August 1-28, 2010
opening reception
Sunday, August 1, 4-7pm
AS220 Main Gallery
Travelling Asia by Scott Baker &
Coloring Book by Brooke Goldstein
Open Window
New Work By Joshua Harriman
AS220 Project Space (93 Mathewson St.)
New Work by Peter Lutz
artist talk August 19, 6-8pm at the Project Space
in the reading room:
Recent Acquisitions
Youth Gallery
PhotoCollages from the R.I.T.S.
August in the AS220 Galleries brings us to Asia with the travel photography of Scott Baker, Brooke Goldsteins uses symbols and colors to tell vivd narrative stories and Joshus Harriman's paintings invoke dream-like sequnces of the natural world inspired by the work of the German Expressionists. Peter Lutz works acorss a variety of media creating works that appear to be simple, but are painstakingly constructed, and highly nuanced. In the Youth Gallery are photo-collages from the RI Training School that are contemporary spin on the classic works of Hannah Hoch. In the reading room we have new books by local artists and poets such as Irene Lawrence
Ann Shaw, and recent zines fro Amigo Press. Good art work + Good reads= Good times. Come on in enjoy the work and a/c.
"Cleave" by Peter Lutz, 2010, styrofoam and piano wire.
No, not the last days of summer, we have at least 26 official days of summer left, but only FOUR more day of our current exhibitions at AS220. Currently on view at the AS220 Main Gallery is Brooke Goldstein's brilliant "Coloring Book" series of drawings and prints, "Traveling Asia" photographs by Scott Baker, and new paintings by Joshua Harriman.
Peter Lutz's exhibition, "Staring at the Sun" is at the AS220 Project Space. Peter is giving an artist talk on Friday, August 27 at 5:30 pm followed by a closing reception. The AS220 Project Space is located at 93 Mathewson St. Talk and reception are free.
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UPCOMING!
In September...AS220 Printapolloza!!!! All manner of print wonders from around the world! September 3-25, 2010, opening reception Sunday, September 12, 4-7pm. PRINTLOTTERY on Saturday September 25, 7-10pm!
In the Main Gallery
AS220's Community PrintShop's 2nd Biennial Print Lottery!!!
Youth Gallery
Prints & T-shirts from the AS220 Youth Studios!
AS220 Project Space (93 Mathewson St.)
Welcome Back to the Twentieth Century! New Prints by Dan Wood
and in the reading room;
DWRI + TS = Three years of collaborative prints by Dan Wood and Tiny Showcase
Dan Wood will give an artist talk on Thursday September 16th at 6pm with Shea'la Finch of Tiny Showcase and artist Alec Thibodeau. Dan will talk about his current work and his collaborative projects with Tiny Showcase and with Alec, and the magical wonders of Providence Printmaking!
Speaking of magical printmaking,The AS220 Community Printshop is proud to announce the newest print from the Editions Project, Hex Drawing by Providence artist Pippi Zornoza. To celebrate the occasion and chat about her latest work Pippi and Guggenheim Curator Lauren Hinkson, will have a public conversation on Friday September 17th, at the AS220 Performance Space from 5:30 pm- 6:30 pm, free!
"Inauguration" by Dan Wood, 2010, 4 color letterpress
Featuring: AK Press, Lucy Parsons Center, Wooden Shoe, PM Press, North East Federation of Anarchist Communists, Anarchist Black Cross, Just Seeds, Farmacy Herbs and much more!
Natasha Maria Brooks-Sperduti has built a Wheel of Fortune for this year's Foo Fest & is looking for YOUR art work to divine the future! Details here!
Brook Goldstein, "Heart in a bottle in Joy" from the series Coloring Book currently on view at the AS220 Main Gallery.
Josh Harriman, " Horse with a Ghost" on exhibit in the Open Window at Empire St.
Peter Lutz, "Cleave" from the current show Staring at the Sun at the AS220 Project Space.
Scott Baker, "Floating Market Place" from current exhibit Traveling Asia on view in the AS220 Main Gallery.
What: RISCA will present a brief information session on RISCA's Professional Arts Development (PAD) Grant. The grant application is currently open with a deadline of Friday, August 6. Learn about this funding opportunity for individual artists who are working to sustain and grow their arts businesses.
When: Wednesday, July 21 at 4 PM
Where: The AS220 Project Space, 93 Mathewson St, Providence
To view the grant guidelines go to http://www.arts.ri.gov/grants/guidelines/pad.php
To RSVP for the information session, please email cristina@arts.ri.gov
If you cannot attend this information session, but would like more information on the grant application, please call or email Cristina.
Cristina M. Di Chiera Director Individual Artists Programs Rhode Island State Council on the Arts One Capitol Hill 3rd Floor Providence, RI 02908 (401)222-3881
Thursday July 15th 6 - 8pm at the AS220 Project Space. free!
Sunday, July 11, 4-7pm
AS220 Main Gallery
New Work by Holly Gaboriault & Bijan Shadravan
Open Window
New Work By Kevin Cunningham
AS220 Project Space (93 Mathewson St.)
Cultivar : new work by Jennifer Raimondi
the reading room:
Dirt Palace Presents Selections from S.S.C.O.W.L.
Youth Gallery
New Work by Manny Tobagh
ARTIST TALK with Jennifer Raimondi Thursday July 15th, 6-8pm AS220 Project Space.
"Mask 1" by Holly Gaboriault
The end is near, time to be buried deep in the cool cradle of the ocean, to surf on forever more, till we wash aground July's new exhibits. Saturday is the last day of our current exhibit with Janice Causey, MaryLou Butler, Kevin Cunnigham, Serena Elston, Meredith Younger and Madolin Maxey & friends. Coming in July:
July 2-24, 2010
opening reception (free admission)
Sunday, July 11, 4-7pm
AS220 Main Gallery
New Work by Holly Gaboriault & Bijan Shadravan
Open Window
New Work By Latoya Lewis
AS220 Project Space (93 Mathewson St.)
Cultivar
new work by Jennifer Raimondi
in the Reading Room:
Dirt Palace Presents Selections from S.S.C.O.W.L.
Youth Gallery
New Work by Manny Tobagh
ARTIST TALK with Jennifer Raimondi Thursday July 15th, 6-8pm AS220 Project Space.
Thursday June 17, 6-8pm AS220 Project Space, FREE.
Come chat with [Meredith Younger] and Serena Elston about their current installation at the AS220 Project Space and other fine topics such as the burial rituals of the formerly departed, mystery organs of the chest cavity, medieval construction methodology, incendiary devices and their application, subversive tattoos in the films of Jean Vigo, Two Story yurts and their impact on the future of Psychogeography and the fine art of home brewed beer.
The Three Books: Artist's Books based on artifacts from the Special Collections of the Providence Public Library
Monday, June 21 - Monday, July 19, 2010 Opening Reception June 21, 5:30-8:30pm
Artist Talk 6pm, Barnard Room, 3rd floor
Providence Public Library Special Collections 150 Empire Street Providence RI 02903
The Three Books exhibition will present three artist's books conceived and made by Agata Michalowska. Each of the books is based on a different artifact from the Special Collections of the Providence Public Library.
The project is composed of The Book of Time, The Book of Senses and The Book of Passing. The first speaks of the passage of time, and is based on Edmond Halley's Astronomical Tables with Precepts from 1752. It touches upon the human need to systematize the world and the invention of the abstract notion of time. The second is a celebration of the sense of touch, its reference being the French embossed book for the blind Notice Historique sur l'Instruction des Jeunes Aveugles (Sébastien Guillié, 1819). The book was created using a Braille writing kit found at the library. The pages are filled with a texture that codes an intimate text. The third is a meditation on mortality inspired by the nineteenth century portraits found in the glass negatives collection. The artist created photographic prints in which the subjects seem to emerge from deep shadow, the depths of time and memory. They are an evidence of a world that no longer exists.
The books were crafted at the AS220 Community Printshop and AS220 Paul Krot Community Darkroom. Each book is an edition of three. One set of the books will be donated to the Special Collections and available to view by any visitor to the collections.
Meredith Younger "I've no more to grieve for you" mixed media installation
Sunday 4-7pm. Free. Refreshments for the body and the soul will be served.
AS220 Main Gallery
New Work by Marylou Butler & Janice Causey
Open Window
New Work By Kevin Cunningham/Spirare Surfboards
AS220 Project Space (93 Mathewson St.)
Bury Me Deep new work by Serena JV Elston & Meredith Younger
*In the Reading Room *
Fifteen Fluxus Books Artist Madolin Maxey &15 artist friends exhibit 16 unique Fluxus books.
Youth Gallery New Work by Norlan Olivo
The AS220 Project Space/Reading Room is excited to offer Nancy Spero's Torture of Women published by Siglio Press.
This epic artwork, juxtaposing testimony by female victims of torture with startling imagery from the ancient world, is as powerful now as when it was created in 1976. Artistic ingenuity coupled with boldly feminist and political intent, Torture of Women is a public cry of outrage and a nuanced exploration of the continuum of violence and the isolation of pain. It is also a pivotal work by an American artist whose immense impact has yet to be fully examined.
