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MAY GALLERY EXHIBITIONS!
In The Galleries - May 6-26, 2012
Opening Reception Sunday, May 6, 2012 4-7pm
AS220 Main Gallery (115 Empire St)
Trees - New Work By Sharon Donahue
& Rhode Island Lighthouses - New Work by Richard Hanson
Open Window (115 Empire St)
New Work by Henry Brown
Youth Gallery (115 Empire St Floor 2)
New Work by Petty Eugene & Norman Kenneth
AS220 Project Space (93 Mathewson St)
Ruminations - New Work by Claudia Flynn
New April Gallery Exhibitions!
April 1-28, 2012
opening reception (free & open to the public)
Sunday, April 1, 4-7pm
AS220 Main Gallery
made use of what was upstairs in the attic
New Work By Jim Shelton
Painting Up a Storm
New Work by Linda King
Open Window
Jewelery by Linda Therisod
Youth Gallery
New Work by Kanema Miller and Roberto Perez
AS220 Project Space (93 Mathewson St.)
Via Satellite
New work by Johnny Adimando
Reading Room
A Hammer and A Scalpel
New work by Brian Whitney
delicate shudder & as220 popshop open friday april 20th!
@ 231 Westminster St.
April 20- May 12, 2012
opening reception (free & open to the public)
Friday, April 20, 5:30-8pm
delicate shudder
new work by Maralie Armstong-Rial and Dana Dunham plus
The AS220 PopShop
featuring work from the AS220 Printshop, Labs, Photo & Youth Studios
nude by Dana Dunham
cvltdelete series #2 by Maralie Armstong-Rial
Mademoiselle Lara Henderson
on livres d'artistes
NW: How long have you been making books and what inspired you to take this route as an artist?
LH: I have been making books for about 15 years. I selected Graphic Design as a major in undergrad so that I could design books. I wasn't aware of book arts until I met Janine Wong, a design professor at UMass Dartmouth. She taught me various book structures and also how to operate a Vandercook Letterpress. The new processes and structures I was learning started working their way into my graphic design work. My thesis project in Graphic Design was five different artist books. Janine Wong also made me aware of an MFA Book Arts/Printmaking Program in Philadelphia which I attended in 2008.
NW: Book arts covers a large field of work, I am thinking of Johanna Drucker's book The Century of Artists' Bookswherein each of the fourteen chapters describe a particular approach to the Book; it seems every book artist has their own definition of what falls within the tradition. So can you first define book arts as you practice it and then where you fit into the tradition?
LH: The chapter of that book that I often refer to is The Codex and its Variations. I am interested in the codex, a book form that is bound and meant to be read in a specific order. Through different binding techniques, there are many beautiful variations on this form. I am also interested in the "democratic multiple", being able to print books on the offset press for a low cost, in a large quantity, and sell them for a low cost as well.
NW: When you are working on a book project what comes first: idea, image, or form, the book's structure and binding?
LH: Typically text comes first when I am working on a new book. I will then search for a structure that will compliment or house that text the best. I then begin making small book models out of scrap paper or things I find around. Then I go back to the text and begin to place it within the book structure, making edits to the text. Most of my initial book models are all held together with tape and covered in marker. Finally I move towards more resolved book models and then scan my designs and lay them out with a computer.
NW: How does your book making practice inform your other art practice, or does everything filter directly into bookmaking?
LH: I work in a lot of other mediums, like enameling, encaustics, monotypes and even some jewelry, but the imagery usually ends up in a book. For my graduate thesis and also at the 2011 Wooly Fair, I experimented with installing my books as a physical space in the form of an installation. I really enjoyed seeing the same patterns, designs and colors as an environment and that is something I would like to explore more in future work.
NW: Who or what are your inspirations? What artists are currently influencing your book making practice?
LH: Hedi Kyle, a book artist living in Philadelphia, has been a huge source of inspiration. I was fortunate to study under her at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and also to have her serve on my thesis committee. She taught me so much about the connection between structure and content. Also, Sarah Bryant of Big Jump Press is someone whose work I really admire. Also, there is a group of artists, like Amanda D'Amico of Tiny Revolutionary Press, that are part of an offset lithography revival that is happening. As small commercial shops go digital and get rid of their small offset presses, I hope that artists will get them for cheap and use them as art making tools. This summer, I will be teaching a second session of a class called Book Production at the AS220 Community Printshop that uses the offset press to make books.
Check the online store in upcoming months for new class postings - including our next offering of Lara Henderson's Book Production at http://as220.us/learn_to_print.
If you can't wait to get started printing your own offset books, consider our 6 week Intro to Offset class with Jacque Bidon this spring. The class will be held Wednesday evenings from 6-8pm: Apr 4, Apr 11, Apr 18, Apr 25, May 2 & May 9.
Gallery Opening Sunday 4-7 p.m.
MARCH 4-24, 2012
opening reception (free & open to the public)
Sunday, March 4, 4-7pm
AS220 Main Gallery
New Paintings by Susan Dansereau and Buck Hastings
Open Window
New Paintings by Richard Garrett
Youth Gallery
AS220 Youth Group Show
AS220 Project Space (93 Mathewson St.)
Maelstrom
New Work by Astrid
The Reading Room
A Collection of Artists' Books by Lara Henderson
Gallery Openings Today! Sunday February 5th, 2012!
FEBRUARY 5-25 2012
opening reception (free & open to the public)
Sunday, February 5 , 4-7pm
AS220 Main Gallery
Interplay New Paintings by Robert Mariani &
Still Theater New Work by Emperor Justinian Stanislaus of the Red Fork Empire
Open Window
New Paintings by Ivy M. McDonald
Youth Gallery
New work by Mikaela Gonzaga and Davina Alejo
AS220 Project Space (93 Mathewson St.)
dom
New Work by Agata Michalowska
artist talk February 16th at 5:30 p.m.
also in the cabinet of curiosities
close as anyones come an installation by Aaron Peterman
Red Fork Empire Wanderlust
After traveling through multiple dimensions Justinian Stanislaus will be landing in Providence, RI at the AS220 Gallery, Sunday, February 5th. Justinian, otherwise known as the Emperor, ruler of the Red Fork Empire, will be exhibiting work from his travels promoting creativity in all of us, aiding in the movement, or if you will, the war against The Dull.
Jayme Allard, a local graphic designer, with a day job in building commissioning, investigated the Red Fork Empire and enlisted the artist in some Q&A. Deciphering the intricacies of Emperor Justinian's world is a difficult task; below Jayme shines a little light on his shadowy realm.
How did the title The Emperor surface? It seems like a powerful name to live up to. Given the size of the Emperor's fist, how big are the shoes you have to fill to be ruler of the Red Fork Empire?
The shoes are just the right size, very comfortable in fact. The Emperor likes comfortable shoes; you really cannot get quality work done without the right shoes. Which is why the Emperor rules the Multi-verse - good comfortable shoes. Well that and omnipotence. Since the beginning of the Multi-Verse, the Emperor has always been the Emperor. To take on the cause of spreading creativity and imagination, either through his Artifacts or speaking to the masses, the Emperor likes his title and sees it fitting.
I understand that there are 5 known Emperors that walk among us, could you reveal them to us? Is the need for the multiple persons to fight against The Dull?
There is 1, otherwise known as Rookfinger, he's the most friendly of us and is seen in public the most due to his curiosity. Then 2, or Booth, he is the most militant of the five. He takes the war against the Dull very seriously. Next is 3, three is very creepy, his manner is that of a spider, or serpentine. As Booth is militant, Tobias is manipulative in the war. Now 4, many names, often is called peanut or Gnat, he is the one who was effected by the Red Fork Event the most. He has all of the Emperors that ever were or will be in his head. So he is rather insane. Which leads to 5, Tobias. He might be morally ambiguous, but Hyde or creature has no morals whatsoever. He will destroy a planet on a whim. It isn't required to be multiple people to fight The Dull, it just happened that way, the result though does inspire singular people to do so.
Could you elaborate and give a glimpse into the world of Victorian science fiction art, otherwise known as steampunk?
