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 that not many people use it with as much urgency and personal […]
GALLERY REVIEW: Sean Downey: Wholly Idle—Steven Zevitas Gallery
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 and a half. Downey is digging into […]
GALLERY REVIEW: Robert Richfield: Abridged—Gallery Kayafas
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. Early attempts included multiple exposures of 4×5 negatives, which must have been […]
REORDERING THE RAINBOW
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 Avenue storefront. I have concerns that the […]
