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Like Shepard Fairey, Alphabet Soup reuses potent images in much of his work has been active in both the street and gallery. ‘Alph’ differs with Fairey, however, on the articulation of the images they create. He says that Fairey’s merchandising from his own street art and propagandizing for political campaigns contradicts what he stood for when he began his own campaigns. The following is a chat Alphabet Soup and Christian Holland had about Fairey and his exhibition, “Supply and Demand,” at Boston’s ICA. Christian Holland: Are you a fan of Shepard Fairey’s…
“THE WHITE CUBE” By Thomas Marquet #43: When even fancy pushpins are too expensive, the Swedes save the day. Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in Brooklyn, New York, which is an admittedly unoriginal place to be pursuing any of these things. Get The White Cube every day at Tom’s blog.
HOW THE HELL DID WE GET HERE? LOOKING BACK ON 5 YEARS OF BIG RED & SHINY By Matthew Nash On February 15th, 2009, Big RED & Shiny celebrates our fifth year online and our hundredth issue. It is impossible to express how proud we are of this achievement, or how excited we are to embark on the next five years of arts coverage for New England (and beyond). Yet, anniversaries are a time for looking back and learning from the past, so here as we pass from two- to three-digit issue numbers,…
MISSING @ BARBARA KRAKOW GALLERY By Angela Speece “Less is more” is the aesthetic motto that ties this group of diverse artists together…. In a world bombarded by visual imagery, this exhibition powerfully articulates a great deal of information in an uncomplicated manner. A pervading missing link formulates an atmosphere of inexplicit absence that questions the significance of society’s continuous search for concrete explanations. Set in a pristine white space on Newbury Street is a miniature museum-like exhibition at Barbara Krakow Gallery, featuring the work of international stars ranging from Michelangelo Pistoletto to…
A CONVERSATION WITH LEON JOHNSON By Christian Holland Leon Johnson is the Berwick Research Institute’s new Director in Residence (DiR). Having just taken over late in 2008, he will lead the Berwick for the next two years. The organization has been without a Director since Meg Rotzel’s departure in 2006 and their new DiR program is an innovative approach for a small non-profit to bring experienced leadership to their team. On their website, the Berwick says it is bringing “unconventional creative practices into the arena of experimental arts administration.” Johnson will starts his…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: THE BOSTON ART AWARDS By Big Red Monday, February 2nd, 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The Beehive for the Boston Art Awards Ball, presented by Big RED & Shiny and the New England Journal of Aesthetic Research. Click here for more pictures from the Boston Art Awards Ball
DIRTBAGS, MALLCHICKS & MOTORBIKES: A CONVERSATION WITH DAVE KIERSH By Dave Ortega Dave Kiersh is an illustrator/ writer/ artist currently living in Arlington, MA. Among other things, he exhibited last year in a group show at Space 242 in Boston. More recently, he was awarded a grant by the Xeric Foundation for his newly released, all-color, 140 page comic book Dirtbags, Mallchicks & Motorbikes which can be purchased via PayPal through his website www.teenagepulp.com. More work of his can be found at davekcomics.com. DO: Your highly personal comics tend to deal with adolescent…
SOL LEWITT @ MASSMOCA By Stephen V. Kobasa Into the maze – the shifting from walled in to walled up to walled out, moving through the bands of color as if they were tinted sound. This is the compendium of one hundred and five drawings by Sol LeWitt now on view at MASS MoCa in an exhibit that alters the notion of “temporary” to a scale of twenty-five years. It deserves the time. And any intent viewer will require it. These are materials for meditation, as once were the melted frescoes of the…