Art Reviews: Copley Society & Matt Clark
Mar. 4th, 2005 03:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cthulhiaSince I'd decided to lunch at LUSH anyway... (and didn't pick anything up for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fangirl715, and she's trying to get my tickets to NIN today, ergo I suck. I suppose I could bring her back after the ticket line...)
There I was, back on Newbury Street...
The Copley Society has some wonderful photos by Adrianne (and Jamie) Fernandez. The current exhibit is in the process of being taken down, giving it an extra-special transient quality.
However, Matt Clark's work at the Kidder-Smith is just going up. (The reception is tonight, but... I'll be commiserating over the NIN stuff by then.) It's a bunch of mostly single-colored canvases. Big brushstrokes, real yawners of pomposity in most cases.
Not this time.
Because of this piece.
Sure, a big azure expanse sucked me into the gallery, and I did scrutinize edges of the canvases to figure out how many layers of other colors there were underneath...
But that rusty brownish one will Mess With Your Head. You can almost tell from the photo. It looks like deep layers of wax and glaze over rust and wood and... minutes pass while you try to figure when today someone slipped hallucinogens in your food. It's wicked!
(Kidder-smith also had a copy of the Gallery Guide, which might help with these lunchtime art forays.)
fangirl715, and she's trying to get my tickets to NIN today, ergo I suck. I suppose I could bring her back after the ticket line...)There I was, back on Newbury Street...
The Copley Society has some wonderful photos by Adrianne (and Jamie) Fernandez. The current exhibit is in the process of being taken down, giving it an extra-special transient quality.
However, Matt Clark's work at the Kidder-Smith is just going up. (The reception is tonight, but... I'll be commiserating over the NIN stuff by then.) It's a bunch of mostly single-colored canvases. Big brushstrokes, real yawners of pomposity in most cases.
Not this time.
Because of this piece.
Sure, a big azure expanse sucked me into the gallery, and I did scrutinize edges of the canvases to figure out how many layers of other colors there were underneath...
But that rusty brownish one will Mess With Your Head. You can almost tell from the photo. It looks like deep layers of wax and glaze over rust and wood and... minutes pass while you try to figure when today someone slipped hallucinogens in your food. It's wicked!
(Kidder-smith also had a copy of the Gallery Guide, which might help with these lunchtime art forays.)
