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By BIG RED Print this article Friday, February 9th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at GASP for the opening of We Are Where We Are Not, curated by Jason Kalogiros. Gallery Artists Studio Projects (GASP)
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Print this article This just in . . . Form the ICA press release: Cambridge artist Kelly Sherman is the winner of the 2006 James and Audrey Foster Prize, the Institute of Contemporary Art announced today. This biennial award recognizing a Boston-area artist of exceptional promise includes a $25,000 prize and an opportunity for the finalists to present their work in an exhibition at the ICA. Kelly Sherman’s video and text-based works reveal the dynamics of personal relationships and examine the place of emotion in our often…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Print this article A group of 32 disputed Jackson Pollock paintings discovered by Mr. Alex Matter have recently been put through the ringer at Harvard’s prestigious conservation labs. Several pigments unavailable during Pollock’s lifetime were found in parts of the paintings, making many scholars wary of their authenticity. Other experts have claimed they are indeed authentic. Ellen Landau, professor of art history at Case Western Reserve University and a well-regarded Pollock scholar, was one such expert who sided with Mr. Matter and supported the paintings as the…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR Print this article Artists love postcards. They are great to hand out in a conversation, or to leave stacks behind as you travel through the city. Yet, at the end of a show, there are invariably a bunch left over, and soon enough the cards that were once exciting promotion are now sitting as coasters under coffee cups or collecting dripping glue and paint in the studio. For the same cost as a box of cards, why not advertise your show on Big RED & Shiny? You…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Last year Linda Leslie Brown asked if I would visit a two person show, with video artist Bebe Beard, at Boston’s Wentworth Institute. I agreed if she would take me there and spend an afternoon discussing the work. That proved fortuitous as arriving at the gallery during posted hours we were disappointed to find that the gallery was closed. After some ingenuity she managed to find security and they sent someone to let us in. The next stumbling block was figuring out how to turn on…
By THOMAS MARQUET Print this article #12: Thomas Marquet’s comic strip about life in a gallery. “The White Cube” comics can be read in series in the Big RED & Shiny Collections section. 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.
By MATTHEW NASH Print this article In the autumn of 2002, I was starting my second year of teaching at the Museum School in Boston. Among the graduate students, and some of the faculty, there was an intense energy that was being fueled by Boston’s thriving alternative scene. Yet that scene was also showing signs of strain, as the number of alt-venues and the availability of cheap space both declined. It seemed important to bring more attention to the art happening in the city, beyond the decent but limited scopes of The…
By BIG RED Print this article Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, for the opening of Ghosts, featuring Jeremy Vaughn and Julie Tourtillotte. Julie Tortillotte Jeremy Vaughn with guests. St. Mary’s College – Notre Dame, IN