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By Raina BelleauNovember 7, 2017 0

Painters & Photographers at Reilly Gallery, Providence College

Painters & Photographers, curated by Jamilee Lacy, starts the gears turning with it’s title. Are these paintings or are they photographs? Yes, most of the artists presented use traditional photo processes to create their images, film, camera, enlarger, etc., but…

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By Karolina HacOctober 10, 2017 0

Beneath the Surface: Kathleen Gerdon Archer at Kingston Gallery

In her solo exhibition at Kingston Gallery, Fare Well: The Art of Ending, on view August 30 – October 1, Kathleen Gerdon Archer’s photographic work demonstrated a masterful ability to blend abstraction, process, and place. Gerdon Archer credits the inspiration…

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By Alexander CastroOctober 4, 2017 0

Caleb Cole at the Newport Art Museum

Corridors can be odd spaces in museums, heavily trafficked but not always experienced. Art mounted in these passages can feel like an afterthought. This was not the case with Caleb Cole’s Forget Me Not, recently on view at the Newport…

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By Frank RednerSeptember 19, 2017 0

Pedro Cruz: Mis Raíces

On the cusp of its 50-year anniversary, Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción’s Villa Victoria Center for the Arts provides the surrounding community with cultural enrichment. Events, programming, and exhibitions created by the Latino community center their perspectives and ruminations on identity,…

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By Matthew LawrenceAugust 17, 2017 0

Horenstein and Fink at the Newport Art Museum

The Newport summer is marked by a few large music festivals, events that have drawn the biggest names in jazz and folk to the island since 1954 and 1959, respectively. This year the Newport Art Museum has decided to join…

Interviews

By Silvi NaciJune 13, 2017 0

In Conversation with Artist & Curator Carlos Jiménez Cahua

Carlos Jiménez Cahua is an artist and curator living and working in NY. I have known CJC for a couple of years and have shared some wonderful and insightful conversations together. On May 1, we finally sat down to talk…

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By Karolina HacMay 16, 2017 0

Give and Take: Evelyn Rydz’s Floating Artifacts

Evelyn Rydz’s Floating Artifacts, at the Aidekman Arts Center, is presented as a part of SMFA’s larger project, The Ocean After Nature, which examines the human effects on the ocean. Rydz’s collecting, cataloging, and display of the “floating artifacts” is…

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By Karolina HacApril 5, 2017 0

West: Kathya Maria Landeros at kijidome

West, Kathya M. Landeros’s photography show at kijidome, presents both the people and the land of Central California and Eastern Washington State, bringing a particular reality – that of Latinx agricultural communities in these regions – into focus. In a…

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By Julianna ThibodeauxMarch 23, 2017 0

Darkness, Light and the Political Zeitgeist: Corey Escoto

Corey Escoto’s current solo show at Samsøn Projects, “A Routine Pattern of Troubling Behaviour,” is far more than at first meets the eye. When I walked into the gallery, a spare white rectangle, the works seemed quiet and unassuming. Until I…

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By Samuel AdamsJanuary 12, 2017 0

Art and Accountability: Carrie Mae Weems and Dell Hamilton Share Space at Harvard

For decades, Carrie Mae Weems’s staged photographs and videos have served as aids for processing the legacies of slavery, racism, and sexism in the United States. The elegant solutions in Weems’s compositions, their gravitas and narrative content, appear to operate…

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By Julianna ThibodeauxJanuary 4, 2017 0

See It Before It’s Gone: Carrie Mae Weems

A Zeus, a Jesus, a jester… or is it an evil clown? Actually, it’s President Barack Obama (yes, we can still call him that for a few more precious days)—seen through the lens (literally) of artist Carrie Mae Weems. “The…

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By Robert MoellerNovember 2, 2016 1

School of Love: Interview with Steve Locke

Steve Locke has two concurrent exhibitions taking place at Gallery Kayafas and Samsøñ called “FAMILY PICTURES” and” SCHOOL OF LOVE” The two exhibitions, which are on view now and run through November 26th. We spoke recently. Robert Moeller: There is…

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By Rosie RanauroOctober 11, 2016 0

Real Work: An essay on ableism and art

“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…

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By Scout HutchinsonAugust 4, 2016 0

Field of Vision: Liz Deschenes at the ICA

In his quintessential text on vision, Techniques of the Observer, author and art historian Jonathan Crary notes: “The mind does not reflect truth but rather extracts it from an ongoing process involving the collision and merging of ideas.”(1) The nineteenth-century…

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By Sarah RushfordJuly 21, 2016 0

See It Before It’s Gone: Dan Boardman / Audrey Hope at Kijidome

The sixteen busy sculptures, panels, and photographic collages in this strange, compact show hang back coolly in the space, waiting for the viewer to draw them out. Audrey Hope’s and Dan Boardman’s works are so encrusted with information that the…

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By Leah Triplett HarringtonApril 26, 2016 0

More Additive than Subtractive: Kate Gilbert

In college, she studied painting. She had wanted to be a writer. Her father was a writer. But in college, she transitioned from drawing fictions on a page to painting pictures onto canvases. She was committed to painting when she…

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By Pam CampanaroMarch 24, 2016 0

Review: Remi Thornton, JCC Ranch

Located on a four hundred acre property in Elbert, Colorado’s Black Forest, JCC Ranch has been a summer home away from home to kids, like Remi Thornton, since 1953. As a ten- to twelve-year-old camper, Thornton developed a personal connection…

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By Leah Triplett HarringtonDecember 16, 2015 0

Elsewhere: Bahar Yurukoglu

Boston is a transient city. Each fall, legions of artists enroll in graduate programs throughout the city to nurture their talents and connections, and approximately two years later, many move on. While they are here, some of these artists are…

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By Stephen V. KobasaOctober 15, 2015 0

At Heaven’s Door: Donald Blumberg Photographs

Out of the darkness they come, like Orpheus blinking into the light, or that mob of dead souls called up by Odysseus to drink from a puddle of blood. The subjects of these photographs are all, or most of them,…

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By Sandra ErbacherAugust 30, 2015 0

Prospect: An interview with Jodie Goodnough

Jodie Mim Goodnough is a Providence-based artist who uses photography, video, performance and sculpture to examine the various coping strategies we employ to find comfort in an often uncomfortable world, from religious rituals to pharmaceuticals and everything in between. She…

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