You ask ten people what is steampunk and you will get ten different answers. So no one who is into steampunk can say they are an authority. If they do they are not embracing the spirit of it. Steampunk is at its base Victorian Sci Fi, but that is just the tiny start of what it actually is. To me, it is an artistic movement that inspires people who would not normally think of themselves as artists to dive in and be creative. It is an avenue for artists to express their own originality within borders that keep challenging how creative they can be. There are boundaries of what is and what is not steampunk, but that is like starting a discussion of what makes art, art. You really just know it when you see it. One way I like to describe it: Never before has there been a dork, geek, nerd subculture that has fashion shows and tea parties. Steampunk is era-based fiction where steam is the primary energy source. It encompasses almost every artistic medium you can imagine, be it literary, musical, traditional art, or dance. It puts them all under one community that forces those mediums to interact with each other and learn from one another.
Many of your pieces in the Still Theater collection tell a story of their own. What story does your artwork tell as a collection?
These are the artifacts, inventions, and windows into untold dimensions from the existence of a god like being that doesn't exist except in the minds of those who have imagination.
What else would you like the Citizens of Providence, and surrounding, to recognize about the Emperor and his Empire?
All shall know of the Red Fork Empire. Do not let The Dull infest your life, if you believe that you are not creative and have no imagination you are wrong. Recognize the creative genius of the Emperor and help his cause, either with contributions to own an Artifact from the Emperor (he also takes commissions), or by creating your own.
Keep up the Fight.
Learn More about Emperor Justinian Stanislaus and the Red Fork Empire on his site.
(You can spend hours on there!)
Please join us for a 4-7pm public reception in the galleries in honor of February's exhibiting artists: Emperor Justinian Stanislaus of the Red Fork Empire, Agata Michalowska, Robert Mariani, Ivy M McDonald, and AS220 Youth Members, Mikaela Gonzaga & and Davina Alejo.
An Interview with February's Exhibiting Artist at the Project Space, Agata Michalowska, Printmaker, Sculptor, Installation Artist, and.....
dom: New Work by Agata Michalowska
At the AS220 Project Space, 93 Mathewson St
On View February 5-25, 2012
Neal Walsh, AS220 Gallery Director interviewed Agata on the occasion of her Project Space exhibit "dom", which opens this Sunday, February 5th.
You are a printmaker by training, but you tend to stretch the borders of what is traditionally thought of as "printmaking." Can you discuss your process and the role of printmaking in your work?
Printmaking has been and always will be at the core of my practice. Even when I do not work with print, the processes I am drawn to are of similar character-precise, repetitive, requiring a lot of patience and focus. When I was at RISD printmaking provided a framework within which I could find my own aesthetic and conceptual language. It was the base off of which I could dive into other media. I quickly became dissatisfied with the 2-D image and started treating the Intaglio copper plates as objects rather than carriers of an image. The prints became a record of my physical interactions with the plate. I experimented with etching through copper plates, cutting into them and changing their surface with molten glass.
I have been fascinated with sculpture and installation but only recently started working on a bigger scale. I still have a lot to learn but enjoy the challenge and feel a great need for working with space as an environment. Learning is an inspiring process. I dislike being bored and when something becomes too familiar and "safe" I move on. New ideas drive me.
Who influences your work and current thoughts about art making? Is there a single artist or person that played a pivotal role in your development as an artist?
Working on the "dom" exhibition I kept thinking about Joseph Beuys - the raw materials that he used that were heavy with meaning and the environments that often told a story. I did not understand his work until I saw his objects in person. They had a strong presence and all belonged to one narrative. I felt immersed in his world.
Amongst other artists whose work I often go back to are Rachel Whiteread, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Gabriel Orozco, Ann Hamilton, Rebecca Horn, Wolfgang Tillmans, David Ireland, Alexander Brodsky, Lee Ufan, Miroslaw Balka, and Olafur Eliasson to name a few. I'm also drawn to minimalism and the Japanese aesthetic. I enjoy work that is simple, beautiful, and conceptually engaging.
Memory, time, history, and the fragile border they share seems to play an important role in your work. Can you discuss these ideas in relation to your art? I imagine the reason for this is deeply personal, in the sense that you are living in two different cultures with different languages and customs; though modernity has arguably decreased the distances between them.
This is a very broad subject. Yes, time has a very important role in my work. The sense of the passage of time, the subjectivity of it, the remembrance of the past, aging and the loss of memory... I am also fascinated with history and the way human beings shape it and are shaped by it. Objects seem to be silent witnesses to our hectic lives. They tell the story long after the people who owned them have died. I often look at artifacts and books from past centuries and try to imagine the lives of the people who touched them.
In the "dom" exhibition I am digging into my own past and my memories of growing up in Poland. I have been thinking about the concept of a home- what it is and what it can be, how it is created, can it exist in more than one place. For the past eight years I have lived in the USA, I speak, write and think in English. But every year when I go back to Warsaw my mind shifts into another language and another way of thinking. This duality is strange and fascinating at the same time. For a while I felt as if I lived in two parallel worlds. Now they are starting to blend as my life shifts. I know I will always be in between, traveling between the continents, cultures, languages and points of view.
Everything in "dom" is based in the personal mythology. Most of the materials were collected in Poland and have a very specific meaning and a story. The curtain that hangs in the gallery window belonged to my grandmother who passed away four years ago. It hung in her apartment long after she was gone. I took it down this year.
I see "dom" as distilled memory, an essence of what my senses recorded over time. Working on it was very intuitive. I knew what materials I wanted to use and allowed the form to develop from them. Throughout the duration of the exhibition I will add new objects, take away some, move things around. I would like to treat the gallery as a temporary home where the space changes as time goes by. This exhibition is also a testing ground, the first of a series of projects revolving around a similar set of ideas. It's a whole new body of work.
Please join us for a 4-7pm public reception in the galleries for February's exhibiting artists: Agata Michalowska, Robert Mariani, Emperor Justinian Stanislaus of the Red Fork Empire, Ivy M McDonald, and AS220 Youth Members, Mikaela Gonzaga & and Davina Alejo.
And..Join us February 16th at 5:30pm at the Project Space for a free artist talk by Agata!
FEBRUARY in the AS220 GALLERIES
FEBRUARY 5-25 2012
opening reception (free & open to the public)
Sunday, February 5 , 4-7pm
AS220 Main Gallery
Interplay New Paintings by Robert Mariani &
Still Theater New Work by Emperor Justinian Stanislaus of the Red Fork Empire
Open Window
New Paintings by Ivy M. McDonald
Youth Gallery
New work by Mikaela Gonzaga and Davina Alejo
AS220 Project Space (93 Mathewson St.)
dom
New Work by Agata Michalowska
artist talk February16th at 5:30 p.m.
"Wolf" by Mikaela Gonzaga in the AS220 Youth Gallery, Floor 2 at 111 Empire St.
Artist Talk with Ben Blanc Thursday January 19th!
In his current series, Ben Blanc pursues the relationship between art, design, retail and commerce through an ambitious installation of 200 handmade objects. The exhibition represents the contentious nature of artist, viewer and object vs. designer, consumer, and product. Blanc's work explores how artists and designers imbue their work with value and how that value is marketed to and perceived by the viewer and consumer. This impressive installation becomes a laboratory in which the line between artistic exhibition and retail store are blurred when the worth of each object is challenged as the artist unveils a forced value upon one of the 200 objects on opening night. Over the course of the show, the exhibition will become less of a static installation, and transform into an evolving record of sale and commerce.
Artist Talk at the AS220 Project Space at 93 Mathewson St. on January 19th at 5:30 p.m. Free and open to the public.
January Gallery Exhibitions! Opening Sunday January 8, 4-7 p.m.
JANUARY 8-28, 2012 opening reception (free & open to the public) Sunday, January 8 , 4-7pm
AS220 Main Gallery
New Paintings by Lauren Scotto & Janet Van Horne
Open Window
New Paintings by Carolina Arentsen
Youth Gallery
New work by Davina Alejo & Staci Braxton
AS220 Project Space (93 Mathewson St.)
The Exchange
New Work by Ben Blanc
artist talk January 19th at 5:30 p.m.
Artist Talk with Li Jun Lai
Exhibiting artist Li Jun Lai will give an artist talk this Thursday at 5:30 at the AS220 Project Space at 93 Mathewson St. Her new exhibition, " RED, YWL, GRN," is a site-specific installation of paintings and drawings that explore the very temporal and temporary experience that seeing is.
