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By ANNEKA LENSSEN Print this article I went to see work by Natalie Loveless and Christopher Gardner, winners of the Bromfield Art Gallery’s 2004 SOLO Competition (selected by MIT’s List Center’s Bill Arning), late Saturday afternoon, as the first flakes of the gleefully predicted Nor’easter were falling. While I was in the gallery, dusk descended, and two inches of snow accumulated. As I was riding home on the T, I saw an ad on the subway for a Christian young life network, RealLifeBoston.com. It bore an appropriated comment from Leo Tolstoy, “is…
By JESSICA POSER Print this article To make an exact image is to insure against disappearance, to cannibalize life until it is safely and permanently a specular image, a ghost. (Haraway 1992) The twentieth century is, in the words of Walter Benjamin, characterized by “the desire…to bring things ‘closer’ spatially and humanly…overcoming the uniqueness of every reality by accepting its reproduction.” (Rony 1996) The gallery at Suffolk’s New England School of Art & Design features the recent work of Sarina Khan Reddy, consisting of a series of photographs entitled “Picture Spot” and…
By REESE INMAN Print this article This review came about as a sort of extended response to Charles Giuliano’s Jan. 9 comments re: Daniel Dueck and Lily van der Stokker at Allston Skirt Gallery. With characteristic frankness, Charles writes: “Once again Allston Skirt presents a tandem of shows that focus on youth, whimsy and funkiness. Dueck is doing something about birds and van der Stokker is making scratchy little drawings with text. Other folks, whom I respect, appear to support and admire the work. It is getting serious critical and curatorial attention…
By SHIN YU PAI Print this article Last fall marked the debut of The Analogous Series, a new multimedia events series run by poet and art critic Tim Peterson and hosted in Cambridge. Focusing on curating together poets with visual artists, cultural activists, and interdisciplinary artists experimenting with blurring the lines between disciplines, the series has brought an impressive and diverse list of presenters to Boston. This season’s offerings include upcoming presentations by Lyn Hejinian, Emilie Clark, Joan Jonas, Alan Sondheim and local favorites William Corbett, Ruth Lepson, and Joel Sloman. As…
By BIG RED Print this article As part of our continuing effort to encourage dialogue among the diverse aspects of the Boston community, Big RED & Shiny asked a variety of culture-makers to respond to the following statement: We as artists (and critics, theorists, gallerists, etc) love our -isms. They allow us to define an artist and their work, to give them a framework and a historical context. The histories to which we subscribe are both a necessity and a burden, and often the past is a crutch when reading contemporary art.…
By BIG RED Print this article January 7, 2005 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at SoWa First Friday.
By BIG RED Print this article On January 28, 2005, Big RED and Shiny will host our first fundraising event at the Boston Center for the Arts Mills Gallery (539 Tremont Street in Boston’s South End). Titled Big RED : GREEN, this event will feature music by GRETCHEN ELISE, and a one-night exhibition of works on the theme of money. Many Big RED supporters will be showing their work, including: SHEPARD FAIREY BILL BURKE JOHN BJERKLIE JOHNNY CARRERA LYNN WILES OBADIAH EELCUT JAMES HULL PIOTR PARDA CHARLES GIULIANO MICHELLE HARTOG JAMIE MCMURRY…
By BIG RED Print this article On December 16th, LEF Foundation announced their annual General Fund grants for 2004. Thirty-seven organizations, groups and individuals received funding this year, with a total allocation of $340,000. Recipients include: in the Visual Arts Tufts University Art Gallery Funds to support the commission of a new conceptual art installation, The Center for Cosmic Energy, by Ilya and Emilia Kabakov. Kathy Bitetti Funds to support residencies in three public libraries in conjunction with the DeCordova Museum’s exhibition, Pretty Sweet: Sentimental Image in Contemporary Art. Ellen Driscoll Funds…