ANDREW MOWBRAY @ SPACE OTHER
By MATTHEW NASH In his new body of work, titled “Bathyscape,” Andrew Mowbray attacks the notion of hegemonic masculinity, and employs the critical devices of post-feminism within a series of…
Author Matthew Nash
Matthew Nash
Matthew Nash is the founder of Big Red & Shiny. He is Associate Professor of Photography and New Media at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University and was the 2011-12 Chair of the University Faculty Assembly. Nash is half of the artist collaborative Harvey Loves Harvey, who are currently represented by Gallery Kayafas in Boston and have exhibited in numerous venues since 1992.
A CONVERSATION WITH REBECCA GORDON
By MATTHEW NASH After nineteen months and twelve shows, Second Gallery will be closing this summer. Rebecca Gordon, the 23-year-old director of Second Gallery, will be heading off to Chicago…
THE 2007 BOSTON CYBERARTS FESTIVAL
By MATTHEW NASH The 2007 Boston Cyberarts Festival has come to a close, and when looking back on the variety of shows, the range and complexity of new media works…
FEEDBACK LOOP: A CONVERSATION WITH LEF FOUNDATION
By MATTHEW NASH Looking at the websites and publications from artists and organizations throughout New England, one is struck by the consistent recurrence of the LEF Foundation logo. From large…
CAMILLE UTTERBACK @ ART INTERACTIVE
By MATTHEW NASH Sometimes it seems as if there is a deep divide in the ways we discuss art in our current moment. On one hand, there is a form…
2007 BIENNIAL @ THE PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART
By MATTHEW NASH Currently on view at the Portland Museum of Art is the 2007 Biennial, a juried exhibition that fills the entire ground floor of the Museum, and spreads…
PICTURE SHOW @ PRC
By MATTHEW NASH Thomas Edison’s landmark 1903 film “The Great Train Robbery” ends with a famous shot of a bandit firing his gun at the camera. Wikipedia notes that “(a)udiences…
CONSIDERING PUBLIC ART WITH THE BERWICK
On Friday, April 12th, The Berwick Research Institute hosted a dinner at the studio of artist Jill Slosburg-Ackerman in Somerville. The purpose of the dinner was to discuss the state…
ARTHOUSE @ 73 SPRING PARK AVE.
By MATTHEW NASH “Are you here for the art, or for the property?” This question was overheard several times during my visit to the latest incarnation of Arthouse, this time…
AXIOMATIC: HEIDI KAYSER & PHAEDRA SHANBAUM
By MATTHEW NASH Axiom Gallery is a survivor. The past two years have seen them in three different venues, and while their exhibition record only boasts nine or ten shows,…
WHAT DO WE EXPECT FROM ART CRITICISM?
By MATTHEW NASH Print this article After reading and reviewing the new book “Critical Mess,” and reading others’ responses to it, I am left with the lingering question of what,…
CONSIDERING THE “CRITICAL MESS”
By MATTHEW NASH Print this article Part I: The Crisis In the new book Critical Mess: Art Critics on the State of their Practice, edited by Raphael Rubinstein, the heavyweights…
BIG RED’S THIRD BIRTHDAY
By MATTHEW NASH Print this article In the autumn of 2002, I was starting my second year of teaching at the Museum School in Boston. Among the graduate students, and…
A CONVERSATION WITH ROSIE BRANSON GILL & BONNIE BASTIEN
By MATTHEW NASH Print this article The Berwick Research Institute is in a time of transition. Director Meg Rotzel has stepped down from her leadership role, and although she is…
A CONVERSATION WITH LYDIA RUBY
By When Colin Rhys announced that he would be moving Rhys Gallery from his loft on Northampton Street to a plush new space on Harrison, adjacent to the SoWa complex,…
LE MUSÉE PATAMÉCANIQUE
By MATTHEW NASH ‘Patamechanics is a method of discovering/manifesting artifacts’ much like those of the ancient Wonder-rooms, ‘which symbolically attribute their properties described by their virtuality to their lineaments.’ A…
ART CAKE @ AXIOM
By MATTHEW NASH On Friday, November 3 there were two competing receptions to choose from. The first was the juggernaut of SoWa First Fridays, usually crowded with a wide range…
A LETTER
By MATTHEW NASH I recently had a very pleasant conversation with a gentleman named Raymond Liddell. He is a professor of art history where I work, and in the course…
KAREN MOSS @ PEPPER GALLERY
By MATTHEW NASH The American childhood is a much discussed institution, often held up as something to be protected against the loss of innocence that is adulthood. Thus we put…
IS THERE TOO MUCH ART?
By MATTHEW NASH Art does not die because there is no more art, it dies because there is too much. Jean Baudrillard [1] Is there too much art? What a…