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By MARTINA WINDELS Humor is a funny thing – sometimes. It can make you laugh, it can make you chuckle or it may repulse you. It may be silly, graphic, subtle, and offensive. Sometimes it is loud, at other times it’s clever, and there are times when it is not funny at all, but draws you in nonetheless. The title for the exhibition “Face on the Bar Room Floor – the humor show,” currently on view at the Chace Center at the RISD Museum, is taken from a 1914 silent movie in…
By CHRIS VOLPE Christopher Lamberg-Karlovsky lives and works just outside of Boston proper. He received an MFA from Boston University in 1992, and an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1999. His work was recently on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston as part of the SMFA Traveling Scholars exhibition. He spoke with Chris Volpe this May. Chris Volpe: You were present, seated nearby your installation at the MFA, since it opened. Can you describe the typical reaction to your installation pieces and relate…
By JULIE NOVAKOFF Emily Eveleth is a New England based painter. She is represented by Howard Yezerski Gallery in Boston, and Danese in New York. She spoke with Julie Novakoff this past May. Julie Novakoff: The lighting in your paintings could be described as luminecent – they appear as it they are coming out from the wall. Emily Eveleth: In these images the directed lighting and the cropping of the figures both draw from film. I’ve always been interested in how that language has been used by painters. One of the things…
By KURT COLE EIDSVIG People are always wondering at the last word in painting. What was left after Picasso? Was de Kooning destined to be the last hurrah? It seems every generation has one last gasp that is predicted to be the final breath of painting and the end of an art form. Granted, with the rise of sculpture and 3 dimensional work, alongside time-based, performance-based, digital and video installation, it does seem more and more difficult to find artists devoted to the craft of painting who have new and exciting things…
By BIG RED May 13th, 2010 Photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at various galleries in 101 Front Street Galleries, in Brooklyn, NY during the New York Photo Festival, May 12-16, 2010: Kris Graves Projects , Umbrage Editions, Klompching Gallery, Farmani Gallery, and Institute for Artist Management. New York Photo Festival – NYPH ’10 “NYPH ’10” happened May 12th -16th at various locations in Brooklyn, NY thoughout DUMBO.
By JIM MANNING Saturday May 8th 2010 Video from a Big RED night on-the-town at the return of the Mobius Art Party ArtRages, “SURREALESTATE” The 2010 Mobius ArtRages Surrealestate Art Party took place Saturday May 8th, 8pm – 1am at 175 William F McLellan Highway in East Boston featuring over 10,000 sq. feet of performance, installations, video art, dance, music with more than 70 artists and performers. Visit Mobius for more information. James Manning is a Boston based independent curator, artist and film producer. He is a regular contributor to Big RED &…
By STEVE AISHMAN Some texts I or my friends have received during or after art openings. In no particular order, here’s the rundown: 1) This work is so bad. This wine is so bad. So many reasons to puke tonight. I’m going to puke tonight. Just puked. 2) Opening’s warming up, a tranny just got here… 3) Artist statement is hippie crap all “harnessing positive energy”. Fuck positive energy. I choose drinking instead 4) is your mom at the gallery? 5) Ha. Yes. I ditched the openings. I’m at a strip club.…
By HANNAH BARRETT It could happen. Lizi Brown’s Butch dykes could drop their wrenches, drink from a little bottle that says “drink me,” shrink to doll scale and wander over to the suburban bonfire in one of Vera Iliatova’s teenscapes. Or vice versa, Iliatova’s girls could change clothes at the Dickies Store, inflate and crowd around the open hood of the Valiant and strain to focus. Not that this would accomplish much, since the girls would just get bored and the dykes would get sleepy. This is easy to predict, because both…