JUNE GALLERY SHOWS!
Monster Makeup Productions | Kendel Joseph | Raquel Davis | Steven Emma
IN THE GALLERIES | JUNE 6-27th, 2026
Opening Reception | Saturday June 6th, 5-7pm
AS220 JUNE GALLERY EXHIBITS
June 6- 27th, 2026
Opening Reception Saturday June 6th, 5-7 p.m.
AS220 Project Space at 93 Mathewson St.
Working with My Hands: A Retrospective
Steven Emma
Steven Emma has a long history with AS220 dating back to 1983 when he, along with Martha Dempster, and Umberto Crenca co-wrote and signed theoriginal manifesto that led to the founding of AS220 in 1985.
Since then Steven has been pursuing his passions in his home studio in Providence. Steven works in a range of mediums and materials from wood block prints, sculptures carved stone and wood, walking sticks, and drawings in graphite, pen, and charcoal. Steven is also an amateur geologist and paleontologist, a dedicated volunteer on the West Bay Bike path, and a poet. His work exemplifies the marriage of function and form, of aesthetics and utility. It is experimental, sensuous, sculptural, useful, balanced, ruggedly simple, and elegant.
AS220 Main Gallery at 111 Empire St.
What's Your Favorite Color
Raquel Davis
Raquel first picked up a camera when she was 10, hiking in Yellowstone National Park with her Dad and she’s had one somewhere nearby ever since. There is something deeply comforting in the constancy of a camera and the photographs it takes. From California to Rhode Island, from middle school to medical school her camera is always there to capture a discreet moment in time. From those first photos in Yellowstone, nature has always been her inspiration. No matter what is happening in the world, nature is always there full of life, joy, and every color of the rainbow.
AS220 Aborn Gallery at 95 Empire St. fl. 2
Monsters from the Closet: a Decade of DIY Filmmaking
Monster Makeup Productions
Monster Makeup Productions is a filmmaking collective that formed in 2015 when we decided we wanted to make a horror movie. We had no formal education in filmmaking. We hadn’t even made a short film, but that night, we started to create a world larger than life, yet one we recognized.
Akin to many queer people’s cathartic relationship to the horror genre, we make monsters to cope with, criticize, and combat real monsters that wreak havoc in our everyday lives. From colossal beasts like capitalism and gentrification, to queer community-specific evils like ageism and cult-esque conformity, our solution to these atrocities is to gather our community, look at the monster unflinchingly, and soak it in blood.
Monsters from the Closet is a retrospective celebration of our unorthodox, grassroots, community-centered approach to filmmaking, as well as our unwavering and honest depiction of queer existence through the heightened lens of the horror genre.
AS220 Main Gallery at 111 Empire St.
Spires Of Interludes
Kendel Joseph
Spire of Interludes is meant to share a window into the artist's self-teaching practices, through intense sessions of speed painting in freehand. These pieces are meant to channel, awaken, and evolve both the soul and vision of the artist.
gallery hours: thursday & friday 1-6pm saturday noon-5pm +