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Confined Chaos: A Conversation With Photographer Carter Quick

betaJanuary 20, 2015

The confined chaos within Carter Quick's images and short videos hits you instantly, as though the vibrant disorder within each shot is actively trying to push its way through the edges of the photograph.

Balancing the Actual and Absurd: A Conversation with Sarah Haug

betaJanuary 16, 2015

A life too serious becomes ripped of its meaning, dried out and hung up, not even suitable for show. Without room for human error (read “a humane touch”), life is not our own—a sad reality for those steadfast realists.

Deadbeat Club’s “Mentally Retired” Show at Slow Culture Gallery

betaJanuary 10, 2015

Highland Park gallery Slow Culture played host to the rad folks of Deadbeat Club for their newest photo exhibition, "Mentally Retired".

The Devil Makes Three Talks Fugazi, Recording Live, and Embarks On Largest Tour Yet

betaJanuary 9, 2015

There is nothing fabricated or staged in the music that The Devil Makes Three creates, just an extension of the devastating and downright pretty feelings that really must rest in each of them. As the band starts its largest tour yet, guitarist and lead singer Pete Bernhard took the time to talk about learning everything they know from Fugazi, endlessly driving around this country in circles, and channeling Woody Guthrie for lyrical inspiration.

Between Reality and Escapism: A Conversation With Photographer Chris Mongeau

betaJanuary 5, 2015

With an embedded obligation for exploring all of it, Mongeau has made traveling his art form as innately as photography—his photos are harmonious with his travels; his travels, harmonious with his work. Saturated not only in natural hues and depths but in experiences, Mongeau’s work captures the staunch essence of living—without fear and without graveness—perfectly nested between the beauties of reality and escapism.

Vitality and Lightness: A Conversation With Illustrator Rachel Merrill

Alex KhatchadourianDecember 31, 2014

Rachel Merrill works mostly the old-fashioned way, wrestling valiantly with watercolor and pencil. She works across illustration, comics and fashion and her signature style is heavy on effervescent tones and devoid of extraneous detail, making for works that straddle a magical line between rigorous and wistful.

Lessons On Working Serially: A Conversation With Photographer Rory Hamovit

Alex KhatchadourianDecember 29, 2014

Rory Hamovit's photographs leave a strongly cinematic impression, demonstrated by his portfolio, as a kind of montage of fragmented images, all the while synthesizing a pictorial language that isolates things in order to enhance their symbolic quality.

Video Premiere: Rice Cakes Front Woman Covers “I Will Always Love You”

betaDecember 11, 2014

Roz and the Rice Cakes, the Rhode Island band of three, has been killin' it all year touring the country with the release of their latest album, Need to Feed. Even in the spurts of free time that the trio does have, music sweeps in with rad house shows, recording sessions and solo projects, like the exclusive listen featured here.

In the Studio |TJ Kelley is a Skater, Illustrator, Music Guru, Beer Lover, and Maker of Things

betaDecember 10, 2014

For this In the Studio special, we hang with Boston based artist, TJ Kelley. The suburban skater turned artist creates artworks at a range of scales, but most predominately works with scrap wood littered with his simple, yet memorable illustrations.

Dimensional Exploration: A Conversation With Artist Eddie Perrote

betaDecember 4, 2014

Welcome to 2014, where we hashtag our feelings and upload our work. Nothing is sacred, nothing is static—even, dare we say, art. But then we meet artists like Eddie Perrote, artists who wholly embody their work with integrity and license that no web presence can mimic.

Paradoxical Doodling: A Conversation with Illustrator Hattie Stewart

betaDecember 1, 2014

To your left, a latex-smooth bunny drips liquid-like colors, her amplified eyes literally beaming with exaggerated life; to your right, an ice cream cone, propped up in stilettos, her tongue wagging to one side for added balance. Welcome to the eccentric world of illustrator Hattie Stewart.

Abstractions in Nature: A Conversation with Artist Nick Bahula

Alex KhatchadourianNovember 29, 2014

Nick Bahula has spent the majority of his life living with and observing the intricacies of nature. His work has the traditional air of tightly rendered nature illustrations but with a highly emotional range of surreal metaphorical themes.