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“To work with a plan that is preset is one way of avoiding subjectivity. It also obviates the necessity of designing each work in turn. The plan would design the work.” – Paragraphs on Conceptual Art, by Sol Lewitt Much of my work is based on rules. One of the first questions people ask me is often if I ever break my rules. The answer to this question is no- at least, not on purpose. The rules I create tend to break themselves, which, to me, is always more interesting. Because I…
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 August 28 deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, 51 Sandy Pond Road, Lincoln, MA Eulogy for the Future: A Performance by Andi Sutton Andi Sutton’s performance will include a reading and the installation of future extinctions: ideas, behaviors, plants, and creatures, that will disappear in years to come. Sutton documents shared stories in the form of botanical tree tags, organized through a taxonomy system. 2pm…
Welcome to the first episode of Studio Sessions where we will visit for a second time with Rob Andrews. Following our first hour-long conversation, I felt there was such a large percentage of Rob’s work and ideas that we didn’t even come close to talking about. I arranged a second meeting, this time accompanied by his collaborator and documenter Ryan McManus. To recap, Rob’s work often deals with rituals, historical social narratives, mythology, particularly of the Minotaur, and creating situations where outsiders are compelled—either by their own will or the prompting of…
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 Thursday August 22 Artists For Humanity EpiCenter, 100 West Second Street, South Boston Artists For Humanity’s Lewis Gallery will present art and design, created during the past 7 weeks by AFH paid youth employees, that includes: artwork inspired by excursions to Boston’s Harbor Islands; large and small scale paintings — from portraits, to abstract, to city and landscapes, to playful, to graffiti; NEW jewelry designs…
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera are big business, though it’s difficult to say whether these two Communists would have been surprised by their blockbuster marketability. They were famous in their lifetimes, of course, but the level of interest in the Frida-and-Diego soap opera is much stronger today than it was when they were living and painting. Earlier this year, Atlanta’s High Museum of Art put on an exhibition called Frida & Diego: Passion, Politics and Painting (the first name basis we’re on these two is another curious thing; no museum would put…
Pope’s palace populated by she-popes First, Joan impersonates the pontiff, Oh Petre, pater patrum, Papisse prodito partum! And now this! Camille, Louise, Kiki, Jana and Berlinde ride in, red robes aflow leaving behind not flesh babies but objects all sizes. Some bronze, some wax, some paper, some more like flayed flesh. A dead figure hanging from a pedestal—not Christ on the cross but animal, still. These wild-maned, long-haired father-mothers invade the House. Inside: a smaller house that is a mirror, a school, a reflection of a dream, then another huge house (cage?)…
John Ruskin never slept with his wife. So one of the most enduring stories of the man goes. Yes, he authored Modern Painters (1843), a treatise of ardor and appreciation for a new kind of painter, typified in the work and person of J.M.W. Turner, when he was only 24 years old. Yes, as a writer he was both prolific and celebrated. In 1871, at 52, he founded The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at Oxford a few years after the university appointed him the very first Slade Professor of…
SHIFTING SHAPES1. Some Magicians Are Like Sculptors Pinwheel, you are a talisman guiding the light of astral bodies: save it up and blast the bad rays back to space. Backspace. Back up. You cultivate a telic chakra in your cyclone of bicycle spokes (that’s only when your momentum’s arrested, otherwise you move quick as culture and no one can see you). Stilled, one might mistake you for a gorgeous gorget (go-getter) circling the neck of a cloud, but in fact you are sharp, you cut low, low cut, your design a palindrome:…