Siglio's publication, three years in the making, translates the 125 ft. work into nearly 100 pages of detail so that the entirety of Torture of Women---with legible texts and vibrant color reproductions---can be experienced with immediacy and intimacy, providing a unique opportunity to engage this influential but infrequently exhibited work of art. Siglio's publication of Torture of Women also serves as a centrifuge for conversation, raising provocative questions that cross the borders of art, politics, feminism, and human rights.
Nancy Spero, was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1926, studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Nancy Spero passed away last October at age 83.
Read an interview with her from 2008 here. Read an interview with Natalie Kraft on the making of the Siglio book Torture of Women here.
Nancy Spero's Torture of Women published by Siglio Press is available at the AS220 Project Space for $42 dollars. For more info neal@as220.org.
June 6-26, 2010
opening reception (free admission)
Sunday, June 6, 4-7pm
AS220 Main Gallery
New Work by Marylou Butler & Janice Causey
Open Window
New Work By Kevin Cunningham/Spirare Surfboards
AS220 Project Space (93 Mathewson St.)
Bury Me Deep new work by Serena JV Elston & Meredith Younger
In the Reading Room Fifteen Fluxus Books Artist Madolin Maxey &15 artist friends exhibit 16 unique Fluxus books.
Youth Gallery New Work by Norlan Olivo
Check out Greg Cook's review of our current exhibition here.
May 2-29, 2010
opening reception (free admission)
Sunday, May 2, 4-7pm
AS220 Main Gallery
New Work by Daniel DuBois & Corey Grayhorse
Open Window
New Work By Alicia Preza
AS220 Project Space (93 Mathewson St.)
New Work by Andrew Gunnar Norquist
in the reading room: Pages of Possibility
Books by Children of the Fox Point Community Library (children's bookmaking workshop Saturday May 15th 2 pm at the AS220 Project Space. FREE!)
A Salon at the Providence Athenaeum Friday, 4/30, 5-7pm co-sponsored by the AS220 Project Space
Providence-based artist Madolin Maxey gathered 15 artists to work in the Fluxus tradition to produce 16 unique books, each consisting of 15 envelope pages, with each envelope containing a work by one of the artists. Each book contains the collective works of the following artists: Madolin Maxey, Bob Rizzo, Kenneth Speiser, Norma Anderson, Regina Partridge, Marjory Dalenius, Christine Tillman, Garry Cerrone, Susan Clausen, Richard Harrington, David Hazlett, Paula Martiesian, Ken Carpenter, Eric Miller, and Craig Masten. So put down your Kindles for an evening! Join us for a conversation with artists making books to hold, explore slowly, and savor.
The AS220 Project Space was awarded with the Reader's Choice Best Art Gallery in the Providence Phoenix Best of 2010. Thank you to all our fans, patrons, volunteers and supporters, and especially to all the local artists that have exhibited at AS220. You, local artist, make the magic happen that makes AS220 happen. This award belongs to you and your creative spirit, the spirit that makes AS220 and Rhode Island a creative and vibrant place to live and work. We look forward to many more great exhibitions with you. xo
as220 galleries
http://thephoenix.com/thebest/providence/2010/arts/artgallery/
as chosen by Gallery Intern Alexis Avedisian
The Flat File Project of AS220's project space gallery include a wide range of works by local artists. Prints, original drawings, paintings and books lay side by side and convey several inspiring themes in which the artist explores through the range of their chosen medium. While looking through the selection of works, one can't help but notice the recurring theme of adventure, fantasy, and ritual.
Kyle Komiegas free form, brightly saturated marker drawings evoke the viewers imagination, as if lying in a field and making shapes out of technicolored clouds. These, with David Jebutu's repetitive and ritualistic 'text drawings' make up an interesting selection of work from the Top Draw Art Center in Warren.
Seamus Hames (who's drawings are on view at Project Space through April) 'channels youthful feelings of freedom into his life as an adult'. His delicate, precise, and monotone pen and ink drawings of the natural world highlight an interesting juxtaposition between the wild imagination of a child and the structured routine of modern adult life. Much like this, Michael Kachinis' intaglio print of a man nursing a cup of coffee reflects one of the several rituals of the modern adult.
Rebecca Simmering and Meredith Stern's work feature friendly monsters floating free in a fantasy world. Meant to inspire an envision of a peaceful, politically just community, Stern's winged and fury creatures hold hands in a beautiful linoleum block print entitled It's Time for Togetherness', while Simmering's simple etching of furry legs in 'Hot Legs' is both playful and enchanting.
These works, can be viewed at the Project Space Gallery, and are available to purchase online HERE.
Joan Wyand "Butt Sex"
Thursday April 15th 6pm FREE! Joan and Seamus will talk about their creative process, inspiration, and recent works currently on exhibit at the AS220 Project Space.
Seamus Hames, "For Sesshu"
Seamus Hames "Black Head"
Sunday April 11 from 4-7pm
Free!
featuring:
Rivers and Buddhas, RI Farm stands & Portraits of local farmers and their poultry pals, up-cycled & re-purposed junk & icons, meditations on Spring, Nature and the human animal. All blooming in April in the AS220 Galleries! Also performing an acoustic set in the Main Gallery at Empire St.: Roz Raskins and the Rice Cakes!
April 4-24, 2010
opening reception (free admission)
Sunday, April 11, 4-7pm
AS220 Main Gallery
new work by Mary Snowden & LauraBerth Lima
Open Window
New Work By Melvin Cruz
AS220 Project Space (93 Mathewson St.)
New Work by Will Machin & Joan Wyand
In the Reading Room
Drawing: New Work by Seamus Hames
remember Empire Revue at 8pm!
April 4-24, 2010
opening reception (free admission)
Sunday, April 11, 4-7pm
AS220 Main Gallery
new work by Mary Snowden & LauraBerth Lima
Open Window
New Work By Melvin Cruz
AS220 Project Space (93 Mathewson St.)
New Work by Will Machin & Joan Wyand
In the Reading Room
Drawing: New Work by Seamus Hames
artist talk Thursday, April 15th, 6pm/ free
Youth Gallery
Roots & Ritual: works in process
Joan Wyand "A DC Series"
Seamus Hames "BlackHead"
Joshua Deaner from the series "a town without pigeons"
Read the review of Joshua's exhibit in Big,Red, and Shiny here.
AS220 Main Gallery
a town without pigeons
new photographs by Joshua Deaner
New Paintings by Jeannine Hunter Lazzaro
Open Window
*Mirrors *New Work by Richard Garrett
AS220 Project Space (93 Mathewson St.)
Oblique Vantage Recent Work by Joshua Enck
coming up next in April April 4-24, 2010 opening reception Sunday, April 11, 4-7pm
new work by Mary Snowden, LauraBerth Lima, Melvin Cruz, Will Machin, Joan Wyand and Seamus Hames and in the Youth Gallery : Roots & Ritual: works in process.
at the AS220 Project Space, 93 Mathewson St. 6-8pm Free!
Providence artist Joshua Enck, whose sculpture can currently be viewed at the AS220 Project Space, is giving a talk this Thursday at 6 pm on his current exhibition at the AS220 Project Space at 93 Mathewson St. Josh , a trained architect and furniture maker, creates unique sculptural forms in wood and metal that obliquely draw reference from the agricultural and industrial landscape of the midwest. The forms he creates, from a range of materials, are at one familiar an ambiguous, marked by age, weather, and interaction that hint at a narrative the viewer is left to complete. Josh earned an MFA from the Department of Furniture Design at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2003 and was the recipient of the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts 2008 and 2010 Fellowship Merit Award in Crafts.
The talk begina at 6pm at the AS220 Project Space at 93 Mathewson St. Providence RI and free and open to the public. For more information please contact Gallery director Neal Walsh at 401.831.9327 or neal@as220.org. Gallery hours are Wednesday-Friday 1pm-6pm and Saturday Noon-5pm.
Keith Waldrop, winner of the 2009 National Book Award for poetry, will read from his work on Friday, February 19 at 5:30 p.m. at AS220, 115 Empire Street, Providence. The reading coincides with a show of Waldrop's artwork in the AS220 Project Space gallery.
Waldrop, who is Brooke Russell Astor Professor of Humanities at Brown University, has for nearly four decades been creating a lyrical body of visual art that mirrors his extraordinary oeuvre of poetry, fiction, and translation.
He received the National Book Award for "Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy", which presents three related poem sequences - "Shipwreck in Haven," "Falling in Love through a Description," and "The Plummet of Vitruvius," described by the National Book Award committee as "a virtuosic poetic triptych." The committee goes on to say that "these powerful poems, at once metaphysical and personal, reconcile Waldrop's romantic tendencies with formal experimentation, uniting poetry and philosophy and revealing him as a transcendental author for the new millennium."
