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By JESS T. DUGAN TT Baum is an interdisciplinary artist who recently founded and continues to produce the new performance art series EFFECTUS. His most recent work uses performance and installation; he includes painting, sculpture and new media in his repertoire. Michael Grohall is a writer, integrative massage therapist and activist. Interested in social transformation, he believes that “based on inertia, nothing is given to changing on its own, such as perceptions of same-sex marriage. Jess T. Dugan spoke with them just prior to their latest performance in the Wedlock Project. -…
By BIG RED Friday, April 2nd, 2010 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at the galleries of SoWa for the First Friday openings. Samson Projects Steven Zevitas Gallery/OSP Gallery Kayafas Carroll and Sons Howard Yezerski Gallery NK Gallery Boston Sculptors Gallery Photographs by Matthew Nash. Video by James Manning. Matthew Nash is the publisher of Big RED & Shiny. James Manning is a Boston based independent curator, artist and film producer. He is a regular contributor to Big RED & Shiny.
By BIG RED Saturday, April 3rd, 2010 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at LaMontagne Gallery for the openings of exhibitions by Tory Fair and Vera Iliatova. LaMontagne Gallery “Tory Fair” & “Vera Iliatova ” are on view April 3 – May 8, 2010 at LaMontagne Gallery.
By THOMAS MARQUET #59: Are people still talking about the Whitney Biennial? Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in Brooklyn.
By STEVE AISHMAN While on a hike in the deep woods of Brooklyn, I found some split open trash bags with paper pouring out. Covered in dried blood and with multiple missing pages, I saw it was a journal/tactical notebook/garbage. Here is some of the reconstructed text as far as I could assemble it: Modernist Painting and the Undead Plague By Dr. Hide and Mr. Greenberg 1960/2010 Modernism includes more than art, literature and zombies. By now it covers almost the whole of what is truly alive in our culture and with…
By MARTINA WINDELS While the process of oxidization of iron and the resulting rust is usually associated with the decay of an object through the breaking down of its material, Providence artist Esther Solondz instead employs this process to create images. The method Solondz has developed is seemingly simple: after sketching out an image on cotton paper, iron filings and steel wool are applied, and salt and water are added to start the development of rust. Slowly, over several days, an image emerges; the rust-colored drawing literally growing form the paper by…
By JAMES MANNING Monday March 22nd, 2010 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at the Park Street Church for the site specific performance of B u r i e d: Funerals and other formal arrangements Performance Orchestrated by: Sue Murad Developed & Performed by: Kat Callard, Jess Gath, Heidi Katz, Sue Murad, Mehran Namazi, Michal Shapiro, Cari Senefski, Sara Sussman, Liz Weir, Rita Wong and others B u r i e d: Funerals and other formal arrangements was a one time site specific performance at the Park Street Church, overlooking…
By JAMES MANNING Saturday, March 27th, 2010 Big RED’s Jim Manning takes his video camera out for a night on-the-town at MEME for the opening of “8 Bits Per Pixel”, an exhibition of GIF animations curated by NADA and PrincessDie. MEME “8 Bits Per Pixel” was on view March 25-27, 2010 at MEME. Video by James Manning. James Manning is a Boston based independent curator, artist and film producer. He is a regular contributor to Big RED & Shiny.