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This #FirstFriday, as always, you can hit up the MFA or the ICA Boston for their First Friday events, or you could head to the South End to the SOWA District art galleries—open from 5-8pm. SOWA galleries and artists’ studios are FREE and open to the public of all ages. Tonight, be sure to visit the new artist space Sweety’s at 59 Wareham Street for their inaugural exhibit Tru Love featuring drawing, painting, animation, video and sculpture by artists Andisa Jones, Daniel Barreto, Adrielle Farr, Martin Kass, Oskar Brent Malone,Santiago Cardenas, and…
Organized by Katy Siegel, The Matter that Surrounds Us: Wols and Charline von Heyl at the Rose brings together two German painters, one a 20th century maverick-visionary, the other a contemporary art star. The point of connection between the two painters is Wols’s Blue Phantom (1959); the first oil painting von Heyl recalls seeing as a child. In her accompanying catalogue essay, Siegel notes the artists’ shared rejection of traditional painting categories, such as abstraction, representation and expressionism. Their common interest in imagery that is by turns namable, then less so, acts…
In Arlene Shechet’s Meissen Recast at the RISD Museum, strips of clay lie in slag heaps atop intricately painted ceramic vessels. A delicate foot protrudes from the frilly underside of a petticoat. A figure lies trapped beneath a white kiln brick, splatters of pale blue and brown glaze leaking out like blood. There are endless strange protrusions and spillage, small feet and heads half-emerging from shapeless masses. These works are the products of the artist’s residency at the Meissen factory in Germany, a palace of production whose 18th century origins can be…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events, screenings, exhibitions, performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see: / / / / / / / / / / / / Tuesday April 1 Curator Talk: Katy Siegel Rose Art Museum, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA “Curator at Large Katy Siegel discusses her curatorial practice and how it relates to the first iteration of the Rose Projects series, The Matter That Surrounds Us: Wols and Charline von Heyl.” [Source] 5pm / Free / / / / / /…
Welcome to this installment of Studio Sessions with performance, documentary, and interventionist artist Cathy McLaurin. Cathy earned a BA in Studio Art from Meredith College in 1989, and an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 2013. Her recent projects often involve approaching activities or objects that wouldn’t typically be thought of as art from an artistic viewpoint. One example where she does this is in documenting the sale of her father’s antique gun collection, then compiling and presenting the experience for others to experience all…
Bahar Yurukoglu Purple Sky I first encountered Bahar Yurukoglu’s work before I knew it was Bahar Yurukoglu’s. I remember walking into Primordial Future, her installation at the deCordova Biennial, because of the way its frozen geometries and shifting lights imposed an atmosphere on me — like suddenly inhabiting a question. My second encounter was with Pink Ice, part of the Green Dream collaboration produced last month by the kijidome group. I was impressed by the way the video spun itself out of a single visual idea, enmeshing the viewer in a web…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events, screenings, exhibitions, performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see: / / / / / / / / / / / / Stephanie’s Pick! Tuesday March 25 Harvard University, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Workshop: New Craft Artists in Action “Net Works” Learn To Craft Hand Made Basketball Nets for Empty Hoops in your Neighborhood. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Living as Form (The Nomadic Version) 6:30-8:30 pm / / / /…
Smart Painting at New Haven’s ArtSpace is artist John O’Donell’s curatorial debut. It’s interesting to see an installation artist put a show together, because of the fluency in the use of space and the strong influence of the artist’s personal voice speak through the format of the show. I became well versed the language and syntax of O’Donnell’s work while I was an undergraduate at the University of Connecticut. His work deals with the sublime and “the futility of existence.” He creates Pee-wee Herman Playhouse-esque environments and allows us to be voyeurs…