JUNE 7-27, 2009
opening reception Sunday, June 7, 4-7pm
AS220 Main Gallery New Paintings by Nate Ventura
The Fossil Fools Project and other serigraphs
by Leslie Friedman
Open Window Dolls Freak Me Out
photography by Christine Manory
Youth Gallery New Works by Alex Boberg
AS220 Project Space @ 93 Mathewson St.
New Work by Nick Hollibaugh & Ben Watkins
Hello & Happy June! Spring is here and we are racing towards a super fine action packed summer & the AS220 Galleries are humming with excitement! At Empire St. 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.
Will Buzzel's "Western Canons"
