In the Boston Globe Cate McQuaid reports that George Nick, one of the teachers at Massachusetts College of Art when I got my BFA back […]
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Line: Evidence of movement and purpose
In Fearful Symmetry, Northrop Frye wrote that a “line is a denial of all inertia and paralysis, all doubt and hesitation…(it) is both movement and […]
Cindy Bernard: Can you hear me?
In the Boston Globe, Cate McQuaid writes that Cindy Bernard‘s poignant show at Boston Center for the Arts’ Mills Gallery evokes the far-flung community of […]
Chapuis and Mattera: “Stop thinking and just gaze on something beautiful”
In the Boston Globe Cate McQuaid reports that some artists make art not as a means of provocation or cultural commentary, but for beauty’s sake. […]
Cristina Toro’s cheery dissonance
In the Boston Globe Cate McQuaid reports that “Toro’s tender, bright, riotous canvases at LaMontagne Gallery captivate with their abundant detail and their range of […]
Laylah Ali: Life of the mind
Laylah Ali’s drawing show, opening at the Decordova Museum today, features flat, seemingly naif drawings of costumed characters, layered with handwritten text. Random thought, overheard […]
Old-timers in Provincetown: Herman Maril, Robert Henry
Boston Globe critic Cate McQuaid reports on a few painting shows in Provincetown. “Herman Maril: An Artist’s Two Worlds,” Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, […]
Kentridge print show in Williamstown
William Kentridge works in the tradition of socially and politically engaged artists such as William Hogarth, Francisco Goya, Honore Daumier, and Kathe Kollwitz . He’s […]
Aho at Alpha
In the Boston Globe, Cate McQuaid reports that Eric Aho’s earnest new paintings of the icy Vermont landscape are wild in more ways than one. […]
Boston flooded with Cuban water metaphors
In the Boston Globe, Cate McQuaid reports that “Surrounded by Water” is too small to cover such a broad theme successfully. “These works of art […]
What’s a drawing anyway?
“Drawing the Line: 20th Drawing Show,” selected by Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons. Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA. Artists include Cree Bruins, Lana […]
Ellsworth Kelly film arrives in Boston
“Ellsworth Kelly: Fragments,” produced by Edgar B. Howard and Jo Carole Lauder, directed by Edgar B. Howard and Tom Piper. Distributed by Checkerboard Film Foundation. […]
In Boston: Hannah Barrett and Sharon Horvath
Sharon Horvath’s new series of densely layered line paintings at Victoria Munroe Fine Art is made with dispersed pigment and polymer on canvas. In the […]
Jay DeFeo, after “The Rose”
“Jay DeFeo, Applaud the Black Fact ” Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA. Through Oct.27. “Only by chancing the ridiculous, can I hope for the sublime.” said […]
In the Boston galleries: Fallah, Rydz, Hwangbo, and Laylah Ali
“Amir H. Fallah + Evelyn Rydz,” Rhys Gallery, Boston, MA. Through October 5. “Imi Hwangbo: The Portal Series / Laylah Ali: Note Drawings, 2006,” Miller […]
Jennifer Riley, Rachel Sumpter, and Robin Dash in Boston
“Jennifer Riley: Do You Remember . . .? New Paintings,” OH+T Gallery, Boston, MA. Through Sept. 29. Cate McQuaid reports in the Boston Globe: “Riley’s […]
Gladys Buchs retrospective in Beverly
“Gladys Buchs: A Retrospective,” curated by Tina Buchs. Redbrick Beverly, Beverly, MA. Through Sept. 9. In the Boston Globe, Cate McQuaid reminds us of lifelong […]
Provincetown pigment
“Eric Aho, Peter Hutchinson, Peik Larsen, Sarah Lutz,” DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA. Through Sept. 16. “Tabitha Vevers: Eden,” artSTRAND, Provincetown, MA. Through Sept. 12. Cate […]
Those who can, teach
“Fitz Henry Lane & Mary Blood Mellen: Old Mysteries and New Discoveries,” curated by John Wilmerding. Cape Ann Historical Museum, Gloucester, MA. Through Sept. 16. […]
Jacqueline Humphries: catching the light
“Jacqueline Humphries,”Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA. Through Aug. 30 Cate McQuaid reports in the Boston Globe: “Glitter is kitschy, glitter is glam; glitter is saccharine […]
