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On the wall of Harvey Goldman’s studio hang several prints by the 19th century pioneer of photographic motion studies, Étienne-Jules Marey. Motivated by an obsession with physiology and aerodynamics, Marey sought to reconfigure the photographic apparatus in order to capture the intricacies of movement that elude everyday perception. The result was a chronophotographic gun which in capturing 12 consecutive frames in a single second revealed the component parts of everyday visual events such as cats falling through the air, the flight patterns of insects and birds or the elusive paths of smoke…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events, screenings, exhibitions, performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see: / / / / / / / / / / / / Clint’s Pick! Until Saturday May 31 Sophia Narrett, An Origin of Dolls (detail), 2013-14, Embroidery Thread and Fabric, 46 x 56 in. RI Convention Center, Exhibition Hall A, One Sabin Street, Providence RISD Grad Show 2014 RISD’s annual Graduate Thesis Exhibition features work in a wide range of media created by 173 master’s degree candidates graduating on…
Everything Damien Hirst touches turns to hype. Would he be half as well liked or despised without his carnival of publicity? Much of what has been written about Hirst is unnecessary writing: Journalism and press agentry that will last like dry leaves at the end of Autumn. Here I am, writing, hoping to set a spark among the leaves. Damien Hirst’s most famous artwork, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991), better known as “the shark,” spent 3-years on loan to the Metropolitan Museum in New York…
At the press preview for Chicago in L.A.: Judy Chicago’s Early Work, 1963—74 at the Brooklyn Museum, curated by Catherine J. Morris, Sackler Family Curator, with Saisha Grayson, Assistant Curator, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Judy Chicago recounted a story that encapsulated many of the paradoxes that define her artistic practice. While at a recent opening, Ed Ruscha mentioned to Chicago that Richard Prince had been working on a series of car hoods, something that Chicago had done in the 1960s. What would it mean to put Richard Prince and…
May Babcock’s recent show at AS220 featured several new works by the mixed media artist who recently relocated to Providence, RI, after living in Baton Rouge, LA, where she attended the MFA program at Louisiana State University. Babcock was and is an extremely skilled printmaker from the time I met her at the University of Connecticut circa 2006, when we were undergrads together. I remembered her work as being expressionistic in style, with heavy mark making and painterly washes; when she went to Louisiana she was making large landscape lithographs. Her work…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events, screenings, exhibitions, performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see: / / / / / / / / / / / / Monday May 12 – Saturday May 24* (left)Sara Romani, The Veil, 2014, archival inkjet print. (right)Dylan Nelson, Shampoo and Sand (CF-933), 2014, archival inkjet print. MassArt, Bakalar Gallery, 621 Huntington Ave, Boston MassArt MFA Thesis Exhibition II YoAhn Han (2D), Sofie Hodara (Design), Kimberly Maroon (Design), Fish McGill (Design), Angela Mittiga (Photo), Dylan Nelson (Photo), Danny Schissler…
Welcome to Studio Sessions, this time with guest Stephanie Goode. Stephanie earned her BFA in photography from the Massachusetts College of Art in 2004. She is a photographer that has compiled a large body of photographic work that documents pieces of her life throughout the past several years. She is also co-founder of the art collective Rifrakt, and works as a photo professional at the last photography lab in Boston that still develops film. Listen as Stephanie discusses her personal photography work, the experience of building within the artistic community, and how…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events, screenings, exhibitions, performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see: / / / / / / / / / / / / Leah’s Pick! Until Saturday May 10 Steven Zevitas Gallery, 450 Harrison Avenue #47, Boston Jered Sprecher, Half Moon Maker Tuesday – Saturday 11-5pm / Free / / / / / / / / / / / / Clint’s Pick! Saturday May 3 – Saturday June 14 The Barbara Krakow Gallery, 10 Newbury Street, Boston Sarah Sze: A…