Word: babb
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Dates: during 2005-2005
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...Babb, although intrigued by the proximity of his painting to the site it depicts, does have some reservations about public...
...opposed to works which drop a private vision into an environment which is alien, or upsetting or hostile to the expectations of the people who live in a place. … This works by shock and contrast rather than by harmony,” Babb says...
...painting is a view of Massachusetts Avenue as it runs between Wigglesworth and the Holyoke Arcade done by Maine-based artist, Joel Babb in 1984. Though done in a realistic style, the scene feels neither old-fashioned nor cramped due to its lively coloring and the artist’s adeptness at capturing the Square’s life and constant movement...
...That painting is so wide,” Babb writes in an email. “It’s twenty feet wide, and when you’re passing by from the left it looks one way, from the right, another way. That painting has a perspective on it; as you walk through the lobby, the painting shifts with you. You sort of have to move through it as you walk past...
This connection between the painting and its surrounding, the lobby, echoes that of more traditional public art. And, like Dorrien and others, Babb spent a lot of time on site before creating...