Lisa Perez’s current exhibit, still even now, at the 5 Traverse Gallery is a meditative study in being and nothingness. The exhibit consists of small sculptural installations made of paper and wood. Her designs are poetic. They simplify the physical world without belittling it. Her best pieces are simultaneously microscopic and macroscopic. Organic grids and …
There are lots of words and punctuation marks in the official title of the new exhibition “Pixilerations [v.6]: The Great Disruption” (part of FirstWorks festival which runs through November 15) like a technical handbook for the new normal. Yeah, so nobody is ever going to say all that, but it all looks pretty cool. The …
Only a few hours left today, and then tomorrow is the final day of the excellent exhibitions at 5 Traverse Gallery. Artist David Barnes (this work is oil on aluminum) takes images familiar to us from the world news and renders them unfamiliar and gloomy with livid, acidy tones. In the next room is Cypheromantic, …
All the news that’s fit to paint Tsunamis kill people in Bali. Car bombs kill people in Iraq. The Internet is killing newspapers. The major news networks report on these killings with state of the art sensationalism and hi-tech dehumanization. Rhode Island artist David Barnes paints this process and the result is benignly seductive. Starting …
Saturday is the last day of Collective Access, the exhibition of work by the 10 artists who run the AS220 Printshop, and many amazing prints are still available for sale. It’s also the day the AS220 printshop artists are making pancakes silkscreened with chocolate designs — “watch with your own eyes as the master printmakers …
A new show opens tonight at 5 Traverse Gallery featuring the photographs of Scott Lapham (Sea Song) and the work of Jonathan Bonner (Pooms). What is a ‘poom’? Mr. Bonner explains, There is now in existence a literary form known as the poom. A poom is a poem that is one syllable long. This exhibition …
What goes up must come down, particularly art. If you can’t wait for the closing party of “Textual Nature” at Chazan next Thursday night, you can start tonight with a get-‘er-(ho)down* at 5 Traverse Gallery celebrating the closing week of two great exhibitions. Jon Lautsen explores construction on a small scale. I don’t know the …
Only a couple of days left to visit the Tape Art Artaquarium at the 5 Traverse Gallery. Pictured here is one wall that artist Michael Townsend (you remember the apartment in the mall guy) and the rest of the crew are working on. It is being painstakingly manipulated and animated, and they will show you …