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By BRUCE CAMPBELL Architecture has been on many people’s minds lately; well due to speculation that the economy could possibly maybe be in a light recession due to the past half decade’s gluttonous housing bubble, I’d say architecture in some form or another is on just about everyone’s mind. Todd Keyser’s exhibition of collages, painting and installation at Rebekah Templeton Contemporary Art evidences that he too has been contemplating the recent and not so recent promises and failures of architecture as a literal panacea to crumbling social structures. The Truth About Maximilian…
By KAREN S. FEGLEY Located in the central lobby of South Boston’s Distillery complex of artists’ live/work spaces and small businesses—is a rough-and-tumble sort of place, a white-painted room with utility pipes, metal diamond-plate entry ramps, industrial lamps; a space where the door to the freight elevator is built into one wall with the entry to a woodworking shop in another. And yet it might be just the right sort of place for a “face-off” between two traditional modes of photography. Black & White vs. Color is a mock competition between two…
By MATTHEW NASH With Projections, Jenny Holzer has truly utilized the full potential of Mass MoCA’s Building 5. Using relatively few elements — light, text, oversized beanbag cushions — she has created an experience that is equally intriguing, soothing and disorienting. Upon entering the cavernous space, we are confronted with gigantic white words, scrolling across the floor and ceiling. Two projectors are mounted at either end of the room, and the words overlap and distort as they pass the length of the room, growing larger and harder to read, before passing back…
By JAMES NADEAU “The indiscernibility of the real and the imaginary, or of the present and the past, of the actual and the virtual, is definitely not produced in the head or the mind.” — Gilles Deleuze, The Time-Image With the advent of digital technologies the line between video and photography has gotten more and more blurred. By reducing these art forms to their essential bits and bytes one could argue that their no longer is a difference between the two (analog video, unlike film, was always technologically different from photography). Both…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND To the opening for the art exhibition, Experiencing the War in Iraq, Jeff Carpenter wore a slimly tailored black corduroy blazer over a casual button down shirt with slacks, but just five days previous, in the gallery-cum-recording studio called Machines with Magnets in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where most of the works in Experiencing are exhibited, he was barely recognizable through the opening of a faux-fur trimmed hood of a heavy, navy-blue parka. Sticking out from under the chunky hood was the brim of a black FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy…
By JESS T. DUGAN Moyra Davey is an artist and photographer, based in New York. Her current exhibit, Long Life Cool White, is currently on display at the Fogg Art Museum, featuring work from her 2008 publication by the same title. Contributor Jess T. Dugan interviewed Davey for Big RED & Shiny this March, and below is the transcript of their conversation. • Jess T. Dugan: How did you begin making photographs? Moyra Davey: I began as a teenager in an improvised darkroom in a closet—I made a lot of solarized, hippie-looking…
The Berwick Research Institute has announced the 2008 residents for their Artist In Research (AIR) program. AIR was created “to support artists involved in the early stages of projects that require investigation, dialogue, and support from an artistic community.” AIR alumni include Pam Larson, Christy Georg, Maura Jasper, Vaughn Bell, Liz Nofziger, and the 2007 ICA Foster Prize winner Kelly Sherman, to name a few. Here’s a link to my interview with AIR curators Bonnie Bastien and Rosie Branson-Gill in Big RED & Shiny #57 Laura Torres 4/08 – 6/08 Laura Torres…
Last week I posted about the closing of Allston-Skirt Gallery. Other rumors have been kicking around, some confirmed and others still rumor. Today, Greg Cook has a great post about various gallery moves, changes and closures. The most notable is: BERNARD TOALE, whose gallery anchors the front corner of the building at 450 Harrison Avenue and has run a gallery in town since 1992, is hashing out a new lease that would have him divide his space over the summer. Plans are for gallery director, Joseph Carroll, to take over much of…