Some solo shows are like conversations, Roberta says. Some are like monologs and some are like mission statements. Astrid Bowlby’s “When the shadow is not your shadow” is a conversation that leans towards a mission statement, and the mission is communication, about important things like love, loss, death, redemption, and engagement in the world.
Read More“We Do What We Do” is a group show at Spillway Gallery connecting work by artists with a traditional training and artists who have intellectual disabilities and make together in a studio called the Center for Creative Works. Chip discusses how “the perceived barriers between these two segments of the creative population are demolished,” he says with a unifying theme of pattern and order, something we could all use a little more of at the moment.
Read MoreRoberta sees a Lilliputian landscape installation by Astrid Bowlby at the Michener Museum, which she says is wonderful. She talks with the artist about it.
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