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By CHARLES GIULIANO Print this article Because of the daunting exchange of dollars for euros, for the first time in fifteen years, Charles Giuliano opted not to make the annual trip to Europe. Instead he and his wife, Astrid, opted to travel to the American South West. What resulted was a two week, 2,000 miles loop from Vegas to Santa Fe and Taos and then back to fly out of Vegas. In addition to these three essays, he plans to write other pieces on this phenomenal experience. Part of the mandate of…
By DINA DEITSCH Print this article Sensitivity awareness seemingly grew with the speed and ferocity of the internet bubble during 1990s. Not to say that the emotional bubble has since burst or that things have changed, but no one can deny that the last decade saw a dramatic spike in yoga class attendance, a more overt P.C. office culture, and the ongoing march of organic food set on conquering your refrigerator. The glow of prosperity frayed the harsh edges of modernism and brightened up the dinginess of postmodernism. Few cultures felt the…
By MARINA VERONICA Print this article In 1938, Victor Vasarely, a Hungarian-born artist, painted “Zebra” – claiming that the optical illusion generated from the black and white pattern on a two-dimensional surface was the objective. Although Vasarely is considered the originator, the term Op Art was not coined until 1964, in an issue of Time Magazine. Op Art defined a group of abstract artists in America who experimented with geometric designs, in black and white or a combination of colors. Joseph Albers, in his Homage to the Square series, experimented with color…
By RACHEL GEPNER Print this article When Leslie Hall wanted to fund a project and needed people to work with she “looked around and asked, ‘What do my friends and I all have in common? Well, we’re fat.'” And Fat Girls Phat Art was born. The Fat Girls are Hall, Laura Dewaal, Brooke Hendrickson, and Kristi-Lyn Stevenson. The show consisted of photos, paintings and drawings, some with text, about fatness and girlness subjects which most consider to be mutually exclusive. In one piece, Hall tells the story of how her stepmother…
By KARINE JOUENNE & REESE INMAN Print this article Over the next few months, Big RED is proud to present a series of essays by Jouenne and Inman as they develop a language and a history of Synthetic Art. — While artists have been using the computer as a tool since the advent of affordable PCs in the 1980s, Synthetic Art proponents, alongside digital or “new media” artists, conceive of technology as a medium in its own right. However, diverging from Digital Art, which has tended to focus tightly on artistic exploration…
By MATTHEW NASH Print this article To be a working and showing artist is a tricky endeavor. It requires a lot of attention to details, of both the creative and social varieties, and a minimum working knowledge of the systems that must all work together to bring an artist and their work to the public. The vision (frequently perpetrated by Hollywood) of an artist working patiently in their studio until some influential force discovers them and takes them away to fame and fortune has always irked me. Such ‘discoveries’ may actually happen,…
By BEN SLOAT Print this article As a city of world-class universities and art institutions, Boston attracts a wide variety of distinguished members of the art world to speak about their work. Over the last several years, Harvard has hosted lectures by John Baldessari, Ed Ruscha, and Thomas Struth, Mass Art had eminent photographers Tina Barney and Tim Davis give talks, and artists such as Michael Joo, Kiki Smith, and Michel Gondry spoke at MIT. In a sense, these artist talks serve not only as a means of insight into the artwork…
By BIG RED Print this article April 22 – May 8, 2005 Candid snaps from many of the openings and events of Boston CyberArts 2005.