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By HEIDI MARSTON AND SUPERFRIENDS Print this article The Printmaking world has always appeared insular to me and I have always felt like an interloper at printmaking exhibits. However, what interests me about the printmaking world is that they seem to work as a community. All the printmakers I know all know each other, all show together all know all of the other printmakers in other places. This is not as true for other media like painting, photography or sculpture. In the painting and photography worlds there are small groups in each…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article The scratch and sniff walls are gone, along with the trippy hallway, though the Star Wars helmets and 2001: A Space Odyssey set reproduction still occupy the entrance to Part II of theList Visual Art Center’s Sensorium: Embodied Experience, Technology, and Contemporary Art show despite the helmets’ electronics not always functioning correctly [1]. With the second half of the sensorially founded show, most of the works still rely largely on visual elements, which that in some ways belies the show’s intents. However, Part II incorporates the…
By FRANK PEREZ Print this article In his statement, curator Jason Kalogiros reminds us that “[a]s firmly rooted in a present moment or place as someone or something is, they always carry with them the residue of the past as well as a relationship to a time that has not yet arrived.” The artists in “We Are Where We Are Not” have each approached the concepts of identity construction and personal history, with mixed and sometimes confusing results. Kalogiros has included his own work in the show, which is often the case…
By CAROLYN FRANKLIN Print this article Among its many processes, none evokes the Victorian origins of photography as powerfully as the pinhole image. The framing vignette, the visual distortion, and the odd mix of crisp focus and blurry confusion all combine to remind us of the mystery and magic that photographs once inspired. Each of the artists of “Made In Poland” play at the edges of our expectations, creating images that are not records of our world, but a reimagining of our perception of it. Curators Jesseca Feguson and Walter Crump have…
By MARIA LACRETA Print this article The film, Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock? is the story of a woman who is trying to convince a wall of art moguls, albeit a small wall, that she owns an original Jackson Pollock. The woman, Teri Horton, picked up the painting at a tag sale for five dollars. After some advice given to her from an art-teacher friend, Horton began to believe it was an original Pollock. Investigating in thrift store bookshelves and internet searches, Horton stumbles upon a book written by former art…
By BIG RED & SHINY Print this article The phrase ‘award season’ is rarely associated with anything except cinema. There are the Oscars, Globes, and various critics’ circles who dole out various awards of varying levels of prestige. However, each year, around the same time the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences knights various members of the entertainment industry with Academy Awards, the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) selects a first and second place winner from 18 categories of visual art exhibitions both internationally and regionally. AICA is an international…
By BIG RED Print this article Friday, February 2nd, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The Rhys Gallery for the opening of ¡ATTACK!, featuring theMiracle5. Rhys Gallery
By BIG RED Print this article Thursday, February 8th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening of Sensorium II at The List Visual Arts Center Photographs by Mark Linga and courtesy of The LVAC and MIT. MIT List Visual Arts Center