By MARINA VERONICA In his current exhibition entitled Nature of Things at the Barbara Krakow Gallery, artist Jeff Perrott moves beyond Christian scriptures that inspired some of his earlier pieces, offering us reflections on the human condition, the concept of…

By MARINA VERONICA Print this article Newspapers offer us images of death and pain caused by wars, governmental injustices, physical abuse and torture with such frequency that over time, we tend to gloss over them. Yet upon closer examination, some…

By MARINA VERONICA Thomas Hirschhorn’s “Utopia, Utopia = One World, One War, One Army, One Dress”, the latest exhibition at the ICA, looks like an over-stocked department store distastefully promoting camouflage. Simulated displays of commodities surrounded by a decor of…

By MARINA VERONICA Print this article Upon viewing Duane Slick’s new work at the Nielsen Gallery, one may recall Andy Warhol’s 1985 silkscreen prints of company logos and symbols or collaborative paintings with the young African-American graffiti artist with Haitian…

By MARINA VERONICA Print this article The Lane collection of photography by Ansel Adams on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is absolutely breathtaking. But in a way that one might not expect. Envisioning rooms filled with beautiful…

By MARINA VERONICA Print this article Henri Rousseau, the self-taught French artist, influenced early modernists, like Matisse and Picasso, with his “naive” style – predictably childlike, brightly colored, and imaginary, with a non-scientific perspective. A group exhibition at OSP gallery…

By MARINA VERONICA Print this article In 1938, Victor Vasarely, a Hungarian-born artist, painted “Zebra” – claiming that the optical illusion generated from the black and white pattern on a two-dimensional surface was the objective. Although Vasarely is considered the…