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By RACHEL GEPNER I had a hard time coming up with a topic for my Letter From the Editor. I wanted to say something pertinent and useful and possibly even intelligent – to discuss what’s been on my mind and is art-related and can be generalized to encompass an issue that Affects Us All. The problem is that the only art that I’ve been particularly concerned with of late is my own. I’ve been at this long enough that I no longer doubt the validity of what I’m doing, but endless questions…
By MICAH J. MALONE “In the end it comes down to what it always comes down to: vision and visionaries. All we have to do is bring it on and not be boring.” -Jerry Saltz —- Finding fresh criticism for Dana Schutz is not the easiest of tasks. Only three years out of Columbia’s grad program, Schutz has become the biggest star of recent years and seems well on her way to assuming the role of “most celebrated artist” of her generation. Of course, the speed of the art world these days…
By JONATHAN FARDY Somewhere between the blueberry pie and the vampire costume, I paused to reflect on the thoughtfully tangled way that the forty plus artists of the Thread Counts Project succeeded in interpreting the show’s thematic structure. Inspired by how our conception of threads has undergone multifarious discursive permutation by new language and especially new technologies, curators Leila Lee Mitchell and Luanne Stovall organized an incredibly diverse show which focused on thread as a living metaphor weaving in and out of a multiplicity of meanings, situations and artistic practices. Gina Dawson…
By JASON SCHIEDEL There’s something in the air at Joe Zane’s terrific solo show at Allston Skirt. Titled Personality, these diverse works of sculpture, painting, drawing and audio tackle the increasingly difficult question of what it takes for an artist like Zane to arrive at an original work of art. Like many artists in the wake of conceptualism, he’s aware of the developments that have proceeded him, and like an ingenious outsider has come up with ways of insinuating himself into these traditions while simultaneously bringing them up to date. Appropriation art…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Christian Holland: I think this is the 3rd time you’ve been in the Whitney Biennial? Joe Gibbons: It’s actually the 4th time, starting in 95, I think. CH: I guess the first time an artist is in the biennial, it’s a huge stepping stone, but perhaps with the 4th time, it isn’t the same? Does it re-instill the same cachet that being in the Whitney biennial the 1st time does? JG: It’s pretty much the same, but not in those terms. In a sense its re-enforcing or re-affirming the…
By MICAH J. MALONE MM: In looking at your films, I was thinking of the concept of “in-between” and how that particular space-time is rarely represented in film. For instance, your film “Fissures”, where throughout the film you are literally in–between the frames. I was linking that to memory and it is perhaps akin to the “frames” in-between shots from a family photo album. LB: When you think of a fissure it connotes this idea of the in-between. It suggests the idea of the gap, as what you are missing. But it’s…
By BIG RED March 2, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town the opening of “Take Care” at the Student Life Gallery at the Massachusetts College of Art MassArt galleries
By BIG RED March 2, 2006 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening of “The Many Layers of Zygmund Jankowski” at Judi Rotenberg Gallery Judi Rotenberg Gallery LLC