Relations
Arnheim Gallery, Boston
February 11, 2016
Multiple Artists:
Lauren Alindogen
Carly Blais
Molly Burke
Lindsey Caputo
Mia Jager
Rachel Oswald
Michelle Pechar
Laura Penney
Alysha Robinson
Emily Thomas
Minru Wang
"An exhibition exploring the anxiety, humor and danger within modern romantic relationships and casual encounters.
Featuring the beginnings of a public project dedicated to finding ways that viewing and talking about artwork can be used to effectively enhance sex-education, improve understandings of unhealthy relationships, and raise awareness to prevent sexual violence among young people."
This show was fantastic. I found that everything from the art to the wall-text to the titles was perfectly synced and well done. Each of the pieces was constructed and created in a wonderfully subjective and thoroughly evocative way, encouraging one to really take the time to look through each piece, and search for more of the story.
This exhibition focused on the many facets of relationships, sexual relations, and the vast social landscape of the Internet, as well as its affects on the aforementioned focal points. Each of these artists focused on their own medium, be it be ceramics, painting, writing, photography or broader sculpture.
The points of the exhibition that drew hardest on you were the words or the visuals that pulled at experiences that you had experienced yourself, or points that you had seen or felt through other people, be it the Book of Bad Dates or the photos of places where verbal and physical assaults happened across Boston. The day-by-day ceramic pieces came with descriptors of the artist’s thoughts and feelings about relationships, about Tinder, and about the time of our lives in which we are often most alone: our twenties.
This exhibition not only tugged on you emotionally but visually, between the gently embroidered bed-sheet stains or the bras and underwear hung on the clothes line, and the crossword of places and people, as well as the darkly glazed ceramics.
The exhibition as a whole was a wonderfully cohesive show for being a show of multiple artists, and each of the artists having their own take on all of the things that have happened, or what relations means within the context of the artists’ own life. Cohesive, aesthetic, and stimulating: overall, a great, great show!
This show was fantastic. I found that everything from the art to the wall-text to the titles was perfectly synced and well done. Each of the pieces was constructed and created in a wonderfully subjective and thoroughly evocative way, encouraging one to really take the time to look through each piece, and search for more of the story.
This exhibition focused on the many facets of relationships, sexual relations, and the vast social landscape of the Internet, as well as its affects on the aforementioned focal points. Each of these artists focused on their own medium, be it be ceramics, painting, writing, photography or broader sculpture.
The points of the exhibition that drew hardest on you were the words or the visuals that pulled at experiences that you had experienced yourself, or points that you had seen or felt through other people, be it the Book of Bad Dates or the photos of places where verbal and physical assaults happened across Boston. The day-by-day ceramic pieces came with descriptors of the artist’s thoughts and feelings about relationships, about Tinder, and about the time of our lives in which we are often most alone: our twenties.
This exhibition not only tugged on you emotionally but visually, between the gently embroidered bed-sheet stains or the bras and underwear hung on the clothes line, and the crossword of places and people, as well as the darkly glazed ceramics.
The exhibition as a whole was a wonderfully cohesive show for being a show of multiple artists, and each of the artists having their own take on all of the things that have happened, or what relations means within the context of the artists’ own life. Cohesive, aesthetic, and stimulating: overall, a great, great show!