Word: brickely
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...Enter the right panel of her new piece. A woman, capped in red kerchief, lifts a pallet of bricks off the ground. Her expression and features delineate strength. The image is the silk-screened representation of a photograph taken of a Soviet drawing. The drawing itself hints of propaganda art. Meanwhile, it represents the work done with bricks, Lemieux's own. The figure's bold gaze redirects the eye, in case it has strayed, back down into the center of the diptych. Striking a balance between left and right is the work done by colors; both the figure...
...with Pompey. His words, "alea jacta est" or "the die is cast," have come to describe a point of no return. Lemieux's title describes the motion of a decisive step, at the beginning of some undertaking-perhaps playing on the Rubicon die as a unit of brick-like rectangles. Whatever she has in store, at least here she crosses the liminal spaces between separate media, between art and artist, between spectator and object...
...Annette Lemieux: The idea for the painting came after a number of paintings I did in 1995 that dealt with brick walls. I didn't make it right away; I finished it in 2000. I've spent five years of work battling with presenting these images. I see it as the marriage of two motifs: meaning and brick walls...
...with some of Oscar Wilde's finest collections of epigrams and nasty asides. Spit out, stated dramatically or muttered politely, his words are most recently brought to life in a joyous flurry of understated malice by the cast at the Works Theater in Somerville. The final production of Pet Brick Productions' inaugural season, director Patrick Wang and his cast and crew create a treasure for anyone who adores Wilde, theater and beautifully delivered words of wit, spite, and love...
...twentysomething founders and their first employee were holding business meetings in the backseat of a car and using credit cards to make payroll. They realized they needed a more experienced executive team if they were going to make their business work. "We were beating our heads against brick walls," says Blake Hayunga, that first employee, who's now vice president of content. "We'd have these meetings where we'd talk about how we were going to take Bloomberg out of business. Then we'd all run off in our separate directions...