“The Last Days of Pompeii” is a loaded phrase, conjuring both tragedy and opulence. Multimedia artist and musician Delia Gonzalez takes these words and burns them across a wall in a sultry pink, neon script in her solo exhibition List…
Object of Dread, Castledrone’s latest, intimate exhibition is a series of paintings and performance documentation. The work presents artists Steve Locke and Creighton Baxter as the directors of their own surrealist fever dream. Although Steve Locke’s Cruising series was created…
Just as the last embankments of winter snow dissipated into rivulets in the corners of Brown University’s campus, five mural-sized photographs of polar icescapes materialized on its prominent building facades. Installed in conjunction with the more traditional gallery exhibition, 33°,…
In 1951, the German philosopher Theodor Adorno wrote, “There can be no poetry after Auschwitz.” His assertion is pardonable but profoundly untenable. The supposed hole in the production of German art after 1943 was long understood as “the gap,” by…
Last year, Lucas Spivey parked his vintage Shasta camper on the Boston Center for the Arts Plaza, unfurled the awning, positioned a flamingo lawn ornament, and invited artists of all types inside to discuss business. As the BCA’s public art…
HARD: Subversive Representation, a group show on view at UMass Boston’s University Hall Gallery, mounts a bold critique of gendered systems of representation. Organized by Gallery Curator Sam Toabe, HARD is the companion to SOFT, a project at Sübsamsøn in…
Marta Kaemmer’s exhibition Pull It Together, at Musa Collective, paradoxically proposes synthesis through her innate ability to pull things apart. Her parts-to-whole process examines relationship and contingency, variability, invention, and transformation. Her intention is always to open a space for…
Things We Said Today, Joanne Greenbaum’s show of paintings, drawings and sculptures flirts with a see-saw fulcrum point where a work — whether painting or clay — just comes together, fresh with agency. The exhibition, curated by director and chief…
Photographer Nicholas Nixon’s exhibition, Persistence of Vision, centers around one of his most renowned series. The Brown Sisters began with an accidental discovery, not in the way of technique, but by capturing an image that proved worthy of recreating yearly…
The new year brought a story that seemed to be a long time coming. A group of Facebook architects harshly criticized the company for its involvement in the spread of fake news and voiced their concern that the company has…
She’s Not Here, on view through January 26th at VERY, features work by New York-based artists Heather Rowe and Meredyth Sparks. Although the artists work independently, in this installation their collective works propose an eerie narrative rooted in domestic nostalgia…
With its walls hung with Graham McDougal’s dizzying prints, and pedestals scattered across the floor with Bayne Peterson’s undulating sculptures perched atop them, Providence College’s Hunt-Cavanaugh Gallery takes on the feeling of a television set between channels, a physical manifestation…
Joe Bradley’s mid-career retrospective at the Rose Art Museum, on view through January 28, opens with a wall of drawings that may convince you that the survey stretches back to adolescence. A cartoon dog’s head floats on a largely empty…
“On a Clear Day You Can See Forever,” Dave J. Bermingham’s first solo show at Alpha Gallery derives its title from a musical of the same name. The musical’s plot revolves around an unexceptional woman harboring latent psychic powers. After…
Silent. Silence. Silenced contemplates sound and its absence via the work of Boston-based artists Charlene Liska and Christine Palamidessi, with contributions from the French sound artist Christine Coënon and the mobile artist John Wilkinson. The exhibition’s location, in the Atlantic…
It is now almost ten years after the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and sixteen since China joined the World Trade Organization. Three decades have elapsed since the Tiananmen Square protests, and half a century since the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.…
Drive-By Project’s Who Am I? The Sequel successfully deals with the anxiety of Trump’s America. On view through November 11, a year after the 2016 election, the thematic group exhibition provided a response to our volatile political climate. Like the…
Anchoring the SoWa district of Boston on Harrison Ave is Samson, a veteran gallery venerated for showing contemporary and meaningful exhibitions over the last 14 years. Their current (and final) show, “Immigrancy” focuses on the concepts of mobility and movement…
Painters & Photographers, curated by Jamilee Lacy, starts the gears turning with it’s title. Are these paintings or are they photographs? Yes, most of the artists presented use traditional photo processes to create their images, film, camera, enlarger, etc., but…
Artists take new directions in their work all the time: inspired anew by an idea, a medium untried, current events, or perhaps another artist’s work. Acclaimed international artist Annette Lemieux, known for decades for her conceptual, politically charged art, turned…