April 2009 Archives

Happy May Day!

Artists of the World, Unite and Takeover!

This month in the Galleries we have a dynamic line up of exhibitions ranging from the psychedelic color spectrum of prismacolor markers to the dark rainbow colors of the psyche to rituals of love and mourning, experiments in line & an installation simply called Doll Cave. Opening reception is on Sunday May 3, 4-7pm, light refreshments will be served.

And on Thursday, May 21, artist Liz Collins will give an artist talk in the AS220 Project Space, from 5:30-8pm, free!

May 3-23, 2009

opening reception

Sunday, May 3, 4-7pm

AS220 Main Gallery

Jessica

New works by Jim Shelton & Joanna Roux

New Paintings by K. Lenore Siner

Open Window

*New Psychedelic PrismaColors * by Aaron Marks

Youth Gallery

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

AS220 Project Space @ 93 Mathewson St.

Veins/ New Life: special pieces and garment up-cycling by Liz Collins

The Peaks and Valleys Series by Emily Quillen

Submission Deadline Extended to April 30, 2009

*Call for Entries:Looking for Site-specific Installation Artists *

Hera Gallery in Wakefield in collaboration with Independent Curator, Viera Levitt, is preparing the 'Mobile Art Project' as a pilot project for this June and is currently fundraising for its continuation.

The Mobile Art Project will bring contemporary art to communities in Southern Rhode Island where few or no formal art institutions currently exist. The art will be contained in a mobile home, panel truck or another vehicle. We are looking for artists to propose group or solo shows in various media, including video art. We would prefer site-specific installations created directly for the vehicle. We are considering organizing our first show around the topic of 'Goddess' but we welcome other suggestions. Preference will be given to local artists, however proposals from all of New England are also welcome. A small honorarium and budget will be provided.

complete details here.

IMAGE + TEXT

WORK BY WOMEN

Innovative image + text works by women artists and writers sought for new SIGLIO PRESS anthology.

The anthology asks: WHY AND HOW...

does hybridity play an extraordinary role in women's creative work? [i.e. Claude Cahun's textual subversions, Charlotte Salomon's autobiographical paintings, Nancy Spero's mytho-historical collages, Yoko Ono's instructions, Allison Knowles' notebook distillations, Eleanor Antin's psychological notations, Jenny Holzer's truisms, Ann Hamilton's burned book pages, Louise Bourgeois' embroidered psuedo-aphorisms, etc., etc. etc.]. We are looking for a wide range of image+text work: including--but definitely not limited to--comics and graphic narratives, collage, photo+text works, drawings, text driven by typographical play, altered bookpages/environments, etc. We are most interested in work that plays with new taxonomies, reinvents narrative forms, investigates language, disrupts paradigms, creates unsettling, illuminating juxtapositions, spills over in excess, creates multiples strands of conversation and meaning, and/or is uncontainable in any single medium.

GUIDELINES:

Submit 1 - 12 pages for consideration. It may be one complete work, a small, coherent collection of single works, or an excerpt from a longer work so long as it needs no introduction or explanation. The work must reproduce well as line art or b/w half-tones. Preference is given to works originally intended for print, created as 2-D works, or works whose end-product are photographic documents.

Works may have been previously published so long as the author/artist retains the copyright.

SiglioPressCall.pdf DEADLINE: MAY 12 Submit PDF to publisher@sigliopress.com

Rhode Island stone carver Laura Travis will host an artist talk amidst the carvings and assemblage pieces that comprise her current exhibition, "Bridges and Doors", at the AS220 Project Space, 93 Matthewson St, Providence. The informal conversation will begin around 6 pm and the gallery will be open 5:30 until 8, the event is free and open to the public. The show will run until April 25.

A special highlight of this exhibition and the discussion is a selection of work from the artist group she helped found, An Droichead/The Bridge. The alliance was formed twelve years ago to set new standards in contemporary visual art and design which is based in artifact. The group has sponsored numerous exhibitions and forms the core of the art faculty at the heralded summer classes hosted annually in Goderich, Ontario.

Laura has exhibited in Baltimore, Toronto, New Bedford and Providence and teaches stone carving workshops internationally during the summers, including at the Young Artist program at RISD and at her own studio near the ocean. Her work is informed by stonework from Ireland and other Celtic historical and traditional material, including the music, with which she has been involved for over twenty five years as a radio show host, writer and dancer.

In 2007, Laura spearheaded an effort to salvage the limestone facing left when the Providence Police and Fire Headquarters was demolished. With much assistance from area artists, The Steelyard and AS220, the effort succeeded. Laura's students at Hope Arts High School have recently completed some work in this limestone, currently on display at AS220's Youth Gallery. Laura has taught Visual Art in the Providence Schools since 1989, holds an MFA in Sculpture from Maryland Institute, and was 2007's RI Art Educator of the Year (Secondary Level). She recently completed her National Board Certification.

For more information, please call 401-490-6164 or see the artist's web site at campus.digication.org/lauratravis

McKenzie Burrua-Granger, "untitled" from the series New Beginings/affection & intention

Paintings & collages by Kim Yigit, Claudia Crevier, and Holly Gaboriault adorn the walls at Empire st. the work ranges from fanciful surreal works inspired by folk tales of Holly Gaboriault to the layered abstractions of text & figuration by Kim Yigit that explores movements & migration. Claudia Crevier's new work concentrate on an environmentalist theme, depicting natural scenes that sometimes contain darker, more sinister elements. The Youth Gallery has work by Laura Travis's students from Hope Arts High School, featuring limestone carvings made as part of Yo Yo Ma's Silk Road Project in partnership with RISD and First Works Providence At the AS220 Project Space, Laura Travis presents an installation of new work entitled Bridges & Doors, and the role of stone as markers at the thresholds of transitions & McKenzie Burrus-Granger, in the series New Beginnings/affection & intention, uses color film and medium format cameras, to explore questions of belonging and how we define comfort and safety within the spaces that define us.

April 5-25, 2009

opening reception Sunday, April 5, 4-7pm

AS220 Main Gallery

New Paintings by Kim Yigit & Claudia Crevier

Open Window

New Work by Holly Gaboriault

Youth Gallery

Artwork from Hope High School

AS220 Project Space

Bridges and Doors

New Work by Laura Travis

New Beginings/affection & intention

New Photographs by McKenzie Burrus-Granger