the bad feeling so bad makes the good so good

above images © suzannah sinclair

In Seminar on Monday we were instructed to go see some art in person sometime in the next couple weeks– probably Boston since our New York trip was cancelled. Greg (our guest instructor for the discussion half of seminar this semester, read his blog here) showed some suggestions of places to visit, one of them being Samson Projects on Harrison Ave. Tim and I went over to Harrison Ave today to check it out. I made Tim drive my car since I’m terrible at parallel parking, but now I know that there is a big, free parking lot for gallery visitors, I’ll be heading back there frequently to wander the several galleries in the area.

The current exhibitions are Suzannah Sinclair, Tomorrow is Here and Jessica Gath, For You, Beautiful. Massachusetts College of Art alumnus Suzannah Sinclair’s ethereal watercolor and pencil on birch paintings feature ocean scenes and women with transluscent skin that glows with the woodgrain. Potted plants and benches reflect the intimate comfort of Sinclair’s small scale. Gath’s interactive piece For You, Beautiful is well integrated. You can take part in person or online here.

I came home this afternoon and saw on some blog or another a link to Blood is the New Black. This company has exploded! I remember in high school (six years ago?) owning a Keren Richter for Blood is the New Black t-shirt that I proudly wore at least once per week. I don’t have many graphic t-shirts any more so I spend a while looking at their extensive inventory of different artists. This No War for Heavy Metal shirt by Dan Monick looks like something I’d buy for my boyfriend and then wear on the days when I wake up at his apartment and decide I just don’t like what I brought to wear for the following day. Brenden Donnelly’s Arabic punk band shirts are so awesome, much better than any of Urban Outfitter’s Joy Division tees. Anyway, I got to the bottom of the list of artists to find Suzannah Sinclair. I was a little surprised, and I’m not sure if I feel like a t-shirt could possibly do justice for her paintings, but it was a freaky coincidence. (Amidst all the cool tees at BITNB are a bunch of Nylon t-shirts. $42 for a Nylon tribute tee? Nylon can’t hold my attention any more but I feel bad about it, it’s like I’m getting old.)