Recently in Shows 2010 Category

March roars with raw excitement as a series of wonderful new exhibitions by amazing Rhode Island artists' that promise to melt the winter from our hearts and lead us into the arms of spring. We have six new exhibits at AS220 and an exhibition at our friends Providence Optical Gallery! And there is more to come in March! Stay tuned for the details.

FIRST at AS220 New paintings by Michelle Dussault that sing brilliant the tottering precariousness of the earth faced with global climate change. Ed Mooney, through photography and drawing, traces paths and passages, searching for the individuals place in a displaced society. Tom Anderson wrestles with personal passions and dramas in pen and ink. Amy Leidtke's new work from the series, "Color Fields", strive for a pure beauty for us to rest our spirit, if only offering a temporary shelter form the storm. Carlos & Luis are two young men from the AS220 Youth program that are exhibiting remarkable new work produced in the Studio.

March 6-26, 2011

opening reception (free & open to the public)

Sunday, March 6 , 4-7pm

AS220 Main Gallery

New Paintings by Michelle Dussault & New Work by Ed Mooney

Open Window

New Works by Tom Anderson

Youth Gallery

New Works by Carlos Santiago & Luis Urena

AS220 Project Space (93 Mathewson St.)

Color Fields

new paintings by Amy Leidtke

hours w-f 1-6pm saturday noon-5pm and by appointment

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Poet & multi-media artist Anne Shaw's installation Inscape examines the human body and our relationship to our bodies and how that knowledge, flawed as that knowledge imay be informs our relationship with with others as bodies, as persons.

The term "inscape" was coined by poet Gerard Manley Hopkins to reflect his idea that each thing in nature contains an intrinsic imprint, a design that makes it uniquely itself. Anne Shaw's installation presents a series of fourteen microscope slides, each containing a tissue specimen from the human body and an accompanying line of text. As a whole they comprise a visual sequence, a fragmentary sonnet, an unbound book, and a scientific investigation.

AS220 Project Space Presents:

Inscapes

an installation by Anne Shaw

at Providence Optical

March 11- April 9, 2011

opening reception (free & open to the public)

Friday, March 11 , 5:30-7:30pm

Providence Optical is located at 75 Weybosset Street

hours: monday 10 am - 5 pm/tuesday 11 am -4 pm/ wednesday 10 am - 5:30 pm/ thursday 11 am - 6pm/ friday 10 am -5:30pm

more info at 401.351.4994

Thursday December 16th Brian O'Malley will talk about his current exhibiton, "the world according to black and white" at the AS220 Project Space, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm. The exhibition consists of paper drawings, onsite drawings with ink and tape, video and sound. Brian transforms the space making an environment of movement and distortion that creates alternate universe of memory and associations.

Before Brian's talk or after visit the AS220 Reading Room at the Project Space and buy some sweet holiday swag & support AS220 Cottage Industries. We have lovely framed photos from the Glass Negative Project, "Timeless Planners" & notebooks from the PrintShop, sweet blank cards, and from Arley-Rose Torsone a much needed holiday reminder.

We also have magical artist books by Sarah Clover, Joshua Deaner and Holly Ewald, & the wonderful Nancy Spero book " Torture of Woman" from Siglio Press, & "Ira Rakatansky: As Modern As Tomorrow" edited by local designer John Caserta, & "The Longest Urinal in the World" by local letterpress hero Dan Wood & lots more including prints from local artists in our FlatFile & lots more small press titles & wonders.

Be Merry & visit the AS220 Project Space.

Cheers!

December 5-27, 2010 // opening reception Sunday, December 5 , 4-7pm \

AS220 Main Gallery

TRANSFIGURE

Dan Potter & Paul Roustan

Open Window

Portraits

drawings by Raymond Lizotte

AS220 Project Space (93 Mathewson St.)

The World According to Black and White

an installation by Brian O'Malley

Brian will give an artist talk December 16 5:30-8pm at the Project Space

You Can't Call Your Own Baby Ugly 

A Group Exhibition in the 

AS220 Galleries featuring 

Umberto Crenca,UmbyBaby,

Bert Cranky,Ump,Bert and 

Umberticus Maximus

November 7-27, 2010

opening reception

Sunday, November 7, 4-7pm  

Artist Talk on November 19, 5:30-8pm at the  Main Gallery at 115 Empire St. 

SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY September 12th 4-7pm at the AS220 Complex

This Sunday at the AS220 Complex all is in a whirl wind of art & wonder & its all free to see!

