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This is the question posed by Anne Gilson Haney’s exhibit “Homecooking,” which recently ended at Crosstown Gallery in Boston. The most visually exciting pieces in this exhibit grapple with these questions by reducing familiar household objects to the fundamental basics of color, shape and line. Most of Haney’s works are mixed medium—combining acrylic piant with collage items such as newspaper, wallpaper and fabric. Haney’s style is loose and employs warm vivid colors that are applied directly to the surface to create...
...want to wish Jimi a happy birthday," Chris Wood told the audience at the Orpheum Friday night before he and bandmates Billy Martin and John Medeski launched into a blazing version of Hendrix's "Crosstown Traffic." Belting out Jimi's funky lines on bass, drums, and organ, respectively, Medeski, Martin and Wood finished off a night that had been a whirlwind tour of jazz, funk, rock and pure abstract experimentalism...
...private jet service; a tent at spring training from which to sell A-Rod souvenirs; a private marketing staff and an office at the park. Oh, yes, and a special request of the Mets: a guarantee that A-Rod would enjoy a greater billboard presence in Gotham than his crosstown rival, shortstop Derek Jeter of the Yankees...
...lines. Then she combines eight of these patterns and transfers them onto a larger piece of paper using wintergreen oil as a solvent. The effect is unique, and the subtlety she gets out of a single letter is initially surprising, but these pieces pale in comparison to her paintings. Crosstown Arts, which opened only a few months ago, attempts to highlight emerging contemporary artists, and McNaught, who has only shown in Massachusetts thus far, is exactly the sort of artist such a gallery should focus on. McNaught, with her intriguing schema of game-playing, shows potential for more striking paintings...
...Strategy, new work by Megan McNaught, is on view at Crosstown Arts, 1 North Sq., Boston, through Dec. 23. For more information, call...