Anne Neely creates work for Water Stories, now on exhibit at the Boston Museum of Science Tomorrow (Tuesday, Oct. 21), artist Anne Neely will be in conversation with Robert Zimmerman, Executive Director of the Charles River Watershed Association, at The Broad Institute in Cambridge. The event is part of Catalyst Conversation, a series exploring the dialogue between art and … [Read more...]
Sarah Meyers Brent: Living Paint
The paint in Sarah Meyers Brent's solo exhibition, currently at the Hampden Gallery at UMass Amherst, appears to be alive. But is it dying? Growing - or decomposing? It overflows canvases and droops from walls like verdant life, but also shrivels and darkens with a suggestion of decay. The exhibition, Living Paint, includes the artist's fascinating explorations of paint and … [Read more...]
Challenges in Categorizing Creative Work
Roughly once a month, we pose a question to artists about an issue they face in their work and lives. Often, creative work defies easy categorization. We asked a group of artists working in intriguing ways, What challenges do you face when asked to name a category for your work? Liz Nofziger, site-specific installation artist My work doesn't fit neatly in any … [Read more...]
Fellows Notes – Jun 14
It's June! Paper plate holders, baked bean mounds, and "picnic" (as a verb) are all emerging from their winter slumbers. Here are this sun-shiny month's news and notes from MCC awardees. At Gallery NAGA, Sophia Ainslie, Masako Kamiya, David Moore, and Randal Thurston join John Guthrie in the exhibition On the Wall, and Harold Reddicliffe has work in the group show Color … [Read more...]
Video Tour of Pedigree
A ceramic deer-hoof chandelier, a devolved dining room set, a curio of mutated porcelain figurines; with Pedigree, now on exhibit at the New Art Center in Newton (through October 14, 2013), curator Elizabeth Devlin of FLUX.Boston has assembled an art experience somewhere between a Victorian salon and a mad scientist's laboratory. The curator was kind enough to take ArtSake … [Read more...]