From the Li Jun's artist statement:
"Observe, see, take notes, gather different types of information, at multiple scales, of different durations. Different kinds of seeing - looking, glancing, contemplating, foveal and peripheral vision, walking around, going into, looking down, looking up, stepping back afar, peering in closely, from different perspectives. Visual processing - multiple and simultaneous pathways that the brain uses to make sense of sensory stimuli, to construct images and meaning .."
New December Gallery Shows
DECEMBER 4-24, 2011
opening reception (free & open to the public)
Sunday, December 4 , 4-7pm
AS220 Main Gallery
No Banks
New Paintings by Nick McKnight & Carl Dimitri
Open Window
Diversity
New Paintings by Nix-on
Youth Gallery
New work from the AS220 Youth Studio!
AS220 Project Space
RED, YLW, GRN,
New Work by Li Jun Lai
artist talk December 15th at 5:30 p.m.
Dana Dunham on Humanality and the Blessings of Printing and Process
You recently moved to Providence to a studio in AS220's Mercantile Block. What led you to Providence and AS220?
I was really interested in finding a community that was supportive of the arts. I had the opportunity to meet some of the staff of AS220 and fell in love with the organization. I've always felt strongly about community-based organizations and I felt inspired by AS220 to follow my dreams on becoming an expressive artist. I have been very impressed with the AS220 staff and community for devoting themselves to an organization that is in support of the larger community as a whole, while not forgetting the ever-special refuge for the artist. I feel very thankful to have been welcomed into this community and hope that I can contribute not only as an artist, but also as a person who really wants to make a difference in this world one photograph or moment at a time.
You have several bodies of work including a series entitled, Dialog with the Homeless shot with a 4x5 camera this past winter in San Francisco. Some of the photographs from the series seem quite intimate and I believe you must have established some amount of trust between yourself and the individuals you were documenting. How did you create that bond between yourself and individuals to create such intimate portraits? What was the origin of this body of work? Did you set out to document the homeless or did the project develop organically from conversations and chance encounters? Did you move to San Francisco that winter expressly to document the homeless?
The homeless project was a challenge. I knew that I was drawn to the homeless in San Francisco from living there in the late 90's. I have always felt a certain amount of isolation as a person, so the main focus of my project was to try to communicate the isolation that these people may feel.... I feel that I have been spiritually homeless for years, so this project was a way to get closer to expressing an aspect of the human condition and perhaps isolation, not only as a person, but also as an artist.
As part of my graduate program, I decided to take advantage of my opportunity as a student to relocate to work under the mentorship of Reagan Louie, who as you may know is a well known documentary fine art photographer. It took me a few months to narrow the focus of my project. I started volunteering in shelters and was searching for a way to get closer to the people that I felt a connection to. My project was really about observing. For months I would go out and just talk with them, sharing a cup of coffee or a cigarette before I even picked up my camera. I tried shooting some 35mm and had thoughts of just focusing on one or two from the street community, but knew that I wanted to get closer, not only photographically but also personally. The 4x5 camera forces me to slow down as a photographer, learning these skills in an intuitive way allows me to focus on the person that is in front of the lens...
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Interview with painter Dan Talbot
Your work straddles the line between abstraction and figurative painting. You have made dense layered abstract doodle-like paintings as well as straight observational plein air paintings, and now your recent work combines the two. What does each approach offer you as a painter? Are the processes vastly different? Are you asking different things from each one? Can you talk about your process and how your current works fit into your overall work?
The two are related I suppose in the sense that any two things one does are related, but I think that they each take place in different parts of my brain. One I would call a drawing sensibility, which integrates lots of different ways of thinking (verbal, conceptual, sexual etc.), and the other I would call a color sensibility and seems more specific or discrete, an end in itself. I feel like my drawing sensibility prepared me for experiencing my color sensibility, brought me to a place where I was ready for it and wanted it. But they seem like separate things. And, yes, in my latest work I'm trying to integrate them somehow.
In my older work I would doodle a lot and then fuss over the doodles. I'd start out with a bunch of random thoughts spilling out onto the page and then spend a lot of time trying to hammer or distill that mess into something more substantial.... a sort of abstract expressionist process. I started getting more and more fussy about it and then getting irritated by my own fussiness and would need to do something stupid to the painting to try to fuck it up and save it. Sometimes this worked, sometimes it didn't. Guston describes this type of ab-ex process as like being stuck in a corner, smashing your head against a wall.
But I started to notice that after leaving the studio, say going for a walk or something, the world would look different to me, clearer. Like the chaos had an order to it. I could see all the particulars and how it all fit together. I started getting seduced by all this color around me, and all the random junk we have hanging around in the spaces we live in. I thought, "why not just paint that."
There's a description of a story I read once.... I can't remember whom it was by, but it was in reference to an Ingmar Bergman film.... an article in the New Yorker. The story's about a demon who is stuck in Hell but every hundred years or so he's allowed out onto the surface of the earth for a day. On one of these trips he sees a bowl of apples. It's just a bowl of apples but he sees it with the clarity that only one who's been stuck in Hell can see it. That's what I felt like when I started doing the landscape stuff. They are everything that the other work wasn't, so in a way they are obliquely referring to it, to that hell. Of course, you might not see that. You might just see the bowl of apples. Also, there's the whole Providence hipster thing from 10 years ago.... which is a type of Romanticism.... Caspar David Friedrich taken over by Saturday morning cartoons...where it's no longer the natural world we are confronted by/drowning in, but instead our own absurd culture. I wanted to show that that sense of "magic" or awe didn't need to be represented by rainbows, crystals, and people with animal heads, but could also be seen in the colors of your neighbors soffit, skylight, and fence.
So now I'm trying to combine these two ways of working. I'm trying to have that drama I was describing above take place within one painting, the soffit and the satyr side by each. Only, now the landscape stuff is what I start out with...those are the random things I put down first. Then I follow up with the abstract doodle stuff to try to tie it all together. Under the influence of the landscapes the doodles start to become more about color. And again I can get stuck in hell... an endless and open-ended process of fussy adjustments. It seems unavoidable. I'm not sure what I think of this work yet.... It's growing on me is all I can say. I try to focus on the sense of engagement I get when making the work, and not the result. It's still pretty thrilling to sit down in front of something and start making decisions. This is what I want the viewer to connect with.
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NOVEMBER in the Galleries
NOVEMBER 6-26, 2011
opening reception (free & open to the public)
Sunday, November 6 , 4-7pm
AS220 Main Gallery
New Work by Melanie Rae Zapasnik
and Betsey MacDonald
Open Window
Abstract Paintings by Ronnie Borden
Youth Gallery
Jon Gourlay and Alberto Bernard
AS220 Project Space
Reading Room
Decorative Diatom, 2010, Watercolor by Rebecca Macri
New October Gallery exhibitions!
October 2-29
opening reception Sunday October 2, 4-7pm
AS220 Main Gallery
New Paintings by John Forest and Richard Forand
Open Window New paintings by Nicole Maynard-Sahar
AS220 Project Space
"Talking Leaves" New Work by Andrew Moon Bain
Trees speak a language older than any human being and sing songs with the wind rushing through their bows. This exhibition retells some of the songs and stories heard from the trees and bird ghosts.
Reading Room
Amigos & Friends collaborative zine project. Amigos Publishing & Shop is a retail and community space for zines and other art-related items.
Participating artists: Abby Grenon, Kaleb Durocher, Monica Yi, Robin Newman, Hannah Abelow, Daniella Ben-Bassat, Kenyon Smith, Nick Ferreira, Daniel Hanafin, and Michelle Chrzanowski
Youth Gallery
Kassandra Cardona and Indira Miller
HERA WORKS & PHOTOLOTTERY
HERA WORKS is an exhibition of work by members of South County's engaging Hera Gallery. Hera is a community of artists that promotes a professional artistic presence for emerging and established artists who are dedicated to their creative practice. In addition to a full schedule of exhibitions, Hera strives to engage the public through programming such as lectures, talks, film and video screenings, performance and spoken word. Established in 1974, Hera Gallery is a non-profit artist-run arts organization that has continued to stimulate discussion and challenge perceptions for over 36 years.