Start at the AS220 Main Gallery at Empire St. , and preview the 200+ Prints of the Print Lottery & be sure to buy your ticket to win! win! win! 200 prints, $100 a ticket and every ticket is a winner! The Print Lottery is a benefit for the AS220 Community Printshop that showcases works on paper by 200 artists from all over the world. We're asking you to show your support for the shop with a $100 donation. In thanks, you recieve a ticket redeemable for artwork on display during the 2nd Biennial Print Lottery on September 25th, 2010. In keeping with AS220's mission of accessibility and equality, and for the purpose of having fun, all artwork in the show is won by a blind lottery system.

All through the month of September, the AS220 Community Printshop will be presenting lectures and workshops culminating on Saturday the 25th with the Print Lottery. More info here! and a complete schedule of events here. While your at the Empire st. be sure to hop up to the 2nd floor YOUTH GALLERY and check out the t-shirts and prints the studio has been making at the Printshop. Hot! Hot! Hot! the future is now!

Next skip on over to 131 Washington St. the Mercantile Block, AS220's newest addition to the family! Take a tour, visit the studios and apply to move in! While on the tour visit Studio 308. Montana Blanco has curated the living space/show room with work from local New England artists, including work by: Cara Blaine, Ben Blanc, Joe Buzzel, Jill Colinan, Serena Elston, Joshua Enck, Fredericks and Mae, Corey Grayhorse, Chloris Lowe, Alee Peoples, Meg Turner, Matt Underwod Ben Watkins and Pippi Zornoza. ....drinks & h'orderves to be served. more info here.

Next Stop the Twentieth Century! The AS220 Project Space present "Welcome Back to the Twentieth Century" new letterpress prints by Dan Wood & "DWRI+TS=" Three Years of collaborative prints by Dan Wood and Tiny Showcase. Dan Wood presents a new body of work that has simmering for a long time, work that has been lost and then found, recycled and renewed. Dan welcomes us back to the 20th century, our recent past that still casts a shadow over us.

In addition to Dan's new work the Reading Room features work from Dan's three year collaboration with Tiny Showcase. Lots of little letterpress wonders to feast your eyes upon, and to sigh heavily over, if say you perhaps missed the release, for instance, "Inside Shed 4- Gramphone Store" by Nigel Peake and its lost to you forevermore...sigh Well, don't let it happen again, for on Sunday DWRI & Tiny Showcase will be premiering a super secret new release available only at the AS220 Project Space! Think back, past the 20th century, into the mists of time, to the dawn of a new age, back to the beginning of MAGIC! I can say no more, other than: yes it will be very affordable.

Checkout the new AS220 Project Space Facebook page for a preview of "Welcome Back to the Twentieth Century" and a hint about the the super secret new print release!

Yeah!

Brook Goldstein, "Heart in a bottle in Joy" from the series Coloring Book currently on view at the AS220 Main Gallery.

Josh Harriman, " Horse with a Ghost" on exhibit in the Open Window at Empire St.

Peter Lutz, "Cleave" from the current show Staring at the Sun at the AS220 Project Space.

Scott Baker, "Floating Market Place" from current exhibit Traveling Asia on view in the AS220 Main Gallery.

August 1-28, 2010

opening reception 

Sunday, August 1, 4-7pm

AS220 Main Gallery

Travelling Asia by Scott Baker & 

Coloring Book by Brooke Goldstein

Open Window

New Work By Joshua Harriman 

AS220 Project Space (93 Mathewson St.)

New Work by Peter Lutz

artist talk August 19, 6-8pm  at the Project Space

in the reading room: 

Recent Acquisitions 

Youth Gallery

PhotoCollages from the R.I.T.S.

August in the AS220 Galleries brings us to Asia with the travel photography of Scott Baker, Brooke Goldsteins uses symbols and colors to tell vivd narrative stories and Joshus Harriman's paintings invoke dream-like sequnces of the natural world inspired by the work of the German Expressionists. Peter Lutz works acorss a variety of media creating works that appear to be simple, but are painstakingly constructed, and highly nuanced. In the Youth Gallery are photo-collages from the RI Training School that are contemporary spin on the classic works of Hannah Hoch. In the reading room we have new books by local artists and poets such as Irene Lawrence

Ann Shaw, and recent zines fro Amigo Press. Good art work + Good reads= Good times. Come on in enjoy the work and a/c. 

Sunday, July 11, 4-7pm

AS220 Main Gallery

New Work by Holly Gaboriault & Bijan Shadravan

Open Window

New Work By Kevin Cunningham

AS220 Project Space (93 Mathewson St.)

Cultivar : new work by Jennifer Raimondi

the reading room:

Dirt Palace Presents Selections from S.S.C.O.W.L.

Youth Gallery

New Work by Manny Tobagh

ARTIST TALK with Jennifer Raimondi Thursday July 15th, 6-8pm AS220 Project Space.