Keith Waldrop, with his wife, noted poet and translator Rosemarie Waldrop have been active in the the avant-garde and experimental literary art scene for over forty years, publishing noteworthy authors on their small independent press, Burning Deck.
Some of Waldrop's other recent books are The Real Subject: Queries and Conjectures of Jacob Delafon, with Sample Poems, The House Seen from Nowhere, and a translation of The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire.
His reading, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by AS220 and by the Graduate Program in Literary Arts at Brown.
Reception to follow at the AS220 Project Space at 93 Mathewson St.
Lucia O'Reilly will be talking this Thursday about her current exhibition "Corners" at the AS220 Project Space. The exhibition brings together three bodies of work that manipulates paint, collage, and delicate controlled burnings that explore the delicate intersection between the beauty of the formal design and the thorniness of the content. The talk starts at 6pm and is free. The AS220 Project Space is located at 93 Mathewson St.
Julia Gandrud will be talking about her animations and artists' books currently on exhibit in the AS220 Project Space this Thursday, November 19th from 6-8pm. Julia's hand drawn animations and books use primordial motifs that tell stories of our most primitive and raw experiences of the beauty and magic of the world we encounter daily, a magic that speaks softly that could be easily overlooked.
Talk is free and at the AS220 Project Space at 93 Mathewson St. for more info contact neal@as220.org
November 1-28, 2009
opening reception
Sunday, November 1, 4-7pm
Great Shows coming up oh so soon in the merry month of November! Paintings dominate at AS220 Empire St. Complex. Emily Lisker's strange, visceral theaterscapes paintings explode in size and color in the new series "Three's a Crowd." Michelle L'Heurex new series "Gender Redux "explores the ambiguity of our identity as well as the ambiguity that exists within the multiple layers of the painted surface. John Bhogal rocks the Youth Gallery on the 2nd floor with "Handle It!" mixed media paintings spanning styles that hit just right. But let us not forget the photographic medium, Russ Pedro presents a series of photographic still lives in the Open Window gallery. The AS220 Project Space presents "Screening My Thoughts" videos and book works by Julia Gandrund. Delicate line & Primordial images twist & dance & open up to the magical beauty of the world, sometimes softly like a whisper.
& like a whisper that turns into monsoon we have a special autumn surprise: we have transformed our little side room exhibition space into a bookshop/reading room/printed ephemera exhibition space. we are looking to feature works by book artists & and makers of printed ephemera of all stripes! November brings us an exquisite project form Chicago, Illinois. The Green Lantern & Caroline Picard present Isolated Fictions: A Group Show featuring the work of Jason Dunda, Deb Sokolow, Nick Butcher & Rebecca Grady
AS220 Main Gallery New Paintings by Emily Lisker and Gender Redux Paintings by Michele L'Heureux
Open Window
Photography by Russ Pedro
Youth Gallery
Handle It ! : new paintings by John Bhogal
AS220 Project Space
Screening My Thoughts: new work by Julia Gandrud
Artist Holly Ewald, Folklorist Michael Bell, and photographer and book artist Erik Gould will talk about their current work and the role of *the book *in their practice. Thursday October 15, 6-8pm at the AS220 Project Space, 93 Mathewson St.
Ewald & Bell created the installation Languages of the Land, A Dialogue with The Downs. Stepping into the installation is like stepping into the pages of a book. The suspended pages surround the visitor in layered images of land, water, woods, sky and built environments haunted by silhouettes of past inhabitants and objects. With a loose sense of sequential order the viewer wanders through the images and creates his/her own story based on past experiences in similar places. Washed up treasures line the exterior walls of the installation and rest on pebbles, soils and grasses from the site. As one walks through the suspended pages of this book one hears voices of both long-time residents and newcomers share their experiences of Salter Grove. A handheld book of this installation is found in an adjacent room with other artists books sharing journeys to other places.
October 4-24, 2009
opening reception (free admission) Sunday, October 4, 4-7pm
AS220 Main Gallery
Do it! Show it! Sing it! Work it!
AS220 Group Exhibition
Youth Gallery
New Photography by Miguel Rosario and Ray Min
AS220 Project Space
Languages of the Land
New Installation by Holly Ewald
In Place, Everywhere Artist Book exhibit
Welcome to autumn! October is here & we can hardly contain our excitement for the hauntingly enchanting shows this month....
At the Main Gallery we have: Do It! Show It! Sing It! Work It! An AS220 Group Exhibit with work by, staff, residents, volunteers, and other luminaries that shine upon the little valley of AS220!
Head on over to the Project Space where artist Holly Ewald, working with Folklorist Michael Bell created a life sized book installation Languages of the Land, A Dialogue with The Downs.
As part of the the installation In Place, Elsewhere: Artists' Book exhibition will be exhibited in the side room of the AS220 Project Space. Artist Holly Ewald and AS220 Gallery Director Neal Walsh invited artists to contribute artists' books on the theme of Place, and the various ways we experience being in place. An artists talk with Holly Ewald and contributing artists is scheduled for Thursday October 15th from 6pm-8pm,
at the As220 Project Space.
And last but not least, we have new photography by Ray Min & Miguel Rosario in the Youth Gallery. Ray Min's work documents the world of local boxing clubs, while Miguel Rosario explores the life and culture of the Dominican Republic.
So while you're sippin' some cider and rotting your teeth with candy corn, don't forget to check out the AS220 galleries this month!
AS220 Main Gallery
Double Vision:
Nathan Fitch & the Artists of Top Drawer Art Center
Youth Gallery
BSS VISUALS:
New Works by Uriah, Eduardo, John Bhogal, NJ, Solomon Bass, Rev
AS220 Project Space
Love Songs New Work by Lydia Stein
& Live Music at the Project Space! starting at 7pm with:
The Underscore Orkestra (Portland, OR)
The Salt Wives (Providence-Boston)
The Extraordinary Rendition Band (Providence)
marching bands, gypsy tunes & balkan breadowns! wear your dancing shoes! $5 suggested donation!
*Elation #1 * by Christina Olszewski
*Elation #2 * by Christina Olszewski
*Elation #3 * by Christina Olszewski
Elation #1-3 collaged mixed media pieces by RI artist Christina Olszewski were hanging in the AS220 Window Gallery in the Bar/Taqueria space. They are no longer there & went missing at Foo Fest. If you have seen them or know of their whereabouts please call Neal at (401)490.6164 or e-mail at neal@as220.org. No questions asked, just please return them to AS220.
Thank You.
Sharon Cutts "Providence"
At the AS220 Project Space at 93 Mathewson St. from 6-8pm. Free!
Sharon's process begins by painting loose canvas with oil paints, blending and shaping color swaths that will become a six-yard long palette.This palette is then subjected to a series of destructive processes, such as shooting it with a 12 gauge shotgun (at a gun club) and sanding, ripping or tearing it. After that, the canvas is cut and stapled and glued in pieces onto a second painted stretched or otherwise stiffened canvas. The whole process is very time-consuming but satisfying, a slow march uphill with the aim of creating a painting that will draw the viewer with unusual textures, bright colors and arresting images.
to learn more & meet the artist in person, come on down Thursday night!
Sarah Samways, "Flock of Seagulls, #5" silver gelatin print
Sunday, August 2, 4-7pm
Featuring new work by 19 on Paper in the Main Gallery and New Collages by Christina Olszewski in the Open Window. In the Youth Gallery is Quiet Riot: New Work by Sarah Samways. Sarah is the fab Youth Gallery Coordinator & this her last hurrah at AS220 before heading off to college in September! Come on down & celebrate Sarah's fine art work & hard work organizing the Youth Gallery! & last but by no means least, at the AS220 Project Space we have paintings by Sharon N. Kahn Cutts and Wendyll Brown.
Sarah Samways, "Malakai's Grand Adventure" mixed media on canvas
AUGUST 2-29, 2009
opening reception
Sunday, August 2, 4-7pm
AS220 Main Gallery
On-The-Line: 19 on Paper group exhibition
Open Window
New Collages by Christina Olszewski
Youth Gallery
Quiet Riot: New Work by Sarah Samways
AS220 Project Space
Pieces: New Work by Sharon N. Kahn Cutts and Wendyll Brown
l to r: Samways/Olszewski/Brown/Kahn-Cutts/19 on Paper: Bentley-Scheck
Hello, Please join us, this Thursday, July 16th from 6-8pm, at the AS220 Project Space at 93 Mathewson St. for a lively conversation with exhibiting artist C.W. Roelle. Learn the wonders of wire, cheese, metal detectors & how to read the newspaper! All for Free!
Ben Watkins, "Division Series #2"
Artists' Talk with Nick Hollighbaugh & Ben Watkins Thursday June 18th from 6pm-8pm at the AS220 Project Space
The AS220 Project Space presents the fine art and craftmanship of Nick Holligbaugh & Ben Watkins. Nick and Ben, in their distinct ways, make meticulously crafted sculptures and paintings that blur boundaries and style. Ben and Nick will talk in-depth about their techniques and creative processes this Thursday, June 18th from 6pm-8pm at the AS220 Project Space. The talk is free and open to the public.
