buying art in boston

Making a Scene

It used to be that artists came to Boston for school, only to graduate and run off to bigger cities with better markets. Now they’re sticking around, and the scene – for artists and collectors – keeps getting better.

By Stephen Jermanok

March 19, 2006

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In her apartment in Dorchester, Masako Kamiya keeps her brushes stored neatly in a jar, at the ready. She works in gouache, an opaque, water-based paint, forming abstract images from hundreds or thousands of pointillist dots that protrude from the work’s surface like Braille characters. Working in these dabs of color is a painstakingly slow process. It often takes Kamiya ... (Full article: 867 words)