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Photos: Crystal Friends at the MEME Gallery

Crystal Friends at the MEME Gallery | May 28-30, 2010

By SCOTT LACEY | June 1, 2010

Photo: SCOTT LACEY

The Crystal Friends | MEME Gallery | May 28-30, 2010

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Alternative universe
In the 1930s and '40s, Boston painters developed a moody, mythic realism. They mixed social satire with depictions of street scenes, Biblical scenes, and mystical symbolic narratives, all of it darkened by the shadow of the Great Depression and World War II.
Interplay
Caitlin Berrigan’s 2009 video Transfer is simple and elemental.
Power plays
Some weeks back, I got to listen to Brown University archæology professor Stephen Houston pronounce the throaty, staccato sounds of Maya hieroglyphs carved across a six-foot-wide limestone panel.
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Alternative universe
In the 1930s and '40s, Boston painters developed a moody, mythic realism. They mixed social satire with depictions of street scenes, Biblical scenes, and mystical symbolic narratives, all of it darkened by the shadow of the Great Depression and World War II.
Interplay
Caitlin Berrigan’s 2009 video Transfer is simple and elemental.
Power plays
Some weeks back, I got to listen to Brown University archæology professor Stephen Houston pronounce the throaty, staccato sounds of Maya hieroglyphs carved across a six-foot-wide limestone panel.
New directions
Listen carefully: is the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University throwing down the gauntlet? "I'm interested in bringing more documentary into the PRC," says Glenn Ruga, who became executive director in February.
Tracking time
The tracks run side by side across cracked, dried mud. But this black-and-white photo by Mark Ruwedel is deceptive.
AS220 at 25
You might say it all began with a thumbs-down review of an art exhibit by Umberto Crenca. To Bert and his friends, it was just one more example of how they were excluded by the art establishment.
Decay, exposed
Bill Daniel doesn't call the landlord when there's a hole in the roof. He just turns the damn house into a boat.
Fascinating new discoveries at Whitney Art Works
It's quickly clear that something's off in Ethan Hayes-Chute's world.
Whitewashed
Jeffrey Clancy plays with craft theory through the lens of a metalsmith working with traditional techniques and decorative motifs.
Review: A venerable collection returns to Marble House
Medieval artists got so much wrong. But it's a wrongness that ends up being vigorously right.
Review: Karen Gelardi's 'botanical propaganda' at Perimeter Gallery
Two recent groups of Karen Gelardi's studies of nature (she calls it "botanical propaganda") harness a bold and painterly craft aesthetic among the rough wood benches and baskets of lush melons and gourds in the open industrial space that also serves as a popular restaurant and farmers' market in downtown Belfast.
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