The AS220 Project Space is located at 93 Mathewson Street, in Providence, RI. For more information please contact Gallery Director Neal T. Walsh at 401.490.6164 or neal@as220.org
read the review of their exhibit here.
Nick Holligbaugh, "Lineage"
Leslie Friedman, "Fossil Fools Project: ANWR Walk"
We have eye poppin' , collage serigraphs by Leslie Friedman from her new series, The Fossil Fools Projects, social commentary in the vein of Corita Kent. Equally concerned with social commentary , but a bit more towards the Lenny Bruce end of the spectrum, comes the mixed media collages & paintings by Nathan Ventura. Nathan uses found materials, and innovative mediums like bleach, to create sweet, wry, scatological, twisted little works. Christine Manory 's exhibit in the Open Window, Dolls Freak Me Out, provides a baker's dozen of photographs on the reason why. In the Youth Gallery , Alex Bomberg is rockin' with work that spans the range of materials and style: paintings, chalk drawing to the awesome "wallface". The AS220 Project Space features the fine art and craftmanship of Nick Holligbaugh & Ben Watkins. Nick and Ben, in their own distinct ways, make meticulously crafted sculptures and paintings that blur boundaries and style. They will be talking about the magic they make Thursday June 18th from 6pm-8pm at the AS220 Project Space.
& there is more!
Visiting Artist-in-Residence William Buzzel will be exhibiting Liberal Arts new paintings about the Providence Library system, in AS220's Street Exhibition Space, at 115 Empire St. Will has be working away over the last month creating a new body of work the delves into the Providence Public Library's long history & evolution. Read more here & meet Will at Sunday's Gallery Reception from 4pm-7pm.
This Saturday Rhode Island artist Ambuja Magaji presents the Exquisite Corpse Video Project from 5:30-8:30pm in the AS220 Performance Space (free!)
The Exquisite Corpse Video Project (ECVP) is a unique video collaboration of 36 artists from 16 countries, inspired by the Surrealist invention, the "Exquisite Corpse". ECVP participants create video art in response to the final ten seconds of the previous member's work. The videos from the ECVP were created by artists who met online, at artreview.com, a networking site for artists, galleries, and collectors. The project was coordinated by Brazilian video‐artist, Kika Nicolela. Local ECVP participant Ambuja Magaji, will present volume one & discuss the project.
More information here.
Vein Dress by Liz Collins/ photo by Greg Cook
This Thursday, May 21, at 7pm artist & designer Liz Collins will talk about her current exhibition and past projects at the AS220 Project Space, 93 Mathewson St. The event is free and open to the public
Liz Collins is recognized internationally for her use of machine knitting to create ground breaking clothing, textiles, and installations. After five years as an independent designer of ready-to-wear collections in New York, in the fall of 2003 Collins returned to her alma mater, Rhode Island School of Design (BFA'91/ MFA'99), as an Assistant Professor in the Textile Department. In addition to teaching,Collins currently designs knitwear and collaborates with other designers, producing signature knit pieces and collections for them. In the spring of 2005, a new facet of Collins' work emerged: a series of performance-based installations called "KNITTING NATION", that employ uniformed machine knitters to create a multi-sensory experience that examines the relationship of humans to manufacturing and the process of machine knitting. Collins is a 2006 United States Artists Target Fellow in Crafts and Traditional Arts and a member of the Council of Fashion Designers of America. Her work was included in the celebrated exhibition "Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting" at the Museum of Arts and Design in 2007, "Evolution/Revolution" at the RISD Museum of Art in 2008, and can be seen the books Fashioning Fabrics, by Sandy Black and Elyssa da Cruz, Knitknit: Presenting 27 Innovative Knitters and Their Projects, by Sabrina Gschwandtner, and Designing a Knitwear Collection:From Inspiration to Finished Garment, by Lisa Donofrio and Marylin Heffernen.
APPLICATIONS FOR FULL FELLOWSHIP AWARDS DUE BY JUNE 15, 2009
The Vermont Studio Center is an international residency program open to all artists and writers. Year-round, VSC hosts 50 artists and writers per month, each of whom receives an individual studio, private room, and all meals. Residencies last from 2-12 weeks and provide uninterrupted time to work, a community of creative peers, and a beautiful village setting in northern Vermont. In addition, VSC's program includes a roster of Visiting Artists and Writers (2 painters, 2 sculptors and 2 writers per month) who offer slide talks/readings and individual studio visits/conferences. Applications and information available at www.vermontstudiocenter.org.
The following Full Fellowships and a variety of special fellowships will be awarded at the June 15th, 2009 deadline: Vermont Studio Center Fellowships (up to 16 awards) Open to all artists and writers, based on merit.
Awards open to artists and writers (4) fellowships based on merit and financial need supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. Includes stipend.
Dedalus Foundation Fellowships (2) For painters working in the modernist tradition.
Frankel Anderson Chicago Artist Awards (1) For Chicago area visual artists.
Civil Society Institute Awards (3) For East Coast urban minority artists, based on merit and financial need. Includes travel stipend.
New England Artist Award (1 or 2) For visual artists living in New England.
Vermont Studio Center / Cave Canem Foundation Fellowship (1) For poets who are Cave Canem fellows. Click here for guidelines on specific fellowships and recently added awards.
OPEN SOURCE: A Scheme for art production and curating?
Friday May 8, 2009
10am-Noon
AS220 Performance Space/115 Empire St.
FREE.
LIVE STREAM from Positions in Flux Symposium ,at The Netherlands Media Art Institute in Amsterdam, on the changing role of the artist and art institutes in the networked society.
Open Source - A scheme for art production and curating?
This session deals with the concept of open source for art production and its presentation. The open source movement is driven by the idea of collective, process-based, sustainable production and improvement. In software development this strategy has already proven to be valid; however can this model be applied to other products such as artworks or even exhibitions? In how far does the open source model differ from other forms of artistic collaboration? Is there a new role model for both the artist and the curator in the future? Which (economic) value and impact has expertise in open source production? How could institutions and organisations respond to this trend? How could institutions and organisations respond to this trend and create public domains?
(K. Lenore Siner, acrylic on panel)
Featuring in the AS220 Main Gallery: Jessica New works by Jim Shelton & Joanna Roux and New Paintings by K. Lenore Siner. The Open Window features New Psychedelic PrismaColors by Aaron Marks. Upstairs in the Youth Gallery is the Senior Show: Nine For '09 with Bethany Araujo,Daniel Boccato, Jonilka Calcano, Eliezer DeFaria, Ben Kicic, Mariah LaMontagne, Philip Marchese, Chris Masse and Rose Percy.
At the AS220 Project Space @ 93 Mathewson St. a new installation of work by Liz Collins; Veins/ New Life and Emily Quillen presents The Peaks and Valleys Series.
FREE!
Submission Deadline Extended to April 30, 2009
*Call for Entries:Looking for Site-specific Installation Artists *
Hera Gallery in Wakefield in collaboration with Independent Curator, Viera Levitt, is preparing the 'Mobile Art Project' as a pilot project for this June and is currently fundraising for its continuation.
The Mobile Art Project will bring contemporary art to communities in Southern Rhode Island where few or no formal art institutions currently exist. The art will be contained in a mobile home, panel truck or another vehicle. We are looking for artists to propose group or solo shows in various media, including video art. We would prefer site-specific installations created directly for the vehicle. We are considering organizing our first show around the topic of 'Goddess' but we welcome other suggestions. Preference will be given to local artists, however proposals from all of New England are also welcome. A small honorarium and budget will be provided.
complete details here.
IMAGE + TEXT
WORK BY WOMEN
Innovative image + text works by women artists and writers sought for new SIGLIO PRESS anthology.
The anthology asks: WHY AND HOW...
does hybridity play an extraordinary role in women's creative work? [i.e. Claude Cahun's textual subversions, Charlotte Salomon's autobiographical paintings, Nancy Spero's mytho-historical collages, Yoko Ono's instructions, Allison Knowles' notebook distillations, Eleanor Antin's psychological notations, Jenny Holzer's truisms, Ann Hamilton's burned book pages, Louise Bourgeois' embroidered psuedo-aphorisms, etc., etc. etc.]. We are looking for a wide range of image+text work: including--but definitely not limited to--comics and graphic narratives, collage, photo+text works, drawings, text driven by typographical play, altered bookpages/environments, etc. We are most interested in work that plays with new taxonomies, reinvents narrative forms, investigates language, disrupts paradigms, creates unsettling, illuminating juxtapositions, spills over in excess, creates multiples strands of conversation and meaning, and/or is uncontainable in any single medium.
GUIDELINES:
Submit 1 - 12 pages for consideration. It may be one complete work, a small, coherent collection of single works, or an excerpt from a longer work so long as it needs no introduction or explanation. The work must reproduce well as line art or b/w half-tones. Preference is given to works originally intended for print, created as 2-D works, or works whose end-product are photographic documents.
