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04/28/2010
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"Clothes Make the Man?," curated by William Stover, late of the contemporary department at the Museum of Fine Arts, also makes some terrific pairings....The show examines costume and performance’s part in the perception of identity,..."
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02/18/2010
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"Boston-based artist Ria Brodell doesn’t think of her work as glamorous, but when I happened upon her “Self Portraits” exhibit at the Kopeikin Gallery in West Hollywood, her drawings struck me as perfectly expressing the way glamour works as an imaginative process."
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01/14/2010
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"Artist Ria Brodell aspired to don Freddy Mercury’s tight white jeans and signature ’stache, and the Miami Vice Dude’s cool calypso-linen pantsuit rather than play princess or tea party."
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06/24/2009
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"Playing with toys- and gender- exhibit charms with its twists on being "Handsome."
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10/27/2008
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"A Few New Breeds" by Andy Ritchie
"...Much like Trenton Doyle Hancock's world of invention, Brodell has gone beyond novel visuals to script a visual novel, or at least a novella."
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09/20/2008
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"South End Open Studios, by James Nadeau"
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09/09/2008
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"by Meighan O'Toole
"i was fascinated with ria's beautifully, intricately drawn worlds. her softly rendered beasts, birdmen and whales completely had me at hello."
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07/12/2008
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"Cerasoli Gallery director, Freddi Cerasoli, has curated a summertime exhibition of over 20 contemporary artists working in a variety of media, including Lena Wolff, Josh Peter, Jennifer Davis, Michele Carlson, David O'Brien, and Ria Brodell. "
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07/08/2008
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"Three Alumni Honored by St. Botolph Club Foundation"
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10/01/2007
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"Caped Creators by Matthew Reed Baker"
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08/01/2007
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"The 2007 DeCordova Annual by Anne Krinsky"
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07/26/2007
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"Exploring more than landscapes:
Exhibits reveal artists' views of history, war, politics, and nature."
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07/11/2007
"Humaneyes", by Julia Reischel"
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05/23/2007
"Summer Arts Preview:
The 2007 DeCordova Annual Exhibition...
Ten artists, five New England states and one wicked showcase of artwork equals an afternoon of art that won’t leave you longing for the gift shop.
Humaneyes: Jennifer Amadeo-Holl, Ria Brodell, Jill Greenberg...The collective work by this trio of kickass creatives—Amadeo-Holl as painter, Brodell as illustrator, Greenberg as photographer—renders an electric combination of quiet ferocity."
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05/22/2007
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"THE 2007 DECORDOVA ANNUAL
by CHARLES GIULIANO "
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05/20/2007
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"Since 1989 the Lincoln museum has showcased New England artists pushing the creative envelope by expressing deeply personal visions in unexpected ways."
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05/18/2007
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"Punch, potato scientists, and 'Sodmonsters' at DeCordova.
The 10 New England-based artists selected for the 2007 DeCordova Annual are an earnest, well-behaved, hardworking lot -- there's not a slacker, a punk, or an egomaniac among them."
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05/08/2007
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"Local Color :
The 2007 DeCordova Annual Exhibition
It’s an art-world misconception that, to champion local art, you have to grade on a curve..."
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03/09/2007
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" Hopper, Crewdson ... Darger
Or, closer to home, check out Bostonian Ria Brodell’s drawings and paintings of The Distant Lands..."
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02/01/2007
"In Ria Brodell's cute, picture-book world, a toothy whale and a teeny submarine are pals united in a conflict involving birdmen and mud monsters and worm-bunnies."
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08/17/2006
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"Nothing in “30 Under 30” is facile, pretentious, or merely psychologically decorative, and certainly not visually so. Submitted from artists in New York and New England, these works are encouraging indications that the future of the art scene is looking bright."
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07/27/2006
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"So the final verdict on shows like "30 Under 30," the eclectic, edgy exhibition now on display at Hera Gallery, won't be written for a while. Until then, however, viewers should find plenty to engage their curiosity and provoke thought, as these young artists explore subjects of morbidity, suburbia and the overwhelming presence of pop culture in works that are varied and multidimensional."
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07/13/2006
"Boston Young Contemporaries, on display at the 808 Gallery at Boston University, includes a vast array of media and styles, from fuzzy “worm bunny” sculptures to looped video; an installation of a plastic bed to paintings of car crashes; erotic prints to ironic photographs. "
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06/29/2006
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"A glimpse of tomorrow today. In a show of contemporary works, some grad students clearly stand out..."
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06/16/2006
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"Evelyn Rydz has curated a show aptly titled “Under the Fort” on view at the Rhys Gallery until July 15, which, just like the cushion forts my big sister created, provides a safe, imaginative space where multiple worlds can not only co-exist, but produce a dialog among each other...."
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11/25/2005
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"Every year, Tufts University presents a series of MFA-thesis exhibitions by
artists in the joint graduate degree program of Tufts and the School of the
Museum of Fine Arts. The first in this year's series is called
"Overlap,"...."
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07/10/2005
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"Manock's and Ria Brodell's works inform each other nicely. They each
involve the creation of a fantasy world. Brodell's is as natural as Manock's
is unnatural...."
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01/19/2005
"Firehouse curator C. Sean Horton invited five artists to exhibit together
on one wall, and delegated further curation duties to those artists: They
each chose five more artists for mini-shows on other walls...."
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12/15/2004
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"These drawings suggest illustrations to iconic narratives of Americana.
Featuring men with moustaches, octopuses, and heads inside of jars, among
other characters, these drawings accumulate to create a kind of grammar of
the unconscious...."
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