HOW THE HELL DID WE GET HERE?
LOOKING BACK ON 5 YEARS OF BIG RED & SHINY
article by MATTHEW NASH
On February 15th, 2009, Big RED & Shiny celebrates our fifth year online and our hundredth issue. It is impossible to express how proud we are of this achievement, or how excited we are to embark on the next five years of arts coverage for New England (and beyond). Yet, anniversaries are a time for ...
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DIRTBAGS, MALLCHICKS & MOTORBIKES: A CONVERSATION WITH DAVE KIERSH
article by DAVE ORTEGA
Dave Kiersh is an illustrator/ writer/ artist currently living in Arlington, MA. Among other things, he exhibited last year in a group show at Space 242 in Boston. More recently, he was awarded a grant by the Xeric Foundation for his newly released, all-color, 140 page comic book Dirtbags, Mallchicks & Motorbikes which can be ...
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A CONVERSATION WITH LEON JOHNSON
article by CHRISTIAN HOLLAND
Leon Johnson is the Berwick Research Institute's new Director in Residence (DiR). Having just taken over late in 2008, he will lead the Berwick for the next two years.
The organization has been without a Director since Meg Rotzel's departure in 2006 and their new DiR program is an innovative approach for a small ...
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ON THE INTANGIBLE: SHEILA GALLAGHER & DARREN FOOTE
article by MATTHEW NASH
Darren Foote is a very calm guy. He speaks in measured tones and never gets too excited. Sheila Gallagher is an energetic flurry of ideas and excitement. The pairing of their work for the two-person exhibition "ASTRA CASTRA" at Judi Rotenberg Gallery is a powerful blending of their individual explorations of spirituality and notions of ...
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IN CONTENTION: AN INTERVIEW WITH TAYLOR DAVIS & NICOLE CHERUBINI
article by JAMES NADEAU
I had the opportunity to sit down with Nicole Cherubini and Taylor Davis as they installed their show Davis/Cherubini, In Contention at the List Visual Arts Center at MIT. The work is truly a collaboration between the two, which makes the title of the show somewhat unsuitable. I didn’t get the sense that there was ...
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SOL LEWITT @ MASSMOCA
review by STEPHEN V. KOBASA
Into the maze - the shifting from walled in to walled up to walled out, moving through the bands of color as if they were tinted sound. This is the compendium of one hundred and five drawings by Sol LeWitt now on view at MASS MoCa in an exhibit that alters the notion of "temporary" ...
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LAUREL SPARKS: PLEASURE DOME @ HOWARD YEZERSKI
review by DAVID O. AVRUCH
The studied madness suffusing the paintings in “Pleasure Dome,” Laurel Sparks’s new show at the Howard Yezerski Gallery, was clearly a labor of love. Dystopian and engag-ing, the works exhibit multiple levels of dynamism and a commitment to craftspersonship that make admiring them a rewarding experience. Color and line twist and spar in deca-dent, convoluted ...
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WHAT ARE LEE WALTON'S FRIENDS DOING ON F'BOOK?
review by MATTHEW NASH
For the past several decades, artists have been embracing new forms of digital media in the creation of their work, and challenging the notion of creative experience in diverse ways. With the Boston Cyberarts Festival just around the corner, I have been immersed in a variety of media-based projects and I have become totally enamored ...
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MISSING @ BARBARA KRAKOW GALLERY
review by ANGELA SPEECE
"Less is more" is the aesthetic motto that ties this group of diverse artists together.... In a world bombarded by visual imagery, this exhibition powerfully articulates a great deal of information in an uncomplicated manner. A pervading missing link formulates an atmosphere of inexplicit absence that questions the significance of society's continuous search for concrete ...
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MEG AUBREY @ GALLERY STOKES, ATLANTA
out-of-town review by LAURA ANN MEYERS
In her current exhibition I Just Live Here, Savannah College of Art and Design alum Meg Aubrey explores the environment and psychology of contemporary suburbia. The show reeks of the political and sociological implications of the suburb and its stereotypes
Both the characters and the landscape in Aubrey’s paintings create an eerie, Stepford-like scene ...
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GUY DE COINTET @ GREENE NAFTALI GALLERY, NYC
out-of-town review by ALAN REID
To confess, Guy de Cointet is an artist whose work I’ve unabashedly loved since first viewing. His is an easy-breezy theatrical stance, an art so seemingly light one is unlikely to find correlation in the art of the west. Therefore, I greet the current show of drawings from ‘70s and early-‘80s at Greene Naftali with ...
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"THE WHITE CUBE"
column by THOMAS MARQUET
#43: When even fancy pushpins are too expensive, the Swedes save the day.
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A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE
column by STEVE AISHMAN
So I've almost stopped reading articles. In print, on-line... whatever.
All I look for is how many comments have been made. The comment section of an article says far more about an event and the ideas that surround it than any article can ever articulate.
The best example I have seen of this ...
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EXHIBITION BY PHOTOGRAPHER BRIAN DOAN SPARKS PROTEST
news by JASON LANDRY
A few weeks ago, an exhibition in Santa Ana, California at the VAALA (Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association) Center sparked protests from the Vietnamese community. The group show, F.OB. II: Art Speaks drew some controversy with an image by photographer Brian Doan. Doan's image depicted a Vietnamese girl wearing a red tank top with ...
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BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: THE BOSTON ART AWARDS
on-the-town by BIG RED
Monday, February 2nd, 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at The Beehive for the Boston Art Awards Ball, presented by Big RED & Shiny and the New England Journal of Aesthetic Research. Greg Cook Faith Johnson, Kelly Burgess, Matthew Nash, James Nadeau, Christian Holland Resa Blatman and Mary O'Malley Matthew Nash welcomes ...
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