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This week’s guest on Studio Sessions is Heidi Hogden. Heidi earned her BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2008, and is a 2012 MFA graduate from the School of the Museum of Fine Art in Boston. Heidi’s recent series consists of enormous graphite drawings of images from her home in central Wisconsin, sometimes depicting people and animals at larger-than-life-size scale. The size and precise detail of the images create a visual environment that the viewer can be psychologically enveloped inside. Listen as she describes the people, places, and…
I wanted to like Ann Hamilton’s ‘the event of a thread’ and I did, but not in the ways I anticipated. Reading about the elements of Hamilton’s installation at the Park Avenue Armory (NYC) I imagined an experience of transcendence and freedom: pigeons soaring, high-flying swings, a fluttering white curtain strung across the 55,000 square foot hall, and the “sounds of glee” Roberta Smith and the Armory’s publicity promised. The actual experience is surprisingly earth-bound and sober, and if one reads the artists statement (pdf) that would seem to be the point,…
https://vimeo.com/31915153 Our Daily Red is pleased to continue our artist-in-residence series titled Inside Out. Every month, a new guest artist will have 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…
• Events Friday 4 January 450 Harrison Avenue, Boston SoWa First Fridays 5-8pm / Free Saturday 5 January* Boston Sculptors Gallery, 486 Harrison Ave, Boston Boston Sculptors Celebrates20 years Artists’ talks in the PechaKucha style are from 4:30-5:45pm at 500 Harrison Ave. Reception to follow in the Gallery Free Monday 7 January Boston University, Kenmore Classroom Building, Room 101, 565 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston AIB Art Talks: Cornelia Lauf—The Curatorial Arts: on producing visual culture in Italy 7-9pm / Free • Exhibitions Friday 4 January — Sunday 13 January Lesley University, Brattle…
As some upcoming (and more considered) articles will attest, I spent the holidays in Omaha, Nebraska. This, however, is the meatiest post of all: entering and leaving Johnny’s Cafe, a fixture since the 20s on the Omahan steak house circuit, I had to lean into two rather large bronze double-doors, polished over the years by the hands of pilgrims, who’ve entered hungrily and left replete with carnal knowledge, as I did last Friday night. (Bad puns follow difficult digestion). It was probably the dirty martini that done it: it seemed a good…
I go to the gym to watch TV. Today while watching a VH1 countdown of this year’s something or another I realized that I only had two more days of 2012 and probably one more BR&S post in me. I cannot reflect on 2012 without mentioning the influence of failure on my art practice in and out of the studio. This has been a year of applications, which is a diplomatic way of calling it for what it really was — a year of rejections, a surprising amount of paperwork and images…
In case you aren’t on twitter, I sometimes tweet about sneakers and very often rant about preservation and Brutalism. I love all three things mentioned above and I’m a passionate advocate for the preservation of the concrete buildings from the 1960s and ‘70s, you know…buildings like Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles’ Boston City Hall and Paul Rudolph’s Government Service Center, just down the street from City Hall. I think these are important buildings for reasons too many to list here, but enough about Brutalism and let’s get to the topic of this post:…
It’s funny how seeing art changes you and your interpretations of other work. I’m not sure I would have seen Gordon Matta-Clark’s Substrait (Underground Dailies) or Rosa Barba’s The Empirical Effect in the same light without having seen the other. Both owe much to Left Bank style French New Wave film; pseudo-documentary art films that express ideas or emotion through a collage of film. Both have a protagonist that is a based on nature; for Barba, the Mountain; for Matta-Clark, the tunnel. Compared to the patient sublime natural formations, the humans that…