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Providence artist Joshua Enck, whose sculpture can currently be viewed at the AS220 Project Space, is giving a talk this Thursday at 6 pm on his current exhibition at the AS220 Project Space at 93 Mathewson St. Josh , a trained architect and furniture maker, creates unique sculptural forms in wood and metal that obliquely draw reference from the agricultural and industrial landscape of the midwest. The forms he creates, from a range of materials, are at one familiar an ambiguous, marked by age, weather, and interaction that hint at a narrative the viewer is left to complete. Josh earned an MFA from the Department of Furniture Design at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2003 and was the recipient of the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts 2008 and 2010 Fellowship Merit Award in Crafts.

The talk begina at 6pm at the AS220 Project Space at 93 Mathewson St. Providence RI and free and open to the public. For more information please contact Gallery director Neal Walsh at 401.831.9327 or neal@as220.org. Gallery hours are Wednesday-Friday 1pm-6pm and Saturday Noon-5pm.

Keith Waldrop, winner of the 2009 National Book Award for poetry, will read from his work on Friday, February 19 at 5:30 p.m. at AS220, 115 Empire Street, Providence. The reading coincides with a show of Waldrop's artwork in the AS220 Project Space gallery.

Waldrop, who is Brooke Russell Astor Professor of Humanities at Brown University, has for nearly four decades been creating a lyrical body of visual art that mirrors his extraordinary oeuvre of poetry, fiction, and translation.

He received the National Book Award for "Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy", which presents three related poem sequences - "Shipwreck in Haven," "Falling in Love through a Description," and "The Plummet of Vitruvius," described by the National Book Award committee as "a virtuosic poetic triptych." The committee goes on to say that "these powerful poems, at once metaphysical and personal, reconcile Waldrop's romantic tendencies with formal experimentation, uniting poetry and philosophy and revealing him as a transcendental author for the new millennium."

Keith Waldrop, with his wife, noted poet and translator Rosemarie Waldrop have been active in the the avant-garde and experimental literary art scene for over forty years, publishing noteworthy authors on their small independent press, Burning Deck.

Some of Waldrop's other recent books are The Real Subject: Queries and Conjectures of Jacob Delafon, with Sample Poems, The House Seen from Nowhere, and a translation of The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire.

His reading, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by AS220 and by the Graduate Program in Literary Arts at Brown.

Reception to follow at the AS220 Project Space at 93 Mathewson St.

Award winning animator Steven Subotnick will be screening a selection of his work tonight at the AS220 Perfomance Space. Doors open at 5:30pm & films start at 6pm. Free!

Steven's animated films are associative explorations of themes found in history, folklore, and his own unconscious; he treats each film as a poetic essay on a particular subject. His animations are alchemical - thought, motion, sound, art, narrative, and abstraction all combine to create a new substance. As a visual artist, he believes in the expressive power of materials - that technique and content are inseparable - that ideas only become real when they are tangible. His method is similar to documentary filmmaking in that he spends time intuitively creating images and animated scenes before he imposes a filmic structure. The film's final narrative grows organically out of the accumulated material through the process of editing and designing sound.

January 3-29, 2010

opening reception

Sunday, January 3, 4-7pm

AS220 Main Gallery

Paintings & Drawings by Bill Killen

Wood Block Prints by Laura Shirreff

Open Window

New Drawings by Paul Holden

Youth Gallery

High Tech Design: New work BSS Youth & AS220 Labs

AS220 Project Space

TRASH: Groups Show with Lee Fearnside, Holly Hey, Scott Lapham, Caroline Kern, and Jo Dery

JELLYFISH: animations & paintings by Steven Subotnick

The AS220 starts the new year off with amazing animations, classical painting with a wry edge, innovative wood block prints, & lots of wonderful Trash.
The Youth Gallery continues with high tech meets art explorations of the Broad Street Studio featuring amazing work by Simcha Davis, Kafumba Bility, Benito Rios, and many more talented youth. The Main Gallery feature Bill Killen's silve point drawings and oil paintings, rendered in the "Flemish Painting Style" takes classical imagery that is subverted by improbable and often sarcastic use of the "female form". Laura Shirreff literally uses her body to create prints that explore materiality & presence in a luminous and intimate manner. In the Open Window, Paul Hogan exhibits drawings that render real and imagined places in pen and ink. Paul work invokes the fine line of the real and the dreamed in precise linear form. In the Project Space is Trash, a group exhibit curated by Lee Fearnside featuring her photography of waste treatment plants work , two delightful animations Jo Dery, a video critique of disposable patriotic culture by Holly Hey, sculptural works from Scott Lapham's Perfectly Preserved Shorline series & Caroline Paquita's recylced, re-used works. In the Side Room Steve Subotnicks exhibits drawings and prints from th emaking of his animation The Jelly Fishers. Amazing look glimpse into the process of animation.

Lucia O'Reilly will be talking this Thursday about her current exhibition "Corners" at the AS220 Project Space. The exhibition brings together three bodies of work that manipulates paint, collage, and delicate controlled burnings that explore the delicate intersection between the beauty of the formal design and the thorniness of the content. The talk starts at 6pm and is free. The AS220 Project Space is located at 93 Mathewson St.

