Recently, just after I viewed the group show Elevated at Gallery VERY in Boston which includes a painting by Candice Smith Corby and sculptures by Sheila Gallagher, Isabel Riley, and Douglas Weathersby, I had the occasion to see a solo…
The Firmament, the final exhibition at the Hood museum’s temporary downtown space, showcased Toyin Ojih Odutola’s recent portraits in oil pastels, charcoal, and pencil. Created between 2016 to 2017, Ojih Odutola portrays two Nigerian families: the UmuEze Amara, the oldest…
A panorama opens as you approach the crest of Prospect Hill in Harvard, Massachusetts. The vastness in graduated shades of distant blues and greens, immediately loosens one’s hold on time and space. A 180-degree view encompasses noteworthy peaks, from left…
“The Last Days of Pompeii” is a loaded phrase, conjuring both tragedy and opulence. Multimedia artist and musician Delia Gonzalez takes these words and burns them across a wall in a sultry pink, neon script in her solo exhibition List…
Tucked between Kevin Beasley’s immersive multi-room solo show and We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85, Caitlin Keogh’s first solo museum exhibition, Blank Melody, greets viewers with a handful of large scale, vibrant paintings. From a quick stroll around…
Nike Air Jordan 1 shoes, durags, rain jackets, kaftans, mouth guards, feathers, fitted caps, microphones, sound effect processors, amplifiers, polyurethane foam, and resin are all materials Kevin Beasley focuses on to evoke the spectral traces of the past and present…
Carissa Rodriguez’s exhibition The Maid is currently on view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center. The exhibition includes several video works and photographs. The Maid examines the complex interconnections inherent to power dynamics in relation to labor. This is…
Tatiana Klusak’s work examines the various social cues and cultural norms we become accustomed to as we grow up. Beneath the playful and humorous surface of her work lies feelings of doubt, strain, inefficacy, and confusion. I’ll Tell You When…
Un/Settled is a show of works on paper at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. Curator Jan Howard has selected works by contemporary RISD alumni from the museum’s collection. The general theme, with numerous variations, is geographic…
An exhibition of the work of New York-based artist Gordon Hall was on view at List Projects at the MIT’s List Visual Arts Center. Gordon’s practice incorporates Minimalist sculptural elements which are then navigated by the body of a performer. Audiences…
Object of Dread, Castledrone’s latest, intimate exhibition is a series of paintings and performance documentation. The work presents artists Steve Locke and Creighton Baxter as the directors of their own surrealist fever dream. Although Steve Locke’s Cruising series was created…
Nearly sunset, and time on the water of 1984. Language its tracer. No image like the image of language. I had waded out about thigh deep. Then a shout from the beach. I held in my hand half a coconut…
The exhibition Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today at the ICA Boston includes the work of sixty artists, collaborations, and collectives. It demonstrates the detachment, escapism, and disenfranchisement of Internet users from various perspectives, as well…
Brooklyn-based artist Wangechi Mutu’s installation A Promise To Communicate, now on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, addresses complex issues regarding methodologies of communication, as well as the abstract, often arbitrary systems within which the body exists. Repurposing…
Blueprint for Counter Education, an exhibition on view at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis through July 8, turns each museum visitor into a “reader-looker-responder.” The term is one used by Maurice Stein and Larry Miller, the 1969 creators of…
This year’s MFA Thesis Exhibition at MassArt, which closes on May 12, packs both floors of Bakalar & Paine Gallery with selected works from eighteen artists. The show is overwhelming in the sheer quantity of pieces on display as well…
Geometry of Oppression, an exhibition of new work by multidisciplinary artist Sandra Erbacher, is on view at SPACE Gallery in Portland. Through corporate critique and critical reflection on bureaucracy, her approach to artmaking compliments the conceptual nature of the work…
Just as the last embankments of winter snow dissipated into rivulets in the corners of Brown University’s campus, five mural-sized photographs of polar icescapes materialized on its prominent building facades. Installed in conjunction with the more traditional gallery exhibition, 33°,…
During his performance Don’t Make Me Over at the Tufts University Art Galleries on March 15, artist Jeffrey Gibson (Choctaw-Cherokee) deconstructed Dionne Warwick’s 1962 hit song into a strange, cyclical chant, part incantation and part love ballad. The words he…
