“The Heart is a Lonely Hunter,” is comprised of five young artists, hung along the narrow walls of Sulloway & Hollis law offices in Concord, New Hampshire. The unconventional setting provided meaningful context for the work presented here, all of…
Every Saturday morning I water plants and draw cartoons. Before that I drink coffee and eat a quick breakfast, usually toast. My watering can was produced by Union Products, Inc. in Leominster, which was a major plastic manufacturing city in…
DRAW/Boston, an exhibition of over 60 artists curated by Tomas Vu, toys with scale, color, style, and sound, wedding the scholarly air of a professional university gallery with the aesthetic resemblances of a working artist’s studio. The arrangement alone warrants…
Since the ascendance of the term “identity politics” into mainstream discourse in the 1980s, the debate, vitriol, and confusion over what it means to acknowledge our unique subject-positions in the world is enough to drive one away from using the…
“I make these when I’m not making my ‘real’ work.” I heard this statement fall out of my mouth and stopped myself, horrified. I was at the opening of the BLAA Summer 2016 exhibit You Think It’s ____, But It’s…
Drawing Redefined, on view at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum through March 20, 2016, is an entrancing show, with a presentation that is at once spare and sumptuous. All the works on view spring from a drawing practice, although they are also…
“Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface.” Thus begins Edwin Abbott’s 1884 novel Flatland: A…
Curiously familiar symbols on aged paper greet the viewer of Rich Cali’s Poor Moon exhibition (on view through Oct. 24) at The Mingo Gallery in Beverly, MA. His work, made while on a cross-country journey from Texas to Massachusetts, plays with…
The work of Henry Darger made its grand-scale public debut in 1997 at the American Folk Art Museum. Almost immediately, his phantasmagoric landscapes, populated by pre-adolescent girls with male genitalia, gave rise to a new breed of narrative artists like…
Hello, and welcome to Studio Sessions, this time with guest Ashley Billingsley. Ashley earned her BFA from the University of Minnesota, and her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. In her most recent series of work,…
Welcome back to Studio Sessions with my guest this episode, Russell Nachman. Russell earned his BFA from Colorado State University in 1990, and his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1996. In recent years, Russell’s focus has been…
It’s hard to believe, but Amy Sillman: one lump or two, opening today at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, is Sillman’s first museum survey show. Comprising over 90 of Sillman’s paintings, drawings, ‘zines and films, one lump or two resists…
Our guest on Studio Sessions this episode is Illustrator and activist Cristy C. Road. Currently working in Brooklyn, Cristy’s identity as a gay punk rocker makes a strong impression on the work she creates. Working in a very precise drawing…
In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, past Hawaii but before Japan, is a collection of landmasses called the Marshall Islands. When the Europeans finally came calling in the early 16th century on their exploration ships there was trepidation,…
This week’s guest on Studio Sessions is Heidi Hogden. Heidi earned her BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2008, and is a 2012 MFA graduate from the School of the Museum of Fine Art in Boston.…
KAREN AQUA (1954-2011) Karen Aqua loved to draw. She would sit at her worktable surrounded by colored pencils, pastels, and stacks of small pieces of 4″ x 6″ paper. Over days of work, these sheets would fill with color,…