By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Do all stories have a climax, breaking point, or fulcrum of sorts? Well, they all can, but how the story is spoken, written, played, drawn, or however the author, (whether they know they are an author not),…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Deep Wounds is nothing new from Brian Knep, though it was a commissioned piece, and—to his credit—by both the Office for the Arts of Harvard University and the Department of Systems Biology of Harvard Medical School. If…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Christian Holland: I think this is the 3rd time you’ve been in the Whitney Biennial? Joe Gibbons: It’s actually the 4th time, starting in 95, I think. CH: I guess the first time an artist is in…
By PHAEDRA SHANBAUM As the only Boston representatives of the newly opened Whitney Biennial “Day for Night”, I thought it appropriate to give local filmmakers Louise Bourque and Joe Gibbons some much-deserved attention. I asked new Big RED & Shiny…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND The irony of much public art, especially that which came in the last third of the 20th century, is that it is hardly public at all. It does not engage the intended audience; it is too abstruse…
By MICAH J. MALONE Mel Ziegler and Kate Ericson produced some of the most important and challenging work of their generation during their ten-year collaboration between 1985-1995. The largest survey to date of their often overlooked and complex production opened…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND “You are a brave man,” Raishad Glover said to me with subtle sympathy as he wheeled me, head first, into the Coach TV performance space at last weekend’s performance art festival in Fort Point, aptly called Contaminate.…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Cinema is principally a visual medium; movement and light (i.e. color and shade) are its essential properties. Some of its ancillary aspects are visual composition, in the same way as painting, and synchronized sound, which only came…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND The ubiquity of the grid in our culture may explain the fascination with it. Unconsciously, consciously and self-consciously, artists, designers, mathematicians and just about everybody who’s ever sat in front of a computer employs the grid to…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND When an artist represents something, whether they be a writer, painter, sculptor, etc., they must determine, among other things, how much they would like to show and tell us in order achieve that representation. The artist Robin…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND The Mildred S. Lee Gallery of the Rose Art Museum sounds like the courtyard garden of a large apartment complex. It is currently the site of 12 white gallery pedestals of varying heights, each one topped with…
By MATTHEW NASH I have to admit, I’m disappointed. A few issues back, I offered up a chance for the readers of Big RED & Shiny to design an issue of our little pink website. This came out of many…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article Will we ever tire of 9/11 artwork? Probably not, just as long as the framers of popular debate continue to espouse viewpoints that only take into account the two most disparate philosophies they are…
By BIG RED AN INTERVIEW WITH KIRSTEN FORKERT by RACHEL GEPNER THE ARTIST IN RESEARCH RESIDENCY by MATTHEW NASH THE BERWICK IN BOSTON by CHRISTIAN HOLLAND THE REVOLVING DINNER by MICAH MALONE For an Institute dedicated to supporting “concept-driven…
By BIG RED STAFF Print this article THE GRAPHIC IMPERATIVE: POLITICAL POSTERS @ MASSART by BEN SLOAT LUEDERS-BOOTH & TUCKERMAN @ THE ART INSTITUTE OF BOSTON by MATTHEW NASH SONIFICATION/LISTENING UP @ MIT (BLGD 54) by ANNEKA LENSSEN JESSICA STOCKHOLDER…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article Perhaps an appropriate show as Axiom’s finale at its Allston space, MASS MEDIA included the work of 21 new media artists in its comparatively small space. Axiom’s director and curator of MASS MEDIA, Heidi…
By BIG RED Print this article Ms. July’s film has proven to be such a conversation-piece, we have two reviews. Big RED regular Christian Holland, and Big RED newbie Craig Medvecky have both offered their thoughts. ME AND YOU AND…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article Nature is everything (energy, matter, etc.) (as far as I know). impersonature is the 27th show at Sand T’s artSPACE@16. Nature, in our anthropocentric concept of reality, is most often defined by everything not…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article There was little interest in this show during its first few weeks up. One might guess that it was because it was billed simply as New Media Art from Finland. I am personally, as…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article I set out across the Atlantic Ocean to visit old England for the first time in my life. I was going to London, and it was the same weekend the (former) Pope died, which…