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ASKEW @ 215 COLLEGE ARTISTS’ CONTEMPORARY GALLERY By Amanda Sanfilippo Featuring the work of Paul Humphrey, Jennifer Koch, Tarrah Krajnak and Lance Richbourg, Askew: Contemporary Portraits lays out four different approaches to contemporary portraiture, all of which are intertwined in some level of appropriation. Using this method as a basic platform, each of these artists use found imagery to present ideas through the most familiar thing we know – the human face and body. However, while all of these portraitists cobble together source material, they also use the their unique method and…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: THE LIST By Big Red Friday, October 10th, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at MIT’s List Visual Arts Center for the opening of “Adel Abdessemed: Situation and Practice” MIT List Visual Arts Center Photos 1-10 by Mark Linga and courtesy of The List Visual Arts Center. Remaining photos by Big RED & Shiny.
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: TRUSTMAN GALLERY, SIMMONS COLLEGE By Big Red Thursday, October 9th , 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening of The Human Animal Project. Curated by Paul Roux Trustman Art Gallery at Simmons College “THE HUMAN ANIMAL PROJECT” October 7th to November 4th 2008 Artists featured include: Brian Burkhardt, Boston/Miami Dera Leighton Collier, Los Angeles Araminta De Clermont, South Africa and UK Jesse Jagtiani, Boston/Berlin Faith Johnson, Boston Hiroko Kikuchi, Boston Jason Lazarus, Chicago Cathy McLaurin, Lawrence, MA Paul Roux, Los Angeles and South Africa Ruth…
BETH LIPMAN @ RISD & SOVIET POLITICAL ART @ BROWN By James Nadeau Last weekend I took a road trip (actually it was a train trip) to Providence. I went to check out the new wing at the museum at the Rhode Island School of Design. I detailed some of this trip on Big RED’s blog last week. However, there were a couple of exhibitions I happened to see that I didn’t get a chance to talk about in depth. Alongside Dale Chihuly’s exhibit at the RISD Museum was an installation by Beth…
OLAFUR ELIASSON: WATERFALLS By Ben Sloat I rode over the Manhattan Bridge today with a group of out of towners. As we looked eagerly into New York Harbor for the Eliasson waterfalls, we were disappointed to find only the scaffolding in place, the waterfalls had been turned off. Speculation ran wild. Aside of the more than two dozen government permits acquired to install the piece, provisions to prevent marine life (or over eager kayakers) from being sucked into the system, recent complaints involved the spray of the waterfalls killing plant life on the…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman The Zuni have used clay figures for thousands of years. Buddhists; mandalas. A clinical psychologists may suggest a candle. Christians may use the cross. Cultures from around the globe and throughout history have used objects as points of focus for beginning meditative or spiritual journeys. These objects sometimes end-up gaining there own religious or sacred value, but not always. Frequently, these objects are classified as art. In fact, even a quick walk through the Museum of Fine Arts shows that the vast majority of…
JOGGING WITH THE PRESIDENT OF RISD By Christian Holland Several times a month, John Maeda, the recently inaugurated president of RISD hosts a community jogging event called “Jogging with John.” This issue, Big RED & Shiny offers a short podcast about these events. Maeda’s a big deal, to say the least, though you might assume otherwise if you consider community jogging’s position in the hierarchy of social events. RISD’s position in the art and design around the globe – and not to mention its ego – warranted the search for a rock star…
INTERVIEW WITH JIM FITTS By Jason Landry Jim Fitts is the Executive Director of the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, a position he took on in 2007 after serving for several years on the center’s Board of Directors. He sat down with Jason Landry in September to talk about his experience collecting photography and current market, offering his advice on what to consider when first beginning a collection. Jason Landry: When did you start collecting photography? Jim Fitts: Jason, before you were born. I started when I was at the Massachusetts…