A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
By MATTHEW GAMBER N: Hey Gamber, how’s the letter coming? G: Nash, what is the minimum we need to say? Goodbye 53; welcome 54. This issue: A report on the…
Author Matthew Gamber
Matthew Gamber
Matthew Gamber is a Boston-based artist with a BFA from Bowling Green State University and an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts / Tufts University. He has taught at Art Institute of Boston / Lesley University, Boston College, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, College of the Holy Cross, Savannah College of Art & Design, and Massachusetts College of Art & Design and worked on digital preservation projects for Harvard University and the Boston Public Library. Matthew was the Editor in Chief of Big Red & Shiny from 2004 to 2010.
A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR: MUSINGS ON THE NEW ICA
By MATTHEW GAMBER This past Thursday, Big RED was one of many press outlets given the opportunity to view the new Diller Scofidio + Renfro building, the new home of…
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR: A RESPONSE TO DESIRE
By MATTHEW GAMBER A professor I once had was always probing students for the core of what made people want to create. She was little interested in what socialized rationale…
A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
By MATTHEW GAMBER Like the 49 issues that have come before, we offer the 50th serving of articles, reviews, news and columns. Our first reaction was to congratulate ourselves and…
PAM LARSON @ SECOND GALLERY
By MATTHEW GAMBER A contemporary riddle: How many Ansel Adams calendars does the Sierra Club have to sell to support awareness of the John Muir trail? Based on sales, many…
A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
By MATTHEW GAMBER Here ’tis, the 46th installment (or episode, as Mr. Warmouth referred to it – you are looking at a screen). This issue of Big RED, by default,…
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
By MATTHEW GAMBER Readers, donors – dedicated and new: No commemorative DVD’s were offered! No tote bags! No coffee mugs! No operators were standing by! No phones! Yet, you continued…
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
By MATTHEW GAMBER Today was Sunday; this is 41, our next offering. I have liked them both, simultaneously. Some of you, no doubt, will be reading this issue asynchronously with…
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
By MATTHEW GAMBER I have had the opportunity, in close proximity, to be on both sides of the application process. If you’ve read though parts of Issue 35, and you…
FROM THE EDITOR
By MATTHEW GAMBER In elementary school, my sister discarded (or left in my dresser, for whatever reason), an unlicensed Lakers t-shirt. I decided to wear it to school the next…
MOTHERSBAUGH @ THE PARADISE LOUNGE
By MATTHEW GAMBER Snapshots and studio photographs both represent a cultural norm of either actual or imagined American history. One represents the everyday and the the latter dignifies the celebratory…
A CONVERSATION WITH KEN FEINGOLD
By MATTHEW GAMBER Print this article Ken Feingold is an artist whose work has explored the communicative capacity of video installation, web-based programming, and “cinematic sculpture.” Feingold is a recipient…
SITE SPECIFIC @ ARTSPACE@16
By MATTHEW GAMBER Print this article What does it mean to understand the concept of place and how do we define it? Cultural essayist J. B. Jackson described the origin…
JOHN O’REILLY @ HOWARD YEZERSKI
By MATTHEW GAMBER Print this article Characterized by its elongated horizontal size and finely articulated details, the panorama was originated as a painting format in the nineteenth century. In a…
HENRY HORNSTEIN @ THE PRC
By MATTHEW GAMBER Print this article As part of their Northeast Exposure Series, the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University presents Honky Tonk: Portraits of Country Music 1972-1981. The exhibition…
MUSINGS AROUND ANNA COLLETTE @ BERNARD TOALE GALLERY
By MATTHEW GAMBER Print this article In 1975, the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House in Rochester rang a death knell on the landscape photography as popularized in…