A line curves into a ripe pear, or a petal, or a stem. Walk past a flaming fountain, through a door in a living wall of cyclamen and maidenhair fern — and here one of the most important painters, printmakers and sculptors of the 20th century has drawn the forms of leaves.
Read articleGuild of Berkshire Artists gathers color in West Stockbridge
The painter caught my eye, standing on the grass outside the old town hall. Straw hat and smock, pallette and easil — a plein air artist made of straw. On the easil, splashes of bright color announced that the Richmond-West Stockbridge Artists Guild has an exhibit running (August and September […]
Read articleTurn Park Art Space sculpture reflects with humor in West Stockbridge
I was sitting on a cliff edge in a rocking chair. Bees were moving in the meadow flowers, even in a light rain, and Don Quixote with rivets in his shoulders held a daisy in his fingers. He was looking at it round-eyed. The new Turn Park Art Space in West Stockbridge […]
Read articleFinding Raven at the Berkshire Museum
Finding Raven: Art and Stories from the Northwest Coast, a 2016 exhibit (and app) at the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, brings together contemporary artwork and work from the 19th and 20th centuries, from artists of the Haida, Coast Salish, Tsimshian, Kwakwaka’wakw and Tlingit.
Read articleRobert Hite builds spirit houses at Hancock Shaker Village and Berkshire Museum
Robert Hite, an artist based in the Hudson Valley, has brought sculptures from his “Imagined History” series to the Berkshires — miniature buildings that settle into the landscape and seem to hold their own stories.
Read articleChesterwood contemporary sculpture holds a warm glow in early fall
Barn boards and harness, ruffed grouse, swallowtail butterflies — Boston Sculptors Gallery artists have come to the woods and fields around Chesterwood, Gilded-Age sculptor Daniel Chester French’s historic house and studio in Stockbridge, with site-specific shapes and forms. On an early fall morning, the sculptures brighten the grounds like ripe […]
Read articleFrench and France — Chesterwood sculpture on the ege of the bronze age? BTW Column
Light comes through broad windows high on the wall and sloping in the roof — northern light. Bill Allen, a guide waiting in the studio to talk with visitors, explains that sculptors like ambient northern light because it stays consistent, no movement during the day, no change in color, no […]
Read articleOutdoor sculpture at Art OMI
On an August afternoon I wandered one afternoon through the Field Sculpture Park at ArtOMI — the OMI International Arts Center in Ghent, N.Y.
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