There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time. ― David Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives I went on… (read more)
This is what I wore to work today. On my way to get a burrito before work, I was detained by the police. I noticed the police car in the public lot behind Centre Street. As I was walking away from my car, the cruiser followed me. I walked down Centre Street and was about… (read more)
I had an interesting moment the other day. There is a black-owned business in my neighborhood. Over the past year, I would safely say that I frequent this place a few times a week. I would never assume that I am friends with the owner, but we are more than cordial. We’ve talked about his… (read more)
Page from tonight’s sketchbook. From text to form.
Steve Locke: The first works I had seen of yours were the Invisible Man series and I’ve seen a few of the fighting performances. They are quite brutal (I’m thinking especially of Bull in the Ring.) The sheer athleticism of those performances meshes uncomfortably with the raw physical fact of them. In watching your work, I… (read more)
For those of you who missed the conversation that I had with the divine Evan Garza of FIAR at ICA/Boston about my work, the museum has created a new web cast of the lecture. The Artist’s Voice will be a regular feature of the ICA. See below: THE ARTIST’S VOICE: STEVE LOCKE WITH EVAN GARZA Thursday, September 19,… (read more)
I have a tremendous love for the work of Kerry James Marshall. So I was completely thrilled when I heard that the Harvard Museums had acquired Untitled, his 12-panel woodcut and installed it at the Sackler Museum. The first time I saw this piece was in New York at Jack Shainman. It seemed to big… (read more)
Ori Gersht: History Repeating is a big show, both in terms of the amount of works presented, the space occupies, and the themes it addresses. It’s always really exciting when a museum decides to give over a lot of space to a living artist. You have the opportunity at these times to see what they… (read more)
My essay on the amazing William Cordova exhibition that was at the Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts, courtesy of artcore journal, founded and edited by Erin Dziedzic in collaboration with Gregory Eltringham. William Cordova at the Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts by Steve Locke. artcore journal is an edited online… (read more)