HERA WORKS
at The AS220 Project Space is located at 93 Mathewson Street in downtown Providence, Providence September 3 - 24, 2011
Opening reception: Sunday September 11, 4 - 7 pm
This project will present the work of Linda Denosky-Smart, Cynthia Farnell, Michael Yefko, Claudia Flynn, Troy West, Elizabeth Lind, Carl Dimitri, Roberta Richman, Jeannette Jacobs, Jill McLaughlin, Myron Rubenstein, Barbara Pagh, Alexandra Broches, John Kotula, Islay Taylor, and Susan Hayward.
PHOTO LOTTERY 2011
The Photo Frenzy returns Sept.24, 2011. Celebrate the 5th Biennial Photo Lottery at AS220. Support AS220 Photo's epic expansion and proud tradition as Rhode Island's only publicly accessible photography program. Every ticket is a winner. 150 Prints. $125 Tickets. One incredible photographic event! Visit here or contact photolottery@as220.org for info. See slideshow of some of the donated photographs here!
August Gallery Exhibitions!
Lots of great new work for our August Gallery shows. We have folk signs and sculptures by Bruno Ramieri, abstract mixed media & encaustic paintings by Heather Sylvester, new figurative paintings by Russell Carter and a new large scale painting by Benjamin Ligeri, all on view at AS220's Empire St. gallery spaces. Photo Memory is holding down the Youth Gallery while Christian Goncalves exhibits new mixed assemblages and sculptures at the AS220 Project Space that are embodiments of his inner psyche. The opening reception is Sunday August 7th from 4-7p.m and is free and open to the public. Hope to see you there!
August 7-27, 2011
opening reception (free & open to the public)
Sunday, August 7 , 4-7pm
AS220 Main Gallery
New Work by Russell Carter, Benjamin Ligeri, and Heather Sylvester
Open Window
New Painings and Sculptures by Bruno Ramieri
Youth Gallery
New work from Photo Memory
AS220 Project Space
New Work by Christian Goncalves
Reading Room
Prints & Books from the collection
AWESOME
Over the last month, Devin King and Caroline Picard have been artists in residence at AS220. During that time they have been writing in libraries, conducting interviews and printing books. While they pursue separate artistic practices, they'll have a short reading to commemorate their time in Providence. Chapbooks they made at the AS220 print shop, will be available to peruse and purchase.
Devin King will be reading from his new book, The Resonant Space, a book of poetry that investigates the meeting place between youth culture, object oriented ontology and modernist poetics. Devin King is a writer, a teacher and a musician from Chicago.
Caroline Picard will read from her book, Psycho Dream Factory (Holon Press, 2011)--a collection of short stories that appropriates celebrity figures like paper dolls, colliding Woody Allen and his protege, MJ and Orlan and Dr Dre and the burning man festival. Caroline Picard is the Senior Editor for the Green Lantern Press. She lives in Chicago and writes regularly for Badatsports. The Chronicles of Fortune is a collection of comics depicting the joys and sorrows of an unhappy super hero.
Caroline and Devin will be reading on Thursday, July 28th from 5:30 - 7 p.m. at the AS220 Performance Space at 115 Empire St. Free & open to the public.
Both books will be available for $8/ea or $10 for both.
Artist Talk with Natasha Maria Brooks-Sperduti
Artist Talk, 6:30 this Thursday July 21st at As220's Project Space
Natasha Maria Brooks-Sperduti makes work and play out of exploring real and perceived limitations of embodiement. Her current practice combines daily art and yoga as a way of creating fluidity to foster growth. She uses the motion of her body to make site specific installation and performance. Through photography she collects and shares moments from the world around her. Natasha lives in Providence, Rhode Island. She has shown in New York and London, and holds a degree in studio art from Bard College. Natasha will speak about her work currently on view at AS220, including photographs printed in their new digital print facility.
Salt Drawing Performances
Natsha Maria Brooks-Sperduti as part of her exhibition, "Current: exploring embodiment" will be "performing" two salt drawings at the AS220 Project Space. The first is at at noon and then at 5 p.m. Using her breath, Natasha gently blows on grains of salt crystals across a painted circular surface, creating gentle undulations and valleys in the salt. The Salt Drawings are a part of Natasha's on-going series of Elemental Drawings that strive to uncover and reveal the secret fleeting gestures within forms.
The Salt Drawing are at the AS220 Project Space and free and open to the public.
New July Gallery Exhibitions!
Opening Reception: Sunday, July 10 , 4-7pm, exhibition run through Saturday July 30th.
AS220 Main Gallery
New Work by Gio Scotti and Steve Wood
Open Window
New Paintings by Paul Cote
Youth Gallery
New Work by Photo Memory
AS220 Project Space (93 Mathewson St.)
Current: exploring embodiment
new work by Natasha Maria Brooks-Sperduti
July 14th Salt Drawing performances at noon & five pm, and an Artist Talk, July 21st 6:30pm @ the Project Space
Paul Cote painting in the studio.
New Gallery Shows for June!
JUNE 5-25, 2011
opening reception (free & open to the public)
Sunday, June 5 , 4-7pm
AS220 Main Gallery
New Work by Marc Leitzel and Rick Billings
Open Window
New Paintings by Polly Poulten
Youth Gallery
New Work by Jordan Carter
AS220 Project Space (93 Mathewson St.)
Day to Day new work by Gillian Christy
Artist's Reception Thursday June16th, 6 pm -9 pm at the Project Space
Reading Room
Artist's Books, art books, and more!
OSPREYS #16 Now Available at the AS220 Project Space & Reading Room
The AS220 Project Space/ Reading Room is psyched to have Tom Bubul's OSPREYS #16 Obscure Finale. This fantastic, dense, rich zine is filled with hidden treasures that demands multiple readings.
OSPREYS #16 consists of sixteen unbound single-sided two-color 11"x17" offset litho prints on 28lb blue paper, packaged in folded white butcher paper envelopes, individually titled in pink paint pen. It's big, and there's a lot in there.
This issue was designed to allow for a different experience from the wall and from reading distance; hang it up or read it in bed, either or. At medium distance, each of the package's sixteen pages is dominated by a large numeral and a sigil drawn on a diminishing grid that corresponds to that numeral's value; close up, eleven of the package's sheets are jammed with collages made from hundreds of drawings spanning late April and early December 2010. Two short stories written from October 2010 through February 2011 fill the other four.
This edition of the zine was produced by RK PROJECTS in an edition of 300 in conjunction with the solo drawing and painting exhibition OSPREYS, which was open May 2011 at an RK PROJECTS pop-up space in Providence. Printed at AS220 Community Printshop.
Radio Gives A Voice to the Voiceless in Sierra Leone - Interview with the Photographers of "Leh Wi Tok"
Photograph by Jonathan Beller
Wednesday May 18th at 6pm AS220 will host a screening of the film Leh Wi Tok: When Radio Gives A Voice to the Voiceless (suggested $5 donation), with the director and film's photography team in attendance. The documentary screening is in conjunction with this months exhibition, Resilient: A Portrait of Sierra Leone photographs by Jonathan Beller and Kate Kelley, who worked with Leh Wi Tok's director, John Lavall, and the rest of the film's small production team. Leh Wi Tok the story of radio pioneer Andrew Kromah's unrelenting quest to grow an independent network of community-based radio stations in his country, Sierra Leone, so that peace and democracy can flourish after ten years of civil war.
Leh Wi Tok follows Andrew and his team of radio journalists as they uncover and investigate a tragic landslide that kills 13 people and leaves many more homeless and desperate. Leh Wi Tok is the story of how one individual, amidst flagrant and persistent political harassment, financial and technical woes, and geographic challenges, literally puts his life on the line to bring disparate and often unheard voices to the airwaves. In the words of Andrew, "No democracy can endure without considering the views of both the majority and the minority. A strong and vigorous media, especially independent radio broadcasting, will help ensure that no one is left without a voice at the decision making table because of lack of resources."
