Contributors
Juan Obando is a Colombian artist living and working between Bogotá and Boston, where he works also as faculty for the Studio for Interrelated Media at MassArt. His work focuses on the critical intervention of social circuits through the orchestration of temporary situations. These experiments are often directed towards the production of video-performances, video installations and experimental publications —using social phenomena as raw material and humor as a catalyst for highlighting systemic ironies and contradictions. His recent exhibitions include Jeep VIP (solo), Volta Art Fair, New York, NY; Museum Mixtape (solo), Reverse Art Space, Brooklyn, NY; Selections, Bakalar and Paine Galleries, Boston, MA; and The Champions (solo), El Parqueadero, Banco de la República, Bogotá 2015.1 Articles
Sarah Hutt is an artist, art policy consultant, and public speaker. She is Grant Advisor for the Fund for the Arts, NEFA. She is the former Director of Visual Arts for the City of Boston.1 Articles
Brian Dupont is an artist, curator, and writer based in Brooklyn NY. His work can be seen at briandupont.com and his writings can be found at Artist's Texts.1 Articles
Matthew Lawrence is a writer, editor, publisher, and occasional independent curator. He co-edits Headmaster (www.headmastermagazine.com), the art magazine for man-lovers, and also produces Law and Order Party (www.lawandorder.party), an email-based listing of cultural happenings in Rhode Island. He lives in Providence.1 Articles
Rachel Shipps is interested in collaborative processes of making and representing the intangible in words. She regularly writes for Art New England and her work has also appeared online for the RISD Museum, the Bell Gallery, and the website of the Jenks Society for the Lost Museums.1 Articles
Sara Bass is a student at Tufts University majoring in English. She recently became more engaged in journalism and has enjoyed writing reviews for exhibitions and artistic events. This past spring, she was an intern for the Boston Center for the Arts.1 Articles
Aaron Willette is a new contributor to Big, Red & Shiny.1 Articles
Sarah Fritchey is a curator and writer based in New Haven, CT. She is the full-time Curator/Gallery Director at Artspace New Haven, and a contributor to ArtForum.com, Art New England Magazine, and The Fairfield Courant/Hartford Advocate. Her recent projects include Arresting Patterns, a group show exploring patterns of racial bias in the US Criminal Justice System, Gollum: Monsters of Ruin and the Techno-Sublime, a show that rethinks "the self" as "selves" in the digital era, and Vertical Reach, an exhibition of activist art from Russia, Ukraine, Poland, and the US.1 Articles
Skye Priestley is an artist, a critic, and a graduate of the University of Southern Maine. He lives and works in Portland, Maine.1 Articles
Kate Gilbert is an artist and activist deeply committed to supporting the arts as a catalyst for transformation — of our cities, our relationships, and ourselves. In her artwork, curatorial projects and public art organization, she strives to facilitate spontaneity and to help propel public appreciation of contemporary art practices. Kate's 20-year program experience with Boston arts and design organizations culminated in the development of the Greenway's public art strategy in 2011 and in 2014-2015, the ArtLAB, an outdoor laboratory for experimental public art at the Lawn on D. She is now parlaying that experience into Now + There, an arts organization dedicated to delivering impactful temporary public art projects in Greater Boston. N+T’s first project Public Trust with Paul Ramirez Jonas will open in Boston in late August.1 Articles