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By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Currently Rick Harlow, my next door neighbor in the Eclipse Mill artist/ loft building in North Adams, Massachusetts is spending a month among the indigenous people of Colombia. Recently, he worked for a couple of weeks for a Shaman in Brazil acting as an interpreter and participant in rituals involving the ancient cure and hallucinogen, Ayahuaska. During the winter he spent a month in Colombia. This year he is spending about two and a half months along the Amazon. This is a pattern he has pursued…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article When Jane Farver left the position of chief curator at the Queens Museum to become director of the MIT-List Visual Arts Center in 1999, I wrote a Perspective piece for Art New England. She has made good on many of the mandates she discussed back then particularly the ambition to improve on the aspects of education, public outreach, community involvement and strategies to make the museum more of a vital part of one of the world’s foremost research institutions. To reach that goal she has assembled…
By BEN SLOAT Print this article At the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center until September 2nd is an exhibition called Cameras, Communities, Connections from a collective called ph15. The ph is an abbreviation of the word photography and 15 refers to the specific shantytown in Buenos Aires where all the imagemakers, who range in age from 13 to 28 years old, are from. Formed in 2000 by the Argentine photographer Martin Rosenthal, an alumnus of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, the collective began as a way for a marginalized population…
By REESE INMAN Print this article While I’ve followed Corinn Flaherty’s work with interest over the past year or so, it’s apparent upon viewing her latest installation, “Personal Topography,” at the Rhys Gallery that the artistic vision and exploration has significantly deepened and expanded. Stretched, shimmery nylon panels are invaded by translucent cellular forms recalling wounds, orifices and genitalia, the perfect tautness and relative opacity of the nylon contrasting with the varying flaccidity and translucency of the cells, which range in color from blood-red through skin tones. In her statement, Flaherty writes…
By MATTHEW NASH Print this article The main gallery at the RISD museum currently features the large-scale painting “Manifest Destiny” by Alexis Rockman. This emormous piece (8 by 24 feet) occupies an entire wall, and is surrounded by smaller paintings and prints in support of the main piece. Some of these support works are paintings from the Museum’s collection, meant to relate Rockman’s style to historical moments. Among them is “Fishin'”, a Winslow Homer painting of children fishing, and a beautifully rendered view of a Brazilian forest by Martin Johnson Heade from…
By JONATHAN FARDY Print this article To communicate anything in the mute medium of paint is a hard thing to do well, but speaking about communication itself through it, is a remarkable challenge. Enter Jenifer Cawley, a young painter whose recent show for Lanoue Fine Art, takes on this challenge, succeeding with equal parts technical prowess and raw inspiration, while never failing to make her points stick with a painterly vocabulary of dramatic range. Cawley can loosely be called an encaustic painter, a painter who uses colored waxes, but that is only…
By BIG RED Print this article Ms. July’s film has proven to be such a conversation-piece, we have two reviews. Big RED regular Christian Holland, and Big RED newbie Craig Medvecky have both offered their thoughts. ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOWby Craig Medvecky ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOWby Christian Holland CINDERELLA MAN by Charles Giuliano WAR OF THE WORLDS by Ben Sloat CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY by Marina Veronica FANTASTIC FOUR by Matthew Nash THE ISLAND by Matthew Nash Summer is here, and the popular press is…
By HEIDI MARSTON Print this article I hear the voice in my head saying, “run”, but I don’t. I move faster, faster towards the enemy. I only see the target in my sight. I see the enemy punching and yelling, kicking and taunting. Then in seconds, IMPACT! I hit the target, the enemy goes down and goes down hard. I turn quickly and see the shadow of my brother limping away. The enemy still on the ground, my heart races and I turn quickly with out thought and speed away. My big…