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Recently, ArtSake posted a couple of blog articles asking artists if they ever set aside works of art that still had potential. Many of the responses struck a chord so I decided to take a look at my own habits around putting work on the back burner. Hide. There are many things lying around that have gathered enough dust to earn a demotion from ‘work in progress’ to ‘work I’ve lost interest in right now’ or ‘work I’m not sure where to go with yet’. There’s a rhinestoned science interpretation I’m still…
It’s been a long time coming, but the ICA is beginning to show its true colors. The last few years have seen solo exhibitions by a strong number of female artists, a great many queer artists and people of color, reaching a high note with last year’s very gay, very feminist, ultimately historicizing exhibition This Will Have Been. The museum’s current offerings are bringing us back to the present, with Boston-based painter and educator Steve Locke’s There is No One Left to Blame alongside Mary Reid Kelley’s videos, and more recently, Amy…
By Clint Baclawski October 15, 2013 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 October 15 Editor Leah Triplett’s Pick! Boston University, Jacob Sleeper Auditorium, 871 Commonwealth Ave. Richard Aldrich “Richard Aldrich is a Brooklyn-based painter and one of the most acclaimed young artists working today. He was featured in the 2010 Whitney Biennial and has been the subject of museum and gallery exhibitions in Tokyo, London,…
My first question is: Why Botero? How did this mild, sometimes trivial artist become the chronicler of darkness? At age 73 Fernando Botero broke out of his benign reputation with a series of 100 works—50 paintings and as many works on paper—depicting prisoners being tortured at the Abu Ghraib prison camp in Iraq. In them we know the torturers, U.S. soldiers, by reputation—a boot or a stream of urine is all that’s shown. Their impersonality is significant, as it avoids the “rogue element” excuse offered by some authorities; they become anonymous and…
Raúl Gonzalez has caught fire. Now 37 years old and a practicing artist since he was a teenager, over the past few years he has become visible to an increasing number of people through a series of ambitious, well-received exhibitions in and around Boston. Raúl lives north of the city with Elaine Bay, an accomplished artist he met while growing up in El Paso, Texas, and their son Raulito. On October 25, he and Elaine will be the featured artists in an exhibition titled Wake Up Call at the University of New…
Ben Sloat One theme that has always struck me about your work (and seen most recently My Mother Told Me at the Tufts University Art Gallery) is that of impermanence: the impermanence of history, the impermanence of one’s experience, but also the impermanence of a material. I think of this relating to other themes in your work, such as fragility or performance. Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons I love your statement. It is a very good question; your reading of the work has so much accuracy. It’s true in a way, the idea of…
Part 1 – Problem1 I have a problem as an artist. My problem is that I cannot afford to pay much more than $2 per square foot for a studio in New York. Really, I can’t afford it at all unless I am selling my art, which also poses a problem because I critique the art market’s unusual economic structures. I also teach high school part-time in order to be able to afford $1,460 a month in rent to live in Bushwick, Brooklyn; which is another problem, since my wife and I…
Why does Boston produce such an immense number of young artists and yet retain so few of them? This is the question that began the call for work for last year’s yBos 1 exhibition at UMB’s Harbor Gallery, which called itself “The first young Boston Artists juried exhibition at UMass Boston.” Now in its second year—and with a current call for work (deadline October 21st), yBos gets right to the heart of a problem that Boston has long struggled with: how to create opportunities and room for young artists to grow and…