Woven into the narrative are the stories of other radio pioneers, such as Foday Sajuma, station manager of Radio Moa, "The Voice of the Voiceless" in remote Kailahun. We witness Radio Moaʼs many challenges, from its rural location with nearly impassable dirt roads to the lack of skilled mechanics and technicians and a dependence on aging diesel generators. Since its first broadcast in 2003, Radio Moa, "The Voice of the Voiceless," has kept critical information flowing during crisis, often preventing a region that spans nearly 70 kilometers, well into neighboring Liberia and Guinea, from a quick descent into chaos. Radio Moa works tirelessly to keep citizens abreast of and engaged in national and local elections as well as governmental decisions; programs expose corruption, offer counsel, deliver warnings, play music and soothe the fears of a troubled populace.
The photography exhibition is on view at the AS220's Main Gallery at 115 Empire Street from May 1st to 28th. Official AS220 gallery hours are Wednesday-Friday: 1pm-6pm and Saturday: Noon-4pm, however, our Main Gallery is often accessible at other times. The photographers have also released an 80pp book of their work in Sierra Leone, a compelling series of strong portraits juxtaposed with beautiful landscapes and the remnants of war - a true picture of Sierra Leone today.
Neal Walsh got in touch with Kate Kelley and Jonathan Beller, the photographers behind, the book and AS220 Main Gallery exhibition, Resilient for a little Q&A
AS220: The exhibit Resilient, A Portrait of Sierra Leone, came out of your work on the documentary film, Leh Wi Tok. How did you get involved with the film? How long did you spend in Sierra Leone?
Kate: The director of the film, John Lavall, approached Jonathan about coming along to Sierra Leone to take stills. After further planning, Lavall decided that the documentary would be shot with the Canon 5D Mark II and Canon 7D, both professional SLR cameras used by photographers. Jonathan realized that the crew needed someone to organize the files, and also wanted me to have the same experience, so I was brought on to do that. The first trip to Sierra Leone was for 3 weeks in January of 2010, dry season for Sierra Leone. Dry season was chosen because this is when the roads are in the best condition for travel, and we were planning to do a lot of driving across the country. After looking over the footage, we realized that we needed to show the rainy season. Only half of the original crew returned for 2 more weeks of filming in September of 2010, I was a part of the second trip as well.
AS220: Sierra Leone is a struggling country that has just recently emerged from a long and bloody civil war with little in the ways of infrastructure or resources for a photographer. Technically, what impact did this have on your working process as photographers? What sort of photo equipment did you use and what was the greatest challenge you had as working photographers?
Kate: For filming, Jonathan and I used the Canon 5D Mark II. We also had a Canon 5D Mark I for digital stills, a Hasselblad medium format film camera, and a Linhof Technika III 4x5 film camera. I am still a big advocate for film. Our biggest technical challenge was re-charging our equipment. Sierra Leone's power grid was destroyed during the war. Electricity is only available at certain times of the day, if it is available at all. We often needed to pay the hotel extra to run the electricity at night so that we could download images and charge all batteries. Another problem was that our external hard drives would not run when plugged into any power source. Only external drives powered by the computer, such as LaCie Rugged drives, worked. We were unaware this was going to happen and had only brought five 500g Rugged drives. We needed to have 6 more sent over to us, which turned out to be very difficult, but it all worked out.
AS220: Sierra Leone's civil war pit neighbor against neighbor and evidence of that war is still so apparent. What approach did you take when documenting the people and places you visited? What sort of reception did you find in the various communities in Sierra Leone that you visited? What was you experience photographing the people of Sierra Leone?
Jonathan: We were not traveling alone. We had two drivers to help us translate and explain to the people what our intention was and what we were trying to accomplish. Once people understood what we were doing, they were very receptive and most were willing to help us out. We were issued passes by the government stating that we had permission to be taking photos. It was also broadcast over the radio to inform people who we were. The people of Sierra Leone are very kind and generous with their time and we appreciate everything they did for us.
AS220: In the exhibition at AS220 there are three images, "Kids Playing Behind Cars", "Slaughterhouse" and "Slaughterhouse, detail". It was not until I looked through your book, Resilient, ( available at http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2085597) that I was fully aware of what is pictured. "Kids Playing Behind Cars" is an image that seems to be a typical street scene, an old beaten up car behind which two children shyly smile at the camera. Directly behind the children is a weathered building. Reading the caption we learn that behind this house is actually a mass grave. What seems like a good photo of a relatively ordinary street scene suddenly become something of an entirely different order. The same with "Slaughterhouse", an image of a dimly lit wall - pock marked, stained, highly textured, imbued with a morbid sensibility, but also one of human necessity; then we read that it was a human slaughterhouse. Can you talk a bit about these images, and what it was like to come upon such concrete and visceral remains of the horror of the Sierra Leone civil war?
Kate: These remnants of war are everywhere you look in Sierra Leone - bullet marks on buildings, overgrown house shells, broken down tanks on the side of the road. It is devastating when you look around and realize what has happened to these people, yet it is not evident on their faces. They have forgiven each other and moved on. They have no other choice.
Jonathan: The slaughter house in Kailahun is where hundreds of Sierra Leoneans' captured by the RUF fighters were imprisoned and killed during the war. It remains in Kailahun as a reminder to the people of Sierra Leone in the hopes that war will never return. The slaughter house was a very emotional place to photograph.
AS220: What's next? Do you have any plans to return to Sierra Leone? Any big projects in the works?
Kate & Jonathan: We would both love to return to Sierra Leone someday. It is a beautiful country. We miss the friends we made when we were over there. We are both working together with John Lavall to produce a PSA for Project Goal, a non-profit organization, whose mission is to facilitate the development of Rhode Island's disadvantaged youth through after-school tutoring and soccer-related programs. Jonathan continues to work on multimedia assignments for ipad editions and portraits for editorial clients and ad agencies. Kate is continuing to photograph for a wood-fired oven cookbook with her friends.
Learn More at:
www.lehwitok.org
www.katekelleyphoto.com
www.jonathanbeller.com
Check out the Leh Wi Tok Documentary Trailer from Devlo Media on Vimeo.
May in the Galleries
May 1 - May 28
Opening Reception May 1 from 4-7pm
AS220 Main Gallery (115 Empire St)
JustSeeds Artists' Cooperative, a transnational North American artist collective of 26 printmakers engaged in issues of social, political, and environmental justice, bring a traveling exhibition called Resourced! to the Main Gallery. If you've got a sweet tooth for socially-conscious, politically-engaged, radical environmentalists who make art as a means of personal expression and collective activation, YOU'RE IN LUCK.
Joining them are two photographers, Kate Kelley and Jonathan Beller, whose work on the documentary Leh Wi Tok has yielded a collection of photographs of the landscapes and peoples of Sierra Leone. Their exhibition, Resilient, coincides with their new book of the same name, available here. On Wednesday, May 18th there will be screening of Leh Wi Tok and a talk with the film-makers from 6 p.m.- 8p.m. at the performance space at 115 Empire St. A suggested $5 donation for entry.
AS220 Youth Gallery
In the Youth Gallery, Daniel Ledesma presents an exhibition of recent works, using photography to allow us a glimpse into skateboarding and more.
AS220 Project Space (93 Mathewson St)
In the Project Space, Roger Carl Johanson brings us black and white photographs of life in Italy. He calls the show In Italy. (Johanson will give an Artist Talk on Thursday, May 19th at 6pm. Don't miss it!)
Reading Room (93 Mathewson St)
Artists Holly Ewald, Lisa Perez, and Susannah Strong present new works inspired by research at the Providence Athenaeum Special Collections, in collaboration with the Hive Archive. I have insider information that tells me images of a sinking circus boat might be a play. Their exhibition is called Artists in the Archive, and you're going to want to check it out.
This Friday from 5p.m.-7p.m. at the Providence Athenaeum, Holly, Lisa, and Susannah will be discussing their work and research with Special Collections Librarian Kate Wodehouse. The Salon is free and open to the public. The Providence Athenaeum is located at 251 Benefit St.
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So that's May! Gallery hours are Wednesday through Friday 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturdays noon to 5 p.m and by appointment. for more info neal@as220.org
e-Flux, the 24th Installment
April in the Galleries
What's that saying about March? In like a lion, out like a slightly-less-ferocious-but-still-dangerous lion? I think the idiom goes something like that, or at least that's what the SNOW and WIND outside seem to be telling me. Fret not, though - the galleries at AS220 are packed and hot like fire this month. Here's the lineup:
At the AS220 Main Gallery (115 Empire St), Doug Lindsay shows The Michael Jordan Series, a group of paintings from the perspective of a child for whom Michael Jordan is an all-powerful superhero. His new book The Skunk Story picks up the life of this child and runs with it, glimpsing into a child's view of life and celebrity. Lindsay's alter ego is joined by Tony Carneiro's own imagined double, Danger Tony. Through digital collages, screen prints and installations, Carneiro gives an in-depth exploration of 1950's and 1960's pop culture, deconstructing the myths and dreams of the "golden age" of rock and roll.
