By JESS T. DUGAN TT Baum is an interdisciplinary artist who recently founded and continues to produce the new performance art series EFFECTUS. His most recent work uses performance and installation; he includes painting, sculpture and new media in his…
By SHANE LAVALETTE Gil Blank is a photographer and writer. His photographs have been exhibited at PS1 Contemporary Art Center and White Columns, New York; The Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver; Ville d’Images, Vevey, Switzerland; Lawrimore Project, Seattle; and LaMontagne Gallery,…
By MATTHEW NASH Currently on view at The New England Gallery of Latin America Art, X ME LAB is a collection of assemblages, installations and video projects by artist Vela Phelan. Recently, Phelan took me on a tour of the…
By JAMES NADEAU Virtuoso Illusion: Cross-Dressing and the New Media Avant-Garde is the latest curatorial project by Michael Rush, and his first since leaving the Rose Art Museum. Big RED editor James Nadeau spoke with Rush about the show, the…
By MATTHEW NASH Georgie Friedman is a video installation artist whose multi-channel pieces are both contemplative and engaging. Her latest piece,Dark Swell, can be seen as part of the 2010 DeCordova Biennial. We met up for tea and scones at…
By JUDY KERMIS BLOTNICK Brian Knep, 41, a Boston media artist, paints with his computer. He has perfected his technology to interact with the viewer, which has brought him an impressive amount of critical success since 2004. Just this month…
By ALAN REID Josh Faught is sculptor who works in a variety of sculptural media, focusing primarily on how textiles interact with cultural metaphors. While the Light Lasts, his current show, is on view at Lisa Cooley Fine Art, in New York.…
By JASON DEAN There are certain places we have come to expect will be open 24 hours a day: gas stations, grocery stores, the occasional fast food restaurant. “Normal Business Hours” are an idea we left behind in the 90s,…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND One year after opening his gallery at 460 Harrison, the gallerist Anthony Greaney has moved to new, more accessible space on the corner of 450 Harrison – where Bernie Toale formerly plied his trade. The relocation from…
By JAMES NADEAU This week I sat down and chatted with Michael Mittelman, founder, editor, and publisher of Aspect: The Chronicle of New Media Art. Aspect is a bi-annual DVD magazine dedicated to time-based work. They bring together artists and…
By MICAH MALONE & MATTHEW NASH While editing the article “How To Start And Run An Alternative Gallery Space” by Big RED publisher Matthew Nash in issue #118, editor Micah Malone proposed: I would love a piece that talks more…
By MATTHEW NASH Andrew Mowbray is a sculptor in the tradition of Joseph Beuys, whose objects exist to facilitate a performative act, and remain as tangible evidence of that experience. His new body of work, Tempest Prognosticator, is currently on…
By BEN SLOAT Alec Soth is a prominent contemporary photographer who first gained acclaim with his seminal book, Sleeping By The Mississippi. Since its publication in 2004, Soth has published a number of photography books, including Niagara in 2006 and…
By JULIE NOVAKOFF Glovebox is a grassroots nonprofit artist-run organization committed to creating a community for emerging artists and supporting a platform that enables them to exhibit art in nontraditional spaces in the greater Boston area. This fall, Glovebox continues…
By MATTHEW NASH Samantha Fields makes complex and intricate sculptures and installations that are overwhelmingly crafty, undeniably kitschy, and that seem to revel in their beautiful ugliness. This summer, we sat down among the mountains of Afghans, beads, curtains, kitchen…
I know I’ve been posting a lot lately about Boston’s mayoral race, but I think it is important for artists to ask politicians of all levels for a clear and effect policy regarding the creative economy. Artists pushed hard for…
Jason Landry: Alicia, Sara, Kelly and Cary…you are performance artists who go by the name Triiibe. What makes Triiibe unique and how do you fit into the genre of performance artists? Triiibe: We need to start off by saying that…
By MATTHEW NASH Performance artists Phil Fryer and Sandrine Schaefer are the duo behind “The Present Tense”, a series of festivals promoting performance art. Recently, they have joined forces with Vela Phelan, Dirk Adams, Alice Vogler and Brad Benedetti to…
By JAMES A. NADEAU Last week, Artadia announced the seven winners of their Boston awards. In light of this, I sent a couple of questions to the winners, to get a sense of their experiences. Four artists responded: Amie Siegel,…
A CONVERSATION WITH HAROLD FEINSTEIN By Jason Landry Forty-Five minutes north of Boston lives an amazing photographer. Far from the shores of Coney Island, a place that he frequented and photographed for more than fifty years, a new resurgence in the…