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By KARINE JOUENNE & REESE INMAN Print this article Artist Ken Feingold, interviewed by Karine Jouenne at his New York studio in July, considers the idea of Synthetic Art an interesting and relevant curatorial proposition and sees such fundamentally hybrid artwork as establishing a paradigmatic shift for art, but not a movement per se. So, trend, paradigm shift, or movement? It’s probably too early to say. The formulation serves as a focus point for ongoing research and interaction with artists and curators, as well as this corresponding series of articles. We try…
By MATTHEW NASH Print this article A little over a year ago, someone forwarded a URL to me for a website featuring a guy who had challenged Shaquille O’Neill to a free-throw competition. For each free-throw O’Neill made in a game, Lee Walton also made one. On his website he kept score, and I would check back from time to time to see who was winning. More recently, Lee Walton was featured on ASPECT: A Chronicle Of New Media. Thoroughly amused, and inspired, by his work, I started a conversation with the…
By BIG RED Print this article If you surf the web a lot, you’ve probably run across this icon – – a few times. Perhaps you’ve seen it’s cousin – – and wondered what it means. RSS is short for Really Simple Syndication, and has become a popular way for people to get information and news headlines. These simple feeds can provide a lot of information in a small space, and help those who want to be informed wade thru the vast amounts of information available each day. Big RED & Shiny…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article It was with great relief that we pulled into the driveway behind a wall along a country road in rural New Mexico near Albuquerque. Finding the home of Jaune Quick to See Smith and her husband, Andy Ambrose, had been a daunting task. Barking but ultimately friendly dogs announced our arrival. Yes the directions were a little tricky but getting them had been a greater challenge. It seems that they almost never answer the phone. An intrusion of their privacy they explained. And although we had…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article In the studio are large, figurative, plywood cutouts, meant to be free-standing, that Ric Haynes is about to pack up and drive to the Bradley Academy of Visual Arts in York, Pennsylvania. An exhibition will be on view there from July 8 to August 26. For an artist who resides in Quincy, a suburb of Boston, that represents a lot of effort for a show in a remote location. When I raised that point over lunch at a local restaurant, Ric, an old friend whom I…
By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article This summer exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art brings to Boston, some for the very first time, a stunning array of A list American and international art stars. It was riveting to get up close and personal with works by the outstanding British artists Chris Ofili, Ron Mueck and Sam Taylor-Wood. What’s not to like about a show that includes Bill Viola, Jack Pierson, Andy Warhol, Marina Abramovic, Louise Bourgeois, John Currin and that’s not all. The list goes on like a marathoner loading up…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article Nature is everything (energy, matter, etc.) (as far as I know). impersonature is the 27th show at Sand T’s artSPACE@16. Nature, in our anthropocentric concept of reality, is most often defined by everything not in any way manipulated by man, or, perhaps, the opposite of the synthetic. In impersonature Sand T, artSpace@16’s founder, built a show around humanity’s interpretation of “the natural.” The artists in the show all represent the natural by way of “impersonating, mimicking, rendering, personifying, and embodying the character or part of Nature;”…
By RACHEL GEPNER Print this article The Rhys Gallery is located on an unassuming side street between a project and the discount liquor store. It’s a beautiful, surprisingly comfortable and un-gallery feeling gallery. The split levels divide the space into more human sized rooms, couches and an open kitchen remind you of an apartment you wish you had, and the careful lighting is complimented by sun pouring in the window. Colin Rhys is pleased with it particularly for the dynamic of the three spaces. “[Each room] has a very different aesthetic, so…