In the Open Window at the Main Gallery, Nagaraj Seshardi presents a series of new work in photography, capturing vivid scenes of urbanity, nature, and the human experience of each.
Upstairs in the Youth Gallery, Geraldo Jose Figueroa's ink drawings trace the haunting forms of brooding and masked figures.
Over at the Project Space (93 Mathewson St), Kim Kazan's irregular canvases fill the space with masses of unexpectedly cute, unexpected unsettling amorphous little creatures and human figures. Her work is paired with a series of paintings by Melody Tuttle called sacred/profane. The person-sized canvases contain mashed images of palm trees, book spines, beetles, and salsa dancers.
Rounding out the jam-packed month, Sarah Clover curates a fascinating show of artist books in the Reading Room (in the Project Space). Ranging from hand-crafted picture books to published prose and poetry to delicate pop-up books, the show When Nothing is Sure ~ Everything is Possible offers an uncommon collection of works by a number of artists, including Peggy Clover, Jo Dery, Meredith Stern, Mike Taylor, Alec Thibodeau, and Brian Ziegler.
So that's April! As you can tell, there's a lot of see in the galleries this month. Come drop by!
Ebb & FLOW: opens tomorrow!
Thursday March 24th, 5:30 p.m. 25 Eagle St. Providence, RI!
March Gallery Exhibits bring Spring !
March roars with raw excitement as a series of wonderful new exhibitions by amazing Rhode Island artists' that promise to melt the winter from our hearts and lead us into the arms of spring. We have six new exhibits at AS220 and an exhibition at our friends Providence Optical Gallery! And there is more to come in March! Stay tuned for the details.
FIRST at AS220 New paintings by Michelle Dussault that sing brilliant the tottering precariousness of the earth faced with global climate change. Ed Mooney, through photography and drawing, traces paths and passages, searching for the individuals place in a displaced society. Tom Anderson wrestles with personal passions and dramas in pen and ink. Amy Leidtke's new work from the series, "Color Fields", strive for a pure beauty for us to rest our spirit, if only offering a temporary shelter form the storm. Carlos & Luis are two young men from the AS220 Youth program that are exhibiting remarkable new work produced in the Studio.
March 6-26, 2011
opening reception (free & open to the public)
Sunday, March 6 , 4-7pm
AS220 Main Gallery
New Paintings by Michelle Dussault & New Work by Ed Mooney
Open Window
New Works by Tom Anderson
Youth Gallery
New Works by Carlos Santiago & Luis Urena
AS220 Project Space (93 Mathewson St.)
Color Fields
new paintings by Amy Leidtke
hours w-f 1-6pm saturday noon-5pm and by appointment
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Poet & multi-media artist Anne Shaw's installation Inscape examines the human body and our relationship to our bodies and how that knowledge, flawed as that knowledge imay be informs our relationship with with others as bodies, as persons.
The term "inscape" was coined by poet Gerard Manley Hopkins to reflect his idea that each thing in nature contains an intrinsic imprint, a design that makes it uniquely itself. Anne Shaw's installation presents a series of fourteen microscope slides, each containing a tissue specimen from the human body and an accompanying line of text. As a whole they comprise a visual sequence, a fragmentary sonnet, an unbound book, and a scientific investigation.
AS220 Project Space Presents:
Inscapes
an installation by Anne Shaw
at Providence Optical
March 11- April 9, 2011
opening reception (free & open to the public)
Friday, March 11 , 5:30-7:30pm
Providence Optical is located at 75 Weybosset Street
hours: monday 10 am - 5 pm/tuesday 11 am -4 pm/ wednesday 10 am - 5:30 pm/ thursday 11 am - 6pm/ friday 10 am -5:30pm
more info at 401.351.4994
February in the Galleries
February is a cruel time for someone like me who comes from lands warmer in the west. Luckily, there're some great pieces of art to keep me busy indoors coming to the galleries at AS220 this month. Here's the rundown:
The Main Gallery at Empire St. will feature multimedia work + painting from sisters Kate Siner Francis and K. Lenore Siner. Expect found-object bricolage with a cerebral bent and some lush wax/oil/mixmedia paintings with a concern for materiality and image.
In the Open Window at the Empire Street Gallery is Rob Robbins, an illustrator whose intricate, labor-intensive watercolor+ink works evoke both nature and traditional folk art motifs.
A hop&skip&jump away at the Mathewson St. Project Space, Chryssa Udvardy brings us Shadows and Objects, an installation of her minimal and evocative sculptures that question space, light, and our experiences of both.
Finishing up the charge is Mollie Hosmer-Dillard with a series of new works in the Reading Room of the Project Space. Her beautiful paintings are caught between density and levity, the natural world and the abstract.
So fear not intrepid bravers of the New England winter. We've got some cures for that meteorological harshness. Join us at the opening reception on Sunday, February 6 from 4-7pm, for free, in all the spaces. And don't forget to keep a lookout for artists talks lined up this month from a number of our exhibitors.
New Gallery Exhibits! Opening Reception Sunday January 9, 4 - 7 p.m.!
January 9-29, 2011 opening reception Sunday, January 9 , 4-7pm
AS220 Main Gallery
Our Fable new work by Scott Alario
and New Paintings by Angela Ruo
Open Window
New Work by Armi Diaz
AS220 Project Space (93 Mathewson St.)
Fragments
new work by Merle Mainelli Poulton
artist talk with Merle on January 20th, 5:30-7pm
ALSO
A Fire In My Belly: David Wojnarowicz's censored film with text and commentary.
Courtesy of The Estate of David Wonnarowicz and P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York and The Fales Library and Special Collections/ New York University
Happy New Year & Welcome to another exciting year of exhibitions at AS220!
The new year starts with great new shows in the Main Gallery with
photographer Scott Alario's new work from his series Our Fable; and Angela Ruo exhibits new abstract paintings from her Body and City series.In the Open Window, Armi Diaz's work explores fear and anxiety with a scathing sense of humor, and in the AS220 Project Space, Merle Mainelli Poulton's new work investigates two separate thoughts on fragments: Childhood Memories and The Fragments of Sappho.
AS220 also celebrates David Wojnarowicz with a month long video installation of Fire In My Belly in the AS220 Main Gallery and the Project Space Reading Room. Late last year Smithsonian secretary G. Wayne Clough censored Fire In My Belly from the exhibition Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture at the National Portrait Gallery. AS220 joins with other art institutes across the country to celebrate David Wojnarowicz and the freedom of expression.
Queer Representation and Resistance as Acts of Justice
Presented by RISD's Office of Public Engagement, Division of Fine Arts, and Office of Multicultural Affairs
Saturday, Jan. 29th, 3:00 PM
AS220, 115 Empire Street
Nayland Blake, keynote
Nayland Blake; artist, writer, educator and curator, was born in 1960 in New York City, where he currently lives and works. Over the past twenty four years he has exhibited widely throughout the world. His works are in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Brooklyn Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and many others. In 1995 he was the co-curator, with Larry Rinder, of In A Different Light, the first museum exhibition to examine the impact of Lesbian, Gay and Queer artists on contemporary art.
Sunday, Jan. 30th, 12:30 PM
AS220, 115 Empire Street
"Identity, Place, & Practice"
Panel w/ Matthew Lawrence, Laurencia Strauss, Ian Cozzens, and Mickey Zacchilli
Sometimes artists make work from personal experience, sometimes their work engages ideas outside their daily life. Both modes of art making require tools of self-awareness and an understanding of social context, calling upon artists to bring the totality of their being into the making process. This panel will explore the ways that queer identity intersects with creative practice. Panelists will share how being queer has served to inform their creative practice and work.
