June 2009 Archives

Kate Tessa Lee and Agata Michalowska: books of journeys (imagined and real)

TONIGHT

Friday, June 26th

Artist in Residence room

115 Empire Street, floor 3

7-9 PM

Please come join the current Artist in Residence, Kate Tessa Lee and an AS220 Resident and artist, Agata Michalowska for the viewing of their recent print project. The artists created two symbolic travel journals based on factual and imagined journeys. Personal photographs, historical maps and other records of voyages, serve as a basis for creating a subjective mapping of travels that have taken place or are yet to happen. The project utilized the techniques of Intaglio and Chine Collé. The two books are filled with metaphors and symbols- a cartography of personal landscapes. Both books will be on display Friday night together with the source materials that they were derived from.

Ben Watkins, "Division Series #2"

Artists' Talk with Nick Hollighbaugh & Ben Watkins Thursday June 18th from 6pm-8pm at the AS220 Project Space

The AS220 Project Space presents the fine art and craftmanship of Nick Holligbaugh & Ben Watkins. Nick and Ben, in their distinct ways, make meticulously crafted sculptures and paintings that blur boundaries and style. Ben and Nick will talk in-depth about their techniques and creative processes this Thursday, June 18th from 6pm-8pm at the AS220 Project Space. The talk is free and open to the public.

The AS220 Project Space is located at 93 Mathewson Street, in Providence, RI. For more information please contact Gallery Director Neal T. Walsh at 401.490.6164 or neal@as220.org

read the review of their exhibit here.

Nick Holligbaugh, "Lineage"

Leslie Friedman, "Fossil Fools Project: ANWR Walk"

We have eye poppin' , collage serigraphs by Leslie Friedman from her new series, The Fossil Fools Projects, social commentary in the vein of Corita Kent. Equally concerned with social commentary , but a bit more towards the Lenny Bruce end of the spectrum, comes the mixed media collages & paintings by Nathan Ventura. Nathan uses found materials, and innovative mediums like bleach, to create sweet, wry, scatological, twisted little works. Christine Manory 's exhibit in the Open Window, Dolls Freak Me Out, provides a baker's dozen of photographs on the reason why. In the Youth Gallery , Alex Bomberg is rockin' with work that spans the range of materials and style: paintings, chalk drawing to the awesome "wallface". The AS220 Project Space features the fine art and craftmanship of Nick Holligbaugh & Ben Watkins. Nick and Ben, in their own distinct ways, make meticulously crafted sculptures and paintings that blur boundaries and style. They will be talking about the magic they make Thursday June 18th from 6pm-8pm at the AS220 Project Space.

& there is more!

Visiting Artist-in-Residence William Buzzel will be exhibiting Liberal Arts new paintings about the Providence Library system, in AS220's Street Exhibition Space, at 115 Empire St. Will has be working away over the last month creating a new body of work the delves into the Providence Public Library's long history & evolution. Read more here & meet Will at Sunday's Gallery Reception from 4pm-7pm.

This Saturday Rhode Island artist Ambuja Magaji presents the Exquisite Corpse Video Project from 5:30-8:30pm in the AS220 Performance Space (free!)

The Exquisite Corpse Video Project (ECVP) is a unique video collaboration of 36 artists from 16 countries, inspired by the Surrealist invention, the "Exquisite Corpse". ECVP participants create video art in response to the final ten seconds of the previous member's work. The videos from the ECVP were created by artists who met online, at artreview.com, a networking site for artists, galleries, and collectors. The project was coordinated by Brazilian video‐artist, Kika Nicolela. Local ECVP participant Ambuja Magaji, will present volume one & discuss the project.

More information here.