Recently in Shows 2011 Category

Shows On View January 8th-28th
Opening Reception: Sunday, January 8, 2012, 4-7pm
Always Free & Open to the Public
AS220 Project Space (93 Mathewson St) - New Installation by Ben Blanc
Artist Talk with Ben Blanc at the Project Space Gallery January 19th 5:30pm
AS220 Open Window (115 Empire St) - New Work by Carolina Arentsen
Main Gallery (115 Empire St) - New Work by Janet Van Horne and Paintings by Lauren Scotto
Youth Gallery (115 Empire St Floor 2) Drawings and Paintings by AS220 Youth Members Mikaela Gonzaga and Davina Alejo

AS220 Youth will also be showing work off-site at the Atrium Gallery, One Capital Hill from January 9th-27th. Reception: January 19th 6-8:30pm.
Think, May, Do.: A multimedia exhibition of AS220 Youth Members’ work

Exhibiting artist Li Jun Lai will give an artist talk this Thursday at 5:30 at the AS220 Project Space at 93 Mathewson St. Her new exhibition, " RED, YWL, GRN," is a site-specific installation of paintings and drawings that explore the very temporal and temporary experience that seeing is.

From the Li Jun's artist statement:

"Observe, see, take notes, gather different types of information, at multiple scales, of different durations. Different kinds of seeing - looking, glancing, contemplating, foveal and peripheral vision, walking around, going into, looking down, looking up, stepping back afar, peering in closely, from different perspectives. Visual processing - multiple and simultaneous pathways that the brain uses to make sense of sensory stimuli, to construct images and meaning .."

DECEMBER 4-24, 2011

opening reception (free & open to the public)

Sunday, December 4 , 4-7pm

AS220 Main Gallery

No Banks

New Paintings by Nick McKnight & Carl Dimitri

Open Window

Diversity

New Paintings by Nix-on

Youth Gallery

New work from the AS220 Youth Studio!

AS220 Project Space

RED, YLW, GRN,

New Work by Li Jun Lai

artist talk December 15th at 5:30 p.m.

NOVEMBER 6-26, 2011

opening reception (free & open to the public)

Sunday, November 6 , 4-7pm

AS220 Main Gallery

New Work by Melanie Rae Zapasnik

and Betsey MacDonald

Open Window

Abstract Paintings by Ronnie Borden

Youth Gallery

Jon Gourlay and Alberto Bernard

AS220 Project Space

New Work by Dan Talbot

Reading Room

Light Works by Rebecca Macri

Decorative Diatom, 2010, Watercolor by Rebecca Macri

October 2-29

opening reception Sunday October 2, 4-7pm

AS220 Main Gallery

New Paintings by John Forest and Richard Forand

Open Window New paintings by Nicole Maynard-Sahar

AS220 Project Space

"Talking Leaves" New Work by Andrew Moon Bain

Trees speak a language older than any human being and sing songs with the wind rushing through their bows. This exhibition retells some of the songs and stories heard from the trees and bird ghosts.

Reading Room

Amigos & Friends collaborative zine project. Amigos Publishing & Shop is a retail and community space for zines and other art-related items.

Participating artists: Abby Grenon, Kaleb Durocher, Monica Yi, Robin Newman, Hannah Abelow, Daniella Ben-Bassat, Kenyon Smith, Nick Ferreira, Daniel Hanafin, and Michelle Chrzanowski

Youth Gallery

Kassandra Cardona and Indira Miller

Lots of great new work for our August Gallery shows. We have folk signs and sculptures by Bruno Ramieri, abstract mixed media & encaustic paintings by Heather Sylvester, new figurative paintings by Russell Carter and a new large scale painting by Benjamin Ligeri, all on view at AS220's Empire St. gallery spaces. Photo Memory is holding down the Youth Gallery while Christian Goncalves exhibits new mixed assemblages and sculptures at the AS220 Project Space that are embodiments of his inner psyche. The opening reception is Sunday August 7th from 4-7p.m and is free and open to the public. Hope to see you there!

August 7-27, 2011

opening reception (free & open to the public)

Sunday, August 7 , 4-7pm

AS220 Main Gallery

New Work by Russell Carter, Benjamin Ligeri, and Heather Sylvester

Open Window

New Painings and Sculptures by Bruno Ramieri

Youth Gallery

New work from Photo Memory

AS220 Project Space

New Work by Christian Goncalves

Reading Room

Prints & Books from the collection

Over the last month, Devin King and Caroline Picard have been artists in residence at AS220. During that time they have been writing in libraries, conducting interviews and printing books. While they pursue separate artistic practices, they'll have a short reading to commemorate their time in Providence. Chapbooks they made at the AS220 print shop, will be available to peruse and purchase.

Devin King will be reading from his new book, The Resonant Space, a book of poetry that investigates the meeting place between youth culture, object oriented ontology and modernist poetics. Devin King is a writer, a teacher and a musician from Chicago.

Caroline Picard will read from her book, Psycho Dream Factory (Holon Press, 2011)--a collection of short stories that appropriates celebrity figures like paper dolls, colliding Woody Allen and his protege, MJ and Orlan and Dr Dre and the burning man festival. Caroline Picard is the Senior Editor for the Green Lantern Press. She lives in Chicago and writes regularly for Badatsports. The Chronicles of Fortune is a collection of comics depicting the joys and sorrows of an unhappy super hero.

Caroline and Devin will be reading on Thursday, July 28th from 5:30 - 7 p.m. at the AS220 Performance Space at 115 Empire St. Free & open to the public.

Both books will be available for $8/ea or $10 for both.

Artist Talk, 6:30 this Thursday July 21st at As220's Project Space

Natasha Maria Brooks-Sperduti makes work and play out of exploring real and perceived limitations of embodiement. Her current practice combines daily art and yoga as a way of creating fluidity to foster growth. She uses the motion of her body to make site specific installation and performance. Through photography she collects and shares moments from the world around her. Natasha lives in Providence, Rhode Island. She has shown in New York and London, and holds a degree in studio art from Bard College. Natasha will speak about her work currently on view at AS220, including photographs printed in their new digital print facility.

Natsha Maria Brooks-Sperduti as part of her exhibition, "Current: exploring embodiment" will be "performing" two salt drawings at the AS220 Project Space. The first is at at noon and then at 5 p.m. Using her breath, Natasha gently blows on grains of salt crystals across a painted circular surface, creating gentle undulations and valleys in the salt. The Salt Drawings are a part of Natasha's on-going series of Elemental Drawings that strive to uncover and reveal the secret fleeting gestures within forms.

The Salt Drawing are at the AS220 Project Space and free and open to the public.