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By HEIDI AISHMAN Vieques: A Long Way Home, Bonnie Donohue’s exhibit at Casa de la Cultura, consists of several multi-paneled photographs and panorama’s of the U.S. Navy bunkers embedded in the landscape of the island of Vieques. Vieques is a small island off the coast of Puerto Rico, a protectorate of the U.S. These photographs visually represent the how the troubled relationship between the Navy and the inhabitants of Vieques will never be forgotten. Though the occupation of the U.S. Navy is over, hidden bunkers, overgrown with tress and grass, scar the…
By SCOTT ALBERG Second Gallery featured the work of artists Tyler Drosdeck and Brendan Harman in its final exhibition before closing its doors. Though each exhibited separate projects and pieces, the two artists collaborated on the show’s conceptualization and decided to each call their respective installations Same Old . The commonly used saying “same old, same old” achieves its meaning because of and through its redundancy. In this dense and rewarding exhibition both Drosdeck and Harman find that redundancy can sometimes be very, very productive, and can lead toward the reformulation of…
By JACQUELINE HOUTON Artists have long turned to travel as a wellspring for inspiration—Van Gogh had the amber light of Arles, Gauguin the women (and girls) of Tahiti. In Fusiform, the latest exhibition at the Rhys Gallery, Chicago-based artists Juan Angel Chavez, Michael Genovese, and Cody Hudson embrace Boston’s rubbish as their muse. The visiting artists—all known for creating street art in their native Chicago—have scoured the South End of our coastal city and transformed its trash into “Fusiform,” a massive installation modeled after the shape of a blue whale (for those…
By MATTHEW NASH Mobius Artists Group has been a major part of the arts in Boston for nearly thirty years. This past week, they announced that they will be moving new a new space in the South End, through the support of the city. Big RED & Shiny spoke with Mobius director Nancy Adams, and Alisia Waller, a more recent member of the Mobius group. MN: Tell me about Mobius’ new space at 725 Harrison Avenue in the South End. How did you come to occupy it? What will it offer Mobius…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND I ran into Bill Arning, the Curator of MIT’s List Visual Arts Center, at a talk at MIT on March 11 and he gave me the scoop: Laura Donaldson was leaving the BCA. The leadership there was changing the programming model and the Mills Gallery as we knew it would no longer fit in the budget. The first word in an email from Matt Nash, publisher of Big RED & Shiny, in response to hearing about Laura’s impending departure was “Christ.” I thought, “No, even Jesus can’t help here,”…
By BIG RED Thursday, June 21st, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Rhys Gallery for the opening of “Fusiform” —-
By BIG RED Monday, June 18th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The Berwick for the closing reception of Jon Taylor’s “Head Acres” —-
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Laura Donaldson was informed last February that her days with the Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) were numbered. The BCA no longer wanted a Director for its Mills Gallery; a reorganization of its management and re-branding of its programming was beginning to take root. The elimination of Donaldson’s position will betide the BCA this summer, after three and a half years under her diligent stewardship and curatorial leadership. This news concerned and dismayed the arts community of Boston. Bill Arning the Curator of MIT’s List Visual…