The Big Reveal later this week and the wonderful current showing was born of a right place, right time serendipitous moment. It would have gone nowhere without the right person to nurture it, and Suzanne de Vegh was the right person in the right place at the right time.
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MFA exhibition impressive, thought provoking … but sadly not at Star Store
All in all, the presentation being shown in two locations are fine showcases for all five exceptional artists. But it would’ve been wonderful if they could have actually been shown in the space they had been implicitly promised. And deserved.
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From tragedy and mourning, a path forward for Mulhern
Grief lives in the heart forever and makes itself manifest at inconvenient or unexpected moments. But the artist has done something in “While We’re Here.” The death of her cousin Celia looms large but she has found light.
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Falling back in love with the New Bedford Whaling Museum
Outstanding, thought-provoking contemporary exhibitions, both temporary and those that have become part of the permanent collection, make me no longer think of the NBWM as “stodgy and old-fashioned.”
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Zinaida pushes limits in all the right ways
Her video exhibition at UMass Dartmouth is stunning and provocative, leaving one hungry for more.
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Something in the air at art museum, BCC art gallery
“Spirit of Place” in New Bedford and “A Confluence of Place and Space” in Fall River complement each other, though not intentionally.
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‘Framing the Domestic Sea’ a collection of haunting images that demand attention
For years, Jeffery C. Becton has been creating foreboding photographic images of the sea, flirting with those brave and foolhardy souls who choose to lie down next to her.
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Fallon Navarro a fierce advocate … and an imaginative artist
UMass Dartmouth MFA candidate may be best known for her role as leader in the Star Store fight, but the very reason she came to the program was to make art and to display it publicly.
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Painter Roy Rossow brings waterfront to life
Jamaican-born artist’s primary motif for his Whaling Museum exhibition is the busy New Bedford harbor, rife with an array of vessels of the sea, which he paints from his downtown studio.
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Remembering and honoring a great teacher, Sig Haines
After Haines’ death in June, I issued my old friend and Swain classmate Peter Dickison a challenge: take a canvas believed to be Haines’ last attempt at painting and finish it, finding some way to incorporate his marks.