By JOHN PYPER Carlin Wing has a habit of pointing a camera up at the ceiling. Up there, on the blank ceiling, is nothing. Maybe some weird old marks, a light, a crack if the building is old enough, or…
By BIG RED Friday, April 2nd, 2010 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at the galleries of SoWa for the First Friday openings. Samson Projects Steven Zevitas Gallery/OSP Gallery Kayafas Carroll and Sons Howard Yezerski Gallery NK Gallery…
By BIG RED Saturday, April 3rd, 2010 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at LaMontagne Gallery for the openings of exhibitions by Tory Fair and Vera Iliatova. LaMontagne Gallery “Tory Fair” & “Vera Iliatova ” are on view…
By JAMES MANNING Saturday, March 27th, 2010 Big RED’s Jim Manning takes his video camera out for a night on-the-town at MEME for the opening of “8 Bits Per Pixel”, an exhibition of GIF animations curated by NADA and PrincessDie.…
By KAT KIERNAN I am not sure how to best treat a bloodstain. Is it cold water? Tide? Or must the ruined article of clothing be thrown away? These are the thoughts that ran through my mind while viewing a…
By KURT COLE EIDSVIG Kurt Cole Eidsvig is one of the first recipients of Art Writing Workshop fellowship, a collaboration between the Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program and the International Art Critics Association/USA Section (AICA/USA). The…
By MARTINA WINDELS BY ENTERING THE ZONE CREATED BY THIS DRAWING, AND FOR THE PERIOD YOU REMAIN THERE, YOU DECLARE AND AGREE THAT THE US CONSITUTION WILL NOT APPLY TO YOU. This statement is applied in bold black letters to…
By KAREN S. FEGLEY Although World War II ended 65 years ago and its slipstream, the Cold War, began to grind to a halt around 1985, the world remains an unquiet place. Since the Cold War, we have witnessed bloody…
By STEPHEN V. KOBASA War’s dogs are out and about. We should know this. A thousand Americans dead in Afghanistan, and the number of slaughtered civilians only an underestimated approximation. But we are not keen to have such news. In…
By MICAH J. MALONE Two recently opened shows in Portland, Oregon have positioned traditional and craft skills as a series of political acts: gestures that challenge convention and seek to re-affirm new roles within the discourse of art. While Timothy…
By CEARA DANAHER The Boston artists Jack W. Schneider, Alexander DeMaria, and Todd White came together in January to present “Dude, where’s my apocalypse?” at the fivesevendelle project space. One of the most compelling aspects of the show is the…
By SANDRINE SCHAEFER Many artists make work with the hope that they will one day see it in a gallery or museum, but Vela Phelan once told me that his assemblages are made not for these spaces, but for homes.…
By CHELSEY PHILPOT The LINES Ballet’s Friday night performance at the Institute of Contemporary Art began with false informality: the dancers, wearing sweatpants and t-shirts, warmed up on stage as the sold out audience took their seats. Though this display…
By LEAH TRIPLETT In his Brooklyn Rail essay last spring How to Look at Postmodern Painting and Its Criticism, Irving Sandler described his witness to the death of modernism, and emergence of postmodernism. Sandler writes that art criticism has failed…
Jessica Gath reckons she will have typed about 200 letters and postcards by the time she’s done. On a decades-old Royal “Quiet De Luxe” typewriter in immaculate condition, the painter and performance artist will be typing, folding and posting the…
By CLINTON D. CAMPBELL Elevator Repair Service’s production of “Gatz” currently playing at American Repertory Theater is a challenging but ultimately mundane experience. In this production an office worker suddenly finds a copy of “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott…
By MATTHEW NASH The Beginning of the End All good things must come to an end. Postmodernism has had its run, but perhaps the time has come to wonder if we are not entering some sort of endgame for the…
By DAVID DE VERNY Most works of art, especially in the visual arts, are created to capture concepts in a specific time, space or location. Object making, installation art, earth works or performance art are all about the here, now…
By ELENA SARNI The exhibition Evolution: Five Decades of Printmaking by David C. Driskell is making its last stop at the Portland Museum of Art after a two year national tour. The exhibit was organized by the David C. Driskell…
By MATTHEW NASH Tocsin (tok-sin) n. 1. a. An alarm sounded on a bell. n. 1. b. A bell used to sound an alarm. n. 2. A warning; an omen. Liz Nofziger makes installations that are more than site-specific; they…