Boston Globe feature: BU Art Galleries’ Trasluz / Translucent listed among exhibitions to see in Boston
Contemporary painters Juan José Barboza-Gubo and Michael Zachary offer metaphysical visions of landscape — porous, engulfing, and shot with light
“Desborde,” 2024 by Juan José Barboza-Gubo. Acrylic paint, polyurethane, digital print, optical material, and frosted acrylic. 40 pieces, variable dimensions. Juan Barboza-Gubo
Boston Globe feature: BU Art Galleries’ Trasluz / Translucent listed among exhibitions to see in Boston
On view through March 7 at Boston University’s Faye G., Jo, and James Stone Gallery, contemporary painters Juan José Barboza-Gubo and Michael Zachary offer metaphysical visions of landscape — porous, engulfing, and shot with light
This piece was first published in The Boston Globe’s The Ticket: Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond on January 22, 2025.
BY CATE MCQUAID
TRASLUZ/TRANSLUCENT For centuries, the genre of landscape painting in Western society relied on a binary algorithm of human versus nature. That’s changing. Here, contemporary painters Juan José Barboza-Gubo and Michael Zachary offer metaphysical visions of landscape — porous, engulfing, and shot with light — as if to reposition humanity within the wild rather than apart from it. Yet still, there is a veil obscuring mystery.
The exhibition is organized by Sarah Montross, chief curator at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum. Through March 7. Faye G., Jo, and James Stone Gallery, Boston University Art Galleries, 855 Commonwealth Ave.
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