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By RACHEL GEPNER Back in the olden days, groups of people united into tribes and began to hang out and draw deer and suns and little stick people on cave walls all over the world. Seems like not much has changed. This is the angle juror Denise Markinosh took on the Mills Gallery’s 19th Drawing Show. Each piece then becomes a sort of relic of this moment in culture. Looking around the room with that in mind is not particularly reassuring: whether compositionally or through their content, these pieces distress and disturb.…
By BEN SLOAT On view at the Photographic Resource Center until January 22nd is the exhibition of images titled Group Portrait. Comprised of work from five different photographers from the Northeast and the Midwest, the images focus on the intimacy of domestic situations, revealing a narrative that often appears to have a twist towards the fictional. As the characters within the images are caught within a heightened psychological relationship, the viewer also becomes a participant within the circumstances presented. Ben Gest’s Chuck, Alice, and Dale takes place in a home library, the…
By MICAH J. MALONE Because it is the only gallery I can think of that gets its name from and quotes Michel Foucault in its mission statement, I wanted to know more about Space Other. I caught up with the “principal” of Space Other Gamaliel Herrera via email over the last week to understand its mission of “purposeful marginality” and get a sense of what to expect from this unique gallery. On view now is the third exhibition in its young history. Closer, which was reviewed in Issue #31, is up through…
By BIG RED November 18, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening for the Drawing Show at The Boston Center For The Arts. Links: Boston Center for the Arts Images by James Manning.
By BIG RED November 18, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Kidder Smith Gallery for the opening of an exhibiton of new paintings by Miroslav Antic. Links: Kidder Smith Gallery Photos by James Manning.
By BIG RED Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the Trinity Inspires Auction.
By BIG RED November 19, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Mobius’ event ArtRages. Links: Mobius Images by James Manning.
By BIG RED The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCa) recently announced two new curatorial appointments. Susan Cross will join the curatorial staff, bringing 15 years of experience, 10 of which were earned at the Guggenheim Museum. Nato Thompson has been at Mass MoCa since 2001, and has been promoted from assistant curator. Thompson is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and garnered much attention for the exhibition “The Interventionists” last year. “Nato and Susan are both deeply committed to helping artists realize new work, which…