Note: This preview of the upcoming Pell Lucy exhibit, “In Praise of Form,” written by B. Amore, has been published in the latest issue of Art New England magazine. For easier reading, a transcription follows. (Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved. ©️Art New England 2022) Pell Lucy: In Praise of Form By B. Amore Art […]
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In Praise of Form: Pell Lucy, in Person

Pell Lucy’s first in person show! IN PRAISE OF FORM April 1 -24 2022 Opening reception: April 1, 6-8pm Piano Craft Gallery 793 Tremont Street Boston MA 02118 Gallery Hours: Fridays, 6-9pm; Saturdays and Sundays, 12-5pm Pell Lucy is an international artist collective created to help keep art making and art sharing alive during a […]
Blue Eyes and Lost Daughters

Nevertheless She Persisted, recycled denim and clothing labels By Michèle Fandel Bonner . . Oceans I have a feeling that my boathas struck, down there in the depths,against a great thing. And nothinghappens! Nothing…Silence…Waves… –Nothing happens? Or has everything happened,and are we standing now, […]
Safekeeping the Not Knowing: New Pell Lucy Exhibit

Untitled, Versailles 06, photograph by Elizabeth Mead . As 2022 begins, Pell Lucy enters its third year as a collective. The latest exhibit, Safekeeping the Not Knowing, is available for viewing on Artsy.net and features works from 31 of our members. The curatorial statement below blends our concerns for art making and art viewing during […]
That Which Persists

Golawon. Acrylic, oil, Galkyd, powdered pigments, substrates minerals on canvas, 54″ x 72″. . “Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.” –Lucien Freud . Writers and artists actually talk about this concept a lot although they typically employ different terminology: themes, tropes, proclivities, inclinations, gestures. The fact is that none of us create something […]
Wildly Protopian

On the set of Wild, at American Repertory Theater (Photo: Maggie Hall-Nile Scott Studios) Most of the thinkers I follow closely are actively exploring alternative models, ones that can impact our ability to continue as a species on this planet. That search for a change is summed up by Daniel Schmachtenberger: Rather than just iterative […]
More Than: New Pell Lucy Exhibit

Microcosm XXXVII, by Sandra Lerner, part of the latest Pell Lucy exhibit, More Than. The latest exhibit from Pell Lucy, More Than, considers the role art and art making have on constellating our collective future. Visual language is so much more than line, shape, color, texture, size, space. There is more there than meets the […]
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Fair Share Art

The landscape of our lives right now—which includes the physical, emotional, social, spiritual and the intellectual—feels increasingly less like a scape of solidity and more like a fluid, undetermined and still evolving one. But whenever terrain goes through a transition, something new shows up, invariably. As we become seasoned pandemicists (albeit reluctantly,) we are learning […]
A Tempest for These Times

Ah Prospero. You are my favorite character in all of Shakespeare! The masterful conjurings, the lonely exile, the fierce revenge still raging after twelve years away from the lost Dukedom of Milan, the Other embodied in ethereality and earthiness, the willingness in the end to forgive and forego—there are so many parts of his story […]
Indelibles

Sunset over Picacho, by Scout Dunbar The latest Pell Lucy online exhibit can now be viewed on Artsy: Indelibles. The show features work by the following artists: Tracey Adams, Deborah Barlow, Kay Canavino, Mi-Jin Chun, Silva DeMarchi, Scout Dunbar, Tina Feingold, Lea Feinstein, Karen Fitzgerald, Lynette Haggard, Joseph Hayes, Joanne Lefrak, Eve Leonard, Denise Manseau, […]