Painting – and video – of the American landscape

Museum And Gallery

Slideshow: ''Painting the American Vision'' at the Peabody Essex; ''Shifting Terrain: Landscape Video'' at the Currier Museum of Art

"Painting the American Vision": Though Nov 6, 2011 | "Shifting Terrain": Through Sep 18, 2011

By PHOENIX STAFF | August 2, 2011

Albert Bierstadt, Donner Lake From the Summit | 1873 | "Painting the American Vision” | Peobody Essex Museum, Salem | Through November 6, 2011

READ: "Painting -- and video -- of the American landscape" by Greg Cook

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Review: SPACE's looping video installation
As SPACE Gallery takes the summer to prepare its Annex — the adjunct gallery in the nearby former frame shop fit for smaller local exhibits and performances — its main room plays host to some very big ideas.
Peter Max's pop life
Peter Max rocketed to fame as one of the iconic psychedelic artists of the late '60s.
Treasure trove
Visiting "Pictures from the Hay" is like rummaging through your grandparents’ attic . . . if your grandparents are amazingly curious, incredibly well-connected, and fabulously well-to-do.
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Review: SPACE's looping video installation
As SPACE Gallery takes the summer to prepare its Annex — the adjunct gallery in the nearby former frame shop fit for smaller local exhibits and performances — its main room plays host to some very big ideas.
Peter Max's pop life
Peter Max rocketed to fame as one of the iconic psychedelic artists of the late '60s.
Treasure trove
Visiting "Pictures from the Hay" is like rummaging through your grandparents’ attic . . . if your grandparents are amazingly curious, incredibly well-connected, and fabulously well-to-do.
Review: Be more Curious at SPACE Gallery
In a world of curiosities, it's tempting to shrug off the incomprehensible. This is where Kreh Mellick's and Kimberly Convery's approach becomes a problem.
Traveling critic seeks art to review
In “60 wrd/min art critic,” a performance event that has the feel of a triathlon, Lori Waxman, the Chicago Tribune art reviewer, will be coming to Portland to write short reviews for artists who wish to show her their work and get a piece written about it.
Slideshow: William Kentridge at MassArt
"Ambivalent Affinities" and "Projects," now through December 11.
Tedium and enchantment
Can it be a good sign when a curator writes that the artist he's featuring in her first US museum survey "has laid bare the creative act in all its tedium and enchantment for over two decades"?
Art review: 'Trompe L'oeil: False Documents & Other Illusions'
In the art of deception lies the potential to destabilize perceptions of reality, if only momentarily.
Review: Umberto Crenca's introspective retrospective at AS220
If you've been around the Providence art scene very long, you've surely heard the story. In the early 1980s, Umberto Crenca exhibited at the Antonio Dattorro Studio Gallery and the Providence Journal panned his art as shallow and simplistic.
Review: Kovac's ''Comfortable Distance'; Kurt's ''Sex Objects''
In Delia Kovac's painting Semi Self-Portrait As a Ski Mask , the eyes stare out of the cartooned mask doleful and maybe a bit bonkers, while the mouth hole is empty.
Review: ''Among the Breakage'' scratches the surface at Bell Gallery
Over the past dec-ade, Providence art has been known for its visionary printmaking and graphics, crafty constructions, and funhouse installations, but local painting has tended to operate out of the limelight.
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