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 the Rhys Gallery that the artistic vision and exploration has…
By MATTHEW NASH Print this article The main gallery at the RISD museum currently features the large-scale painting “Manifest Destiny” by Alexis Rockman. This emormous piece (8 by 24 feet) occupies an entire wall, and is surrounded by smaller paintings…
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 a remarkable challenge. Enter Jenifer Cawley, a young painter whose…
By BIG RED Print this article Ms. July’s film has proven to be such a conversation-piece, we have two reviews. Big RED regular Christian Holland, and Big RED newbie Craig Medvecky have both offered their thoughts. ME AND YOU AND…
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 in my sight. I see the enemy punching and yelling,…
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 interesting and relevant curatorial proposition and sees such fundamentally hybrid…
By MATTHEW NASH Print this article A little over a year ago, someone forwarded a URL to me for a website featuring a guy who had challenged Shaquille O’Neill to a free-throw competition. For each free-throw O’Neill made in a…
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 – – and wondered what it means. RSS is short for…
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. Finding the home of Jaune Quick to See Smith and…
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 Bradley Academy of Visual Arts in York, Pennsylvania. An exhibition…
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 American and international art stars. It was riveting to get…
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 un-gallery feeling gallery. The split levels divide the space into…
By MATTHEW NASH Print this article Brands distinguish things from one another. In marketing, essentially anything can be considered a brand, from a pack of gum or a tube of toothpaste to a magazine, a school, an airline, a hospital,…
By STEVE AISHMAN Print this article I remember walking by the teacher’s lounge when I was nine years old and I saw some teachers preparing a birthday cake. The teacher who was apparently in charge of the candles, told me…
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, with a non-scientific perspective. A group exhibition at OSP gallery…
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 we normally associate it with the world of cutesy kitsch.…
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, music was playing, and the macadam could have still been…
By JAMES NADEAU Print this article Does an artist have the responsibility to explain his/her work? Can the work exist as an entity unto itself? We are trained as artists to think critically about what we make, what we see…
By BIG RED Print this article July 7, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center for the opening of ph15: cameras, communities, connections. This exhibition featured photographs created by teenagers living in…
By BIG RED Print this article July 8th, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night in-the-rain at 450 Harrison Ave.