ADDITION THROUGH SUBTRACTION: IN THE STUDIO WITH BENNO FRIEDMAN
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article “If you look at an image of a rock and the shadow that it casts, what happens when you remove the rock and focus…
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BEER AND BURGERS WITH ARTIST RICK HARLOW
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Currently Rick Harlow, my next door neighbor in the Eclipse Mill artist/ loft building in North Adams, Massachusetts is spending a month among the…
BEER AND BURGERS WITH JANE FARVER
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article When Jane Farver left the position of chief curator at the Queens Museum to become director of the MIT-List Visual Arts Center in 1999,…
CHIAPPETTA, FLAHERTY & LOIK @ RHYS GALLERY
By REESE INMAN Print this article While I’ve followed Corinn Flaherty’s work with interest over the past year or so, it’s apparent upon viewing her latest installation, “Personal Topography,” at…
JENNIFER CAWLEY@ LANOUE FINE ART
By JONATHAN FARDY Print this article To communicate anything in the mute medium of paint is a hard thing to do well, but speaking about communication itself through it, is…
DISENCHANTED AND DISMAYED: THE ONCE (MIGHT HAVE BEEN) GREAT HEROINES OF THE SITH AND THE MATRIX
By HEIDI MARSTON Print this article I hear the voice in my head saying, “run”, but I don’t. I move faster, faster towards the enemy. I only see the target…
SYNTHETIC ART: PERSPECTIVE I
By KARINE JOUENNE & REESE INMAN Print this article Artist Ken Feingold, interviewed by Karine Jouenne at his New York studio in July, considers the idea of Synthetic Art an…
BIG RED RSS FEED
By BIG RED Print this article If you surf the web a lot, you’ve probably run across this icon – – a few times. Perhaps you’ve seen it’s cousin -…
JAUNE QUICK TO SEE SMITH
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article It was with great relief that we pulled into the driveway behind a wall along a country road in rural New Mexico near Albuquerque.…
IN THE STUDIO WITH RIC HAYNES
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article In the studio are large, figurative, plywood cutouts, meant to be free-standing, that Ric Haynes is about to pack up and drive to the…
COLD SWEAT: GETTING EMOTIONAL @ THE ICA
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article This summer exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art brings to Boston, some for the very first time, a stunning array of A list…
BRENTON, MANOCK, BRODELL, COADY & WILLMONT @ RHYS GALLERY
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…
FAUX NAIVE @ OSP
By MARINA VERONICA Print this article Henri Rousseau, the self-taught French artist, influenced early modernists, like Matisse and Picasso, with his “naive” style – predictably childlike, brightly colored, and imaginary,…
REBECCA NORRIS WEBB @ THE GRIFFIN
By JONATHAN FARDY Print this article Animal art. That’s a pairing of words whose particular combination can send many in the art world running for the door. But that’s because…
TEST 7 @ INTERNATIONAL BICYCLE CENTER
By ANNEKA LENSSEN Print this article The Allston parking lot setting for the most recent TEST 7, felt like a throwback to some long gone American summer. Students were milling,…
SYNTHETIC ART: GENESIS
By KARINE JOUENNE & REESE INMAN Print this article As part of a continuing series proposing an interpretation of ‘Synthetic Art’, this issue presents a conversation between gallerist/curator Karine Jouenne…
3 OUT WEST WITH CHARLES GIULIANO
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Because of the daunting exchange of dollars for euros, for the first time in fifteen years, Charles Giuliano opted not to make the annual…
GETTING EMOTIONAL @ THE ICA
By DINA DEITSCH Print this article Sensitivity awareness seemingly grew with the speed and ferocity of the internet bubble during 1990s. Not to say that the emotional bubble has since…
OP-ISH @ SAMSON PROJECTS
By MARINA VERONICA Print this article In 1938, Victor Vasarely, a Hungarian-born artist, painted “Zebra” – claiming that the optical illusion generated from the black and white pattern on a…
FAT GIRLS, PHAT ART @ JP ART MARKET
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…