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By BIG RED Saturday December 5th 2009 Candid photos from a Big RED day on-the-town at Rifrákt collective in Jamaica Plain for their holiday art sale. Featuring the work of Boston based emerging artists: Siobhan Bledsoe, Nick Day, Colby Drasher, Amanda Gallagher, Sarah Gay, Stephanie Goode, Carolyn Hulbert, Jessica Lewis, Heather MacLeod, Aaron Morris, Chris Oneil, Nora Richardson. Rifrákt “The Rifrákt Holiday Show was a one day event at an apartment in Jamaica Plain, MA. Photos by James Manning. James Manning is a Boston based independent curator, artist and film producer. He…
By BIG RED Saturday December 5th 2009 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at MEME for the opening of Tim Bailey: Ten Fingers MEME: an active manifestation “Tim Bailey: Ten Fingers” is on view through December 19th at MEME. 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 Friday, November 13 & Friday, November 20, 2009 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at AXIOM for the opening of Riders On The Train, curated by Nance Davies. Included are also photos from the artists’ gallery talk. This exhibition includes work by: Manuel Vazquez, Sarah Rushford, Stephen Cady, Jeff Morris, Jesse Malmed, Nance Davies, Andrew Sempere, Denise Marika and Dana Moser, Henry Gwiazda, Francois de Costere, Ethan Ham, Colleen Alborough and Joao Orecchia, Scott Hall, Marc McNulty, Dylan Mortimer, Zehra Kahn, Erick Conrad, Ben Chaffee,Jason Nelson, Nita…
By BIG RED Saturday, December 12th 2009 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at Engine Company 40 Firehouse in East Boston for the opening of Liz Nofziger’s multimedia installation Tocsin. Tocsin project website “Tocsin” is on view December 5 – 20, 2009 (and continuing by appointment until January 3, 2010) at Engine Company 40 Firehouse, 260 SumNer Street in East Boston.
By BIG RED Saturday, December 12, 2009 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at Massachusetts College of Art for Spark: A Gala Celebration. This event was the 5th Anniversary celebration for Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media and the launch party for Art Technology New England. During the evening, Axiom and Boston Cyberarts announced their merger and the creation of a new and larger organization for new media art. Axiom Gallery Art Technology New England “Spark” took place on December 12th at The Massachusetts College of Art & Design.…
By BIG RED & SHINY The Roundtable is a forum in which the Big RED & Shiny editors discuss issues in contemporary art today. Periodically these discussions result in questions worth further discussion, and this column proposes these ideas and our responses for your consideration. Join the conversation in the comments and ask new questions. What do you think of the growing trend (especially in New York) of commercial galleries organizing historical shows that rival local museums in terms of breadth and quality? Matthew Gamber For galleries looking to emphasize the importance…
By MATTHEW NASH Happy Holidays from the entire Big RED team! December is always such a crazy month, as the weather turns and the holidays arrive. Everyone is rushing to finish up all of their tasks before Hanukkah, Christmas, New Year’s Eve and all the other festivities take over our lives. It can be fun, frustrating and heartwarming, and every December we do it all over again. This year, as you buy gifts for your friends and family, and consider your end of the year donations to all the worthy non-profits you…
By SAM MCKINNISS In Real Art Ways’ front room gallery, Zak Ove’s group of photographs entitled Blue Devils (from the Transfigura series) greets viewers with a startling view of Trinidad Carnival. Large-scale photographs show men and women in gruesome masquerade known as the “Blue Devils,” brightly painted in white and blue, feathered and bloodied. Traces of African tribal memory mash up with European Catholic festival tradition as the players perform this escapist rite of passage. Through Ove”s lens, the scenes look terrifying, exhilarating, radiant and menacing. Ove documents the annual pageantry with…