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By Alexander CastroJanuary 25, 2017 0

See It Before It’s Gone: Taylor Clough at Occam Projects

Taylor Clough’s Is, And of The at Occam Projects features an assortment of paintings on canvas and paper, absorbingly and tauntingly saturated. Clough painted people as an undergrad, but her current sceneries are unpopulated. Though lacking in figuration, she paints…

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By Megan GregoryJanuary 24, 2017 0

A Second Look at First Light: A Decade of Collecting at the ICA

The anniversary exhibition First Light: A Decade of Collecting at the ICA is composed of four small shows that are individually arranged by the Museum’s curators. Partway through the exhibit’s run, two of these and one of the video installations…

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By Ileana SelejanJanuary 6, 2017 0

See It Before It’s Gone: Embodied Absence

In a playful sequence from Cecilia Vicuña’s 1980 film Sol y Dar y Dad, una palabra bailada, a danced word, the viewer’s attention is directed towards a female character, presumably the artist. Her back is leaned against the door of…

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By Julianna ThibodeauxJanuary 4, 2017 0

See It Before It’s Gone: Carrie Mae Weems

A Zeus, a Jesus, a jester… or is it an evil clown? Actually, it’s President Barack Obama (yes, we can still call him that for a few more precious days)—seen through the lens (literally) of artist Carrie Mae Weems. “The…

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By Torey AkersDecember 14, 2016 0

Remixing Rimbaud; Alex Da Corte at MASS MoCA

My life is worn out. Well, let’s pretend, let’s do nothing! oh, pitiful! And we will exist, and amuse ourselves, dreaming of monstrous loves and fantastic worlds, complaining and quarreling with the appearances of the world, acrobat, beggar, artist, bandit,…

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By Scout HutchinsonDecember 9, 2016 0

Making Connections: RE//Woven and Anni Albers

In a 1968 interview, Anni Albers described her initial relationship with textiles as a tepid one, at best. When she first arrived at the Bauhaus in 1922, each new student was required to take an introductory hands-on workshop. The classes,…

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By Julianna ThibodeauxDecember 8, 2016 0

See It Before It’s Gone: Anni Albers

In 1984, ten years before her death, Anni Albers published Connections—a culmination, or perhaps a synthesis, of her aesthetic worldview as captured in nine silkscreens. A recent acquisition of the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, the silkscreen portfolio, reflecting nearly…

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By Samuel AdamsDecember 1, 2016 1

trans/draw at Gallery 263: Gender Outside the Lines

Since the ascendance of the term “identity politics” into mainstream discourse in the 1980s, the debate, vitriol, and confusion over what it means to acknowledge our unique subject-positions in the world is enough to drive one away from using the…

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By Alexander CastroNovember 23, 2016 0

Review: Anna Shapiro at AS220

Pregnancy and parenting can create serious changes to an artist’s process. As installation maestro Sarah Sze elaborated on a 2012 exhibit in London: “The pieces in this show appear to measure space, or time, and now that I have two…

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By Alexander CastroOctober 27, 2016 0

Review: Jessica Rosner at Yellow Peril Gallery

Jessica Deane Rosner can’t discuss the inspiration for her latest exhibit. It might suffice to say that, last September, she experienced a terrible and life-changing event. It forced Rosner to reconsider her self-concept as someone bold and brave. The aftermath…

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By Julianna ThibodeauxOctober 17, 2016 2

Intersections: Anila Quayyum Agha

Conceptual art is often too subtle to reach the edges of our preconceptions, or it is so blatant it prevents our own imaginative leaps. Anila Quayyum Agha’s “Intersections” (2012, laser-cut steel, light bulb), recently on view at the Peabody Essex…

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By Megan GregoryOctober 5, 2016 2

Laying a Foundation: First Light: A Decade of Collecting at the ICA

In First Light: A Decade of Collecting at the ICA, the Museum reframes its own history by showcasing the stories within its collection. The ICA was established in 1936. Yet it only started collecting artworks ten years ago, which coincided with…

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By A. ReidOctober 5, 2016 0

Ethan Hayes-Chute at MIT List Visual Arts Center

Two things are surprising about Ethan Hayes-Chute’s project at the List Visual Art Center: it is much funnier than expected, and it is deeply sincere. The show consists of two primary areas: a work bench serving as a backdrop for…

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By Amy BeecherOctober 4, 2016 0

Review: ¡CAPICÚ! Let Them Eat Cake at Distillery Gallery

Many didactic art exhibitions refer to events that have already happened, appealing to viewers’ collective memory rather than urging collective action. Not so for ¡CAPICÚ! Let Them Eat Cake, which recently closed at The Distillery Gallery. The exhibition, organized by…

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By A. ReidAugust 18, 2016 0

MEOW at the Worcester Art Museum

From 1759 to 1763, writer Christopher Smart composed the sprawling poem Jubilate Agno while confined to an asylum. The best-known portion of the text is a 74-line segment in which Smart expounds on the ways that his cat is an…

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By Farrell Mason-BrownAugust 17, 2016 0

Art for Breakfast: Inside Boston Campaign Headquarters

Located in Faneuil Hall, Boston’s tourism epicenter, Pat Falco’s newest installation seems at first glance like the busy hub of any political campaign. Boston Campaign Headquarters, as it is titled, is made up of signs, banners, hats, and pins featuring…

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By Scout HutchinsonAugust 4, 2016 0

Field of Vision: Liz Deschenes at the ICA

In his quintessential text on vision, Techniques of the Observer, author and art historian Jonathan Crary notes: “The mind does not reflect truth but rather extracts it from an ongoing process involving the collision and merging of ideas.”(1) The nineteenth-century…

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By Stace BrandtAugust 2, 2016 0

Arthur Henderson: Sex Not Sex

The sculptures in VERY’s inaugural show, Sex Not Sex, inhabits the space in much the same way as the patrons at the opening: some sitting, some standing, others propped against the wall. In a gallery that feels more like a…

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By RIchard RozewskiJuly 25, 2016 0

See It Before It’s Gone: No Boys Allowed at Carroll & Sons

Curated by Carroll and Sons, No Boys Allowed was developed through a collaboration between two of the exhibiting artists, Sheila Pepe and Carl Ostendarp. The exhibition investigates a variety of abstract artists whose work embodies the feminist perspective in late twentieth-century…

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By Sarah RushfordJuly 21, 2016 0

See It Before It’s Gone: Dan Boardman / Audrey Hope at Kijidome

The sixteen busy sculptures, panels, and photographic collages in this strange, compact show hang back coolly in the space, waiting for the viewer to draw them out. Audrey Hope’s and Dan Boardman’s works are so encrusted with information that the…

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