Sunday, Jan. 30th, 2:00 PM
AS220, 115 Empire Street
"Institutional Silenc(es)"
Panel w/ Deborah Bright, Rob Brinkerhoff, Liz Collins, and Michael Kurt
Queer people and Queer artists have endured a long history of censorship, as well as the more insidious dynamics of silencing and invisibility within cultural institutions. While much has been done in past decades to expose and engage these dynamics, we've recently experienced a new wave of institutional attempts to silence ideas, forcing us to challenge traditional power structures. This panel will discuss the ways that artists, cultural institutions and higher education can provide leadership for free expression and social justice.
These events are FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC / / for more info visit www.risdpublicengagement.net
Gallery Talk Tonight with Merleann Maninelli Poulton
Merelann is currently exhibiting two new bodies of work at the AS220 Project Space at 93 Mathewson St, entitled Fragments. The fragments are of two distinct natures: fleeting thoughts from childhood memories and the fragments of poetry left by the legendary 7th century poet Sappho. This new body of work is an experimental and ongoing labor of love. The new series focuses formally on the painting process and the corporeal and personified nature of paint, including the paint that never makes it onto the canvas.
Tonight Thursday January 20th, at the AS220 Project Space, 93 Mathewson St. Free.
Chainsaw! Mannequin! Live nude girl!
Changeable Witness/ COZY
A video / poetry installation
Changeable Witness / COZY is a poetry / video installation involving skeletons, a mannequin, a chainsaw, and a live nude girl. It examines questions of damage and witness. It is quiet. One night only! I hope you can come.
Monday, January 3 · 6:00pm - 9:00pm
AS220 Project Space
93 Mathewson Street
Providence, RI
free!
Gallery Talk, Holiday Swag, & Good Cheer
Thursday December 16th Brian O'Malley will talk about his current exhibiton, "the world according to black and white" at the AS220 Project Space, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm. The exhibition consists of paper drawings, onsite drawings with ink and tape, video and sound. Brian transforms the space making an environment of movement and distortion that creates alternate universe of memory and associations.
Before Brian's talk or after visit the AS220 Reading Room at the Project Space and buy some sweet holiday swag & support AS220 Cottage Industries. We have lovely framed photos from the Glass Negative Project, "Timeless Planners" & notebooks from the PrintShop, sweet blank cards, and from Arley-Rose Torsone a much needed holiday reminder.
We also have magical artist books by Sarah Clover, Joshua Deaner and Holly Ewald, & the wonderful Nancy Spero book " Torture of Woman" from Siglio Press, & "Ira Rakatansky: As Modern As Tomorrow" edited by local designer John Caserta, & "The Longest Urinal in the World" by local letterpress hero Dan Wood & lots more including prints from local artists in our FlatFile & lots more small press titles & wonders.
Be Merry & visit the AS220 Project Space.
Cheers!
Gallery Opening Tonight
NEW DECEMBER GALLERY EXHIBITIONS
December 5-27, 2010 // opening reception Sunday, December 5 , 4-7pm \
AS220 Main Gallery
TRANSFIGURE
Dan Potter & Paul Roustan
Open Window
Portraits
drawings by Raymond Lizotte
AS220 Project Space (93 Mathewson St.)
The World According to Black and White
an installation by Brian O'Malley
Brian will give an artist talk December 16 5:30-8pm at the Project Space
NIGHT FOR DAY!
CLOSING PARTY/PERFORMANCE/ART TALK/ SPOOKTACULAR
with MICKEY ZACCHILLI & NATALJA KENT
AS220 PROJECT SPACE
5:30 p.m. till 8 p.m.
Coming in November!
You Can't Call Your Own Baby Ugly
A Group Exhibition in the
AS220 Galleries featuring
Umberto Crenca,UmbyBaby,
Bert Cranky,Ump,Bert and
Umberticus Maximus
November 7-27, 2010
opening reception
Sunday, November 7, 4-7pm
Artist Talk on November 19, 5:30-8pm at the Main Gallery at 115 Empire St.
Artist David Planka talks Simulacra, hieroglyphics, the Smurfs
(images courtesy of Mr Planka, from http://www.plankomatic.com; most have been cropped for space)
So maybe we can start out basically. Why are you an artist?
Being an artist is a natural inclination for who I am as a human being. Growing up, my grandparents, both my parents, and my sister were always drawing. I always had that natural proclivity to draw, that need to draw. To express myself visually like that. I was always drawing. If I wanted to say something or I wanted to reflect, or make any type of comment or whatever. It's just who I am as a being. And then I got to the point in my life when I asked myself, "what do I want to be and what do I want to contribute to society?" What better way than something that comes naturally to me? It's something I derive pleasure from. It's kind of a selfish thing, but I enjoy making images and semantically that's how you label artists. It's just who I am.
Can you tell us a little bit about your process as an artist? Where does your iconography come from and how do you choose what to incorporate?
I really like Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, anybody who's making comments on mainstream culture or making commentary on something. I think that affects them personally, somehow making comments on what they think is important. So I am very into counterculture, conspiracy ideas. I work towards choosing separate ideas and juxtaposing them and thinking about how I can bring them together to derive meaning. It's based on stuff that I'm into, that I read, that I'm exposed to in day-to-day life.
We live in the twenty first century here and we're bombarded with imagery. Even in the last fifty years, we're bombarded with some sort of visual information at a steady rate. Some of those things that I look at, I kind of combine all those ideas together. A lot of the things that I make are based on a single idea or thought. How can I convey that thought in a way that makes sense to me? My paintings have a main theme or idea and I'll transform things and adjust to help me convey that information visually, whether it's through swapping out words or the actual iconography I'm using to suggest an idea. You know, it's basically social political commentary, no different than Basquiat, any of those guys. I'm just commenting on what I see, what I think someone should pay attention to.
I was interested in you talking about Guy Debord and Jean Baudrillard in your artist statement [for your upcoming show at AS220]. In your paintings you use these little dotted lines to connect all the disparate symbols, and it really reminded me of Debord's Pyschogeographic map of Paris. What's the relationship between your work and the idea of Spectacle and Simulacra that those guys were getting at? Do you feel like you're trying to subvert it? Document it? What's that relationship?
I don't know about subvert...I guess there's a little subversion going on there. The main idea of those guys is almost a sort of nihilism, in a way. Whatever you're looking at is not even what it is; it's the representation of the idea of what it is. A lot of that stuff gets pretty far out when you're reading some of it, but it's a lot like Joseph Kosuth when he presents that chair. He has a definition of a chair, a real chair, and a picture of a chair. What is the chair? It's been told to me that that's what it is.
In the bigger scheme of society and the social systems and how it all interacts in a big kind of microcosm/macrocosm sort of semiosis, it's about how all these things relate. And there is a connection between everything. Looking into transcendental meditation or quantum physics - I'm not a quantum physicist, but I've read a lot and learned a lot - you see that at the subatomic level everything is connected. There is no difference. So what I get from these books here is that everything is intertwined. At the same time, it's label this or label that, but it's all based on historical information, this Hegelian kind of idea where I only understand these things based on my previous experiences. So I mean, without getting too in depth, I'm picking an image that I think best represents the idea that I'm trying to say, but that idea that I'm representing is already iconography, it's already a symbol that has been pre-made, it's already there. It's a way that I think people can relate to that idea or that thought.
In some images I had weapons. What do weapons signify? What do they mean? They mean aggression, protection, it all depends on you. But regardless, the symbol of the weapon, of the gun, of violence or control, is a bunch of those things and it's up to you when you look at it to decide what meanings best suit you. I'm focusing you on one of those meanings. I'm contriving the information on the board based on symbols that I think relate to everybody.
Image is everything, and image is nothing. Image is a Sprite commercial. Reading Baudrillard and Debord and those guys, you come away with despair, despair that it really means nothing. I like what those guys talk about, and it makes sense with what I do and it fits the mold of what I'm trying to talk about. It's something that relates to my work. The way I place the stuff on the actual surface, I'm looking towards advertisements and how they put symbols down. I'm looking towards hieroglyphics. The way I compose the piece is dependent on how I think about it. Some of the pictures look random, but it's a specific randomness. It looks chaotic, but there is a place for everything. Everything is in an order. It mirrors our society: it's chaos, but it's ordered chaos.
Are you an artist who goes through phases? If so, where are you now? Where have you come from?
