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Our Daily Red is pleased to continue our artist-in-residence series titled Inside Out. Every month, a guest artist is offered access to the platform to publish images and jot down thoughts about inspiration, obsession, creative failures and insights. Unlike an ‘Open Studio’ format which is predicated on potential sales, BR&S wants to provide the artist-in-residence with an outlet to place their practice in a more public realm, offering an expanded look at the creative process and placing emphasis on the time ideas and works take to mature. It is not expected that…
The news spread like wildfire yesterday: 24 hours before the start of NEAR DEATH, the highly anticipated “Performance Art Experience” curated by Vela Phelan (Our March 2010 interview with Vela) and funded by a Kickstarter campaign, the owners of Fourth Wall Project, an independent arts space on Brookline Avenue, announced the venue was being shut down by the City for permitting reasons. In 2012, Boston’s Weekly Dig elected it Best Gallery in town. In 2010, the Improper Bostonian counted it among Boston’s Best. Fourth Wall Project was founded in 2009 by owners…
February’s #FirstFriday starts off early over at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. This evening’s ICA #FirstFriday theme, Nordic Night, dedicates itself to reminding us that it’s much colder somewhere else with with tours of Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson’s exhibition Song, Scandinavian pop music and a signature cocktail, the Polar Bear. The event goes from 5-10pm. The Museum of Fine Arts Boston also hosts its MFA First Friday event tonight from 6:00-9:30pm, featuring DJ Denise LaCarubba. Tickets available online through their website or in person at the museum. Both events are 21+. As…
“I can’t do people,” they say. The detail in a face is too much, the stakes of failure are too high. We rest incredible power in a facial expression — the tilt of an eyebrow and the height of a cheekbone. But faces are round and mushy things. They are built on soft shapes of muscle, not defined by lines but by shadows beneath a brow. Ears are not about that maze of folds, they are flashes of pink cartilage. David Park was a founding member of the Bay Area Figurative Painters…
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art has named Frank H. Goodyear III and Anne Collins Goodyear as Co-Directors. The couple, who were married in 2000 will come from Washington, DC where Frank serves as curator of photographs and Anne as associate curator of prints and drawings, both at the National Portrait Gallery. The Goodyears are expected to begin their positions at Bowdoin College in June 2013. According to the museum’s press release, Frank and Anne Goodyear will oversee more than 20,000 items in the museum’s collection, staff, programs, strategic planning and…
The deCordova has just opened their exhibition Paint Things: beyond the stretcher. Curated by Dina Deitsch and Evan Garza, it sets up a thesis about painting, exploring those painters who have tried to break out of the frame and off of the stretched canvas, enlarging the idea of what painting is. Vigorously extending their work into innovative conceptual and formal areas, their work progresses into wry puns or sardonic assaults on what painting should be. From painting with your ass cheeks to trying to make people see the space between the paint…
The relationship between a mentor and mentee is often complex on all kinds of levels. Within any mentoring relationship there can be disagreements, accomplishments, tough love and the inspiration to constantly keep trying. Unlike a teacher/student relationship where one person typically gives and the other absorbs, mentoring finds that two people, at two different points in their lives and careers, equally ready to give and receive their knowledge. The latest exhibition at Cade Tompkins Projects, Double Legacy, focuses on ten artists working in printmaking, painting, drawing, and sculpture who all found each…
Uttering the phrase “white guilt” is the beginning and the end to a conversation. I know, because I did it a couple of times this week, mostly in the presence of other white people… and I guess therein lies the sort of fundamental problem, a kind of solipsistic world in which the notion of race is conceived of through an internalized dialogue, either inside your head, or with people you register as “like you”. This allowance, if anything, is a blaring reminder of privilege. Recently, though, some comedians have explored the…