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Review of 2022 exhibition Turner's Modern World at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The review underlines the curators' thesis concerning Turner's engagement with the political and social events of his lifetime, including the passing away... more
Review of 2022 exhibition Turner's Modern World at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The review underlines the curators' thesis concerning Turner's engagement with the political and social events of his lifetime, including the passing away of the Old- World's agrarian, pastoral relationship with nature to make way for the turbulent coming of the modern industrial age.
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On the exhibition of the famous cycle of erotic mythological poesie or “painted poems” by Titian, one of the most important figures in the history of Western art, at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 2021.
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Although primarily associated with Boston, American painter Edmund C. Tarbell's chosen family home in the Seacoast region of New Hampshire played a significant role in his art.
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Abstract. This essay examines various contemporary artistic responses to climate change. These responses encompass multiple media and diverse philosophical and emotional forms, from grief and resignation to resistance, hope, and poignant... more
Abstract. This essay examines various contemporary artistic responses to climate change. These responses encompass multiple media and diverse philosophical and emotional forms, from grief and resignation to resistance, hope, and poignant celebration of spiritual value and natural beauty. Rejecting much of the terminology of current theory, the author considers the artworks in relation to interrelated and arguably unjustly discredited aesthetic and theological categories, namely the sublime and the beautiful as well as the via negativa, the latter adapted from Thomas Aquinas by theologian Matthew Fox. Art’s power is seen largely as the ability to “humanize” the science by rendering it emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually relatable to individuals. The broken relationship between humanity and nature seems related to the need for a renewed religious sense of integration with, and belonging to, the cosmos, something in the bringing about of which art might play a pivotal role.
Key Words: Anthropocene, art, beauty, climate change, nature, oceanic feeling, religion, science, spirituality, the sublime, technology, truth.
Key Words: Anthropocene, art, beauty, climate change, nature, oceanic feeling, religion, science, spirituality, the sublime, technology, truth.
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Feature interview with the celebrated Vermont painter.
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Feature on recent developments in the art and life of sculptor Paul Bowen.
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Essay on the Egyptian origin of the ancient mystery rites of Greece and the lasting influence of Orphism on Gnostic and subsequent esoteric wisdom systems. Published pseudonymously.
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This essay argues for the validity of making art even if there isn't going to be a civilization to receive it.
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Catalogue essay for 2020 solo exhibition of paintings by Lisa Noonis at Whitney Modern gallery, Las Gatos, CA.
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Survey of the creative principles behind American artist Charles Woodbury's pedagogy and artistic praxis.
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Review of Boston exhibition of my "Loomings" series of tar paintings.
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Loomings is a series of paintings executed in industrial tar, gold leaf and oil paint. Influences include Albert Pinkham Ryder, the 19th century American painter who used tar (among other unconventional substances) and Herman Melville’s... more
Loomings is a series of paintings executed in industrial tar, gold leaf and oil paint. Influences include Albert Pinkham Ryder, the 19th century American painter who used tar (among other unconventional substances) and Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. The title of each painting references a quote from the novel, Melville’s apocalyptic vision of the American quest.
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A poem written in 2008 and revised in 2017
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Published account of a studio visit with the great Hoffman-generation New York School painter.
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Review of painter Eric Aho's exhibition of his "Ice Cuts" series of paintings at Hood Museum, Dartmouth
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Essay excerpted from the introduction to the 36 page illustrated catalogue titled A Legacy of Beauty: Paintings in the Boston School Tradition, published in 2006 by Blue Tree, LLC. ISBN-10: 0-97113-216-X. ISBN-13: 978-0-9711321-6-0. The... more
Essay excerpted from the introduction to the 36 page illustrated catalogue titled A Legacy of Beauty: Paintings in the Boston School Tradition, published in 2006 by Blue Tree, LLC. ISBN-10: 0-97113-216-X. ISBN-13: 978-0-9711321-6-0. The essay was originally published as the catalog for an exhibition on the painters of the Boston School. The exhibition was organized in cooperation with The Banks Gallery (www.thebanksgallery.com) in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in November 2006 and subsequently traveled to Chester College of New England's Wadleigh Gallery (www.chestercollege.edu) in February 2007.
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At 87, American landscape painter Wolf Kahn discusses his continuing development as an artist.
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On contemporary photographer Carl Austin Hyatt's striking series of photographs. Catalogue text and blog entry for The Banks Gallery, Portsmouth, N.H.
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Biographical and critical essay published in Maine History, Volume 45, December 2010. Awarded Maine Historical Society's James Phinney Baxter prize, given annually to the author of the year's most outstanding article.
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Brief phenomenological/literary analysis of passages from several classic poems about winter by authors including Sylvia Plath, Basho, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Wallace Stevens
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Poem, published in The New Republic, February 15, 1999, pp. 36-37
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Poem, published in the Antioch Review, January 1, 2000
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Poem published in New American Writing, No. 16, 1998
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Published in Third Coast, Spring 2001, Western Michigan University, pp. 11-12.
Research Interests: Poetry and Surrealism
Published in Mudfish 12, Art & Poetry, Box Turtle Press, NY, NY, 2000, pp. 27-28.
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Published in The Bitter Oleander, A Magazine of Contemporary International Poetry & Letters, Vol. 9., No. 1, "For the Little City (in Lieu of a Blessing)" and "Period."
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Poem published in The Prose Poem, An International Journal
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Poem published in The Prose Poem, An International Journal
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Original poem by Christopher Volpe
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Unpublished poem.
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Three "object poems" (meditations on Oyster Shells, the great Houdini, and a gas station on a South Dakota interstate) written in the 1990s that were never submitted for publication.
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A short poem in the surrealist mode.
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A surreal poem written in 1997 and revised in 2020.
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Essay on Claude Money's Water Lilies paintings following a visit to L'Orangerie in paris
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A poem written in 2015
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Three poems from 2012, revised 2017
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This brief catalogue essay traces the lineage between Walt Kuhn, John Laurent, and Tom Glover, three generations of American painters in Ogunquit, Maine.
