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GALLERY REVIEWS 5.10.18

Written by FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH Posted May 10, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

Chuck Webster, Redoubt I, 2017, mixed media on paper, 19 3/4 x 25 1/4 inches, courtesy of Steven Zevitas Gallery

 

Pilgrims, Feeling of a Feeling, and Art in the Age of the Internet

 

Chuck Webster: Pilgrims: Drawings 2017-2018—Steven Zevitas Gallery


The naivete in Chuck Webster’s work is misleading. What looks like pan watercolors and marker doodles on sheets of bond is shellac-based ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: Boston, gallery, review, visual art

GALLERY REVIEWS 2.22.18

Written by FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH Posted February 22, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

Sandrine Schaefer, Pace Investigations No. 6.2, performance, 2017

Inventur, Culture Hustlers, and Sandrine Schaefer

 

Inventur: Art in Germany, 1943-55—Harvard Art Museums
Five years in the making, Inventur examines German artistic production ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: Boston, Cambridge, Culture Hustlers, gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Inventur, Mills Gallery, Mobius, review, Sandrine Schaefer, visual art

GALLERY REVIEW: Dana Schutz: Dana Schutz—Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston

Written by FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH Posted October 28, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

Dana Schutz, Carpool, 2016, oil on canvas, 66 x 108 inches, collection of Carole Server and Oliver Frankel, courtesy of the artist and Petzel, New York, © Dana Schutz

 

Dana Schutz has not yet painted a canvas that didn’t make me wish that I was looking at a Judith Linhares instead. That said, I’m glad I could see any Schutzes at the ICA, which wouldn’t have happened if it were up to some local busybodies bent on punishing ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: Boston, Dana Schutz, gallery, ICA, painting, review, visual art

GALLERY REVIEW: Writhe & Resolve: Aspects of Arcadia—Matter & Light

Written by FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH Posted October 5, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

 

Aristotle Forrester’s churning canvases take an abstract-expressionist attitude to an effort to depict Arcadia, the pastoral vision of harmony that has been a mainstay of the Western imagination since the Renaissance. This is an apt way to go about it in 2017, ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: Arcadia, Aristotle Forrester, Boston, Delicious Line, gallery, Matter & Light, painting, review, visual art

GALLERY REVIEW: Angela A’Court: Thisness—Gallery BOM

Written by FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH Posted September 15, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts


Monday Morning—Copyright 2017 Angela A’Court

 

Soft pastel is as close as an artist can get to working with pigment itself, the powder that gives paint its color. It is also regarded unfairly as an amateur’s medium, though the impression is correct in ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: Angela A'Court, Boston, gallery, Gallery BOM, Photography, review, Thisness, visual art

GALLERY REVIEW: Sean Downey: Wholly Idle—Steven Zevitas Gallery

Written by FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH Posted September 15, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts


Wholly Idle—Copyright 2017 Steve Downey

 

Sean Downey’s work at Steven Zevitas is dealing with an old problem, that of painting in an age in which painting is an obsolete medium, at least in the respect that there have been easier ways to make images for a century ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: Boston, gallery, Photography, review, Steve Downey, Steven Zevitas Gallery, visual art, Wholly Idle

GALLERY REVIEW: Robert Richfield: Abridged—Gallery Kayafas

Written by FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH Posted September 15, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts


Gouwe Rail Bridge, Gouda, Netherlands 2016—Copyright 2017 Robert Richfield

 

Instilled with a love of mighty bridges as a child in Cincinnati, where five of them cross the Ohio River, Robert Richfield set out to photograph them in all of their horizontal grandeur. ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: Abridged, Boston, gallery, Gallery Kayafas, Photography, review, Robert Richfield, visual art

REORDERING THE RAINBOW

Written by FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH Posted August 16, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

The geographic and stylistic travels of Anya Smolnikova

 

Musa Collective is the result of some ambitious graduates of Boston University’s MFA program from the mid-2000s coming together to operate an alternative space in Allston. Open by appointment only, it is significantly less accessible than your typical Harrison ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: Art, criticism, critique, painting, review, visual arts

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