By JESS T. DUGAN Moyra Davey is an artist and photographer, based in New York. Her current exhibit, Long Life Cool White, is currently on display at the Fogg Art Museum, featuring work from her 2008 publication by the same…
By MATTHEW NASH & MATTHEW GAMBER Ben Sloat’s new exhibition “Death Is Just A Rumor Spread By Life” at Laconia Gallery is an intense and thoughtful exploration of methods and history of photography. By dissecting the very nature of graphing…
By SHANE LAVALETTE The following interview is a conversation between Shane Lavalette and photographer Matthew Monteith, discussing Czech Eden, published by Aperture in 2007, with photographs by Monteith. Their discussion also touches on photography’s various uses to define identity and…
By JORGE ESPADA VALENZUELA Jorge Espada Valenzuela: After being awarded the Traveling Scholarship from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, you set out for a backpacking tour throughout the American Southwest after having spent time exploring Alaska. What…
By JESS T. DUGAN Big Red & Shiny writer Jess T Dugan sits down with Daron Manoogian, Director of Communications at the Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM), home to the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Sackler Museums. Jess and Daron to discuss…
By JESS T. DUGAN Jess T. Dugan: How did you begin making photographs? Susan Wides: My first photo project was a booklet of aerial photographs of the World’s Fair in 1965 shot from the Monorail while traveling above the spectacle!…
By JENNIFER SCHMIDT Jesse LeDoux has been working over seven years as an art director and designer for Seattle-based Sub Pop Records and founding member of Patent Pending Design, LeDoux created iconic album and poster artwork for such artists such…
By JENNIFER MCMACKON JM: Lee Goreas, how did you become an artist? LG: I became an artist by chance. A good friend enrolled me in an art program at a local college. After one year in the program I realized…
By SHANE LAVALETTE Shane Lavalette: How did you first discover photography and when did you realize it was the right medium for your ideas? Michael Schmelling: My parents have had an interest in photography, both as a hobby and as…
By SHANE LAVALETTE Mark Wyse is a photographer based out of Los Angeles, CA and teaches at UCLA. His book, 18 Landscapes, published by Nazraeli Press in 2005, focuses on the complexity of cultural perception and interaction and in an…
By JENNIFER MCMACKON Toronto artist Lisa Neighbour speaks with Jennifer McMackon about life and death, sculpture and the resistance language of electrical wiring: JM: Lisa Neighbour, I seem to recall a big shift in your work about ten or maybe…
By LAUREL SPARKS The Boston Artist Laurel Sparks asks the former America’s Next Top Model contestant from Boston, Mila Bouzinova, a few questions about life and modeling. Laurel Sparks: What inspired you to start modeling? Mila Bouzinova: People always assumed…
By MATTHEW NASH Chris Tonelli is a poet, musician, and the motivation behind The So And So Series, a regular poetry event in Boston and Cambridge. They can often be found at The Distillery, The Lily Pad and Porter Square…
By MATTHEW NASH Art Interactive, the Cambridge-based alternative space focusing on new media and interactive art, has recently announced that they will be moving to an as-yet-undecided location, and that there have been some significant changes to their Board of…
By MATTHEW NASH On August 11th, a group of artists gathered at the Design Center in Boston for an over-the-top photo shoot. The Superheroes Project, created by Brian Burkhardt and Tanit Sakakini, gathered 18 artists to dress as superheroes in…
By MATTHEW NASH Mobius Artists Group has been a major part of the arts in Boston for nearly thirty years. This past week, they announced that they will be moving new a new space in the South End, through the…
By MICAH J. MALONE Sean Horton has always had a knack for initiating projects. At one time or another, Sean has been integral to the founding of a record label, a gallery, an online arts journal and a graphic design…
By BEN SLOAT Andres Serrano is an artist who came to national acclaim in the early 1990s with his controversial photographs appropriating religious imagery. At the time he was famously labeled by conservative Senator Jesse Helms as “not an artist,…
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 arts organizations like the Boston Center for the Arts, to…
By BEN SLOAT Stephen Shore is a prominent photographer and photographic educator. A pioneer in the field of color photography, Shore has published numerous books of photography, included his seminal book, Uncommon Places, published in 1982 (reissued in 2004). He…