Brink v2: Initmacy and Space
Boston Center for the Arts, Boston
Curator: John Pyper
Artists: Johnny Adimando, Samantha Fields, Coe Lapossy, AJ Liberto, Steven Pestana and J.R. Uretsky
January 15 - March 26, 2016
.This show was a really interesting show, with a wide variety of work! I went to see it twice; once for the opening, and once on a quiet day when I could really sit with the work. The opening was packed, there were so many people, and the artists were performing within the space as well as the work, which was more permanently installed in the Boston Center for The Arts space.
This exhibition was a conversation about space and intimacy, and each of the artists had their own space within the larger space. This show was in the Mills Gallery within the BCA.
The piece at the top of the stairs, which was a piece involving paint bricks and saw, and the artist Coe Lapossy, would come and do performances within the space. This installation was set within three walls, and one of the walls had a whole cut out within it that you could actually climb through into the space on the other side. The bricks felt so visceral, so much like body, like flesh and fluid and goop, it was really interesting to see the piece evolve over the course of the performances! This space was really interesting, because the tactile nature of the paint bricks, especially as the show went on and Lapossy came in and sawed the bricks in half, and the small and intimate crawl-space were both definitely talking about the ideas of the show.
As you exit the crawl space, you encounter three built walls with attached floors, on which two artists, during the opening, were preforming. These artists, J. R. Uretsky and others performed with music and videos, and in elaborate costumes. This was really interesting to watch at the opening, and it really set the mood for the opening, the performers had so much energy! It was a really interesting performance, focusing on the interesting nature of space and intimacy and where it intersects with feminism.
Another fantastic piece was one installed into the space of its own small room, a woven piece that was actually stitched into the wall, and it was an incredible piece. This was a piece that was fully installed within the room, and made of bright fabric and woven threads, and the neon thread was stiches right into the wall, and the whole body of the work looked like the skirt of a dress, making a shadowy cave behind it on the wall.
The last piece I want to comment upon was the incredible piece in the small room at the front of the gallery. Upon entering this room, you encounter the blue walls, and within the small room, and there is a table. Upon the table, there lays the empty shell of a body, and the entire interior is gilded, and the outside is painted black. It lays upon a bed of small white stones, and beneath the table is a bed of black stones. This piece really resonated with me, as the small room was claustrophobic, forcing you to be close to the body, which felt like a corpse of display at a funeral. Yet the gilded surface felt so warm and inviting, as if your own body was welcome, and it made you feel like maybe you sparkle on the inside like that. A really interesting experience, and I enjoyed it very much.
This exhibition was a conversation about space and intimacy, and each of the artists had their own space within the larger space. This show was in the Mills Gallery within the BCA.
The piece at the top of the stairs, which was a piece involving paint bricks and saw, and the artist Coe Lapossy, would come and do performances within the space. This installation was set within three walls, and one of the walls had a whole cut out within it that you could actually climb through into the space on the other side. The bricks felt so visceral, so much like body, like flesh and fluid and goop, it was really interesting to see the piece evolve over the course of the performances! This space was really interesting, because the tactile nature of the paint bricks, especially as the show went on and Lapossy came in and sawed the bricks in half, and the small and intimate crawl-space were both definitely talking about the ideas of the show.
As you exit the crawl space, you encounter three built walls with attached floors, on which two artists, during the opening, were preforming. These artists, J. R. Uretsky and others performed with music and videos, and in elaborate costumes. This was really interesting to watch at the opening, and it really set the mood for the opening, the performers had so much energy! It was a really interesting performance, focusing on the interesting nature of space and intimacy and where it intersects with feminism.
Another fantastic piece was one installed into the space of its own small room, a woven piece that was actually stitched into the wall, and it was an incredible piece. This was a piece that was fully installed within the room, and made of bright fabric and woven threads, and the neon thread was stiches right into the wall, and the whole body of the work looked like the skirt of a dress, making a shadowy cave behind it on the wall.
The last piece I want to comment upon was the incredible piece in the small room at the front of the gallery. Upon entering this room, you encounter the blue walls, and within the small room, and there is a table. Upon the table, there lays the empty shell of a body, and the entire interior is gilded, and the outside is painted black. It lays upon a bed of small white stones, and beneath the table is a bed of black stones. This piece really resonated with me, as the small room was claustrophobic, forcing you to be close to the body, which felt like a corpse of display at a funeral. Yet the gilded surface felt so warm and inviting, as if your own body was welcome, and it made you feel like maybe you sparkle on the inside like that. A really interesting experience, and I enjoyed it very much.