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By MATTHEW NASH Currently on view at The New England Gallery of Latin America Art, X ME LAB is a collection of assemblages, installations and video projects by artist Vela Phelan. Recently, Phelan took me on a tour of the show, and we discussed religion, performance art, Latin American nationality and dead birds. Matthew Nash: What is the origin of X ME LAB? Where did the title come from? Vela Phelan: It’s actually from a piece that I made, which is in the show. It is a box that I was…
By JAMES NADEAU Virtuoso Illusion: Cross-Dressing and the New Media Avant-Garde is the latest curatorial project by Michael Rush, and his first since leaving the Rose Art Museum. Big RED editor James Nadeau spoke with Rush about the show, the new media avant-garde and gender. JN: The first thing I wanted to ask was about the origins of the exhibition. Was this an idea that has percolated for some time? Was this in the works prior to the events at the Rose? MR: The idea came from looking. I have been struck…
By BIG RED Friday January 29th, 2010 Photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at Fort Point Arts Community Gallery for the opening ofInteractivity : Interpassivity, featuring work by Kristen Mills and Jessica Hyatt. Fort Point Arts Community Gallery Interactivity : Interpassivity is on view through March 5th 2010 Photos by James Manning. James Manning is a Boston based independent curator, artist and film producer. He is a regular contributor to Big RED & Shiny.
By BIG RED Thursday January 21st 2010 Photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at The DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park for the opening of The 2010 DeCordova Biennial. Featuring the work of: Greta Bank, Ross Cisneros, Georgie Friedman, Paul Laffoley, Philip Lique, Xander Marro, Christopher Mir, Liz Nofziger, Oscar Palacio, Otto Piene, William Pope.L, Randy Regier, Ward Shelley, Laurel Sparks, Mark Tribe, August Ventimiglia and Karin Weiner DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park “The 2010 DeCordova Biennial” is on view through April 11th 2010. Photos by James Manning. James Manning is a…
By BIG RED Thursday February 11th, 2009 Photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at The AIB Gallery at University Hall, Cambridge for the opening of FIVE FROM AROUND, featuring Rama Rejman, Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz and Tabitha Vevers Art Institute of Boston, Lesley University “Five From Around” is on view through March 6, 2010. Photos by James Manning. James Manning is a Boston based independent curator, artist and film producer. He is a regular contributor to Big RED & Shiny.
By BIG RED February 3rd, 2010 Photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at MIT List Visual Arts Center for the prereception/reception of Virtuoso Illusion: Cross-Dressing and the New Media Avant-Garde MIT List Visual Arts Center “Virtuoso Illusion: Cross-Dressing and the New Media Avant-Garde is on view until April 4th at MIT List Visual Arts Center, located at 20 Ames Street Building E15, Cambridge, MA.
By STEVE AISHMAN “Art writing that attempts not to judge, and yet presents itself as criticism, is one of the fascinating paradoxes of the second half of the twentieth century.” – James Elkins In 1970, Edmund Burke Feldman wrote a book called Becoming Human Through Art that proposed four elements of art criticism: 1. Description 2. Analysis 3. Interpretation 4. Judgment The Feldman method of art criticism begins with description, where the art critic uses neutral language to describe 1. recognizable subjects, 2. visual elements and their qualities (form), and 3. technical…
By KURT COLE EIDSVIG PoIesis is etymologically derived from the ancient Greek term ποιέω, which means “to make”. This word, the root of our modern “poetry”, was first a verb, an action that transforms and continues the world. Neither technical production nor creation in the romantic sense, poietic work reconciles thought with matter and time, and man with the world. – Wikipedia This column presents the poetry of Kurt Eidsvig, in juxtaposition to the dialogue around art and culture also featured at Big RED & Shiny. UNDULATE -After Jim Lambie at the…