Works may have been previously published so long as the author/artist retains the copyright.
SiglioPressCall.pdf DEADLINE: MAY 12 Submit PDF to publisher@sigliopress.com
Rhode Island stone carver Laura Travis will host an artist talk amidst the carvings and assemblage pieces that comprise her current exhibition, "Bridges and Doors", at the AS220 Project Space, 93 Matthewson St, Providence. The informal conversation will begin around 6 pm and the gallery will be open 5:30 until 8, the event is free and open to the public. The show will run until April 25.
A special highlight of this exhibition and the discussion is a selection of work from the artist group she helped found, An Droichead/The Bridge. The alliance was formed twelve years ago to set new standards in contemporary visual art and design which is based in artifact. The group has sponsored numerous exhibitions and forms the core of the art faculty at the heralded summer classes hosted annually in Goderich, Ontario.
Laura has exhibited in Baltimore, Toronto, New Bedford and Providence and teaches stone carving workshops internationally during the summers, including at the Young Artist program at RISD and at her own studio near the ocean. Her work is informed by stonework from Ireland and other Celtic historical and traditional material, including the music, with which she has been involved for over twenty five years as a radio show host, writer and dancer.
In 2007, Laura spearheaded an effort to salvage the limestone facing left when the Providence Police and Fire Headquarters was demolished. With much assistance from area artists, The Steelyard and AS220, the effort succeeded. Laura's students at Hope Arts High School have recently completed some work in this limestone, currently on display at AS220's Youth Gallery. Laura has taught Visual Art in the Providence Schools since 1989, holds an MFA in Sculpture from Maryland Institute, and was 2007's RI Art Educator of the Year (Secondary Level). She recently completed her National Board Certification.
For more information, please call 401-490-6164 or see the artist's web site at campus.digication.org/lauratravis
McKenzie Burrua-Granger, "untitled" from the series New Beginings/affection & intention
Paintings & collages by Kim Yigit, Claudia Crevier, and Holly Gaboriault adorn the walls at Empire st. the work ranges from fanciful surreal works inspired by folk tales of Holly Gaboriault to the layered abstractions of text & figuration by Kim Yigit that explores movements & migration. Claudia Crevier's new work concentrate on an environmentalist theme, depicting natural scenes that sometimes contain darker, more sinister elements. The Youth Gallery has work by Laura Travis's students from Hope Arts High School, featuring limestone carvings made as part of Yo Yo Ma's Silk Road Project in partnership with RISD and First Works Providence At the AS220 Project Space, Laura Travis presents an installation of new work entitled Bridges & Doors, and the role of stone as markers at the thresholds of transitions & McKenzie Burrus-Granger, in the series New Beginnings/affection & intention, uses color film and medium format cameras, to explore questions of belonging and how we define comfort and safety within the spaces that define us.
April 5-25, 2009
opening reception Sunday, April 5, 4-7pm
AS220 Main Gallery
New Paintings by Kim Yigit & Claudia Crevier
Open Window
New Work by Holly Gaboriault
Youth Gallery
Artwork from Hope High School
AS220 Project Space
Bridges and Doors
New Work by Laura Travis
New Beginings/affection & intention
New Photographs by McKenzie Burrus-Granger
This Saturday ,March 28th from 7-10pm, Francesca Lohmann, will open up her studio to share the work of her month long residency at AS220. All are welcome.
Site-specific installations related to themes of architecture curated by Allison Paschke, featuring:
Christopher Abrams, Lasse Antonsen, Natasha Maria Brooks-Sperduti, Alyn Carlson, Paul Clancy, Phoebe Danskin, Dan Denton, Shawn Gilheeney, Lynne Harlow Graham Heffernan, Jon Laustsen, Peter J Lutz, Agata Michalowska, JameyMorrill, Alison Owen, Peter Owen, Allison Paschke, Lisa Perez, Will Reeves & Andrew Sloan
opening Friday April 3 from 5-9pm at 150 Chestnut St. Floor 7.
more at http://www.deconstruct2.blogspot.com/
Looking for Site-specific Installation Artists
Submission deadline April 15, 2009
Hera Gallery in Wakefield in collaboration with Independent Curator, Viera Levitt, is preparing the 'Mobile Art Project' as a pilot project for this June and is currently fundraising for its continuation.
The Mobile Art Project will bring contemporary art to communities in Southern Rhode Island where few or no formal art institutions currently exist. The art will be contained in a mobile home, panel truck or another vehicle. We are looking for artists to propose group or solo shows in various media, including video art. We would prefer site-specific installations created directly for the vehicle. We are considering organizing our first show around the topic of 'Goddess' but we welcome other suggestions. Preference will be given to local artists, however proposals from all of New England are also welcome. A small honorarium and budget will be provided.
The shows will include a leaflet and website with photographs from the exhibition, curatorial texts and comments from the public including excerpts from a questionnaire. At each stop on the truck/mobile home's tour, Mobile Art Project staff will be present to speak with visitors.
Please send your proposals by April 15, 2009 and be sure to include: some visuals of the proposal (drawings or collage), a complete image list, a brief artist's statement, resume, an estimated budget as well as a short description of the proposed show and why you think it will fit the 'Mobile Art Project'. Digital entries should be standard JPEG (.jpg) format. The label for each image should include your name. Please also include links to your online portfolio or other supporting materials. For the return of any supplemental materials please include a SASE. We don't accept slides.
Send applications by April 15, 2009 to: Hera Gallery Attn: Mobile Art Project PO Box 336 Wakefield, RI 02880
more info here.
For People Not On Phones: an art installation by Purest Spiritual Pigs Wednesday, February 18, 2009 - February 25, 2009 At six undisclosed public locations
This project was fabricated as part of an artist residency at: AS220 115 Empire Street Providence, 02903
For People Not On Phones is the newest conceptual creation by Purest Spiritual Pigs, a solo and collaborative project lead by Helena Thompson. For this project the artists have created sound installations and placed them discreetly in public spaces, both inside and outdoors. The volume of these auditory compositions is extremely low, discernable only to passers-by who are fully present in their environment. Sounds created in and from the future locations of the six installations were used in creating the finished works that are heard in those very same places.
Thompson was a resident artist at AS220 from a few months after its inception in 1985, until 1990, when she relocated to San Francisco. For the month of February, Thompson returns again as an Artist in Residence by way of AS220's collective invitation. This Purest Spiritual Pigs project brings AS220 Labs in as one of Thompson's collaborator. AS220 Labs contributed the planning and fabrication of the sound devices used in the install, utilizing open-source Arduino chips and small laser cut handcrafted Plexi boxes. Susan Clausen, Bert Crenca, and Blue Wade also joined Purest Spiritual Pigs for this exciting collaboration, helping create the final recordings.
The artists hope that a number of people will happen upon the installations in the normal course of their week and have the opportunity to interact with the pieces, but is not formally releasing the whereabouts of the six soundscapes.
This is the first of a series Thompson plans to bring to public locations in multiple cities. AS220 is pleased to have been the springboard for this ambitious series.
For more information about the exhibit or AS220 please contact:
AS220 Communications Director 401.831.9327 x116 Cheryl Kaminsky cheryl@as220.org
or
Helena Thompson purestspiritualpigs@gmail.com www.purestspiritualpigs.com
calling all artists: painters, photographers, printers, sculptors, poets, playwrights, calligraphers, metalsmiths, ceramasists, who work in materials and mediums such as paper, metal, stiffened fabric, plastic, clay, glass, balsa wood, leather, embroidery canvas, acetate, heavy watercolor paper, textile arts, charcoal, photo gravure, acrylic, oil, collage, scratch board, mixed media, assemblage, digital art, letter forms, bead work, rubber stamps, carved soft block stamps, pen and ink, colored pencil, airbrush, pastels, sustainables, fuzzy yarn and many other materials to join together for an artist trading card night. Bring twenty pieces of original or limited edition work measuring 2.5" x 3.5" with your signature to Design Within Reach, 210 Westminster Street, Providence RI on February 18th from 6-8pm. No applications, slides, registration forms, fees, blood work, evaluations, statements, bios, fingerprints, censorship, or prostitution necessary. Just come and look and trade.
Roger Williams School of Law is looking for artists to donate artwork for a benefit auction to support it's free legal services program. Artists set the minimum bid price & all proceeds gained from the auctioning of an artwork is split evenly between the School & artist. Art work donations are fully tax deductible and all the necessary paperwork to document your donation will be provided. Work maybe dropped off at AS220 on Saturday February 21, between 1-4 pm. The Auction will take place on February 27 at the Federal Reserve in Providence, and will include live music, food, raffles, a silent auction and a live auction. All artists are invited to attend.
Auction proceeds support law students engaging in important, but unpaid, summer legal internships serving the disenfranchised and less fortunate populations across Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts. With the 27 Summer Public Interest Stipends funded by the Auction last year, law students were able to:
represent people facing discrimination through the Rhode Island Commission on Human Rights.
advocate for environmental legislation in Rhode Island.
represent low-income Rhode Islanders losing homes through predatory lending and the foreclosure crisis
avocate for victims of domestic violence, and many other worthy endeavors.
