Forty-one-year-old, Boston-based sculptor Tory Fair likes to think of herself as a “late bloomer,” and the evolution of her artistic career is allied with her varied experiences as an athlete, environmentalist, traveler, and spiritualist dreamer.1 For her second solo show at South Boston’s LaMontagne gallery in spring 2010, Fair created three life-sized, self-portrait figures designed
October 2010
Robert Taplin: Recent Narratives
Among last season’s most haunting exhibitions, Robert Taplin’s “Everything Imagined Is Real (After Dante)” (2007–09) featured nine eerie “tableaux” enacted by small, life-like figures contained in massive wooden “shrines.” Like miniature dioramas with unstable perspectives, the equivocal “stages” were lit in various ways, their characters agile, oddly solid, simplified little ghosts, usually devoid of color
Doug and Mike Starn: Reveling in Chaos
Stately and symmetrical, the entrance to the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens into rigorously ordered spaces that guide viewers systematically along a rectilinear path. But now, and through the end of October, those visitors who make their way to the elevator that leads to the Iris and B.
