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By BIG RED LEF Foundation, a Cambridge-based organization that supports artists and film-makers in New England, recently announced they will provide funding for Big RED & Shiny. Their generous support will be used to continue the work of our little pink website, and will enable us to further the dialogue and promotion of the arts in New England. Big RED & Shiny will also use the funding to expand the site, offering new services that will be announced soon. We couldn’t be more excited to work with the wonderful ladies of LEF…
By BIG RED NEWS EDITOR It is commonly believed that creativity can be an outlet for one’s inner-most feelings and desires. This is a the basis of many discussions around artists and their work, from Jackson Pollock to Janine Antoni to Bob Flanagan, as well as a basic tenet of art therapy. Turning loose one’s instincts, dreams, desires and fantasies on canvas or paper releases the bottled energy that threatens to drive us mad, which is why the study of artwork often resembles psychology, and that Freud and Jung and Kant are…
By BIG RED The Mad Dash may be over, but there are still plenty of great works available at Green Street Gallery for $150. The sale of these works benefits one of Boston’s exciting alternative spaces, and is a great way to improve your collection without a hint of guilt. As part of our support for Green Street, Big RED & Shiny will host a mini-viewing of the remaining works in the 150×150 show until it’s close on November 12. Check out the work, then head on out to Jamaica Plain to…
By BIG RED Big RED & Shiny is pleased to announce the winner of the first Big RED design competion: Stefano Pasquini! Stefano Pasquini (b. 1969, Bologna, Italy) received his MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna in 1991, he then briefly left the country for Dublin, landed in London for seven years, then New York. He currently lives and works back in Bologna. He was head curator of Sesto Senso, a small non-profit gallery in Bologna, for the exhibiting seasons of 2001-2002. He is Art Director of “Work -…
By MATTHEW NASH I have to admit, I’m disappointed. A few issues back, I offered up a chance for the readers of Big RED & Shiny to design an issue of our little pink website. This came out of many requests by my friends and my students to let them have a crack at it, wishing to see their own look applied to one of our issues. While this idea scared me a little, it seemed like fun and thus was born the first and only Big RED design competition. Time passed.…
By CHARLES GIULIANO “You’ve known me since I was a little squirt,” Kathy Bitetti laughed as we met for a beer and burger to discuss her remarkable multi tasking as artist, curator, public policy advocate and long term director of The Artists Foundation, which was incorporated in 1973. Truthfully, Kathy nursed two rounds of cranberry juice matched by my Sam seasonals. We met ages ago when she was the director of the Harbor Gallery (1989-1992) at University of Massachusetts, Boston while I spent a semester as a visiting professor. It was fun…
By MARINA VERONICA Print this article Newspapers offer us images of death and pain caused by wars, governmental injustices, physical abuse and torture with such frequency that over time, we tend to gloss over them. Yet upon closer examination, some of these victims appear quite beautiful, lifeless yet graceful in death. Although they will likely remain anonymous to us personally, they demand our attention as deceased victims of painful circumstances, quiet remnants of psychological and physical brutality. Even photographs of the survivors of tragic encounters, like mourning mothers carrying their dead and…
By ANTHONY TUCK Print this article The Open Studios Season is upon us. Metalic blue and gold streamers hang limp from walkup windows, inviting foot traffic in from the rain. Hand written signs offer encouragement and direction from walk-up floor to floor. Around Fort Point Channel alone, 250 artists open their doors and bait their studios with offerings of cheese and wine for the thousands of visitors decending on the neighborhood. The creative residents of these warehouses carry themselves with the air of successful colonists. Since 1978, a nucleus of artists has…