Raúl Gonzalez has caught fire. Now 37 years old and a practicing artist since he was a teenager, over the past few years he has become visible to an increasing number of people through a series of ambitious, well-received exhibitions…
Ben Sloat One theme that has always struck me about your work (and seen most recently My Mother Told Me at the Tufts University Art Gallery) is that of impermanence: the impermanence of history, the impermanence of one’s experience, but…
kijidome is the brainchild of Sean Downey, Lucy Kim, Carlos Jiménez Cahua, and Susan Metrican. The four artists are inaugurating their collaborative space at 59 Wareham Street this coming Saturday with an exhibition titled S01E01 which juxtaposes works by Dennis…
Welcome to Studio Sessions with our guest this episode, Traci Molloy Traci earned her BFA at Alfred University, and her MFA and Master’s in Arts Education from the University of Ohio. Traci’s work often focuses on death and loss, particularly…
Welcome back to another episode of Studio Sessions, this time with guest Alex Gingrow. Alex earned a B.A. in Visual Art from Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina, a post baccalaureate certificate from the School of the Museum of Fine…
Welcome to the first episode of Studio Sessions where we will visit for a second time with Rob Andrews. Following our first hour-long conversation, I felt there was such a large percentage of Rob’s work and ideas that we didn’t…
Welcome to Studio Sessions, this time with guest Jennifer Schmidt. Jennifer earned her BA in Studio Art and Art History from the University of Delaware in 1997, her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999,…
In this episode of Studio Sessions I’ll be talking with Jeremy Olson. Jeremy earned his BFA from the University of Arizona in 2000, and his MFA from NYU Steinhardt in 2009. Primarily a surrealist painter, Jeremy’s recent series plays with…
Last week, BR&S editors Stephanie Cardon and Leah Triplett sat down with Michael Mittelman at his Waltham Street studio in Boston, where, until recently, ASPECT Magazine was published. Mittelman founded ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art in 2003 as…
Welcome to Studio Sessions with guest this episode, Ryan Turley. Ryan earned his BFA from Parsons, The New School for Design in 2009, and his MFA from the Pratt Institute in 2011. Ryan creates pieces using a range of methods,…
Welcome to the next installment of Studio Sessions with guest Melissa Murray. Melissa earned her BFA from the State University of New York Purchase College in 2006. Her mixed media pieces often place highly-refined drawings of wild animals into interior…
What happens when an artist retreats? I don’t mean to some plush residency program with three square meals and unfettered studio time, free from the worries of everyday life, but retreats by building up defensive walls to buttress against social…
In this episode of Studio Sessions I talk with Brooklyn artist Alex Kvares about his variety of drawings that often border on becoming psychedelic. Alex earned a BFA in painting from the University of Kansas, and an MFA in printmaking…
Welcome back to Studio Sessions and the interview with my next guest, Nikki Romanello. Nikki earned a BFA in sculpture from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2008, and an MFA in sculpture from the Pratt Institute in 2011.…
Liz Munsell One thing I’ve noticed working with you so far—which I must say has been nothing but an honor and a pleasure—has been how easy you make the job of a curator, precisely because you consider the context in…
With the end of Big Red & Shiny’s first academic year quickly approaching, we’ve been taking stock of the past 8 months to identify our successes and re-evaluate where we’d like to have a larger impact. One part of…
Sarah Sulistio Before becoming the Director and Chief Curator of the Boston University Art Gallery, you were a curator at MoMA PS1 and one of the founders of Cleopatra’s in Brooklyn. Arguably, your move to Boston University could be…
Our guest on Studio Sessions this episode is Illustrator and activist Cristy C. Road. Currently working in Brooklyn, Cristy’s identity as a gay punk rocker makes a strong impression on the work she creates. Working in a very precise drawing…
Welcome to this episode of Studio Sessions with guest Rob Andrews. Rob is a performance artist whose pieces often deal with ritual and transformation. Sometimes these are rituals that he creates himself, and other times they are more or less…
“Entering in this state allows me to increase endurance — prolonging the lasting and going into unknown territory — to discover things, situations or conditions previously unknown.” Verena Stenke and Andrea Pagnes have been working together under the moniker…