If you have questions or need more information please contact Seth Aitken at ph: 508.989.8865, email: seththomasaitken@gmail.com or Marci Pereira at ph: 203.521.1529, email: marci.pereira@gmail.com.
Global Influences by Andrew Sloan & Body Painting by Paul Roustan & The Sleep Series by Adrienne Adeyemi @ AS220 Main Gallery are having a Closing Reception/ Happy Hour - 5-7pm -Friday 23, 2009. Featuring Andrew Sloan's new work inspired by time spent in Miami, NYC, London, France, Jamaica, and Providence & Paul Roustan's awesome body painting photos.
(Show closes Sat Jan 24) Chips, salsa & beer. AS220 - 115 Empire Street (Downtown) - Providence
Cruz Bermudez is a Garifuna artist from Tela, Honduras. The Garifuan are an Afro-Caribbean people with communities along the north coast of Honduras, as well as Guatemela and Nicaragua. Cruz's paintings, currently on display at the AS220 Project Space with John Kotula's work, depict life in the traditional fishing village of Miami.
Cruz paints "recuerdos", mementos: paintings for tourists to remember their vacation by. But Cruz's paintings go beyond the typical tourist art. Cruz captures the lush Caribbean light and colors in his scenes of thatched huts, men fishing in dugout canoes, and brilliant sunsets. But he also captures the grittier day to day existence of fisherman laboring with thier nets, lighting up at day's end, and the tense moments before the start of a cock fight, where a the day's hard earn cash may be at stake.
The work exhibited at the AS220 Project Space is not for sale. John Kotula borrowed the work from friends that purchased them from Cruz while visiting John in Honduras. John met Cruz while serving in the Peace Corps and the two bonded over their shared love of art making. John relates a story of visiting Cruz in his home that is filled with paintings not for sale. Theses paintings are not "recuerdos", at least not the sort tourists would want to take home. These are paintings Cruz paints for himself, and his family, and friends. Take for instance the painting depicting a teachers' strike. The National Army is out in force. Streets are closed down and barricades are up but the teachers still hold classes in the park across from the school. The teachers quarrel is with the government that has slashed their wages not with children. So they continue to teach, to strike, and work towards a better future.
Since returning from the Peace Corps in 2007, John began teaching art at the East Bay Met School and in the fall of 2008 spent two weeks in Honduras with students in a "Learn and Serve" program. Called Project Sonaguera, students met and worked with Hondurans on civic projects to improve the local community. Planning is underway for future learn/serve trips to Honduras and as part of the fundraising, Cruz has agreed to have giclee prints sold in an edition of 100 of several paintings. Profits from the sales will be shared between the artist and the East Bay Met School.
The Vermont Studio Center is an international residency program open to all artists and writers. Year-round, VSC hosts 50 artists and writers per month, each of whom receives an individual studio, private room, and all meals. Residencies last from 2-12 weeks and provide uninterrupted time to work, a community of creative peers, and a beautiful village setting in northern Vermont. In addition, VSC's program includes a roster of Visiting Artists and Writers (2 painters, 2 sculptors and 2 writers per month) who offer slide talks/readings and individual studio visits/conferences. Applications and information available at www.vermontstudiocenter.org.
VSC Full Fellowships and a variety of special fellowships will be awarded at the February 17th, 2009 deadline, including:
General VSC Fellowships All artists and writers
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Awards
In 2009, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation/VSC Fellowship Program for visual artists of outstanding talent will support (3) 4-week residencies for domestic artists and (1) 8-week residency for an international artist.
Golden Award
(1) Open to all painters, merit-based
Zoland Poetry Fellowships
(2) Open to writers of original English-language poetry and poetry translators.
Wheels for Wheels Award
(1) Open to an artist or writer who uses a wheelchair and/or has a spinal cord injury. Kay Evans Award (1) open to all poets, merit-based; award created in honor of Maine poet Kay Evans by her friends and family.
For Application and Guidelines:
Vermont Studio Center | PO Box 613 Johnson, VT 05656 | 802-635-2727
Roger Williams University School of Law is hosting art auction on Feb. 27th to support summer internships that provide free legal services for those in need. The Auction will take place on February 27 at Conley's Wharf in Providence, and will include live music, food, raffles, a silent auction and a live auction.
The auction purchase price of all artworks will be split 50/50 between the artist and the Law school, and every piece sold is accompanied by the artists' contact & upcoming exhibition information. Additionally that information will be available during the auction to all attendees who may want to contact artists later and find out about their work. Art work donations are fully tax deductible and all the necessary paperwork to document your donation will be provided.
Auction proceeds support law students engaging in important, but unpaid, summer legal internships serving the disenfranchised and less fortunate populations across Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts. With the 27 Summer Public Interest Stipends funded by the Auction last year, law students were able to:
represent people facing discrimination through the Rhode Island Commission on Human Rights.
advocate for environmental legislation in Rhode Island.
represent low-income Rhode Islanders losing homes through predatory lending and the foreclosure crisis
avocate for victims of domestic violence, and many other worthy endeavors.
If you have questions or need more information please contact Seth Aitken at ph: 508.989.8865, email: seththomasaitken@gmail.com or Marci Pereira at ph: 203.521.1529, email: marci.pereira@gmail.com.
Interview with Benito Rios conducted via e-mail by AS220 Youth Gallery Coordinator Sarah Samways
1.) How did you get involved with AS220?
In order for my clinician to feel 100 percent about discharging me from the ITU (Devereux), I had to put together a plan. Not knowing exactly what to do, I made up shit in Providence and they were happy with it. Being discharged into the custody of Communities for People I had to make yet another plan to prove that I was ready to be released into society, that's when AS220 came into play.
2.) What types of things inspire your art? Why do you think that is?
Sex. It's a good thing.
3.) If you have one, what is your preferred medium?
Photography
4.) Do you plan to pursue art as a career?
Hopefully
5.) How would you describe your artwork? Why would you describe it in this way?
I try not to. For whoever the audience may be, it's their job to describe my artwork.
6.) Do you have a favorite artist (renowned or up the street)?
Alberto Giacometti
7.) How do you feel about the whole teenage angst stereotype? Does it apply to you? Did it ever?
I don't pay attention to that shit. Not enough time to spend worrying about it.
8.) If you weren't involved with art, what else do you think you'd do?
Drugs and a lot of 'em
9.) People often say, "Art is life", do you agree with this statement or do you believe art is a vehicle to get away from life, or a combination of the two?
This question has been asked numerous time by myself and I still haven't figured out my own solid answer. I guess Art is life no matter if you use it to "get away" or to send a message.
10.) Budgets in school districts across the state are being cut all the time and often the arts programs are the first to go. If you were ruler of the world (or at least Rhode Island) what would you do to remedy the situation?
If I was the ruler of Rhode Island I would make sure it wouldn't affect me by somehow stealing money or investing it somewhere. I would leave the rest to the RISD and factory living "poor" artists to protest it. Ha ha. Like they try to do everything else now-a-days.
Interview with Koutnie Aileru conducted via e-mail by AS220 Youth Gallery Coordinator Sarah Samways
1.)How did you get involved with AS220?
I actually found about about AS220 through a google search. I was researching after-school programs at the time because I tired of being a hermit and Broad Street Studios sort of just popped-up. When I initially signed up for BSS, Merari was the coordinator at the time and when I told her how I found out about the program she was like "Wow. Really? That's a first."
2.) When did you first encounter photography?
I went to the South Side Boys and Girls Club when I was a kid. Well, my mother basically put me and and my brothers in daycare there (don't be mistaken, it was and after-school supervision program!), but anyway, they had an art class that I attended faithfully. It was more about sketching and painting but I remember this one particular assignment where I had to draw from a photograph. It was of a woman's eyes that had gems as tears. I absolutely swear to you, I was mesmerized by this photograph. I was more interested in learning how the photograph was created rather than the actual assignment at hand. I mean I drilled Ms. Sharon, my teacher, with photography questions. I think she was overwhelmed, but what can I say? I was an abrasive child.
My family is also big on photos. At family functions flashes are constantly going off and I am surprised that I am not completely blind by now (knock on wood!). I mean my relatives actually have arguments over who is entitled to which photo or who it belongs to. They even swipe them from each other.
3.) What types of things do you like to photograph? Why?
When I first started out, portraiture was my thing, especially when it conscerned my culture. Now, and it seems like it came out of nowhere, landscapes and nature shots are my new craze. The photographs still have relevence to my culture. I go to various reservations and photograph their lands.
4.) Do you plan to pursue photography as a career?
Um..... well I really want to pursue print journalism within the music industry. If I can fit photography into that mix, great! But if I can't, then I'll just do it for me.
5.) How would you describe your artwork? Why would you describe it in this way?
