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By MATTHEW NASH Walking down Washington Street to get lunch at New Saigon Sandwich, I looked up at the darkened windows above the corner at Beach Street. My heart gave a little leap, then sank a bit, and I thought “God, I miss Oni Gallery.” It seems that so many alternative spaces only exist in nostalgia. I remember the first exhibition I saw after returning to Boston in 2001, climbing up those stairs to the crowded chaos of Oni. The work was engaging and memorable (a piece by Dave Webber still stands…
By BIG RED Candid snaps from the reception for Robin Mandel: Sculpture at Green Street Gallery. Links: Green Street Gallery Images courtesy of James Hull.
By BIG RED December 3, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at realTIME, a fundraiser event for Axiom, Inc at the Wonderbar in Allston. Links: Axiom Art Images by James Manning.
By BIG RED The biennial everyone loves to hate has announced its list of artists to be praised, loathed, celebrated, scorned, ignored and vaulted into extreme scrutiny. The co-curators this year are Chrissie Iles, curator at the Whitney, and Philippe Vergne, senior curator at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Like two years ago, this biennial includes a healthy cross generational theme with old timers like Richard Serra and Ed Paschke (who sadly died last year) sharing space with younger artists like Matthew Day Jackson and Kelley Walker. However, the overall roster seems…
By BIG RED ASPECT: THE CHRONICLE OF NEW MEDIA has announced the release of the sixth edition, titled “On Location”. It is described on their website: Without a fixed physical or temporal locus, Aspect Magazine maximizes the fluidity of its ephemeral site in Volume 6: On Location. Extending from the momentary to the monumental, terrestrial to celestial, micro to macro, and personal to cultural, this issue explores the vast concept of location. Where beyond the genre of new media art could so many different interpretations of location exist? And where besides the…
By BIG RED Big RED & Shiny is pleased to announce a new feature on our site! In addition to our regular issues, from time to time our editors and writers will now post Quick Reviews of exhibitions and events on the day they happen. Look for recaps from around the city, from First Fridays to Newbury Street, the BCA to the ICA, to MIT and SMFA and MassArt, and any other place where things are happening. Check us out when you get home from a night out, or the next morning…
By MICAH J. MALONE Awhile back I was very intrigued with John Baldessari and his collection of film stills. What an elaborate and obsessive system he created where personal organization had more meaning than the “original” source of his material. While this may now represent a typical postmodern moment where the sign and signified have a tenuous and relative relationship, what always amazed me was the authority in which Baldessari claimed these abandoned prints. I adopted his system as a model to explore and document my own curiosities. Instead of photos, I…
By CHARLES GIULIANO November 24, 2005 Settling into a booth for a Beer and Burger session, Mark Lee Favermann, produced a series of glossy images of his latest project, an installation of silhouettes of 20 birds created over the past couple of years as a logo and gateway for the transition from Boston to Brookline at Audubon Circle. As is often the case in the field of urban design, much of the work involved proposal writing, permissions, design and the actual fabrication. It implies the kind of patience, multi tasking, and understanding…