Artscope Magazine

11/20/2025

Featuring a diverse roster of work from eight artists, ArtsWorcester’s Assets for Artists (A4A) 2025 Showcase, which has its artist reception this Thursday, Nov. 20 in its Davis Art Gallery from 5:30-7:30 p.m., includes “music videos, site-specific installations, sculpture, wearable art, and more explore an assortment of themes including identity, love, and spirituality by Worcester-based Giuliano, aka Giuliano D’Orazio, Lynn Aurélie, Michelle de Celia, Lucia e Genevieve, AKA Michelle Koza and Mihoko Wakabayashi & JojoSounds AKA Ateha Bailly (Upton), Jennessa Burks (West Boylston), Digi Chivetta (Fitchburg), Racheal Simeone Xavier AKA Valentina Ventura ### (Fitchburg).

The exhibition continues through December 14; gallery hours at ArtsWorcester, 44 Portland St., Worcester, Massachusetts, are Wednesday through Sunday from noon-5 p.m. Check artsworcester.org for Thanksgiving holiday hours.

11/19/2025

“Hew Locke: Passages,” on view through Jan. 11 at The Yale Center for British Art, Second Floor Galleries, 1080 Chapel Street, New Haven, Connecticut, is a comprehensive survey of the British Guyanese artist's career spanning over 30 years. Lexi Gondek reviews the show in our latest issue:

“Located on the museum's second floor, the exhibition includes nearly 50 works showcasing Locke’s evolving visual language across media. From his earliest charcoal sketches to recent immersive pieces made from found and repurposed materials, “Passages” explores themes of storytelling, symbolism and history, taking its viewers through a journey through history, identity and the shifting tides of power.

“For viewers interested in contemporary art or cultural memory, “Hew Locke: Passages” is both visually compelling and intellectually rich. It not only offers a retrospective of Locke’s remarkable career but also invites us to confront the legacies of empires that continue to shape our world. Through humor, symbolism and material richness, Locke weaves together the stories of migrants, diasporic communities and contested histories with clarity and care. His work doesn’t just reflect his lived experience, but it challenges us to see the world through a more critical and expansive lens.”

Read Gondek’s complete review in the November/December 2025 issue of Artscope Magazine, available in print format at partnering galleries, museums and art centers throughout New England, by mail order, or purchasing digital access at https://artscopemagazine.com/2025/11/the-weight-of-empire/

11/19/2025

These are the final two days to see “Real F.R.I.E.N.D.S.” the latest installment of curated exhibitions by artist and curator Jamaal Eversley that “calls upon different communities to work together to find collective joy and ways to move forward in these unpredictable and sometimes unsettling times. It shows that we cannot be our best selves without working with our neighbors.” The Lotvin Family Gallery at the Hopkinton Center for the Arts, 90 Hayden Rowe St., Hopkinton, Massachusetts, will be open on Wednesday and Thursday from 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

This weekend, Nov. 21-23, Hopkinton Center for the Arts will host its “Primarily Potters Show and Sale at the HCA” on Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m.-8 p.m. and on Sunday from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. “Get ready for one of the most anticipated holiday events of the season. Seven extraordinary potters will be showcasing their artistry—each piece handcrafted with both beauty and purpose in mind.”

For more information and details on the upcoming HCA Art Auction & Fundraiser, visit hopartscenter.

11/19/2025

11/17/2025

“REMIX” marks the return of Fountain Street Gallery to a physical space 17 months after the April 2024 closure of its Thayer Street/Harrison Ave. location in Boston’s SoWa District. With a renewed focus on “dynamic pop-up exhibitions,” this show, held at Mass Arts Center’s Morini Gallery though November 23, is the first of many to come. The center is located at 888 South Main St., Mansfield, Massachusetts.

Sawyer Smook-Pollitt reviews the exhibition in our latest issue:

“Featuring 16 artists working in diverse mediums, “REMIX” is a cross-section of Fountain Street Gallery’s membership. The show itself is a lesson in why it’s so important to get out of the house and see artwork in person and in context. There’s only so much you can get from an image on a screen or even from a printed photo in a magazine.”

