“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…
This week, Christopher Bedford, the Henry and Lois Foster Director for The Rose Art Museum, Ruba Katrib, Curator at the Sculpture Center and New York-based painter Ryan Sullivan convened to review 389 artist applications for the third Artadia Award cycle…
For five weeks early in this year, half of a modestly sized art space in Boston’s South End became a field of infinite possibility, courtesy of chroma key green and the kijidome group. Susan Metrican, Lucy Kim, Carlos Jiménez Cahua,…
kijidome is the brainchild of Sean Downey, Lucy Kim, Carlos Jiménez Cahua, and Susan Metrican. The four artists are inaugurating their collaborative space at 59 Wareham Street this coming Saturday with an exhibition titled S01E01 which juxtaposes works by Dennis…
………………………………………………………………………….. As we rapidly approach next week’s Big Red Shindig (for which tickets are still available), we wanted to share with you examples from some of the great artists we’ll be working with this year who vary in range from…
Currently up now at Proof Gallery in South Boston is Boston Does Boston Six— a group exhibition featuring six artists either living or working in the city. The exhibition is organized around artists choosing one another, resulting, according to the…
From left to right: Susan Metrican, Juan Amaya, 2012. Dear everyone, Please meet Juan Amaya, graphic designer turned visual artist. His images seem at first a familiar mash-up of YouTube vernacular and Photoshop gaggery, but a subject begins to emerge…
Matching Mole, Signed Curtain, Matching Mole, 3:06, 1972 The Living on One Side, The Departed on the Other, Acrylic on Canvas, 44″x116″ (Diptych), 2012 Study at MFA with Onlookers, Acrylic on Canvas, 20″x16″, 2011
Without realizing it, I think my first idea to paint stripes inside a box were a way to break out of my habit of painting still lifes with black backgrounds. Introducing white stripes to a black void, as ridiculous as…
Goethe’s Theory of Colours is the book that I’m toting around in the Profondo Yellow video. I got a little obsessed with it a few years ago. It’s laid out by sections, and within each section are very brief and…
Here are some of my recent source images. Sometimes it’s enough to scroll through them, but lately I like being able to see them laid out in a little grid. Previously I hadn’t made the connection between eyeball and hole…
Tears of the Black Tiger (Fah Talai Jone), 2000, Directed by Wisit Sasanatieng Fah Talai Jone is one of my favorite films, and I just realized it’s found a way into my newest paintings. I saw it in Bangkok when…
Last night I dreamt I was painting a tiny copy of Starry Night. It was one of those canvases that’s about an inch and a half tall. Sean accidentally bumped my arm, and I painted the whole thing blue in…
Our Daily Red is pleased to launch an artist-in-residence series titled Inside Out. Every month, a new guest artist will have access to the platform to publish images and jot down thoughts about inspiration, obsession, creative failures and insights. Unlike…