Check out Sue Freda, Johnny Adimando Karen Rand Anderson and Creative Feminisms. New work will be up starting late March. Click on the map above to download and follow the current art trail.
6/6/12
PAW Winter Season
Check out Sue Freda, Johnny Adimando Karen Rand Anderson and Creative Feminisms. New work will be up starting late March. Click on the map above to download and follow the current art trail.
6/4/12
191 Westminster Street, 1 & 2
Sue Freda
Dresses
Copper or tin coated steel, glass, resin, and beads.
Susan Freda is a sculptor and jeweler working in RI. She received her BFA from The Rhode Island School of Design in 1996 and her MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2009. Inspired by RI’s textile and jewelry industries of the past, her work is informed by the intricate and handmade detail often found in lace and costume jewelry. Susan's work often incorporates industrial materials that have been utilized to approximate natural and organic systems. Her work references nests, wings, vines, arteries, scales, and neurons, while assuming fashion related forms of dresses and shoes to hybrid incarnations of plant, mineral, and animal structures.
Susan has been awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and an artist residency at the de Young Museum of San Francisco. Her work can be found in the collections of Fidelity Investments, Meditech, and Neiman Marcus, among others. Susan's shoe sculptures can be seen traveling with the Fuller Museum as well as with Craft Alliance of St. Louis, MO. Her wearable fashion pieces have recently been included on the runway in NY's Fashion Week 2010.
To learn more about the artist, please go to suefreda.com
To purchase work, please contact:
Susan Freda Studios at Gallery 4. 3848 Main Rd. Tiverton, RI 02878
Dresses
Copper or tin coated steel, glass, resin, and beads.
Susan Freda is a sculptor and jeweler working in RI. She received her BFA from The Rhode Island School of Design in 1996 and her MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2009. Inspired by RI’s textile and jewelry industries of the past, her work is informed by the intricate and handmade detail often found in lace and costume jewelry. Susan's work often incorporates industrial materials that have been utilized to approximate natural and organic systems. Her work references nests, wings, vines, arteries, scales, and neurons, while assuming fashion related forms of dresses and shoes to hybrid incarnations of plant, mineral, and animal structures.
Susan has been awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and an artist residency at the de Young Museum of San Francisco. Her work can be found in the collections of Fidelity Investments, Meditech, and Neiman Marcus, among others. Susan's shoe sculptures can be seen traveling with the Fuller Museum as well as with Craft Alliance of St. Louis, MO. Her wearable fashion pieces have recently been included on the runway in NY's Fashion Week 2010.
To learn more about the artist, please go to suefreda.com
To purchase work, please contact:
Susan Freda Studios at Gallery 4. 3848 Main Rd. Tiverton, RI 02878
URI Library
Adrienne Adeyemi's work has been replaced mid-season for a special URI Gallery exhibition:IMAGINING PEACE - Artworks by Mimi Sammis and CPT Nicholas Mercurio
July 9 2012 – August 25 with Gallery Receptions July 19th & August 16th 5-9pm
Six-foot panels, each uniquely designed by an artist or group of artists, comprise one large display memorializing Afghan civilian casualties. The exhibit also includes images collected from Afghan high school students by Dr. Zahir Wahab, a professor at Lewis and Clark College who asked young Afghans to draw images from their daily reality.
Adrienne Adeyemi
Stand Still, Close Your Eyes, 2010
A series of B&W Silver Gelatin photographs
About the Work
My fascination in making portraits comes from a desire to connect with people, both strange and familiar, and to make meaning of these various relationships.
Throughout my various projects, I have always been attracted to the voyeuristic nature of how I observe and capture people in their most peaceful and vulnerable states. I am also interested in photographing the awkward and uneasy space that exists between myself as the photographer and the people I have daily interactions with.
In this series, Stand Still, Close You’re Eyes, I objectively treated each subject in the same way, photographing them in a figurative manner and displaying them in a standardized repetitive way, freeing myself up to examine and make meaning of each individual relationship more closely.
In playing with the viewer’s gaze, my work also aims to challenge the viewer’s preconceived assumptions of what traditional portraiture is. My subjects’ eyes are closed, thereby denying the viewer the one thing that they expect to see in a portrait. The viewer must look for new ways to access these images. This series explores new realms of what portrait photography can be.
About the Artist
Adrienne Adeyemi (b. 1988) is an emerging, photo-based artist. She was born in Providence, Rhode Island, where she currently continues to live and work. She received her BA with highest honors in Photography and Screen Studies, from Clark University in 2010. Her work has been exhibited in a solo show at the Dana Commons Gallery in Worcester, MA and in several group exhibitions throughout the North East, including the AS220 Gallery in Providence, RI, the Aurora Gallery in Worcester, MA, and the UN Plaza in New York City.
