Katie Hutchison, a New England architect, design writer, and photographer who won the Samuel Chamberlain Award (from the Marblehead Festival of Arts) for her piece "Splatter" (shown below), will be having a solo exhibition July 6 - 30 at the Topsfield Town Library in Topsfield MA. There will be ... more »
"All pictures have an aesthetic quality, but that's not enough," says photographer Mark Ruwedel. Ruwedel is more interested in reading the landscape like an historical text, capturing the rhythmic stories of the land. His new Peabody Essex Museum show Imprints: Photographs by Mark ... more »
Long before Photoshop and other techy tricks, Richard Avedon was able to make a wisp of hair disappear from a cheek, shave a waistline or lighten the area around his subject's head to suggest an angelic deity. Through an early technique called "burning and dodging," he manipulated images to ... more »
Bea Modisett is a 2007 Montserrat College of Art graduate. She earned her BFA in Painting and is working on primarily medium to large scale charcoal and pastel drawings. Her work has been exhibited throughout the Boston area. A resident artist at the Vermont Studio Center in 2008, ... more »
Sunday's concert in Beverly, put on by the North Shore Jazz Project, helped raise funds for Haiti. These photos, by John Carden, a photojournalist from New Hampshire, caught the spirit of the day. The organization has another concert in a Danvers private home on Feb. 12th. You can check their ... more »
The world was a place of wonder; mankind was beauteous; life was lived on the high crest of the wave. More than all, the poignant joy of heroism stirred in men's hearts... - Edith Hamilton, "The Greek Way". Greece! Otherworldly, strange to human eyes, yet, ubiquitous: omnipresent all ... more »
What's black and white and sometimes in color and known the world over in print? Why, the work of Annie Leibovitz, of course! Known for her powerful photographs of iconic figures and celebrities, Leibovitz's "get-their-guard-down" style is immediately recognizable. Who could forget ... more »
It truly feels like an invasion of privacy each time I get that close. Odd, that it should- such a public thing. Doorbells. These tiny conduits manifesting a potential human encounter. A touch towards. A reach outward. Each doorbell takes on a personality and mood. Some wearing ... more »
Photography student Joanna Cleary feels that photography allows her to throw her personality into the world. When asked what draws her to the medium she said, "Photography gives me that chance to show my own way of looking at the world; my own perspective on how the world looks." That ... more »
By Ashley Meyer You have probably seen her around Salem--snapping pictures left and right, Nikon Coolpix digital camera seemingly glued to her hands. Alli Rico will take pictures of just about anyone or anything. "I shoot what catches my eye", she says. A junior at Salem State College, ... more »
The Salem Farmer's Market is wrapping for the season this Thursday. Check out these recent fall photos from the marketplace. more »
The role of fashion in our sense of identity could not be a more fitting theme this month for two shows that just opened at PEM. Both Rare Bird of Fashion: The Irreverent Iris Apfel and Valerie Belin: Made Up pose questions about how what we wear informs our sense of self -- certainly a ... more »
[caption id="attachment_4500" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="Portrait of Isa Leshko. Copyright James Goncalves. See more at www.jangophotographs.com."] [/caption] Photographer Isa Leshko is a woman on the move. Recently hitting a career milestone of four exhibition openings within 30 ... more »
Local photographer Kiki Larouge and Sixty2 on Wharf restaurant in Salem will host a fundraiser that includes an auction and raffle on Monday, Oct. 12 to benefit Maiti Nepal ("mother's house"), a Nepali-run organization that combats the trafficking of women and girls from Nepal to India for ... more »
This is the final weekend to catch the Salem Arts Association's The Photography Show, featuring nearly three dozen photographic works by members and non-members of the Salem Arts Association. The exhibit, dedicated solely to photography, is curated by Phillip Prodger, Curator of ... more »
Art Throb featured Matt Kalinowski as Photographer of the Week in July. His latest exhibit now shown in Watertown called "Street Series" is so unique that we simply had to know more about this talented local artist. I contacted Matt and asked him about his latest project. "The ... more »
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If you're still feeling that local music contact high from the Salem Jazz and Soul Festival, be sure to catch Tom Uellner's photo exhibit at Front Street Coffee. Uellner has been thoroughly shooting the North Shore music scene and it's interesting to observe these solo performers and ... more »
This master of still life photography just returned from Israel, where he expertly captured the lively marketplace. Watch out for part 2, where we follow Goldberg on a local shoot as he photographs farm life in Hamilton, MA. Art Throb: Paul Cary Goldberg (Part 1) from Charlotte Cheshire ... more »
We were throbbing around Rocky Neck Art Colony in East Gloucester yesterday, when we wandered into a new colorful space -- White Bird Gallery, where Kathleen Gerdon Archer was discussing her creative process for the photo series More Dreams of the Mapmaker with a couple from ... more »
--"Even if I could surf, I wouldn't be this cool." --"No. These people are really cool..." These were the kind of comments recently overheard at the private press tour of SurfLand, the new photography exhibit opening at the Peabody Essex Museum today. The invite was for cocktails ... more »
Just as we at Art Throb have recently gathered to unite cultural organizations and artists under one roof, so, literally, has a huge cross-section of the arts community of Salem. Call it serendipity or great minds thinking collectively or timing, but Joe Cultrera's championing of St. ... more »
Thonah Ep's earliest memories involve learning the traumatic history of his country through his father's drawings. Upon arriving in the US from Cambodia in 1991 at the age of five, Thonah grew up in Lynn amid gang pressure and threats of violence. Art is what saved him. Nearly ten ... more »
I first saw Elayne McCabe in yoga class at the Y, but didn't get to know her until we worked together on the Salem Film Fest. That's when I learned that Elayne, 24, is an independent filmmaker. The Fulbright Scholar lived in Kashmir for half of 2008 on an Asian Cultural Council Artist ... more »
Do you remember when the State House was mobbed with sign holders and high-flying emotions on both sides of the issue and it wasn't clear where the final decision would fall on same-sex marriage in Massachusetts? So does Beverly resident Marilyn Humphries, who was there for practically ... more »