Todd Brugman finishes smoking his tobacco pipe and begins to carefully layer golden-orange oil paint onto a strip of birch panel. The light sketches of geometric figures in front of him wait patiently to be filled by layer after semi-transparent…
Artist David Buckley Borden and Harvard Forest Senior Ecologist Dr. Aaron Ellison, along with an interdisciplinary team of scientists and artists, created Warming Warning, most recently on view on Harvard’s Science Center Plaza, to place climate change data in the…
Every act of creation, by its mere existence, denies the world of master and slave. -Albert Camus, The Rebel We often hear people claim to be slaves to their work, or the system of work, which implies a type of…
Jane Wang is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and multimedia artist. She curates installation art, musical instrument construction, performance art, and video, among other domains. Wang is a member of the Mobius Artists Group, a Boston-based artist-run organization for experimental art that has…
Part of what makes us unique is that we contain bits of memories that belong to our histories and experiences. Yet we connect with each other and find solidarity through our being in the world. Even as people have become…
Recently, just after I viewed the group show Elevated at Gallery VERY in Boston which includes a painting by Candice Smith Corby and sculptures by Sheila Gallagher, Isabel Riley, and Douglas Weathersby, I had the occasion to see a solo…
The Firmament, the final exhibition at the Hood museum’s temporary downtown space, showcased Toyin Ojih Odutola’s recent portraits in oil pastels, charcoal, and pencil. Created between 2016 to 2017, Ojih Odutola portrays two Nigerian families: the UmuEze Amara, the oldest…
A panorama opens as you approach the crest of Prospect Hill in Harvard, Massachusetts. The vastness in graduated shades of distant blues and greens, immediately loosens one’s hold on time and space. A 180-degree view encompasses noteworthy peaks, from left…
Helen Singh-Miller is an artist and practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method of somatic education. Grand Union (2018), her new film incorporating elements of family life and postmodern dance, will be installed at the 33rd Bienal de São Paulo this fall.…
“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…
Tucked between Kevin Beasley’s immersive multi-room solo show and We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85, Caitlin Keogh’s first solo museum exhibition, Blank Melody, greets viewers with a handful of large scale, vibrant paintings. From a quick stroll around…
Nike Air Jordan 1 shoes, durags, rain jackets, kaftans, mouth guards, feathers, fitted caps, microphones, sound effect processors, amplifiers, polyurethane foam, and resin are all materials Kevin Beasley focuses on to evoke the spectral traces of the past and present…
*signage encouraging social interaction, held aloft by assistants at the entrances to Art Basel Returning from the commotion of Art Basel, its “region-wide art week,” and an exploration of Vienna, I’m encouraged to consider the interactive public and private art…
Carissa Rodriguez’s exhibition The Maid is currently on view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center. The exhibition includes several video works and photographs. The Maid examines the complex interconnections inherent to power dynamics in relation to labor. This is…
Tatiana Klusak’s work examines the various social cues and cultural norms we become accustomed to as we grow up. Beneath the playful and humorous surface of her work lies feelings of doubt, strain, inefficacy, and confusion. I’ll Tell You When…
Danielle Abrams’ (b. Queens, New York; lives and works in Boston) performances describe the multifaceted components inherent to a personal and radical interpretation of identity. She utilizes humor and narrative in her work, asserting that “laughter, incited by personifications of family and…
Un/Settled is a show of works on paper at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. Curator Jan Howard has selected works by contemporary RISD alumni from the museum’s collection. The general theme, with numerous variations, is geographic…
An exhibition of the work of New York-based artist Gordon Hall was on view at List Projects at the MIT’s List Visual Arts Center. Gordon’s practice incorporates Minimalist sculptural elements which are then navigated by the body of a performer. Audiences…
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…
