By NATALIE LOVELESS As many reviews on Gerry Bergstein’s current work have noted, there is something new to see here: small story book figures– “witnesses” inserted into Bergstein’s cataclysmic landscapes. I Love Architecture #3 shows a red-shirted man, holding a…
By BIG RED Saturday December 5th 2009 Candid photos from a Big RED day on-the-town at Rifrákt collective in Jamaica Plain for their holiday art sale. Featuring the work of Boston based emerging artists: Siobhan Bledsoe, Nick Day, Colby Drasher,…
By BIG RED Saturday December 5th 2009 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at MEME for the opening of Tim Bailey: Ten Fingers MEME: an active manifestation “Tim Bailey: Ten Fingers” is on view through December 19th at…
By BIG RED Friday, November 13 & Friday, November 20, 2009 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at AXIOM for the opening of Riders On The Train, curated by Nance Davies. Included are also photos from the artists’…
By BIG RED Saturday, December 12th 2009 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at Engine Company 40 Firehouse in East Boston for the opening of Liz Nofziger’s multimedia installation Tocsin. Tocsin project website “Tocsin” is on view December…
By BIG RED Saturday, December 12, 2009 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at Massachusetts College of Art for Spark: A Gala Celebration. This event was the 5th Anniversary celebration for Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media…
By BIG RED & SHINY The Roundtable is a forum in which the Big RED & Shiny editors discuss issues in contemporary art today. Periodically these discussions result in questions worth further discussion, and this column proposes these ideas and…
By SAM MCKINNISS In Real Art Ways’ front room gallery, Zak Ove’s group of photographs entitled Blue Devils (from the Transfigura series) greets viewers with a startling view of Trinidad Carnival. Large-scale photographs show men and women in gruesome masquerade…
By MIKE MENNONNO Stacey Alickman’s work comes in two flavors: acrylics – or oil – on canvas, and gouache on paper. Her rich, dark and dense acrylic and oil canvases are sprinkled with bright, fanciful creatures composed of simple shapes,…
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 STEPHEN V. KOBASA Comedy refuses mortality. That is Buster Keaton’s lesson, and why, I think, he is a greater artist than Charlie Chaplin. There is something too elaborately contrived about all of Chaplin’s encounters with disaster; he simpers too…
By MICAH MALONE & MATTHEW NASH While editing the article “How To Start And Run An Alternative Gallery Space” by Big RED publisher Matthew Nash in issue #118, editor Micah Malone proposed: I would love a piece that talks more…
By ALISE UPITIS & MEG ROTZEL Performa, the New York-based performance art biennale, had its third iteration in November. Performa’s founding director and curator is RoseLee Goldberg, who in 1979 published the first, now seminal, history of performance art. This…
