By Meredith Cutler Boston, MA- Boston-area artist Karen Meninno opens her third solo show at the Kingston Gallery this week — but, in many aspects, the show represents a “first” for this New Delhi born, London-bred sculptor. In a marked departure from the physically ornate, anthropomorphic sculptures we’ve seen previously from Meninno, “Sculpture Remix” cleanly transports a dolled-up, cast-plaster model influenced by cities, both real and imagined, into the 2-D realm as coolly kaleidoscopic digital C-prints and glossy scrolls of custom-printed wallpaper. I caught up with Meninno via email just after the show’s installation. Here’s what she has to say about her shift between worlds. WHAT LED YOU TO PURSUE A TWO-DIMENSIONAL INTERPRETATION OF YOUR SCULPTURE? The real impetus behind presenting my sculptures as 2-D manipulated images was to engage viewers in 3-D art. I want to … [Read more...] about Karen Meninno: Sculpture Remix at Kingston Gallery
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The Wheaton Biennial: Drawing Out of Bounds at Wheaton College
By Elizabeth Michelman Norton, MA- This wide-ranging drawing exhibition at Wheaton College, located 30 miles south of Boston, was juried by Judith Tannenbaum, the Richard Brown Baker Curator of Contemporary Art at the RISD Museum of Art. Sensitively mounted by Gallery Director Michele L’Heureux, the 54 diverse works represent both regional and national trends in what can currently be called “drawing.” Included are 30 New England artists (22 from Massachusetts), another nine from New York and Illinois, and the rest from a smattering of Midwestern and Western states as well as France. With the future of Boston’s own biennial Drawing Show now uncertain, Wheaton’s exhibition, if repeated, may fill an important regional gap. Speaking to a crowd of students and visitors in her gallery talk, Tannenbaum emphasized a focus on qualities rather than “quality.” Noting that every selection will … [Read more...] about The Wheaton Biennial: Drawing Out of Bounds at Wheaton College
Alexandra Rozenman’s “Transplanted” at the Multicultural Arts Center
By Lindsey Davis East Cambridge, MA – Alexandra Rozenman’s show “Transplanted” works to do just that — move you from this world into another, one with more hope, less worry, and more wonder. Scenes of bliss simply painted, the 11 large works hang in the Multicultural Arts Center’s Upper Gallery like 11 rectangular portals, most inspired by famous hands from art history. In “Moving in with Breugel,” Alexandra’s world of painting clashes at a diagonal with the worlds created by the Flemish Renaissance painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder. She casts green grass against white snow that’s complete with the hunters and their dogs from Bruegel’s 1565 painting, “The Return of the Hunters.” “Moving with Turner to Brooklyn” shows a girl facing a city with paint dripping all around her — a fantasized version of J.M.W. Turner’s characteristic melting, blended use of color. It’s a reinterpretation of … [Read more...] about Alexandra Rozenman’s “Transplanted” at the Multicultural Arts Center
Q & A with Joi Gresham, Director and Co-Trustee of the Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust
by Lindsey Davis Boston, MA – Huntington Theater Company in Boston’s South End is currently performing Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun,” a play that first debuted in 1959. When Hansberry passed away in 1965, she named her former husband as her literary executor, and that man later remarried Joi Gresham’s mother. After his death Joi took on the role as the executive director of the Lorraine Hansberry Properties Trust. She manages all publications and staging of Lorraine’s work, which includes involvement in the Huntington Theater Company’s current performances. As the trustee of these important works of literature, Joi continues to speak about Lorraine, her activism and her continued relevance, even in “post-racial” America. DID YOU EVER MEET LORRAINE IN PERSON? WHETHER OR NOT YOU WERE ABLE TO, WHAT IMPRESSION HAS SHE LEFT ON YOU? At the age of 34, Lorraine … [Read more...] about Q & A with Joi Gresham, Director and Co-Trustee of the Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust
At The Armory Show
By Lindsey Davis New York, NY - A few weekends ago, I attended my first-ever international art fair, taking the train from Boston’s South Station to Penn Station in New York City to spend six hours walking through rows and rows of art at The Armory Show. Split between two piers on Manhattan’s West Side, The Armory dedicated Pier 92 to modern art and Pier 94 to contemporary art. The modern works were created during and in the style of the Modernism movement which reigned from 1890-1960, whereas the contemporary art was generally made by artists still living — forward-thinking conceptually heavy works. Truth be told, there was hardly a difference in the types of work between each pier, except for that the modern section held works by masters like Picasso and Chirico and the Contemporary pier was more than twice the size. The modern works were held on the second floor of Pier 92, … [Read more...] about At The Armory Show
Ruth Segaloff: Lest We Forget at Galatea Fine Art
By Lindsey Davis Boston, MA - Ruth Segaloff’s newest work comprises “Lest We Forget,” an exhibition at Galatea Fine Art on Harrison Avenue in Boston on view until the end of March. A collection of collaged conceptual pieces, the show is represented by 16 works that were mostly created especially for this exhibit and nine of which were made within the last year. “My works are intended to evoke memories, beliefs and actions,” Segaloff said. “Sometimes I actually want to provoke the observer into a greater self examination that requires a response, or at the very least, begins the conversation.” The exhibit is titled “Lest We Forget,” after one of Segaloff’s earlier pieces of the same name, that’s currently on view as part of the “Pursuing Justice Through Art” exhibition at the Whistler House Museum of Art in Lowell through April 20. The artwork has a worn white baby shoe at the … [Read more...] about Ruth Segaloff: Lest We Forget at Galatea Fine Art