TRENDS IN PRE-FAB METAPHORS By Amanda Sanfilippo While in the earlier 20th century Brancusi exploited innate, archetypal forms that one could call the ultimate pre-fab (the egg, the sphere), and Minimalism’s arrival in the 1960’s carried pieces like Tony Smith’s…
“THE WHITE CUBE” By Thomas Marquet #44: Of course, one should never use “that” to refer to people. Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in Brooklyn, New York, which is an admittedly unoriginal place to be pursuing any…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: LAMONTAGNE GALLERY By Big Red Saturday, February 22nd, 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at LaMontagne Gallery for the opening of “Misaki Kawai & Andrew Mowbray”. LaMontagne Gallery
CARLSON/STROM: NEW PERFORMANCE VIDEO @ THE DECORDOVA By James A. Nadeau “There are, therefore, common patterns in various experiences, no matter how unlike they are to one another in the details of their subject matter. There are conditions to be met…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: PLATFORM2: WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? By Big Red Friday, February 27th, 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the studio of Jane Marsching for Platform2’s “Who Do You Think You Are?” This event…
Like Shepard Fairey, Alphabet Soup reuses potent images in much of his work has been active in both the street and gallery. ‘Alph’ differs with Fairey, however, on the articulation of the images they create. He says that Fairey’s merchandising…
“THE WHITE CUBE” By Thomas Marquet #43: When even fancy pushpins are too expensive, the Swedes save the day. Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in Brooklyn, New York, which is an admittedly unoriginal place to be pursuing…
HOW THE HELL DID WE GET HERE? LOOKING BACK ON 5 YEARS OF BIG RED & SHINY By Matthew Nash On February 15th, 2009, Big RED & Shiny celebrates our fifth year online and our hundredth issue. It is impossible to…
MISSING @ BARBARA KRAKOW GALLERY By Angela Speece “Less is more” is the aesthetic motto that ties this group of diverse artists together…. In a world bombarded by visual imagery, this exhibition powerfully articulates a great deal of information in an…
A CONVERSATION WITH LEON JOHNSON By Christian Holland Leon Johnson is the Berwick Research Institute’s new Director in Residence (DiR). Having just taken over late in 2008, he will lead the Berwick for the next two years. The organization has been…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: THE BOSTON ART AWARDS By Big Red Monday, February 2nd, 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The Beehive for the Boston Art Awards Ball, presented by Big RED & Shiny and the New England…
DIRTBAGS, MALLCHICKS & MOTORBIKES: A CONVERSATION WITH DAVE KIERSH By Dave Ortega Dave Kiersh is an illustrator/ writer/ artist currently living in Arlington, MA. Among other things, he exhibited last year in a group show at Space 242 in Boston. More…
SOL LEWITT @ MASSMOCA By Stephen V. Kobasa Into the maze – the shifting from walled in to walled up to walled out, moving through the bands of color as if they were tinted sound. This is the compendium of one…
GUY DE COINTET @ GREENE NAFTALI GALLERY, NYC By Alan Reid To confess, Guy de Cointet is an artist whose work I’ve unabashedly loved since first viewing. His is an easy-breezy theatrical stance, an art so seemingly light one is unlikely…
EXHIBITION BY PHOTOGRAPHER BRIAN DOAN SPARKS PROTEST By Jason Landry A few weeks ago, an exhibition in Santa Ana, California at the VAALA (Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association) Center sparked protests from the Vietnamese community. The group show, F.OB. II:…
LAUREL SPARKS: PLEASURE DOME @ HOWARD YEZERSKI By David O. Avruch The studied madness suffusing the paintings in “Pleasure Dome,” Laurel Sparks’s new show at the Howard Yezerski Gallery, was clearly a labor of love. Dystopian and engag-ing, the works…
By James Nadeau I had the opportunity to sit down with Nicole Cherubini and Taylor Davis as they installed their show Davis/Cherubini, In Contentionat the List Visual Arts Center at MIT. The work is truly a collaboration between the two, which…
WHAT ARE LEE WALTON’S FRIENDS DOING ON F’BOOK? By Matthew Nash For the past several decades, artists have been embracing new forms of digital media in the creation of their work, and challenging the notion of creative experience in diverse ways.…
MEG AUBREY @ GALLERY STOKES, ATLANTA By Laura Ann Meyers In her current exhibition I Just Live Here, Savannah College of Art and Design alum Meg Aubrey explores the environment and psychology of contemporary suburbia. The show reeks of the political…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman So I’ve almost stopped reading articles. In print, on-line… whatever. All I look for is how many comments have been made. The comment section of an article says far more about an…