Laraine Armenti

student of painting

BU First Month

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Events are moving too quickly to post everything from the graduate school program on the blog. Here are highlights. The photographs are snapshots, hand held, daylight. The city paintings are influenced in part by recently reading Don DeLillo's White Noise. The story concerned an "airborne toxic event" hovering over Somerville, Mass, circa 1985. The next series of paintings use only black and … [Read more...]

Project Review

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Painting in school quickly developed too many areas of interest: oil landscapes, figure drawing, homework, and the bamboo pen & sumi ink drawing series. I realized drawing is pushing out painting time in the first three weeks. These are all good projects but the MFA degree I am pursuing is in painting, not drawing. Adjustments must be made. The oil landscapes are from my studio window. … [Read more...]

Lecture Series

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Once a week visiting professionals from the Boston area make one-hour presentations on their subject of expertise to the MFA painting and sculpture students. So far we have learned about the birth and death of stars from a brilliant MIT physics professor and eaten freshly harvested oysters shucked by the operations manager of a south shore farm. One of the earliest requests made of the graduate … [Read more...]

Sojourn

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On my return trip from Vermont in August, I took the route from Bennington through New York. It is less traveled than Route 7 and therefore a nicer drive. In a small town in western Mass, I noticed a weathered old woman sitting in front of an antiques store. Her shop contained a crowded collection of objects in several dingy rooms which she complemented with a robust set of political views sharply … [Read more...]

Comm Ave

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The last two weeks felt like a roller coaster's slow steady climb to the top of the first lift hill. Then the front car crested the first peak and it was look out below, full of shrieks, hollers and incredulous smiles: id, parking pass, bank loan, orientation, materials, moving out, moving in, classes, assignments, receptions, meeting colleagues and instructors. Commuting for a couple hours each … [Read more...]