Julia Gandrud will be talking about her animations and artists' books currently on exhibit in the AS220 Project Space this Thursday, November 19th from 6-8pm. Julia's hand drawn animations and books use primordial motifs that tell stories of our most primitive and raw experiences of the beauty and magic of the world we encounter daily, a magic that speaks softly that could be easily overlooked.

Talk is free and at the AS220 Project Space at 93 Mathewson St. for more info contact neal@as220.org

November 1-28, 2009

opening reception

Sunday, November 1, 4-7pm

Great Shows coming up oh so soon in the merry month of November! Paintings dominate at AS220 Empire St. Complex. Emily Lisker's strange, visceral theaterscapes paintings explode in size and color in the new series "Three's a Crowd." Michelle L'Heurex new series "Gender Redux "explores the ambiguity of our identity as well as the ambiguity that exists within the multiple layers of the painted surface. John Bhogal rocks the Youth Gallery on the 2nd floor with "Handle It!" mixed media paintings spanning styles that hit just right. But let us not forget the photographic medium, Russ Pedro presents a series of photographic still lives in the Open Window gallery. The AS220 Project Space presents "Screening My Thoughts" videos and book works by Julia Gandrund. Delicate line & Primordial images twist & dance & open up to the magical beauty of the world, sometimes softly like a whisper.

& like a whisper that turns into monsoon we have a special autumn surprise: we have transformed our little side room exhibition space into a bookshop/reading room/printed ephemera exhibition space. we are looking to feature works by book artists & and makers of printed ephemera of all stripes! November brings us an exquisite project form Chicago, Illinois. The Green Lantern & Caroline Picard present Isolated Fictions: A Group Show featuring the work of Jason Dunda, Deb Sokolow, Nick Butcher & Rebecca Grady

AS220 Main Gallery New Paintings by Emily Lisker and Gender Redux Paintings by Michele L'Heureux

Open Window

Photography by Russ Pedro

Youth Gallery

Handle It ! : new paintings by John Bhogal

AS220 Project Space

Screening My Thoughts: new work by Julia Gandrud

Artist Holly Ewald, Folklorist Michael Bell, and photographer and book artist Erik Gould will talk about their current work and the role of *the book *in their practice. Thursday October 15, 6-8pm at the AS220 Project Space, 93 Mathewson St.

Ewald & Bell created the installation Languages of the Land, A Dialogue with The Downs. Stepping into the installation is like stepping into the pages of a book. The suspended pages surround the visitor in layered images of land, water, woods, sky and built environments haunted by silhouettes of past inhabitants and objects. With a loose sense of sequential order the viewer wanders through the images and creates his/her own story based on past experiences in similar places. Washed up treasures line the exterior walls of the installation and rest on pebbles, soils and grasses from the site. As one walks through the suspended pages of this book one hears voices of both long-time residents and newcomers share their experiences of Salter Grove. A handheld book of this installation is found in an adjacent room with other artists books sharing journeys to other places.

October 4-24, 2009

opening reception (free admission) Sunday, October 4, 4-7pm

AS220 Main Gallery

Do it! Show it! Sing it! Work it!

AS220 Group Exhibition

Youth Gallery

New Photography by Miguel Rosario and Ray Min

AS220 Project Space

Languages of the Land

New Installation by Holly Ewald

In Place, Everywhere Artist Book exhibit

Welcome to autumn! October is here & we can hardly contain our excitement for the hauntingly enchanting shows this month....

At the Main Gallery we have: Do It! Show It! Sing It! Work It! An AS220 Group Exhibit with work by, staff, residents, volunteers, and other luminaries that shine upon the little valley of AS220! Head on over to the Project Space where artist Holly Ewald, working with Folklorist Michael Bell created a life sized book installation Languages of the Land, A Dialogue with The Downs.
As part of the the installation In Place, Elsewhere: Artists' Book exhibition will be exhibited in the side room of the AS220 Project Space. Artist Holly Ewald and AS220 Gallery Director Neal Walsh invited artists to contribute artists' books on the theme of Place, and the various ways we experience being in place. An artists talk with Holly Ewald and contributing artists is scheduled for Thursday October 15th from 6pm-8pm, at the As220 Project Space. And last but not least, we have new photography by Ray Min & Miguel Rosario in the Youth Gallery. Ray Min's work documents the world of local boxing clubs, while Miguel Rosario explores the life and culture of the Dominican Republic.

So while you're sippin' some cider and rotting your teeth with candy corn, don't forget to check out the AS220 galleries this month!

AS220 Main Gallery

Double Vision:

Nathan Fitch & the Artists of Top Drawer Art Center

Youth Gallery

BSS VISUALS:

New Works by Uriah, Eduardo, John Bhogal, NJ, Solomon Bass, Rev

AS220 Project Space

Love Songs New Work by Lydia Stein

& Live Music at the Project Space! starting at 7pm with:

The Underscore Orkestra (Portland, OR)

The Salt Wives (Providence-Boston)

The Extraordinary Rendition Band (Providence)

marching bands, gypsy tunes & balkan breadowns! wear your dancing shoes! $5 suggested donation!