To close Women’s History Month, the editors are highlighting the work of (only) 9 daring and talented female artists you might to pay a visit to, virtually, or in person at their nearby studios. Caroline Bagenal, Boston area Toron, 2012…
Process I am fascinated by what was and what will be, by landscapes and the people that inhabit them. I like to imagine what that landscape and the people in it will be like in the future, a future fairytale…
A drawing, mid air. Magically floating just off the ground, with a shadow gracefully leading back up the wall. Stand for a minute, and the pins will wink at you, suggesting sparks from the fire that once turned this…
In his essay The Accidental Audience, Brad Troemel examines the life of the casual Internet user and his or her unwitting relationship to art. The question Troemel poses is, “On Tumblr, users can look at art without even realizing it.…
Liz Lee, Sun Prints Image Courtesy of the Artist A show of alternative-process photos could be anything these days — from the historic analog (chemical) processes to non-standard digital manipulations to printing on atypical materials, and beyond. The PRC’s “Unconventional…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events/screenings/exhibitions/performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see this week: • Events Tuesday March 26 Museum of Fine Arts, Alfond Auditorium, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston Visiting Lecture:…
Our guest on this episode of Studio Sessions is Maximiliano Sinani. Maximiliano earned his undergraduate degree from the Universidad Mayor de San Andres in La Paz, Bolivia, and his MFA from the School of Visual Arts. Maximiliano’s works often involve…
João Ribas maintains that Amalia Pica’s work should be listened to. Other than the clatter of a slide-tray as it works its way around a carousel, this means listening to silence, more accurately, to the white noise of an exhibition…
Upon first graduating from art school I was determined to earn my living as an artist no matter what happened. I didn’t have a back up plan and just went for it, showing my work everywhere, meeting as many…
The Bostonian Society announced on March 18 that it is the recipient of a $14,000 gift from the Boston Duck Tours toward the restoration of the unicorn atop the historic Old State House building. Both symbols of the British monarchy,…
Mark Bradford Father, You Have Murdered Me 2012 102 x 144 inches mixed media collage on canvas Photograph courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co. Rules against touching the art always seem odd when you consider that most paintings and…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events/screenings/exhibitions/performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see this week: • Events Tuesday March 19 Rose Art Museum, Brandis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA Artist Talk:…
On view this March at Laconia Gallery is an unassuming yet satisfying two-person show featuring the work of Danielle Kelly and Gary LaPointe, both BFA candidates from the Art Institute of Boston. This show explores the poetics of the fragmented:…
On Thursday, February 28 the Art Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston, in conjunction with Associate Professor of Art History David Areford’s course Art 210: Queer Visual Culture, welcomed the artist Avram Finkelstein for an hour-long lecture and Q&A…
The book is printed on black-and-white heavyweight paper.1 It has a pale-gray, cardstock cover, lightly embossed with a grid of six squares on the front, and with the negative space between them on the back. The font, with a few…
From Above and Below is Sharon Harper’s first monograph, published earlier this year by Radius Books. With its lush 11×14″ reproductions, where images from seven distinct projects dating 2001 to 2012 are married and juxtaposed, it skirts the world of…
Editor’s Note: On Thursday, February 28 the Art Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston, in conjunction with Associate Professor of Art History David Areford’s course “Art 210: Queer Visual Culture,” welcomed the artist Avram Finkelstein for an hour-long lecture…
Brutalist buildings are the great unloved structures of our time. No other style of architecture can get a rise out of the public faster than an all-concrete behemoth in the center of town, usually surrounded by an abandoned, windblown plaza.…
“Poïesis is etymologically derived from the ancient Greek term ποιέω, which means “to make”. This word, the root of our modern “poetry”, was first a verb, an action that transforms and continues the world. Neither technical production nor creation…
Clifford Landon Pun Opium, No Pun Intended, 2011 Digital print on plinth, 36″ x 54 Image Courtesy Melissa Blackall Photography It sounds like a karaoke bar, a din of voices carrying on private conversations while someone in the back…