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By EAN FRICK When living in an age of over consumption we often find ourselves searching for gold among the piles of plastic. Aaron Brewer and Michael Mahalchick’s installations, currently showing at the Second Gallery, achieve this diamond in the rough status. Aaron Brewer is an artist, theorist and curator who regularly contributes to C Magazine and is one of the founders of the New York gallery CANADA that also represents Michael Mahalchick. His installation, And if I only could, I’d make a deal with god, and I’d get him to swap…
By KAREN SCHIFF When the Museum of Modern Art reopened in Manhattan, Eva Hesse’s sculptural assemblage of knee-high translucent rumpled cylinders, “Repetition Nineteen III” (1968), was installed behind a wall that held a large Agnes Martin painting. The pairing was apt: both women resisted the emotional desiccations of minimalism, and both found sublime and rhythmic expression through techniques that left traces of the artist’s hand. The positioning of Hesse’s work — out of sight to viewers until moving past the Martin painting and peering around the wall — was also apt: Hesse…
By ANNA FAKTOROVICH The message is on the wall, in the yellow rectangle drawn around the eleven oil portraits on panel. Jeffrey Ellse’s art is trapped in rectangles. His art expresses a fear of expression. Psychological barricades are erected in a few thick strokes of Howie’s hair that give the model a nonchalant, contemptuous attitude. Most of the posers have tightly compressed lips and sad, foggy eyes. A nude torso of Jeff’s fiancé, Colleen is facing away, but her face is looking at us. Like the rest, her eyes hold a flirtatious…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND When Kelly Sherman began her residency at the Berwick Research Institute’s Artist in Research (AIR) program, she had set out to create a project based on seating arrangements at weddings. When I heard this, I suspected that she was the type of wedding-obsessed person who starts planning their “Big Day” at the age of six and had somehow slipped by the AIR’s curatorial review with a proposal for what was, at the critical level, a insightful yet unorthodox exploration of how a family works. Then I discovered she was…
By BIG RED THE DA VINCI CODE by MICAH J. MALONE X-MEN 3 by MATTHEW NASH NACHO LIBRE by RACHEL GEPNER BRICK by JASON DEAN ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL by BEN SLOAT TOKYO DRIFT by CHRISTIAN HOLLAND THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA by CHARLES GIULIANO If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. That’s what they say, right? As common courtesy goes into the same trash bin as America’s reputation, decent story-telling, objective news reporting and the 10¢ cup of coffee, we throw up our hands and give in. There is no use fighting…
By BIG RED May 7th 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED evening on-the-town at the National Bitter Council GOYA honoring Day Banquet. The Bitter Melon Council celebrated the annual GOYA Honoring Day with a 7 course banquet, each course featured a different bitter melon based dish.
By BIG RED May 5th, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the First Friday openings at Harrison Street. photos from the May Openings of: Beth Galston and Ann Torke at Boston Sculptors Gallery Rachel Dayson at Allston Skirt Gallery Warkell Milan II at Samson Projects Nickz at O’H+T Gallery
By BIG RED May 5, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the First Friday openings at Harrison Street. Featuring the ongoing adventures of the Big RED Trucker Cap.