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By Olivia KiersJune 6, 2017 2

Matrices of Memory: Caroline Bagenal’s Summer Palace

The ethereal aesthetic of Caroline Bagenal’s Summer Palace—on view at Boston Sculptors Gallery through June 11—awakens one’s emotions. In this exhibition, her sculptures hang from the ceiling rather than stand on plinths. They activate the gallery’s negative space, immediately engaging…

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By Silvi NaciMay 30, 2017 0

Alida Cervantes: Majas, cambujas y virreinacas

Majas, cambujas y virreinacas by Alida Cervantes, currently on view at the Mills Gallery and curated by Candice Ivy, presents a series of works which integrate Mexico’s racially and socially charged colonial past with personal experiences and investigations of the…

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By Karolina HacMay 16, 2017 0

Give and Take: Evelyn Rydz’s Floating Artifacts

Evelyn Rydz’s Floating Artifacts, at the Aidekman Arts Center, is presented as a part of SMFA’s larger project, The Ocean After Nature, which examines the human effects on the ocean. Rydz’s collecting, cataloging, and display of the “floating artifacts” is…

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By Frank RednerMay 15, 2017 1

Suggested for You at localhost & LUCAD

Suggested for You, the third exhibition curated and organized by localhost, is hosted on the video game platform Minecraft—a game devoted to crafting, building, and rebuilding. The game, which allows users to create entire virtual worlds, transmits the gallery experience…

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By Raina BelleauMay 8, 2017 0

Review: The Split at GRIN

At first glance, The Split, curated by Amanda Schmitt, feels schizophrenic. The works span media from video to drawing, painting, sound, and sculpture and a diagonal wall physically extenuates the mental dissonance. At first, it is very tempting to read…

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By Raina BelleauApril 26, 2017 0

Pierre Huyghe at the Bell Gallery at Brown University

Stills from Pierre Huyghe’s 19-minute video, Untitled (Human Mask) have haunted me since its 2014 debut. The image of the ghostly porcelain face touched ever so gently by the impish hairy hand has appeared and reappeared before me in magazines…

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By Karolina HacApril 12, 2017 0

Timeless, yet Topical: Sidetracked at Drive-by Projects

Sidetracked, which occupies the storefront gallery in Watertown, Drive-by Projects, is a group show featuring work by Katherine Mitchell DiRico, Mike Witt and Andy Bablo. Though they use quite different materials, these artists address communication and modes of transmission in…

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By Karolina HacApril 5, 2017 0

West: Kathya Maria Landeros at kijidome

West, Kathya M. Landeros’s photography show at kijidome, presents both the people and the land of Central California and Eastern Washington State, bringing a particular reality – that of Latinx agricultural communities in these regions – into focus. In a…

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By Stace BrandtMarch 30, 2017 0

Dana Clancy: Sightlines

A sightline refers to a direct line of vision between spectator and an object in view, whether it’s the Washington Monument, a Broadway musical, or an NFL playoff game. To painter Dana Clancy, sightlines are a way to compose and…

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By Julianna ThibodeauxMarch 23, 2017 0

Darkness, Light and the Political Zeitgeist: Corey Escoto

Corey Escoto’s current solo show at Samsøn Projects, “A Routine Pattern of Troubling Behaviour,” is far more than at first meets the eye. When I walked into the gallery, a spare white rectangle, the works seemed quiet and unassuming. Until I…

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By Alexander CastroMarch 22, 2017 0

See It Before It’s Gone: Allison Paschke at AS220

Providence artist Allison Paschke can be disobedient in museums. Sometimes, she’ll find a sculpture or object irresistible, and smooth her hand carefully over its surface. In her latest exhibit at AS220 Project Space, Paschke extends this “mischievous glee” to her…

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By Silvi NaciMarch 16, 2017 0

The NO That Brought Us Together: KNOW NO by Masary Studios

Whenever an immersive art experience takes place in Boston, I hear many people say: “This is exactly what Boston needs…we need more of this.” I don’t think it’s the spectacle people need. I think people crave a space where they…

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By Caroline BagenalMarch 15, 2017 0

“As I See You, You See Me”

Observance: As I See You, You See Me (up through April 8 at the Montserrat College of Art Gallery in Beverley, MA) is an exhibition of portrait photography that features multiple viewpoints on identity. Curated by Leonie Bradbury, the variety…

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By Lilly SaywitzMarch 8, 2017 0

Through Fresh Eyes: Doug Weathersby’s A Year in Review

Doug Weathersby turns the act of cleaning and organizing into his art. For $60 an hour, Environmental Service will perform any task that the customer may need, from house painting and studio cleanup to art installation. He takes the fragments…

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By Alexander CastroMarch 7, 2017 0

See It Before It’s Gone: Cabell & Foster at GRIN

In One Makes an Instrument of Themselves, and is Estranged Also, collaborators Mimi Cabell and Lindsay Foster probe the “the commercialized self, the marketized private life.” As today’s corporate landscape ostensibly reorients itself toward workers’ happiness, Cabell and Foster remind…

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By Jonathan TalitMarch 2, 2017 1

Half Full: MassArt’s Material-Based Show Inspires Optimism

Vitreous Bodies: Assembled Visions in Glass centers on the material of glass, but maneuvers past the typical, disposable aftertaste of many material-based exhibits. Located at MassArt’s Stephen D. Paine Gallery, the show gathers over a dozen international artists who use…

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By Tynan ByrneMarch 1, 2017 0

See It Before It’s Gone: DRAW/Boston at MassArt

DRAW/Boston, an exhibition of over 60 artists curated by Tomas Vu, toys with scale, color, style, and sound, wedding the scholarly air of a professional university gallery with the aesthetic resemblances of a working artist’s studio. The arrangement alone warrants…

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By Leah GallantFebruary 22, 2017 0

Portrait of the 2016 Montreal Biennial

My favorite piece in the 2016 edition of the Montreal Biennial was also the oldest by nearly five centuries: Lucas Cranach the Elder’s Portrait of a Lady. Like any anatomically correct 16th century woman, her waist is the width of…

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By Leah Triplett HarringtonFebruary 1, 2017 0

Pictures, Politics, and Post-Truths: The CMCA Biennial

“For local control all you need is a place, political say and a way to make a living; it’s a practical matter. For local art you need a whole culture.” Donald Judd, “Imperialism, Nationalism and Regionalism,” October, 1975[i] Richard Van…

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By Silvi NaciJanuary 30, 2017 0

Scaffolding For Future Repairs: A Goldstein Reflex

I first experienced Audrey Goldstein’s work at the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA), after she had won the SMFA Traveling Fellowship in 2007. Goldstein exhibited two healing machines: “Generosity Generator” and “The Medicine Cabinets”, which investigated our internal systems,…

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