By MICAH J. MALONE The sparse and poetic work of Avantika Bawa seems at once both subtle and authoritative. “Sit/Stack”, the title of her exhibition at Portland State University’s Autzen Gallery, came to me like a command, a forceful voice…
By ARTHUR WHITMAN Even though Stop. Look. Listen. represents the culmination of a half-decade’s worth of dedicated video-collecting at the Johnson, it has the feel of something out of the blue. Moving images fill most of the modest museum’s temporary…
By JENNIFER MCMACKON Sandra Meigs’ exhibition at Susan Hobbs Gallery is called Scenes for My Affection. In the main gallery the artist presents two clusters of small colourful paintings. The first is an untitled set of three, each of which…
By THOMAS MARQUET #25: Perhaps he should have a more interesting life. “The White Cube” comics can be read in series in the Big RED & Shiny Collections section. Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in…
By STEVE AISHMAN Based on the Cosmic Calendar, Prof. Steve Aishman has prepared his astrological predictions for people going to Miami Basel 2007. Find your astrological sign and have your future revealed to you! • ♁ The Collector: You will…
By ANONYMOUS ART DEALER Q: How do Boston galleries generally handle framing for a solo show. Who usually pays for it, the artist or the gallery? A: The multiple answers to this question can make your head spin. All galleries…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND The following questions were submitted to Big RED and Shiny by artists and organizers in the arts in Massachusetts. The questions were sent to four members of the state’s legislature and State Treasure Timothy Cahill. Each one…
By MATTHEW GAMBER T’was the first week of December, and all through the house, the heater was grinding, disturbing the mouse. Equally enchanting is the first New England snowfall of the season (as I write) that have to walk home…
By BIG RED Thursday, November 13th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Simmons College Trustman Gallery for the opening of “Lush: Deborah Bohnert and Rachel Dayson-Levy”
By BIG RED December 1, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED day on-the-town at Open Studios at the historic Fenway Studios, located at 30 Ipswich St. Images selected from the partipating Fenway Artists: Ernest Andrades, Robert Baart, Perry Barton,…
By BIG RED Saturday, November 17th, 2007 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The List Visual Art Center to hear Bill Arning talk about “Sounding the Subject: Selections from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection and the…
By SHANE LAVALETTE Mark Wyse is a photographer based out of Los Angeles, CA and teaches at UCLA. His book, 18 Landscapes, published by Nazraeli Press in 2005, focuses on the complexity of cultural perception and interaction and in an…
By MARISSA MOLINARO On November 2, 2007, TIME Magazine published an article about British graffiti artist Banksy titled Banksy Unmasked? A Graffiti Mystery, by Alex Altman. The article displays and discusses a pixilated camera-phone image of a man crouched down…
By BEN SLOAT One of the world’s most prominent commercial photographers, Albert Watson’s images run the gamut from fashion to editorial work and self produced photographic projects. On occasion of his new monograph (published by Phaidon Press), Watson sat down…
By MATTHEW NASH Boston Sculptors Gallery is the kind of art venue that arises out of need, out of a desire for community, and out of shared creative interests. Prior to their current luxurious space on Harrison Ave, BSG was…
By JON PETRO When is making art – painting in this case – a valid function of expression that acts as anti-art or anti-painting? This question, aside from being an entry-level reflection of 20th century French existentialism, also pertains to…
By STEPHEN V. KOBASA A festering of unnatural light around the corner from the exhibition entrance, the fluorescent wall is not glorious, but painful. There is no slant to the truth being told here; no “explanation kind,” as Emily Dickinson…
By MARTINA TANGA As your eye moves across the images, a tune is formulated in your head. As it hovers over comfortable household furniture and interiors, you can hear a pleasant melody. Then your eye sees something unexpected, out of…
By KATIE HARGRAVE Artist Steve Miller’s first museum exhibition at Brandeis University’s Rose Art Museum in Waltham is certainly a destination, painter Steve Miller’s Spiraling Inward is worth the excursion, though don’t expect to immediately grasp the visual language Miller…
By THOMAS MARQUET #24: Introducing the abstract data painter. “The White Cube” comics can be read in series in the Big RED & Shiny Collections section. Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in Brooklyn, New York,…