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By MATTHEW GAMBER A contemporary riddle: How many Ansel Adams calendars does the Sierra Club have to sell to support awareness of the John Muir trail? Based on sales, many admire a tree more in a photograph, which is perhaps the ultimate irony – embalming its living image onto its own processed carcass. In conjunction with the Berwick Research Institute, Second Gallery is currently exhibiting the work of Pam Larson, a recent BRIArtist in Research alum. This exhibit features a variety of video work that is either shot firsthand or interrupted through…
By BEN SLOAT On view until September 9th at the Green Street Gallery is the multimedia exhibition Astronauts, Monsters, and Silicon Flowers. A dark and quirky rejoinder to the end of summer and the arrival of sober autumn, this show is the Labor Day of gallery exhibits: an entertaining escapade with complex layers of historical reference. Jeff “Jeffu” Warmouth, he of the familiar Rollie Fingers moustache, presents a hilarious video with vegetable characters, Day of the Cabbage. Sort of a Godzilla meets 50s B movie Sci-Fi meets Veggie Tales (the surreal Christian…
By JASON DEAN In Venus at Her Mirror, a well-known painting by Diego Velasquez, Venus reclines on a sofa with her back to the viewer. She’s looking back at the viewer in a mirror held by Cupid. Her face is unclear and it seems we are attempting to voyeuristically peer in on the scene. Is she aware of us? Or merely vainly admiring her own image, being the goddess of beauty and all. Has she fallen under her own spell? And more importantly, is this setting, in this pose, Is this a…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND What does it mean and why did you make it? What is the origin of this piece? Have you ever been to an artist talk and, instead of admiring the artwork, found yourself marveling at how the artist’s statements and descriptions can be so substantively vacuous yet be so verbose and even effusive? The artist may believe that the work needs a description or story to legitimize or validate it, but perhaps the artist does not even know how to describe his/er work. Véronique d’Entremont, the current Artist in…
By BIG RED August 3rd, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Judi Rotenberg for Made in America, featuring Brian Burkhardt, Gina Dawson, Leslie Hall, Harvey Loves Harvey, Joan Linder, Jane Maxwell, Sean Micka, Liz Nofziger, Douglas Weathersby, Lorna Williams. Photos by Ninja SKA. Judi Rotenberg Gallery
By BIG RED Thursday, August 3rd, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening of MADE IN AMERICA at the Judi ROtenberg Gallery with Brian Burkhardt, Gina Dawson, Leslie Hall, Harvey Loves Harvey, Joan Linder, Jane Maxwell, Sean Micka, Liz Nofziger, Douglas Weathersby, Lorna Williams. Photos by James Manning. Judi Rotenberg Gallery
By BIG RED July 31st – August 3rd 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED week on-the-town at SIGGRAPH Boston 2006, a small selection of the many exhibits, performers and demonstrations at the SIGGRAPH Boston convention. Photos by James Manning. SIGGRAPH2006: 33rd International Conference and Exhibition
By BIG RED Thursday, July 30th, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening events for SIGGRAPH Boston 2006 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. Photos by James Manning. SIGGRAPH2006: 33rd International Conference and Exhibition