These Incredible Works of Art Are Created with Ballpoint Pens
By Stefanie Waldek

When it comes to fine art, there can be a bit of a hierarchy when it comes to the medium.

Getting it Down on Paper
By Cate McQuaid

Fifty years ago, Judy Kensley McKie majored in painting at Rhode Island School of Design. She and her husband, painter Todd McKie, married young; when they needed furniture for their place, Judy set to making it. Thus began an illustrious career in studio furniture.

The Ticket: Music, Theater, Dance, Art, and more
By Cate McQuaid

Judy Kensley McKie: Works on Paper

Judy Kensley McKie: Works on Paper
November 11 – December 17 at Gallery NAGA

2016 ends with a flourish. The most lauded artist to have developed in this region in the thirty-five years of the contemporary studio furniture movement, Judy Kensley McKie, now presents a large and varied exhibition of works on paper, most of which have never been presented before.

New England Images Heavy Focus Of ‘As We See It’ At NBMAA
By Susan Dunne

Gerry Bergstein: Skeleton Crew
October 7 – November 5 at Gallery NAGA

In October, Gallery NAGA presents Gerry Bergstein’s new paintings, which look like though they’ve been buried in art history’s tomb, subsequently unearthed – until Bergstein came along to salvage and make sense of it all.

Painting After Postmoderism | Belgium – USA
On View Sep 15 2016 – Nov 13 2016
Brussels, Belgium

According to Barbara Rose, curator of Painting After Postmodernism I Belgium – USA, the artists in this manifesto exhibition strive to restore tactility to painting, redefine drawing as part of the pictorial and go beyond Postmodernism using new techniques and materials to retrieve the fullness of painting as a major art that can hold its own with the masterpieces of the past.

13th Annual Blanche Ames National Art Exhibition
On View Sep 20, 2016 – Oct 8 2016
The Ames Mansion Borderland State Park

Mortal Things: Portraits Look Back and Forth
On View Sep 14 2016 – Dec 4 2016
Aidekman Arts Center

In honor of its 25^th anniversary, the Tufts University Art Gallery featuresMortal Things: Portraits Looks Back and Forth, an exhibition about the changing role of artists and subjects and portraiture as a means for examining individual, social, and institutional identities.

Ken Beck: Socks Shoes Soldiers and Such: A Studio Recreation
Harold Reddicliffe: Recent Small Paintings
September 6 – October 1 at Gallery NAGA

How better to begin a 40^th season of exhibitions than with a show bringing an artist’s studio into the gallery? Pair that with a painter having his first show at NAGA, and you’ve got September.

Painting and Drawing Faculty Member Assoc. Prof. Masako Kamiya (of Dorchester, MA) has received the 2016 Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Foundation Grant from the Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) and will be exhibiting her work at the PAAM in fall 2017.

Permanently on view
Enso Flats Brockton MA

A permanent drawing by Sophia Ainslie for the entrance of Enso Flats Gallery. Enso Flats is Brockton’s new Live-Work apartment complex for artists!