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The decision to pair Guillermo Srodek-Hart’s Interiors with Lynn Saville’s Vacancy is so compelling that I expected it to have been a curatorial strategy as carefully crafted as military tactics. But longtime gallery director and owner Arlette Kayafas knows the intricacies of her artists’ work so well, that the only strategy she needs is pure intuition. Now on view at Gallery Kayafas, the joint exhibition ofInteriors and Vacancy is a sustained exercise in dichotomies: of presence and absence, interiors and exteriors, industry and abandonment, disarray and order. But it goes one (necessary,…
Lumen Collective is an interdisciplinary arts collective made up of eight to ten artists, aged 22 to 28 years, from diverse backgrounds and working in various media. Its members are Ben Aron, Andrea Zampitella, Angelina Zhou, Mary Booras, Danielle Freiman, Sonya Highfield, Brooke Schibelli, Kara Stokowski, and Laura Piraino. They recently began collaborating on a commission for the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway Conservancy’s Winter Lights at Dewey Square Park, a series of lighting displays and art events. Their piece launches this Thursday. With this project, Lumen Collective are revisiting the history of…
My guest on this episode of Studio Sessions is photographer John Steck, Jr. John earned his BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2010, and is currently finishing up his MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute. John uses photography as a versatile medium, moving between capturing images of representational scenes to producing works that resemble abstract paintings. In his showing at the Hallway Gallery last October, where I talked to him, I discovered that many of his non-representational, expressionistic photos shared a common element that tied them all…
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 March 14 Boston Convention & Exhibition Center (BCEC), 415 Summer St. Boston, MA Boston Cyberarts presents: Art on the Marquee For the fifth round of “Art on the Marquee,” Boston Cyberarts and the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority (MCCA) will be presenting six new works created by members of the Massachusetts video game industry on the 80-foot-tall multi-screen LED marquee outside the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center in…
In an effort to leave future generations of Americans the lasting legacy and beauty of art, Isabella Stewart Gardner, along with many of her contemporaries including Henry E. Huntington, J. Pierpont Morgan and Henry Clay Frick, amounted some of the most important collections of European masterpieces in the country. “I fancy I am the only living American who puts everything into works of art and music; I mean, instead of into show, and meat and drink,” wrote Isabella Stewart Gardner in a letter dated March 25, 1900 to Bernard Berenson, her…
I am interested in the idea of a collective object permanence; how to combine myths with reality; merging fact with fiction; I use the traditional tools of an illustrator to communicate these ideas. I like to make beautiful, detailed images that seduce the viewer and invite them to wonder or assume. Certain tongue-in-cheek didactic images are in rebuttal of current events. I firmly believe there is a single collective creative unconscious that all artists draw from but cannot begin to explain how it works. I once read to define one’s life by…
Wednesday, we published a piece titled “Prescription for a Healthy Art Scene” and invited readers to think about where they fit in the ecosystem, and speak up about how they see themselves contributing to it. Among all the interesting insights we received came a gift from Jason Turgeon. Jason used the points on Pritikin’s list to generate an interactive, crowd-sourced map of Greater Boston’s art scene. By clicking on any of the expanding categories, you reveal the rhizome of groups, individuals, projects, and places that constitute our city. What’s more, Jason has…
Looking at me, it is obvious that I am a young African-American woman. Some may see pride behind the firm position of my lips, others may see that I am a person who is always looking, looking deep into another’s face, another’s actions, always analyzing, thinking, interpreting. Some may even say I’m twelve, fourteen. But nothing, nothing in the world would make me happier than to have someone say to me, at first glance, “You must be from Nigeria, an Igbo gal, an Ngwa gal.” I would wish that a person…