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Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events/screenings/exhibitions/performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see this week: • Events Tuesday 20 November MassArt, Tower Auditorium, 621 Huntington Avenue, Boston Photography Lecture Series: Jocelyn Lee 2pm / Free Tuesday 20 November BPL Central branch, Rabb Lecture Hall, 700 Boylston St, Boston Lowell Lecture: Justice Stephen Breyer & Judge Doug Woodlock U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and U.S. Judge for the District of Massachusetts Douglas Woodlock speak about the architecture of courthouses 6pm / Free Monday 26…
Our guest on Studio Sessions this episode is Boston-area painter Chris DiPietro. Chris DiPietro is a 2007 graduate from the Maryland Institute College of Art with a degree in painting and printmaking. Recently, he has focused on making paintings of taxidermied birds with geometric patterns imposed upon them. Previous works of his move through different phases of incorporating text and references to famous artists and writers into the compositions. Listen as he explains the direction he has chosen to explore in his more recent pieces and how some small embellishments can drastically…
The National Endowment for the Arts announced today that Chairman Rocco Landesman is stepping down at the end of the calendar year. According to the NEA press release, Landesman said that it was always his intention to only serve one term as chairman. “The time has come for me to become a cliché: I turned 65, am going to retire, and cannot wait to spend more time in Miami Beach,” said Landesman. The independent federal agency has been offering support and funding for artists and organizations since 1965 when it was founded.…
KAREN AQUA (1954-2011) Karen Aqua loved to draw. She would sit at her worktable surrounded by colored pencils, pastels, and stacks of small pieces of 4″ x 6″ paper. Over days of work, these sheets would fill with color, shapes, and narrative transformations. In the animation class I took with Karen during the summer of 2009 at Somerville Community Access Television, I learned that one second of animation needs at least 12 drawings. These changes from drawing to drawing, the “in betweens”, had to be gradual to create smooth and flowing…
From the birth of photography, landscapes often found themselves the subject of the experimental process. Early photography was arguably more time consuming than that of its painting counterpart. A photograph required a more complex process for success causing a greater exposure to chemicals more dangerous than egg yolks and pigment for tempera paint. A landscape was the subject of the very first photograph ever created by its inventor, Nicéphore Niépce in 1826 whose process required eight hours to develop an image. Much like the reasons behind landscape paintings, landscapes tend to stay…
Juan Amaya, Plant Study #8 Juan Amaya, Plant Study #9 Juan Amaya, Plant Study #10 Juan Amaya, Plant Study #11 Juan Amaya, Plant Study #12 What I do usually is just an active noticing/note-taking/collecting of items, gestures, notions, that the internet supports. Photographs I take tend to be images that in a sense, represent the internet out in the world, or reflect people’s internet-inspired instincts that they now perform in public. This time I’ve taken my photographs and used an online image editor to present them in the “real” world even…
Kim Salerno and Resa Blatman are artists whose interests in the graphic arts, botany, zoology, humanism, history and the environment are on full display in Landscape Remade, an exhibition of their work in Northeastern University’s Gallery 360. Running through December 5, it features digital prints, paintings and an installation that examine equilibrium and its tenuous but constant presence in nature. Assembled by the two artists and Gallery 360’s curator Bruce Ployer, the show’s 20 pieces collectively engage with both the immaterial and mechanistic sides of the world, a point the show’s wall…
The inaugural Designers and Books Fair was held from October 26—28 at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. Based on the website DesignersAndBooks.com, the fair attempted to emulate the site’s focus on the relationship between designers and books. As is the nature of most fairs the products were priced to sell, with monograph hardcovers of Sophie Calle or Le Corbusier dotting the booths of big-name publishers. Among the obvious (Rizzoli, Phaidon, and MIT Press) were the inclusion of smaller book arts exhibitors who made the attempt to engage visitors…