By RACHEL GEPNER April 1st of last year I was homeless, penniless and jobless, but I had a studio in 450 Harrison Ave in SoWa. I still remember how proud I was the first time I went in to work.…
By RACHEL GEPNER Under normal circumstances this piece would have appeared in the “On the Town” section of Big RED & Shiny because I didn’t intend to review the work when I arrived (or even when I left) the show.…
By RACHEL GEPNER I had a hard time coming up with a topic for my Letter From the Editor. I wanted to say something pertinent and useful and possibly even intelligent – to discuss what’s been on my mind and…
By RACHEL GEPNER I have an image burned into my memory of a seafoam green floor and a pink face. I think of the 80s. Excess. Commercialism. Poor packaging. Bad design. Unflattering lighting. Shitty taste. Cultural decay. Death and meaninglessness.…
By RACHEL GEPNER The subject of art in academia is something that I feel very strongly about and it is a subject that is unavoidable in Boston. You can’t throw a rock without hitting a school in this town and…
By RACHEL GEPNER IS THIS HOW I’M SUPPOSED TO ANSWER? by STEVE AISHMAN POSITIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE by JENNIFER SCHMIDT WEALTH OF RESOURCES by MEG ROTZEL FACT V. FICTION by ANNEKA LENSSEN CULTIVATING ARTISTS by ANTHONY TUCK RIGIDITY IN…
By RACHEL GEPNER Back in the olden days, groups of people united into tribes and began to hang out and draw deer and suns and little stick people on cave walls all over the world. Seems like not much has…
By RACHEL GEPNER The blogs have already had a field day with Kevin McCormick’s tragic and luridly fascinating death (“To think I’ve been walking three blocks for coffee…”), and the papers practically shit their pants about it: the horror! Across…
By RACHEL GEPNER It would be hard to have missed the recent proliferation of digital photography. It’s even at WalMart. Inevitably there has been an equally large upsurge in the number of crappy digital photographs, but there are also a…
By RACHEL GEPNER Last week a writer sent me a copy of Samson Projects’ press release from the show Off My Biscuit, Destroy the District and a note saying, “I’ve never seen it’s kind before but THIS IS ART WRITING.”…
By RACHEL GEPNER Print this article Flip through an issue of Metropolis magazine and you’ll encounter stories about office chairs that save our spines, restaurants that save dining, and bus shelters that save bus waiting. Its pages of glossy photos…
By RACHEL GEPNER Print this article The Rhys Gallery is located on an unassuming side street between a project and the discount liquor store. It’s a beautiful, surprisingly comfortable and un-gallery feeling gallery. The split levels divide the space into…
By RACHEL GEPNER Print this article When Leslie Hall wanted to fund a project and needed people to work with she “looked around and asked, ‘What do my friends and I all have in common? Well, we’re fat.'” And Fat…