APRIL GALLERY EXHIBITIONS
APRIL IN THE GALLERIES: OPENING SATURDAY!
L - R: kathy wu | Rebecca Rivera Scotti | Charlie Romano | Haimo Wei | Uli Bramst
In the Galleries: April 5 - 26th, 2025
Opening receptions: Saturday, April 5th, 5 - 7 PM
Aborn Gallery (95 Empire St. 2nd Fl.)
kathy wu - FOR LET EARTH
"This body of work looks at alienation produced by science and technology, and counters it with sensory and poetic material. Across textile, typography, and digital poetry, I hope to press against the visual authority of knowledge through strategies of comparison, convolution, collage, and annotation. There are latent politics and power in all representational technologies, which include but aren’t limited to place names, color names, census data, maps. What happens when we have a more embodied approach to information and its histories? The virtual is always grounded in the materials that make it. The body contains pluralities and sensations—intuitions which are not capturable by language, unseeable by cameras, unknowable by systems."
Project Space (93 Mathewson St)
Uli Bramst - Gravity of the Ephemeral
"German born artist Uli Brahmst has been living and working in Germany, Canada, the Czech Republic and since 1996 in the United States, where she has made New York City and later Rhode Island her home. Brahmst’s spirited portfolio encompasses drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, fiber art as well as site-specific installation. She moves freely between abstraction and the figure, the real and the imagined. Her versatile work is informed by the domestic as well as by current events, and focuses on the empathetic exploration of the human condition in contemporary life."
Reading Room (93 Mathewson St)
Haimo Wei - Is it happiness?
"My name is Haimo Wei. I am an artist and illustrator born in Canada and raised in China, and I am currently a junior in the Illustration program at RISD. Having lived in China, Canada, and the United States, my transient experiences have prompted me to continually reflect on my life and my relationship with society. My works centered on memories of pure warmth first: beneath the dazzling glow of candles, I would make a wish amid ever-changing settings. Each birthday, celebrated annually, symbolizes my existence and my origins. After extinguishing the candles and reopening my eyes, I saw my family gathered together and smiled. The echo of laughter seemed to linger, yet the oversized cake obstructed my view, rendering the figure seated opposite indistinct. I could not tell whether it was the cake, the candlelight, or my own heart that blurred my vision."
Main Gallery (115 Empire St.)
Charlie Romano - Folly
"Born in 2003 in Boulder, Colorado, Charlie Romano is an artist who is deeply invested in the subject of failure, and the ironic successes it can produce. In his practice, he uses warped canvases, cheap materials, and anything he can get his hands on to make idiosyncratic works about childhood, corruption, masculinity, and a variety of other heavy handed topics. This heavy-handedness is offset by a sharp sense of humor and a commitment to self deprecation. Through humor, one can discuss topics that are uncomfortable, dark, and disturbing. Through self deprecation, Charlie wants to remind you that he is no expert on anything. The role of an artist is often subject to being elevated to that of a philosopher, or teacher, but at the end of the day, this art isn't here to give you answers, but to make you ask questions."
Rebecca Rivera Scotti - My Mind’s Eye
"R.R.Scotti has worked extensively in pen and ink, mixed medium, oil paints, and performance; participating in exhibitions throughout Providence, Boston, New York, and Los Angeles. Rebecca is a 2006 graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Tufts University. Her interests and inspirations extend into taxidermy, activism, and existentialist literature. Born into a family of artists, she has an inherent collector's nature and her work draws heavily on this deep-rooted desire to gather from and catalogue the world around her. With her works on paper and canvas, she explores surrealism and the human psyche, often embodying these ideas in the physicality of animals. She uses imagery of everyday objects to evoke personal nostalgia. Currently, she is focusing on highly detailed, large format abstractions and her most immersive piece, raising two kind and spirited humans outside Providence."