Read Smook-Pollitt’s complete review along with more details on the return of Fountain Street Gallery and upcoming shows at the Mass Arts Center’s Morini Gallery in the November/December 2025 issue of Artscope Magazine, available in print format at partnering galleries, museums and art centers throughout New England, by mail order, or purchasing digital access at https://artscopemagazine.com/2025/11/a-class-reunion/

11/15/2025

“Truth Unveiled: Art as Reality, Illusion, and Insight” is a call-for-entries exhibition under the auspices of Art League Rhode Island (ALRI) that aims to provoke conversation about art as both a vehicle for and as a challenger of truth. The show features 56 artworks by 47 artists from across the country as well as one accepted artwork from China. It’s being held at the ALRI headquarters at 80 Fountain Street in Pawtucket, Rhode Island through December 6. The gallery is open Friday through Sunday from 2-5 p.m.

Suzanne Volmer reviews the show in our latest issue:

First Prize was awarded to Mark Wholey for his “Allegory of Denial” oil painting that the curators places in the subset of “What’s True, What’s Truth?” subset. In this painting, the artist is pictured at his easel humorously pondering the ineffable. Second Prize was awarded to “The 3 Little Nutria,” an orange hued mixed-media artwork by Lisa Devlin created using colored pencil, graphite and ink on illustration board. Devlin travelled from Baton Rouge, Louisiana to attend the opening — likely a trip all the more gratifying to the artist having garnered the recognition of a win.

Third Prize went to “SoNo Site 1-11,” a lithograph and screenprint by Kyle Chaput in the “Environmental Realities” subset. Honorable Mention went to Sarazen Haile for the woodcut embossment “Paper Towel,” a trick-of-the-eye artwork exploring “What’s True? What’s Truth?” and Shelby Scattergood for the wall mounted construction, “You’re so Awkward,” that explored how Autism alters an individual’s perception of the world, in the Calling It Out” category.

Read Volmer's complete ALRI review in the November/December 2025 issue of Artscope Magazine, available in print format at partnering galleries, museums and art centers throughout New England, by mail order, or purchasing digital access at https://artscopemagazine.com/2025/11/provoking-discussion/

11/13/2025

Continuing through November 22, the SpeakEasy Stage Company’s presentation of Justin Huertas’ musical “Lizard Boy” at the Roberts Studio Theatre in the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont Street in Boston’s South End, “is both goofy and profound, unpretentious and portentous,” according to James Foritano. Read his review on Artscope Online: https://artscopemagazine.com/2025/11/new-theatrical-delights-abound-in-speakeasy-stages-musical-production-of-lizard-boy/

11/13/2025

This Saturday, Nov. 15, at 11 a.m. Virginia Mahoney discusses her “Holding Thoughts” exhibition in an artist dialogue talk with Toby Sisson at ArtsWorcester, 44 Portland St., Worcester, Massachusetts. Pre-registration is requested at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/artist-dialogue-virginia-mahoney-and-toby-sisson-tickets-1796654153939?aff=oddtdtcreator.

In an Artscope Online feature, Madeleine Lord reviews the show, which remains on view through Dec. 14: “In her solo exhibition, “Holding Thoughts,” currently at ArtsWorcester, Virginia Mahoney’s works are composed of sliced paintings covered with handwritten heart leaking words woven into floating vessels. Thousands of hand inked words from years of journals, are copied onto the strips and some embroidered on top of the ink. Reclaiming, weaving and stitching is Mahoney’s operative process, and the results are ethereal spun sugar visuals.

“I am a list maker” Mahoney admitted but these exceeding personal lists now buried in artistic reformatting, inspire each viewer’s own existential voyage past and approaching, word by discovered word.”

