Stop-motion Discourse

March 10, 2010

Paintings, videos challenge our expectations of art

by Cate McQuaid
Boston Globe Excerpt

...Also at Carroll and Sons, Adam Lampton's thoughtful, moody color photographs of Macao, a rising gambling mecca, contrast the Chinese territory's roots with where it's headed. "Grand Lisboa Casino Under Construction'' shows a gaudy, sparkly, mirrored dome. Across the gallery hangs "Mahjong Parlor,'' a view inside a small, scruffy gambling house. It's a long exposure, so the few men in the frame blur over their tiles. The shrine at the back of the room features a crisp, red draped statue of a figure who seems to look straight across at the Grand Lisboa Casino and read his unhappy fate.

[Pictured above: Adam Lampton's "Mahjong Parlor" in the exhibit "Nothing Serious Can Happen Here" at Carroll and Sons www.carrollandsons.net.]

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