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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! Till Sunday April 27 Tufts University Art Gallery, Aidekman Arts Center, Koppelman Gallery and Remis Sculpture Court, 40 Talbot Avenue, Medford, MA Tanja Softić: Migrant Universe “A series of ten large works on paper by Bosnian-born, Virginia-based artist Tanja Softić addressing migration as both a social and a natural phenomenon. These large-scale, unique works are…
John C. Gonzalez works with people. A native of Providence, Rhode Island, his artwork is broadly concerned with systems of labor and collaborative processes of creativity. Positioning himself as an embedded artist within organizations, companies, and exchange relationships, he exposes and opens opportunities for creativity within what are often assumed to be intractable social structures. By working through and with the systems that condition our day-to-day lives, he reveals both the negotiability of the form, content, and output of our occupations as well as the potential for creative expression within daily routines.…
I spent the latter half of my childhood in a small town in eastern Connecticut. Once it had been strictly rural, but by the latter half of the twentieth-century was slowly succumbing to the inevitable creep of suburbia. For the time I lived there the countryside barely held its ground. Roadways had been punched through the town green; subdivisions gnawed at farms and meadows. The town’s first supermarket opened shortly after we moved there, just down the street from the town’s sole traffic light. Still, there was a cow pasture across from…
I like Finland probably more than I should.1 I haven’t gone so far as to stalk Finland (because really, where would that get me?) but I have tattooed Finland’s initials permanently on my body, written a love letter to Finland that was published publicly in Suomi, and spent a full week apologizing to Finland in person for my part in the awkwardness of our first encounter. *** When I’m walking down the street, my body makes assumptions that my consciousness doesn’t even register. It respires—assuming that the environment around me will supply…
I remember some mild outrage rippling through the Twitterverse late last April over the claim, in a New York Times opinion piece on gender inequality in art collecting, that men far outnumber women among notable collectors because collecting “is more like hunting than shopping.” I must have read the piece myself at the time, but it didn’t really strike a nerve, or stick with me, probably because I couldn’t relate it to my life at all. I hate shopping, for one thing. But more importantly, despite being an optimistic citizen of the United…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events, screenings, exhibitions, performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see: / / / / / / / / / / / / Brian’s Pick! Wednesday March 12 – Saturday April 5* Detail, Buy-o-chromatic, Amanda Nelsen, 200921 foot long coptic stitch, year’s worth of Boston Globe Direct fliers cut, folded, and arranged in chromatic scale Nave Gallery Annex, 53 Chester St, Somerville, MA Practice Curated by: Jodi Colella Practice explores artwork inspired by craft, and features highly skilled, process-oriented and…
The US-Mexico border is not exactly a welcoming place for documentary photographers. And yet, for the past seven years, David Taylor has been photographing across 690 miles of that politically rigid, and altogether socially porous, demarcation. In that time, he has witnessed what he calls the Border Security Industrial Complex more than double in size, its enforcement along a line previously marked only by monuments erected in the 19th century manifesting in fencing and barricades, armed forces, holding cells, and seismic sensors designed to detect footsteps. Taylor’s Working the Line pairs a…
Hello, and welcome to Studio Sessions with our guest this episode, Kimberly Ruth. Kimberly earned a BA in journalism and a BFA in photography from SUNY New Paltz in 2008, and an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 2012. She creates projects that seek to expose the process behind things, and this theme takes shape in many different forms. In one piece she has a couple re-enact a scene from a movie in which the characters are pretending to be someone else, exposing multiple levels…