steve locke

Murray Whyte, “At Mass MoCA, Steve Locke’s ‘the fire next time’ chills to the bone,” Boston GLOBE, August 29, 2024. (PDF)

Andy Battaglia, “Tongues Out,” Art In America, Fall 2024, (PDF)

Cate McQuaid, “A painter challenges modernism with the harrowing history of slavery” Boston GLOBE, July 29, 2020. (PDF)

Jenee Osterheldt, “Boston was robbed of a slave monument at Faneuil Hall. Here’s what happened.” Boston GLOBE, February 28, 2020. (PDF)

Murray Whyte, “Boston lost a powerful, poetic work when artist pulled his ‘Auction Block’ slave memorial,” Boston GLOBE, August 17, 2019. (PDF)

Steve Locke, “Why I withdrew my proposed slave memorial at Faneuil Hall,” Boston GLOBE, August 4, 2019. (PDF)

Jasmine Webber, “The Potential of Ancestral Memory to Reconcile Personal and Racial Histories,” HYPERALLERGIC, October 26, 2018. (PDF)

Sophie Koval, “Critic’s Pick-Steve Locke at Yours Mine & Ours,” ARTFORUM, October 1, 2018. (PDF)

Joseph R. Wolin, “Steve Locke, ‘#Killers and Family Pictures’” Time Out New York, September 12, 2018 (PDF)

WGHB – OPEN STUDIO WITH JARED BOWEN The Photography of Sally Mann, Artist Steve Locke, and more
Steve Locke at the 7min mark.

Adrian Walker, "The nearly erased artist behind the hidden face of the proposed Faneuil Hall memorial," Boston GLOBE, August 21, 2018 (PDF)

Maggie Penman, "A History to be Reckoned With," WGBH, August 8, 2018. (PDF)

Editorial, "Faneuil Hall's Slave Legacy," Boston GLOBE, July 30, 2018. (PDF)

Renée Graham, "Another way to atone for past sins at Faneuil Hall," Boston GLOBE, July 21, 2018. (PDF)

Zoë Mitchell, Meghna Chakrabarti, "How Should Boston Reckon With The Complicated History Of Faneuil Hall?", WBUR RadioBoston, July 19, 2018

Christopher Gavin, "A memorial for victims of the slave trade is being proposed at Faneuil Hall," Boston.com, July 19, 2018. (PDF)

Steve Dubb, "Memorial at Boston’s “Cradle of Liberty” Would Acknowledge City’s Slavery Wealth," NonProfit Quarterly, July 17, 2018. (PDF)

Amanda McGowan, "Proposed Memorial At Faneuil Hall Would Recognize The Victims Of The Slave Trade," WGBH, July 13, 2018. (PDF) 

Maria Garcia, "Outside the Gardner, A Place to Mourn Freddie Gray Through Color" The Artery/WBUR June 28, 2018. (PDF) (audio)

Graham Ambrose, "Installation at the Gardner honors the ‘unfinished business’ of Freddie Gray" Boston Globe, June 28, 2018 (PDF)

Jules Struck, "Boston Artist Honors Freddie Gray with New Abstract Piece" Boston Magazine, June 25, 2018 (PDF)

Colette Greenstein, "Steve Locke honors Freddie Gray with public art installation" Bay State Banner, June 22, 2018 (PDF)

Cate McQuaid, "Celebrating Barkley L. Hendricks at MassArt" Boston Globe, January 18, 2018. (PDF)

Video interview with Artscope Magazine during People Watching at Fitchburg Art Museum, September 25, 2017.

Greer Muldowney, STEVE LOCKE: THE STATES PROJECT: MASSACHUSETTS, Lenscratch April 25, 2017. (PDF)

Robert Moeller, "School of Love: Interview with Steve Locke" November 2, 2016 (PDF)

Cate McQuaid, "Where Rage and Love Meet: an artist’s vision of where racial violence meets the American dream of home" Boston Globe, October 31, 2016 (PDF)

Celina Colby, "Artist Steve Locke’s dual exhibit confronts racial, romantic history" Bay State Banner, October 28, 2016, (PDF)

Gregory Eltringham, "Steve Locke: Family Pictures" ARTPULSE Magazine, October 23, 2016. (PDF)

Susannah Darrow and Carl Rojas, "A Not-So-Brief Chat with Painter Steve Locke, BURNAWAY, February 14, 2014. (PDF) 

"Goings on About Town" Review of Come Like Shadows at Zürcher Studio, New York, The New Yorker, January 20, 2014. (PDF)

William Kaizen, Review of there is no one left to blame at ICA/Boston, ARTFORUM, November 2013, Vol. 52, No. 23. (PDF)

Greg Cook, "Boston Painter Steve Locke 'It's My Job To Bear Witness To My Time'", WBURArtery, July 30, 2013. (PDF)

Colette Greenstein, "Artist Steve Locke gets first major exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston," Bay State Banner, July 25, 2013. (PDF)

Anthony Brooks, "Steve Locke At The ICA: ‘There Is No One Left To Blame", RADIOBOSTON, Broadcast August 5, 2013.

Cate McQuaid, "Images speaking of desire and fear at the ICA", Boston Globe, July 25, 2013. (PDF)

Lori Cole, Review of Paint Things: Beyond the Stretcher at deCordova Museum, ARTFORUM,  March 25, 2013, (PDF)

Francine Miller, Review, Art in America, Fall 2012. (PDF)

Cate McQuaid, "Love and its Comical Wounds," Boston Globe, June 16, 2012. (PDF)

Cate McQuaid, "Ten to See Now," Boston Globe, June 12, 2012. (PDF)

Drew Katz, "Steve Locke, You Don't Deserve Me at Samsøn," New American Paintings Blog, May 17, 2012. (PDF)

Andrea Shea, "ICA Turns One" Morning Edition/WBUR, December 6, 2007

Cate McQuaid, “A Painter who Changed with the Times” Boston Globe, September 6, 2007.

Cate McQuaid, "Gallery Pick" The Boston Globe, Calendar, October 19, 2006.

J. Aram Mouradian, "Locke's forbidden world revealed" In Newsweekly, October 11, 2006. (PDF)

David Wildman and Justin Becker, "Fall Arts Preview" Weekly Dig, Volume 8 Issue 39, September 27, 2006. (PDF)

Cate McQuaid, "10 Artists to Watch," The Boston Globe Magazine, March 19, 2006. (PDF)

Shawn Hill, “Steve Locke: Circumference,” artsMEDIA “Gallery Gallery” November/December 2005. (PDF)

Randi Hopkins, “Only Human ‘Standing on One Foot” and ‘Steve Locke’ at the Mills Gallery; ‘Quantum Grids’ at the Sert Gallery,” The Boston Phoenix, October 7-13, 2005. (PDF)

Constantine von Hoffman, “Not Your Average Joe” CMO Magazine, November 2004 (PDF)

David Wildman and Nicole Klosteman, “Upstarts: The New Guard in Galleries” Weekly Dig, Volume 6, Issue 43, 10/27/04 – 11/03/04.

Edgar Allen Beam, “Danforth Gallery Draws to a Close,” Maine Times, November 4, 2001.

Chris Thompson, “Cogito Vertigo Sum: Danforth Gallery’s Drawing the New Millennium,” Portland Phoenix, November 2, 2001. (PDF)