I believe my work has a tendency of being very critical. When I photograph people, it is on a conscious level. For example, I did a series entitled "We Are Still Standing." My intentions of those particular photographs were to change perconceived notions about what the modern indian should look like and break through stereotypes. Now on the other hand, when I photograph landscapes I tend to concentrate on the "small things" in nature that people have forgotten about or take for granted. My landscape photography still has relevence to my culture also. I like to compare and contrast my images of reservations and of the city.
6.) Do you have a favorite artist (renowned or up the street)?
My favorite photographer is Dorothy Houng. Although, she often does work for magazines and campaigns, her work still has that sort of rawness to it. Locally, I would have to say my favorite artists are my friends, Benito and Jonilka. Their portraits are fly. Sometimes I get jealous and wish some of their stuff was my own, but don't tell them that, their heads will blow up.
7.) How do you feel about the whole teenage angst stereotype? Does it apply to you? Did it ever?
Personally, I think it's a bunch of bull. I mean, yeah, yeah, teens do go through some emotional phases but that is just a side affect of puberty. I believe it all depends on the individual and their particular personality. You see, some teens handle the trials of life triumphantly, while others..... well they just sit around feeling sorry for themselves and won't get off their behinds and suck it up. Don't get me wrong, I'm not Iron Woman and I do have a heart but I've learned "life isn't fair, get over it and move on!" and "Who cares what people think anyway!?! They aren't living your life, the only person you have to please is you!" Honestly, yeah, I did go through the whole teenage angst bit when I was like 13 for like two seconds, but in my opinion, I was just vulnerable because my body and mind was out of wack while going through hormonal changes. I have been picked on all my life for my height and size and that was when it just finally got to me.
8.) If you weren't involved with art, what else do you think you'd do?
Quite frankly, I have no clue. I have always been involved with art whether it was through music or writing. My mother always encouraged it and never let me quit.
9.) People often say, "Art is life," do you agree with this statement or do you believe art is a vehicle to get away from life, or a combination of the two?
I believe that statement holds truth. No matter how much of a square someone is, through birth, love, lust, work, dreams, goals, achievement, etc., people have made choices that have formed their lives and lifestyles; even if it wasn't on purpose. Art equals creativity and people have created their own lives. If that makes any sense to you.
10.) Budgets in school districts across the state are being cut all the time and often the arts programs are the first to go. If you were ruler of the world (or at least Rhode Island) what would you do to remedy the situation?
I would create more safe spaces that are easily accessible where the materials and resources are available to all students to be creative and uncensored. That's how I was able to get into what I'm doing today and I love it. I never had the money to pursue art on my own and I am grateful for the people and organizations I was able to go to.
The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research seeks nominations for the best art of the last year in the New England region.
"The aim of the awards, which are organized by The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research, is to promote a more exciting local art scene by honoring the best art made here and exhibits organized here in 2008. And anyone can make nominations, which The Journal will compile into a ballot. Then winners will be chosen by votes of (1) local active art journalists and (2) anyone else who wants to vote - and will be announced in terms of these two categories of voters."
Some broad categories to consider: favorite local artist, local curator, local show, new media, photography, conceptually-driven installation/performance (including video thereof), favorite gallery show, favorite school show, favorite museum show, favorite historical show, favorite contemporary show, best survey/retrospective, favorite solo show, favorite group show, favorite public art (or best non-exhibition space project), favorite on-line project, favorite outdoors project, favorite art book/publication.
All the details can be found here.
You can send nominations here.
THE SIGHT OF SOUND
GROUP SHOW 2009 March 6 - March 27, 2009
CURATED BY ALLISON COLE + LAUREN HOLT
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
-Open genre: illustration, painting, drawing, screenprints, photography, digital prints, sound, video, sculpture
-Subject of artwork must be related to sound in someway
-All work must be for sale and priced under $700
-Submit up to 3 images of completed work for consideration to gallery@machineswithmagnets.com or via snail mail
-Include name, contact info, artist bio / statement, CV, URL/website, examples of work, medium and dimensions of work
Submissions must be received by Feb 15, 2009.
All accepted work must be shipped to MWM by March 1, 2009.
Opening Reception: March 6 Closing Reception: March 27
AT
400 Main Street Pawtucket, RI 02860
gallery@machineswithmagnets.com
http://www.machineswithmagnets.com
401.475.2655
"Diego's Rooster II" by John Kotula
Songaguera is the title of South County artist John Kotula's upcoming exhibition at the AS220 Project. The exhibit open Sunday January 4 from 4pm-7pm. At 5pm John will give a talk entitled,"Art and AIDS in Honduras" and at 6pm local rockers Los Monos Locos will perform!
Sonaguera is the name of the town in Honduras where John and his wife, Deborah Drew, lived from 2005 - 2007, as Peace Corps volunteers working on health projects. John's exhibit grew out of his experience working on HIV/AIDS prevention. The work consists of direct documentation such as journal entries and photographs, but most of the exhibition is a painted visual record of living in Sonaguera that is personal to John.
John recently returned to Sonaguera accompanied by a group of students from the Eastbay Met School. The school is in the process of developing a program that students will visit Honduras and Sonaguera on future trips to learn and serve in this community. Plans are underway for a small group of students to spend a month in Sonaguera teaching English. As part of fund raising activities to make this possible, Honduran artist Cruz Bermudez has given the school permission to sell prints of his paintings. Seven of Cruz' paintings from private collections will be exhibited. Profits from sale of the prints will help support Project Sonaguera, educational travel by students from the East Bay Met School.
Cruz Bermudez is a Garifuna artist who lives and works in the city of Tela. The Garifuna are an Afro-Caribbean people with communities along the north coast of Honduras, as well as in Guatemala and Nicaragua. Cruz' paintings depict scenes from his culture including fishing, dancing, and cock fighting.
"Sonaguera" opens January 4 and is on view through Jan. 24th. Also on view in the AS220 Main Gallery* "Body Painting" by Paul Roustan and "Global Influences"* by Andrew Sloan. In the Open Window, "The Sleep Series" by Adrienne Adeyemi. The Youth Gallery features the work of Kourtnie Aileru, Benito Rios, and Joe Davis.
Gallery Hours are W-F 1pm-6pm and Saturdays noon-4pm and by appointment. Please call 401. 490.6164. to make an appointment or if you have any questions regarding the exhibitions.
"Invasive Species" drypoint by Leah Wolf
Currently hanging in the AS220 Project Space SideRoom are a selection of prints from the AS220 PrintLottery. The PrintLottery was held this past September featuring artwork donated by over 100 artists, locally and nationally, to support the AS220 Community Printshop. The prints represented in the AS220 FlatFile from the PrintLottery are multiples made available by the artists and are for sale. Works can be purchased at the AS220 Project Space or from our on-line store.
The AS220 Flat Files also has prints of our current exhibit in the AS220 Main Gallery, Sustainable: Visions of a Living Planet
The AS220 Project Space is open Wednesday-Friday, 1pm-6pm & Saturdays Noon-4pm, or by appointment. For more information please call:401.831.9327
"Nature Natura" drypoint by Umberto Crenca
"Talk of the Town", photogravure by Meg Turner
27m; an Interactive Sound Installation: A corner of Slovakia brought to Providence by NY Times recognized Hungarian/Slovak artist Ilona Nemeth
*The Sidewalk of Empire Street/AS 220 Friday, November 7, 2008, 1pm-6pm Saturday, November 8, 2008, noon-4pm * (artist talk & presentation by curator Viera Levitt from noon-1pm)
Internationally celebrated artist Ilona Nemeth, recently written up in the New York Times for her provocative survey/installation in Budapest is bringing her art to Providence by way of New York City, where she is a Fulbright scholar. Ms. Nemeth, whose sculptures and installations have been shown in Slovakia, Hungary, The Czech Republic, Italy, Japan, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, South Korea and New York, will bring her audio piece, 27 meters (30 yards) to the sidewalk outside AS 220 on Empire Street. Originally shown in Brno, Czech Republic in 2004, this piece contains six monologues of different people. For example, both a Czech hairdresser living in the town for 16 years and a randomly chosen Finnish manager who had spent one day in the city, are parts of the project. Visitors can take one of the available headphones and have a 'walk' with some chosen companion from the small Central-European town Dunajska Streda. The length of one of the three audio tracks corresponds to a real route in Ilona's hometown in the Slovak Republic, Dunajska Streda. The sound sequences were recorded at one of the busiest intersection in the town.
http://www.vieralevitt.org/nemeth.htm
http://www.ilonanemeth.sk/
DEADLINE FEBRUARY 15, 2009 OPEN TO ALL.
