Process I am fascinated by what was and what will be, by landscapes and the people that inhabit them. I like to imagine what that landscape and the people in it will be like in the future, a future fairytale…
A drawing, mid air. Magically floating just off the ground, with a shadow gracefully leading back up the wall. Stand for a minute, and the pins will wink at you, suggesting sparks from the fire that once turned this…
In his essay The Accidental Audience, Brad Troemel examines the life of the casual Internet user and his or her unwitting relationship to art. The question Troemel poses is, “On Tumblr, users can look at art without even realizing it.…
Upon first graduating from art school I was determined to earn my living as an artist no matter what happened. I didn’t have a back up plan and just went for it, showing my work everywhere, meeting as many…
The Bostonian Society announced on March 18 that it is the recipient of a $14,000 gift from the Boston Duck Tours toward the restoration of the unicorn atop the historic Old State House building. Both symbols of the British monarchy,…
Mark Bradford Father, You Have Murdered Me 2012 102 x 144 inches mixed media collage on canvas Photograph courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co. Rules against touching the art always seem odd when you consider that most paintings and…
Brutalist buildings are the great unloved structures of our time. No other style of architecture can get a rise out of the public faster than an all-concrete behemoth in the center of town, usually surrounded by an abandoned, windblown plaza.…
“Poïesis is etymologically derived from the ancient Greek term ποιέω, which means “to make”. This word, the root of our modern “poetry”, was first a verb, an action that transforms and continues the world. Neither technical production nor creation…
Cadmium beauty. There is something luscious about red. This one in particular. It is so pure and vibrant that the addition would only diffuse its impact. Dumas slathers her composition in it. That bright cadmium jumps forward so aggressively…
Returning to the “Pumpkin House,” a burnt orange triple-decker in Jamaica Plain’s Hyde Square, was as surreal and potent in many respects as attending the opening event. This most recent exhibit by the local group, Fresh Collective, entitled Not All…
AFTER: My First Haircut, on the side of Lawson’s Brothers Hairstyling Salon, Egleston Square, Jamaica Plain. Photo: Courtesy of Anulfo Baez A little over a year ago, I wrote a short essay for the Boston Society of Architects titled…
Lumen Collective is an interdisciplinary arts collective made up of eight to ten artists, aged 22 to 28 years, from diverse backgrounds and working in various media. Its members are Ben Aron, Andrea Zampitella, Angelina Zhou, Mary Booras, Danielle Freiman,…
I am interested in the idea of a collective object permanence; how to combine myths with reality; merging fact with fiction; I use the traditional tools of an illustrator to communicate these ideas. I like to make beautiful, detailed images…
Wednesday, we published a piece titled “Prescription for a Healthy Art Scene” and invited readers to think about where they fit in the ecosystem, and speak up about how they see themselves contributing to it. Among all the interesting insights…
Looking at me, it is obvious that I am a young African-American woman. Some may see pride behind the firm position of my lips, others may see that I am a person who is always looking, looking deep into…
In the months leading up to Big Red & Shiny’s relaunch, the editorial team spent a lot of time developing our mission statement. Our ideas for it were many and varied, but our discussions often led back to the same…
In solidarity with major cultural institutions in Bosnia-Herzegovina, MIT’s List Visual Arts Center has joined Culture Shutdown, an international awareness campaign, and has taped off the entrance to their exhibitions Amalia Pica and Olivier Laric: Versions for the day. Last…
Given the criteria that the guest artist-in-residence to follow me must 1. work in a different medium, and 2. live elsewhere, choosing March’s Inside Out contributor proved more difficult than I thought. It basically meant I needed to cold-call…
The lines are made of yarn, carefully and precisely establishing invisible walls. The planes cut through our space. They prepare an odd, triangular room for us. Navigate me, they say. Come, question me. Respect my negative space, even as you…
Inside Out: Twenty+ Sentences I recently came across this list of twenty sentences on photography by Norwegian born, L.A. based, Torbjørn Rødland: 1. The muteness of a photograph matters as much as its ability to speak. 2. The juxtaposition of…