ArtsWorcester gallery hours are Wednesday through Sunday from noon-5 p.m. For more information, visit artsworcester.org. Read Madeleine Lord’s complete review of “Virginia Mahoney: Holding Thoughts” here: https://artscopemagazine.com/2025/11/looking-back-to-go-ahead/

11/13/2025

OPENS TODAY! “Like There’s No Tomorrow,” a multimedia presentation by French Armenian photojournalist and documentary filmmaker Astrig Agopian, is the debut exhibition of the Project Save Photograph Archive, non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the global Armenian experience through photography located at 600 Pleasant St., Watertown, Massachusetts. Continuing through January 17, 2026, the exhibit focuses on the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh, a region Armenians have inhabited for millennia and whose cultural heritage has endured centuries of upheaval. To attend tonight’s opening reception (Thursday, November 13) from 6-9 p.m., RSVP at projectsave.org

To read more of managing editor Brian Goslow’s “Capsule Previews” in the November/December 2025 issue of Artscope Magazine, visit https://artscopemagazine.com/2025/11/capsule-previews-25/

11/13/2025

“Into the Abstract,” on view through Jan. 4, 2026 at the Southern Vermont Arts Center, 860 Southern Vermont Arts Center Drive, Manchester, Vermont, “is aptly named because it offers an entrée into minimalist-inspired abstraction that explores the parallels and contrasts between the works of Neha Vedpathak — an artist in her 40s, and Paul Gruhler, an artist in his 80s,” writes Heather Stivison, reviewing the show in our latest issue.

“Gruhler’s clean, crisp, color-saturated works are reminiscent of the iconic zip paintings of Barnett Newman, whose works evoked a spiritual sense of the sublime. The geometry of Josef Albers and the immersive fields of color of Mark Rothko are also echoed in Gruhler’s paintings,” she writes.

“The subtle colors and tactile surface of Vedpathak’s paintings bring an expressive depth and an emotional resonance that is more intimate. There is a tenderness in much of Vedpathak’s work — especially in paintings with an autobiographical context, such as “Attunement 1” and “Attunement 2” that relate to herself and her daughter.”

Read Heather Stivison’s complete review of the SVAC show in the November/December 2025 issue of Artscope Magazine, available in print form at partnering art centers, galleries and museums throughout New England, by mail order or digital access purchase at https://artscopemagazine.com/2025/11/1015685/

11/12/2025

The next FeministFuturist presentation, “M/Othering Resistance,” will be on view starting this Friday, November 14 with an opening reception from 6-8 p.m. at Piano Craft Gallery, 793 Tremont St., Boston, Massachusetts, that includes a performance by Paloma Dinel Chesky. “M/Othering Resistance is a multifaceted experiment including video, installation, sculpture, painting, fiction, and photography” that “engages with one of humanity's most fundamental definitions: the role of those who pass on wisdom, courage, and the capacity to resist from one generation to the next.” Participating artists are Freedom Baird, Christina Balch, Jocelyn E. Marshall, Karen Meninno, Homa Sarabi, and Artscope contributors Marjorie Kaye and Carolyn Wirth. The exhibition concludes on November 30.

For gallery times and news on related FeninistFuturist events, visit feministfuturist.com or pianocraftgallery.com.

For more of Brian Goslow’s “Capsule Previews” from the November/December 2025 issue of Artscope Magazine, visit https://artscopemagazine.com/2025/11/capsule-previews-25/.

11/09/2025

This Sunday, Nov. 9, Rose Umerlik, whose “Remember, the world is beautiful …” exhibition is on view at 3 Walker Contemporary Gallery, 3 Walker St., Kittery, Maine, will be on-hand at the gallery to talk about her work from 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

“The title alone trumpets the transformation she’s undergone in her life. Her transformation was born in struggle and led to progress,” writes Linda Sutherland, reviewing the exhibition in our new issue.

“And the art… stunning. Expansive. Expressive. And at certain times, mysterious. She works on massive panels she constructs, then layers with multiple grounds to create a rigidity capable of holding up to aggressive pencil drawings, and the repeated laying down and wiping away of paint and markings. She layers graphite lines and stains the surface with color. She works through numerous ideas before settling on a “story.” Perhaps she sees a human experience, like in the way two forms relate to each other. Or the interaction of lines within a color field.”

The show continues through January 2026. Read Sutherland’s full feature on Rose Umerlik in the November/December 2025 issue of Artscope Magazine, available in magazine form at partnering galleries, museums and art centers throughout New England, by mail order, or purchasing online digital access at https://artscopemagazine.com/2025/11/the-shape-of-resilience/