C-SCAPE & FOWLER DUNE SHACK RESIDENCIES FOR VISUAL ARTISTS, WRITERS, & THE GENERAL PUBLIC ANNOUNCE 2009 SEASON; $500 VISUAL ARTIST FELLOWSHIP; WRITER FELLOWSHIP; The Provincetown Community Compact, Inc. is pleased to announce the 2009 residency program for C-Scape & Fowler Dune Shacks. This novel program, which is a collaboration with the Cape Cod National Seashore, offers one and three week residencies for artists and the general public beginning in April 2009. A $500 fellowship and a three-week summer residency will be offered to one visual artist, and two one-week residencies for writers. No fee. Contact: www.thecompact.org Application deadline is February 15, 2009. The Compact, a private non-profit tax exempt organization, was founded in 1993 by Jay Critchley to support the arts, environment and well being of Provincetown. It sponsors the annual Provincetown Swim for Life + Paddler Flotilla, set for September 12, 2009, and offers fiscal sponsorship for artist projects and grassroots community efforts.
The Compact POBox 819 Provincetown, MA 02657 thecompact@comcast.net
This Thursday, October 16th at 6pm. Free and open to the public.
The AS220 Project Space presents Housing + Transportation + Civic Design, projects that chronicle South County architect Troy West's exploration of design issues from 1963 to the present.
On display will be Transportation Projects from the 1995 Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Design Grant for Light Rail Transportation for South County to the 1997 Design Studies of Westport, Connecticut Railroad Station Competition, which was awarded First Prize.
Housing Designs include works from the 1984 New American House International Competition (Minneapolis, MN) that garnered First Prize to a 2008 prototype on sustainable/affordable housing (Providence, RI).
Civic Designs include 1998 2-stage Neighborhood Revitalization Design Competition where West's team was awarded First Prize for the Southside Broad Street Design Project (Providence, RI) to the ongoing design transformation project at Dale Carlia (Wakefield, RI) into a safe, sustainable, mixed use extension of Main Street from 2002 to present.
West received his architecture degrees (BArch/MArch) from Carnegie Mellon University and later joined the faculty and founded ARCHITECTURE 2001, the first university based community design center in the country. He is one of the original seven architects selected to form the new School of Architecture at New Jersey Institute of Technology, culminating in 45 years of professional practice and teaching.
Troy West practices architecture and design with his partners Anker West and Claudia Flynn. He is actively involved locally with the Hera Gallery and Educational Foundation, DOT Watch, Inc., the Sierra Club, South County Land Trust, and nationally with Architects, Designers, Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR/NY).
Greg Cook reviews New Obstructions in this weeks Providence Phoenix:
"AS220's exhibit "New Obstructions" is one of those right-on ideas that seem to come so naturally to the institution. In July, AS220 acquired the Mercantile Block on Washington Street, with plans to redevelop it much as they did with the Dreyfus next door. Over the winter they'll begin turning it into studios, offices, and live-work spaces, with an anchor ground floor tenant like the Dreyfus' Local 121..."
Go here for the full article.
For a concise & up to date view of the latest art world affairs in our neck of the woods visit Mr. Cook here.
New Obstructions is on view at 135 Washington St. through October 19th, on Saturdays noon-4pm or by appointment. A closing reception is Friday October 17, 6-9pm.
installations & interventions with
Jacob Berendes, Eamon Brown, Kristina Brown, Jim Frain, Richard Goulis, Natalja Kent, Scott Lapham, Jon Laustsen, Jeremy Radtke, Nicole Reinert, Mike Taylor, Neal Walsh
at the Mercantile Block
135 Washington St
September 26 - October 19, 2008
opening reception
Friday, September 26, 6-9pm
closing reception
Friday, October 17, 6-9pm
hours saturdays noon-4pm and by appointment. more info at
401.831.9327
July 19th - August 30th Opening: Saturday, July 19th , from 6:00 - 8:00pm
Hera Gallery is please to present 30 Days + 24 Hours: An all Rhode Island Comic Book Exhibition, Challenge, and Marketplace. This show will feature Rhode Island based artists working in the styles based or originating in the comic book format. This show will not only give the public a chance to view these creative and unique works of art, but will also provide an opportunity to purchase copies of locally made comic books.
Exhibition poster created by Mickey Zacchilli and Mike Taylor.
24 Hour Comic Book Challenge
Artists will be challenging themselves, individually or as part of a team, to create a soul stirring, heart thumping, thought provoking, mind bending comic book/graphic novel in just 24 hours. The gallery will be open from Noon, Saturday, July 19 to Noon, Sunday, July 20 for a concentrated blast of extreme drawing, painting, cutting and pasting. Coffee will be served. Sugar will be available in a variety of forms. Models will flex and bend and stretch and strut. Music will be performed. Movies will be shown. Artists will read from their graphic novels. Cots will be available for napping. Above all, ink will flow! Given this level of sleep deprivation, caffeine buzz, rock and roll, and collaborative energy, what will they come up with? Results of the 24-hour challenge will also go up on the gallery walls.
4:30 to 6:00 Comic Book Reading Alec Thibodeau reads from Dead in Desemboque: Historias de Amor y Sangre! Alec Thibodeau lives on plants and gleefully toils in Providence, Rhode Island. His drawing and printmaking work includes a history of fashioning posters for various events. He is one of three illustrators of Dead in Desemboque. His presentation will include photos of a research trip he made to the dessert.
6:00 to 8:00 Opening Reception for 30 Days + 24 Hours Zack Geaber and other Musicians will kick off the opening reception with African drumming from 6:00 to 6:30. Listen to the music and maybe dance a little.
8:00 to 10:00 Film Screening Jon B. Cooke will present his documentary Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist The full-length feature film documentary Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist is the culmination of a five-year mission by two South Kingstown High School graduates, Andrew D. and Jon B. Cooke, brothers who grew up in the 1970s buying comics at Healey's news store and making amateur Super-8 movies on the front yard of their Wakefield home. The motion picture, which debuted to acclaim at the Tribecca Film Festival, tells the story of the great Will Eisner (1917-2005), one of the founding fathers of the American comic book and perhaps its greatest practitioner. Eisner coined the term "sequential art," composed the medium's first textbook, taught generations of artists, and even created the graphic novel form, and served as the art form's elder statesman as well as mentor to countless aspiring cartoonists. The artist's remarkable life is covered in loving detail in this 96-minute film with particular emphasis on his beloved creation The Spirit in the 1940s (which has been adapted as a Hollywood movie to be released this upcoming Christmas Day, directed by Frank Miller, director of "Sin City" and creator of "300") and his later graphic novels, including the seminal "A Contract With God." Among those featured in the documentary are Kurt Vonnegut, Stan Lee, Frank Miller, Michael Chabon, Jack Kirby, Milton Caniff, and many others, including the participation of Eisner himself (who died during the film's production). Jeffrey Lyons, of NBC's Reel Talk called the film, "Fascinating... A valuable record of this unique form of American art, and the iconic characters it spawned." The filmmakers will attend this special "homecoming" screening.
Support and food for the artists is being supplied by a number of local businesses including Sweet Cakes Bakery, The Alternative Food Cooperative, Belmont Market, and DiVozzi Italian Bakery.
"oscillator cabinets" by ben fino-radin
Rainbro, James Amoeba, and Global Credit Squeeze
SUNDAY JUNE 15 // 7pm sharp//FREE
intimate evening of sweet rumbles & electric purrs +maybe more special guest performers
Seeking proposals for Providence Art Windows, Providence, RI.
Art will be installed by selected artists in windows downtown. Work may be pre-existing or site specific; 2D or 3D. Jury includes Diana Gaston, Associate Curator, Fidelity Investments. Two rounds of installations: opening 9/18/8 and 12/6/8. Deadline for both: postmarked 6/15/8. $100 stipend available. Send 10 jpegs on disk, proposal, resume and SASE to: 205 Kenyon Ave., E. Greenwich, RI, 02818. No email entries. Information: Liz Keithline, keithlineri@cox.net, (put 'Windows' in subject line), or 401/578-4313
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Rhode Island artists Show us what you've got! AS220 will hold the first ever Artist's Trade-a-thon on Saturday November 11, 2006. This arty party is open to all Rhode Island artists - and it's free. Bring a piece of original art to 'swap' and join us in some high spirited fun.
The Artist's Trade-a-thon is the brainchild of Providence furniture artist, Jenna Goldberg. "I wanted to bring people in arts community together in a social way - something that was relaxed, informal and fun. I know there are many artists in RI but I am not familiar with all of their work.
The Trade-a-thon idea is based on the "yankee-swap" concept, and it is the focal point of what I think of as a pre-holiday party for RI artists and friends of the arts. For the artists, we are providing a unique opportunity to meet and mingle with other artists, to show off their talents to friends and peers - and, of course, have a lot of fun."
All artwork will be on display and identified with the artist's name, title and materials. By the end of the evening, everyone who has brought a piece of artwork will have the opportunity to leave with a work by another artist. It's fun and it's free! Don't miss this opportunity to come together socially - to share ideas and inspiration - with everyone having equal representation.
The Artist's Trade-A-Thon will be held Saturday, November 11, from 2pm to 5pm, FREE
Visionaire #36:Power ($325)
by Alec Thibodeau, 2007. $25
More prints available from the
AS220 Shop.
