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    • Family Pictures (2016)
    • The School of Love (2016)
    • watercolors (2014)
    • you don't deserve me (2012)
    • for Smithson (2010)
    • rapture (2008)
    • grids (2008)
    • when you're a boy... (2005 and ongoing)
    • circumference (2005)
    • early painting installations
  • public projects & exhibitions
    • in the name of love (2019)
    • the color of remembering (2019)
    • Three Deliberate Grays For Freddie (2018-9)
    • Love Letter to a Library (2018)
    • A Partial List... (2016)
    • there is no one left to blame (2013)
    • Neons (2008-present)
    • Mail Art (2001-present)
    • Proposal for a Memorial at Faneuil Hall (2018)
    • Proposal for Slavery Memorial at the Tuilleries (2020)
  • writing
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HUSH 2011 Performance (still)
HUSH 2011 Performance (still)

ONE QUESTION - Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz

January 22, 2014 in One Question

Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz answers ONE QUESTION….

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Tags: Andrea Fraser, Artists, Barneys, exhibitions, Harvey B Gantt Center, Korea, Marina Abramovic, performance, skowhegan, Smithsonian, Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz
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Park, Oil on canvas mounted on panel, 12 x 25 inches, 2013
Park, Oil on canvas mounted on panel, 12 x 25 inches, 2013

ONE QUESTION - Frank Meuschke

January 21, 2014 in One Question

Frank is one of my favorite artists. He answers ONE QUESTION….

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Tags: April Gornik, Arcadia, Art New England, BLM, Frank Meuschke, Gainsborough, Henry Street Settlement, land, landscape, MacDowell, New Mexico, Olmstead, painting, park, Prospect Park, Rackstraw Downes, skowhegan, Weir Farm
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Useful Drawings #1

January 19, 2014 in Useful Drawings

In the moment, this made complete sense….

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Tags: Betsy Alwin, drawing, laminating, wood
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Dushko Petrovich, Plaid, 2013. Courtesy of the artist. Roger White, Lobster, 2013. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Emily Evans.
Dushko Petrovich, Plaid, 2013. Courtesy of the artist. Roger White, Lobster, 2013. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Emily Evans.

Art Writing Tactics at deCordova Museum

January 17, 2014 in criticism, texts

Artists write. Now you know….

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Tags: Artists, Big Red and Shiny, deCordova, Dushko Petrovich, Jenn Liese, Lori Cole, museums, Paper Monument, Roger White, Stephanie Cardon, writers
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Hammer and Anvil, 2013 Porcelain, glaze and underglaze. 18" x 13" x 32"
Hammer and Anvil, 2013 Porcelain, glaze and underglaze. 18" x 13" x 32"

ONE QUESTION - Betsy Alwin

January 15, 2014 in One Question

One of the best sculptors working right now, Betsy Alwin answers ONE QUESTION….

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Tags: Adriana Ferrarese del Bene, AIR Gallery, arte povera, Artists, Betsy Alwin, Beuys, Mozart, No Globe, sculpture, Sculpture Space, skowhegan, Vermont Studio Center
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Mary Parker and Caela Cowan, 2012 Archival pigment prints mounted on dibond  40 x 64 inches (two separate 40 x 32 inch photographs) Edition of 6 + 2 APs Copyright © Dawoud Bey
Mary Parker and Caela Cowan, 2012 Archival pigment prints mounted on dibond 40 x 64 inches (two separate 40 x 32 inch photographs) Edition of 6 + 2 APs Copyright © Dawoud Bey

ONE QUESTION - Dawoud Bey

January 04, 2014 in One Question

Dawoud Bey answers ONE QUESTION….

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Tags: 16th Street Baptist, Artists, Birmingham, Birmingham Project, Chadsey High, Class Pictures, Dawoud Bey, detroit, Detroit Pictures, Eldridge Cleaver, Harlem, Rena Bransten, Whitney Biennial
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Jane-Fox-Hipple-within-2013-acrylic-on-cotton-and-paper-with-paper-towel-and-gypsum-54in-x-36in
Jane-Fox-Hipple-within-2013-acrylic-on-cotton-and-paper-with-paper-towel-and-gypsum-54in-x-36in

ONE QUESTION - Jane Fox Hipple

January 03, 2014 in One Question

My dear friend and great painter Jane Fox Hipple answers ONE QUESTION….

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Tags: Artists, Dodge Gallery, helen molesworth, Jane Fox Hipple, john yau, rauschenberg, richard tuttle
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Andrea Fraser
Andrea Fraser

My Top 10 of 2013 (with Full Disclosures)

December 31, 2013 in criticism

Hee hee hee….

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Tags: Andrea Fraser, Andrew Mowbray, Andrew Young, Anthony Greaney, Artists, Frank Meuschke, galleries, Kristin Stoltmann, LaMontagne, Mary Reid Kelly, Matt Siegel, Mike Mittelman, museums, Richard Avedon, Ridley Howard, Samsøn, skowhegan, Sophie Calle, Top 10
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ONE QUESTION - Wendy White

December 29, 2013 in One Question

Wendy White answers ONE QUESTION….

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Tags: Artists, Richard Serra, Wendy White
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In Praise of A Newsstand

November 27, 2013 in criticism

“I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines. ” 
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

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Tags: Art Papers, Artists, detroit, DIA, Dushko Petrovich, magazines, museums, Paper Monument
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See Something - Say Something

November 01, 2013 in criticism, race

If you think they are not coming for you, you are wrong.

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Tags: abortion, Ed Markey, Elizabeth Warren, misogyny, racism, senators, stop and frisk, trap laws
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A terrified Steve Locke chats with the amazing and patient Evan Garza

A terrified Steve Locke chats with the amazing and patient Evan Garza

Because some people really know how to have a good time....

October 21, 2013 in criticism, Exhibitions, Steve!

Evan Garza and I, being gay, not wearing socks, in front of a museum crowd, talking about my work. Is this heaven? No, it’s ICA Boston.

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Tags: AIDS, Artists, detroit, Evan Garza, FIAR, ICA, influences, mom, politics, race, there is no one left to blame, video
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I know I'm not Oprah, but I'd still like to try that on...

August 14, 2013 in criticism, race

I can tell you were I DIDN’T get a jacket….

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Tags: boston, fashion, racism, retail, riccardi
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My "Truth or Dare" interview at Artcore

May 17, 2013 in criticism, Steve!

Are you ARTCORE? Clearly I am.

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Tags: AIR, artcore, Greg Eltringham, interview, Rox Diner
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A Review of Sebastian Smee's Foster Prize Review in the Boston Globe

May 04, 2013 in criticism

I like when people are critical. I’m critical. But you don’t get to dismiss someone just because you don’t understand what they are doing.

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Tags: Artists, Boston Globe, critics, Foster Prize, helen molesworth, ICA, Katarina Burin, Luther Price, Mark Cooper, Robert Gober, Sarah Bapst, Sebastian Smee, Stephen Tourlentes
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