2016

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By Dell M. HamiltonDecember 16, 2016 1

Inside/Out: Part 1, Reflecting “Black Portraitures” – Towards a Genealogy of Intersections & Beginnings

You can’t have relationships with other people until you give birth to yourself -Sonia Sanchez Reflecting on my recent trip to South Africa to attend and moderate a panel discussion at the “Black Portraitures III – Reinventions: Strains of Histories and…

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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 Silvi NaciNovember 29, 2016 0

ISSUES OF POWER: The Space Between Ignorance & Acknowledgement

“I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.”-Zora Neale Hurston As a byproduct of a conversation with my dear friend and fellow artist Chanel Thervil, this essay grapples with issues of power presented within Carrie…

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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 Dell M. HamiltonNovember 16, 2016 0

Inside/Out: The Long Night, After & Then

Inside/Out is Big Red & Shiny’s artist-in-residence series, offering a space for artists to write about their ideas, research, and challenges, and publish their inspirations, obsessions, creative experiences, and insights. Unlike an ‘Open Studio’ format, which is often predicated on potential sales, BR&S…

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By Megan GregoryNovember 15, 2016 1

Transformations: An Interview with Chuck Hoberman

Chuck Hoberman is an artist, designer, and engineer. He founded the multidisciplinary firm Hoberman Associates, is a member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, and is one of the inaugural faculty members of the Harvard Graduate School of…

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By Leah Triplett HarringtonNovember 10, 2016 0

PARALLEL UNIVERSE: Leah Piepgras

Leah Piepgras was finishing final preparations for her solo show, Parallel Universe, now on view at GRIN when we had the following conversation. It was early October and we were eager to talk about all things abstraction, Richard Serra, physicality,…

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By Robert MoellerNovember 2, 2016 1

School of Love: Interview with Steve Locke

Steve Locke has two concurrent exhibitions taking place at Gallery Kayafas and Samsøñ called “FAMILY PICTURES” and” SCHOOL OF LOVE” The two exhibitions, which are on view now and run through November 26th. We spoke recently. Robert Moeller: There is…

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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 Sarah RushfordOctober 25, 2016 0

An Interview with 13Forest Gallery on Its Tenth Anniversary

Walking along the improved stretch of Mass Ave in Arlington, I saw a couple coming out of the 13FOREST Gallery. They pointed at Mia Cross’s painting Agnes and Avi in the front window. They seemed enamored of the sensitive, experimental…

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By Diana Jean PuglisiOctober 20, 2016 0

Inside/Out: It’s Nice to Talk

I recently had the opportunity to engage in a wonderful conversation with Betty Jarvis, a recent Master’s graduate from the Art History program at Rutgers University. I find that conversations outside of the studio are just as important as your…

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By Stace BrandtOctober 17, 2016 0

Paperweight: An interview with Tory Fair

In the months leading up to Tory Fair’s latest show, Paperweight at VERY gallery, VERY director John Guthrie and I made two studio visits to view the work in progress. On the first occasion, I met John outside a large wooden…

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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 Sarah RushfordOctober 11, 2016 0

Only what is shown to us, a telling of the “Shifting Space Around Us”

Only what is shown to us is a prompt I used to begin writing about the exhibition I curated, The Shifting Space Around Us, Megan and Murray McMillan at Ortega Y Gasset Projects in Brooklyn (August 27 – September 25, 2016).…

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By Rosie RanauroOctober 11, 2016 0

Real Work: An essay on ableism and art

“I make these when I’m not making my ‘real’ work.” I heard this statement fall out of my mouth and stopped myself, horrified. I was at the opening of the BLAA Summer 2016 exhibit You Think It’s ____, But It’s…

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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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