It's interesting you ask. When I went to school, I went for illustration, because I knew I wanted to focus in on rendering and being able to be the best draftsman and the best at capturing likenesses. I grew up on sugary cereals and Mad Magazine and the Smurfs, and that's what I relate to. A lot of this stuff is very influenced by that. The other day I was looking over drawings that I had done as a kid, in high school, and the composition is very similar to what I do now. It's kind of arranged and placed in a kind of space, but they're all placed so that each image has a separate little area for itself, even while they're all intertwined and connected.
I think that I've stayed the same, but I've also developed in how I do arrange the images and the way that I look at the space. Now I'm more informed, and more specific as far as what goes in. And it fits the kind of drawings I'm doing. If I was doing a landscape, the compositions would change. Even with the Fucked Series that I'm working on now, the composition of each drawing is individual and organized, but I arrange them on the wall almost like I arrange a painting, except I'm putting it on the surface of the wall. The idea of arrangement is there. I've been developing that idea since I've been a kid.
What are some of your interests outside painting?
I'm into living life. I like music a lot. I'm big on family, that's important. Just experiencing life. Going out there and dealing with day to day things while trying to stay positive. I like coffee a lot. I like hanging out with buddies and having coffee. I like to read a lot. I like to pay attention to what's going on. It helps influence me. I teach too. I'm a teacher, so I like to think about how to better articulate and better convey ideas. Just like everyone else, I'm just trying to find happiness and trying to find a way through the daily grind, you know what I mean?
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David Planka's new works will be on view at the AS220 Empire St. Gallery from October 3 through October 30 alongside Abby Test's Portraits. Please join us for the opening reception on Sunday October 3, 4-7PM.
Brief words and interview by Gan Uyeda.
2nd Biennial Print Lottery, Welcome Back to the Twentieth Century!, Studio 308 at the Mercantile,DWRI+TS= a Super Secret Print Release!
SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY September 12th 4-7pm at the AS220 Complex
This Sunday at the AS220 Complex all is in a whirl wind of art & wonder & its all free to see!
Start at the AS220 Main Gallery at Empire St. , and preview the 200+ Prints of the Print Lottery & be sure to buy your ticket to win! win! win! 200 prints, $100 a ticket and every ticket is a winner! The Print Lottery is a benefit for the AS220 Community Printshop that showcases works on paper by 200 artists from all over the world. We're asking you to show your support for the shop with a $100 donation. In thanks, you recieve a ticket redeemable for artwork on display during the 2nd Biennial Print Lottery on September 25th, 2010. In keeping with AS220's mission of accessibility and equality, and for the purpose of having fun, all artwork in the show is won by a blind lottery system.
All through the month of September, the AS220 Community Printshop will be presenting lectures and workshops culminating on Saturday the 25th with the Print Lottery. More info here! and a complete schedule of events here. While your at the Empire st. be sure to hop up to the 2nd floor YOUTH GALLERY and check out the t-shirts and prints the studio has been making at the Printshop. Hot! Hot! Hot! the future is now!
Next skip on over to 131 Washington St. the Mercantile Block, AS220's newest addition to the family! Take a tour, visit the studios and apply to move in! While on the tour visit Studio 308. Montana Blanco has curated the living space/show room with work from local New England artists, including work by: Cara Blaine, Ben Blanc, Joe Buzzel, Jill Colinan, Serena Elston, Joshua Enck, Fredericks and Mae, Corey Grayhorse, Chloris Lowe, Alee Peoples, Meg Turner, Matt Underwod Ben Watkins and Pippi Zornoza. ....drinks & h'orderves to be served. more info here.
Next Stop the Twentieth Century! The AS220 Project Space present "Welcome Back to the Twentieth Century" new letterpress prints by Dan Wood & "DWRI+TS=" Three Years of collaborative prints by Dan Wood and Tiny Showcase. Dan Wood presents a new body of work that has simmering for a long time, work that has been lost and then found, recycled and renewed. Dan welcomes us back to the 20th century, our recent past that still casts a shadow over us.
In addition to Dan's new work the Reading Room features work from Dan's three year collaboration with Tiny Showcase. Lots of little letterpress wonders to feast your eyes upon, and to sigh heavily over, if say you perhaps missed the release, for instance, "Inside Shed 4- Gramphone Store" by Nigel Peake and its lost to you forevermore...sigh Well, don't let it happen again, for on Sunday DWRI & Tiny Showcase will be premiering a super secret new release available only at the AS220 Project Space! Think back, past the 20th century, into the mists of time, to the dawn of a new age, back to the beginning of MAGIC! I can say no more, other than: yes it will be very affordable.
Checkout the new AS220 Project Space Facebook page for a preview of "Welcome Back to the Twentieth Century" and a hint about the the super secret new print release!
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Last Days of Staring at the Sun!
"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
Providence Anarchist Bookfair at FOO FEST!
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!
Call-for-Art!
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!
Gallery Opening Today! Sunday August 1st 4-7pm!
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.
TODAY! RISCA's Professional Development Grant
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
Gallery Talk with Jen Raimondi!
Thursday July 15th 6 - 8pm at the AS220 Project Space. free!
Gallery Reception Sunday 4-7pm!
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.
Last Days of June, New July Beginnings!
"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.
BURY ME DEAD Artist Talk Today!
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
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.
June Gallery Opening Reception Tomorrow!
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
Nancy Spero's "Torture of Women"
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.
Upcoming Exhibitions at AS220
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.
Opening Today! Sunday May 2, 2010 4pm!
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!)
Fifteen Artists and Their Fluxus Book Project
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.
AS220 Project Space Chosen Best Art Gallery! Thank You!!
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/
A Selection from the AS220 FlatFile Project
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.
Gallery Talk with Seamus Hames and Joan Wyand
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"
April Gallery Reception
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 1st Gallery Preview, no joke!
APRIL Gallery Exhibitions!
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"
2 days left to check out March Gallery exhibits!
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.
Tonight! Artist Talk with Joshua Enck
at the AS220 Project Space, 93 Mathewson St. 6-8pm Free!
Artist Talk with Joshua Enck
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 at AS220
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.
Artist Talk with Lucia O'Reilly
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.
Gallery Talk this Thursday with Julia Gandrud!
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 in the AS220 Galleries
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
October Artist Talk at the AS220 Project Space
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 Gallery Exhibits!
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!
Gallery Opening Today! Sunday September 13, 4-7pm!
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!
Have You Seen Me?
*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.
Gallery Talk this Thursday with Sharon Cutts!
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!
Gallery Opening! Sunday August 2, 4-7pm!
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 Gallery Exhibitions!
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
Artist Talk with C.W. Roelle
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!
Gallery Talk with Nick Holligbaugh & Ben Watkins
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"
Gallery Opening Today! Sunday June 7, 4-7pm!
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.
Exquisite Corpse Video Project
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.
Artist Talk Tonight with Liz Collins
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.
Vermont Studio Center Full Fellowships
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?
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?
Gallery Opening Today! 4-7pm!
(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!
Mobile Art Project: Call for Entries
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.
Siglio Press: CALL FOR ARTISTS
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
Artist Talk at AS220's Project Space April 16
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
Sunday Gallery Openings at AS220!
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
OPEN STUDIO with Visiting Artist-In-Residence
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.
DE/CONSTRUCT 2
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/
The Mobile Arts Project
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
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
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.
Call For Art to support free Legal Services in RI
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.
Closing Reception at the AS220 Main Gallery
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
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.
Vermont Studio Center Full Fellowships
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
Call FOR ART to support Legal Services for the Underrepresented & Disenfranchised
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.
Youth Gallery Artist Interview: Benito Rios
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.
Youth Gallery Artist Interview: Kourtnie Aileru
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.
Boston Art Awards 2008 seeks Nominations
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.
CALL FOR ARTISTS
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
Sonaguera
"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.
Prints from the AS220 Flat Files!
"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 by Ilona Nemeth this Friday & Saturday at AS220
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/
DUNE SHACK RESIDENCIES
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
Gallery Talk with Troy West
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).
"Funhouse" a review of New Obstructions exhibition
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.
New Obstructions
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
30 Days + 24 Hours
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.
Music at the Project Space
"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
Providence Art Windows
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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Art Trade-A-Thon Yankee Swap
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.
