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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 this week: • • • Events • • • Wednesday December 4* NorthEastern University, Visitor Center Presentation Rm 1, West Village F, 40 Leon St, Boston Richard Saul Wurman’s Conversations at CAMD with President Aoun 5:30pm / Free. RSVP Required • • • • • • • • • • Saturday 7 — Wednesday 11 December Barbara Krakow Gallery, 10 Newbury Street, Boston Annual AIDS Benefit Exhibition 2013 “The…
Last Sunday I had some friends over to my studio to pick out a wedding present. I pulled out work from all different eras, and tried to stay generally out of their way (a delicate kind of decision-making for newlyweds). I rediscovered some work that while not entirely forgotten, has felt less relevant lately. To my delight, just sharing it with my visitors made me see it freshly and revisit the principles behind it. The project they lit upon is Three Variables. The work looks like this. It’s made from found card…
Welcome to the latest episode of Studio Sessions with guest Ian Swanson. Ian earned his BFA from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, and earned his MFA from the Pratt Institute in New York in 2013. A strong vein of unconventional thinking runs through Ian’s work, with paintings being displayed stacked up in the corner of the room or draped over the rafters, sculptures made from clothing racks and other manufactured objects, and odd digital pieces that exist solely online. Listen as Ian describes the ideas and experiences that help him create…
Orly Genger’s Red, Yellow and Blue, a monumental installation of hand-knotted rope, was recently moved from its summer home at Madison Square Park in New York City and reinstalled at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, where it will remain until next September. I saw the work in both locations — in New York where its alarmingly bright primary colors popped against the lush greens of the picturesque park gardens, and more recently at deCordova where the sculpture provides a much-needed infusion of color and vibrancy against the gray November skies. Genger’s most…
Every week, BR&S picks out a series of gallery events, screenings, exhibitions, performances. Here are our choices for you to go & see this week: • • • Events • • • Tuesday November 26 Harvard University, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge Filmmaker Errol Morris in conversation with Homi Bhabha. A Film on Donald Rumsfeld by Errol Morris: The Unknown Known to follow. Cosponsored by the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard Film Archive, and Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard. 7pm / Free.…
At Brandeis University’s Women’s Studies Research Center through December 18, Vivian Maier: A Woman’s Lens may be the first exhibition of the elusive (some would say, reclusive) photographer’s work in the Greater Boston area, but it coincides with Self-Portraits at Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York, the publication of Vivian Maier: Self-Portraits by powerHouse Books, and the new documentary Finding Vivian Maier, which premiered as part of the DOC NYC film festival on November 17. Today, Maier’s work is shown in Moscow, Antwerp, London, and Los Angeles, and we know next…
Meeting with other makers has been essential to my practice. Sometimes it ends up that we work together on projects or take an exploratory trip, but it’s usually just a meeting for a few hours somewhere where we can check in and support each other. These meetings help me get my shit together beforehand, and lead to some high quality moments of connection. So much more is possible when it’s not just my squirrel brain talking to itself. I loved helping Andi Sutton water her flamingos to see how readily they might…
I first heard of Janine Antoni in the early ’90s when I saw a few photos in a magazine: a still from Loving Care, an installation shot of Gnaw, and a photo of Butterfly Kisses. At that point in my life, I knew almost nothing about art, let alone contemporary artists, but as someone consumed with process both professionally and creatively, I was instantly fascinated by Antoni’s work. Within the week, I’d tried making my own mascara drawing to confirm my suspicions: that if I didn’t get lash to paper right away,…