By JUDY KERMIS BLOTNICK Sitting on a beach in Provincetown, on a Saturday morning following the traditional Friday evening “gallery stroll” that the locals call “gallery creep,” I try to verbalize impressions, visions that I found engaging. I pull together…
By JUDY KERMIS BLOTNICK Sometime in early March I was walking across the Tufts campus and saw a flyer asking this question “Manliness: What is it?” I picked one off the wall that it was loosely taped to and tucked…
By JUDY KERMIS BLOTNICK On the First Friday in April, Russ Gerard, owner of Gurari Collections whose standard for measuring the timelessness of work is exacting, proudly exhibited the work of Vico Fabbris, the recipient of two Mass Cultural Council…
By JUDY KERMIS BLOTNICK Since last fall Toyota has recalled more than 8 million vehicles, 6 million of which were in the U.S. alone. Among the problems listed were accelerator pedals that got stuck, making it very difficult to stop…
By JUDY KERMIS BLOTNICK Brian Knep, 41, a Boston media artist, paints with his computer. He has perfected his technology to interact with the viewer, which has brought him an impressive amount of critical success since 2004. Just this month…
By JUDY KERMIS BLOTNICK “Painting broke my heart…. but it also saved my life,” said Gerry Bergstein at his gallery talk on December 5th. A romantic and a realist, an avid fan of contemporary culture and a man whose visual…
By JUDY KERMIS BLOTNICK Scott Schuman has logged some 15 years in the fashion industry during which time he learned the same truth that Yves St. Laurent stumbled on in the early 70’s. The best ideas, the most creative approaches…