Sunday, May 27, 2012, at MASS MoCA, curator Denise Markonish visited nearly every province and territory in Canada. In her travels, comprising over 400 studio visits, Markonish discovered a fascinating world of art, rich in craftsmanship with a deep interest…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Afghanistan To France; 6,000 Miles of Portraits, an exhibition of photographs by Molly and Aurélien de St André taken on a road trip in a vintage 1960s Volkswagen van from war-torn Central Asia to present-day France, is on display at LOCAL beginning Saturday, May 19, 2012, and running through June 22. There…
(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) – The site-specific, collaborative installation, electro-synthetic, which has been constructed for the last three weeks by artists Derek Parker and Anne Roecklein, officially opens on Thursday May 3, from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm, at IS183 Art School of the Berkshires. Parker and Roecklein will speak at the opening about their collaborative process,…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – An exhibition of new paintings by Michael Allen Lowe will kick off the year-long COVET project – a series of exhibitions and programs presenting contemporary objects and fine art in all media including design, sculpture, painting, photography, prints, works on paper showcasing contemporary artists creating new works in response to historical artworks…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Last November, while visiting two well-attended gallery openings on the same evening in close proximity on North Street, Mary McGinnis, proprietor of Mary’s Carrot Cake shop, and Pittsfield artist Leo Mazzeo came up with the idea of making this type of “arts social” a regular activity. They did some grass-roots research and…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Artist Bryan Nash Gill, whose prints and sculptures are featured in an exhibition, Beyond the Landscape, running now through May 28, 2012 at Berkshire Museum, will be signing copies of his new book, Woodcut, at the museum on Sunday, April 22, 2012, from 4 to 5 p.m. The event is included with…
(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) – Master portrait artist Everett Raymond Kinstler will share his experiences and techniques learned as a painter of some of the most notable figures from the last six decades in a lecture/demonstration at Norman Rockwell Museum on Saturday, April 14, 2012, from 1 to 4 p.m. Kinstler, whose work is currently on view…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Invisible Cities, opening on Sunday, April 15, 2012, at MASS MoCA, features the work of ten international artists who interpret and re-imagine metropolises both familiar and fantastic. Invisible Cities features works by Lee Bul, Carlos Garaicoa, Liz Glynn, Mary Lum, Emeka Ogboh, and Sopheap Pich, with new commissions by Diana Al-Hadid,…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Beginning Thursday, March 29, 2012, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) Gallery 51 will present Strange Soup, an exhibition of striking, colorful, bizarre and challenging artwork by North Adams-based artists Wayne Hopkins and Cathy Wysocki. An opening reception, free and open to the public, will be held on Thursday, March 29,…