To viw more of her work, please go to adrienneadeyemi.com.
Fulton Street
Johnny Adimando
The First To Leave, 2012
Acrylic and Ink on Paper; 12’ x 12’
About the Work
My images shift along a spectrum that begs question regarding their origin as created or discovered. In compendium, they are a strange codex that makes suggestions and propositions for a deliberately obscured narrative; based in personal experience and the fantastic imagination. I am strongly influenced by both science and science-fiction, so this is a tale that is both revelatory and obscure; and I am most interested in the space between where probabilities and possibilities come to blur and flourish. The transformation of images into a system and symmetry of icons and symbols, is an interaction and involvement with the ever-changing and expanding fabric of space and time, which I view as something that can be manipulated and traversed. The construction of the work is an integral aspect of it’s manifestation; I create things using primarily ink and paper, to alter, distort, disassemble, and reassemble. The goal is to communicate something that is at once intimate and universal, and to articulate a bridge between the cosmic and terrestrial.
About the Artist
Adimando holds a BFA (‘05)from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University and MFA (‘09) from the Rhode Island School of Design. He is currently part-time faculty in Printmaking and Drawing at RISD, and adjunct faculty in Printmaking at Montserrat College of Art. He was awarded the Temple University prize to study in Rome, Italy, the Frogman's Print and Paper Workshop scholarship, a two-year residency and graduate fellowship grant from Bucknell University, and a graduate study grant from RISD.
His work is included in several permanent and private collections and has been exhibited locally, nationally, internationally, and recently at the Hunterdon Art Museum, the Showroom Gallery in South Carolina, and at the 17Cox exhibition space in Beverly, MA. His recent solo show, To the Moon which was reviewed in the March/April 2012 issue of Art New England. His most recent solo show, Via Satellite, was exhibited at the AS220 Project Space in downtown Providence.
More of his work can be viewed at www.johnnyadimando.com
RI Housing
Karen Rand Anderson
A Tentative Embrace, 2008
gouache, graphite, acrylic on paper
55" x 64"
About the Artist and the Work
Karen Rand Anderson graduated with honors from Rhode Island School of Design in 1977 with a BFA in ceramics, and received her MFA in mixed media in 2010 through the Vermont Studio Center/Johnson State College masters program in Johnson, VT. She has completed residencies in Bulgaria through the Griffis Foundation/Orpheus Foundation, at Vermont Studio Center, and at I-Park Artist’s Enclave in East Haddam CT, and shows regionally and nationally in juried, invitational and solo exhibitions. Her mixed-media sculpture utilizes natural materials, appropriated objects and charred paper; her large-format works on paper relate visually to her sculpture. She states: "I am interested in posing visual questions regarding the nature of relationship between natural elements, physical and emotional tension, and metaphor. Creating metaphor by combining organic materials such as branches, moss, stones, bones, and vines along with paper, wire, and found and altered objects, I invite the viewer to address his or her own relationship to the energy, materials and imagery in my work."
Anderson lives in Providence, and has a studio in Pawtucket.
If you would like to know more about her work, and for sales inquiries, please go to her website karenrandanderson.com.
gouache, graphite, acrylic on paper
55" x 64"
About the Artist and the Work
Karen Rand Anderson graduated with honors from Rhode Island School of Design in 1977 with a BFA in ceramics, and received her MFA in mixed media in 2010 through the Vermont Studio Center/Johnson State College masters program in Johnson, VT. She has completed residencies in Bulgaria through the Griffis Foundation/Orpheus Foundation, at Vermont Studio Center, and at I-Park Artist’s Enclave in East Haddam CT, and shows regionally and nationally in juried, invitational and solo exhibitions. Her mixed-media sculpture utilizes natural materials, appropriated objects and charred paper; her large-format works on paper relate visually to her sculpture. She states: "I am interested in posing visual questions regarding the nature of relationship between natural elements, physical and emotional tension, and metaphor. Creating metaphor by combining organic materials such as branches, moss, stones, bones, and vines along with paper, wire, and found and altered objects, I invite the viewer to address his or her own relationship to the energy, materials and imagery in my work."
Anderson lives in Providence, and has a studio in Pawtucket.
If you would like to know more about her work, and for sales inquiries, please go to her website karenrandanderson.com.
2/7/12
URI Library
Jyll Ethier-Mullen
Ethier-Mullen is an artist, illustrator,and painter of jovial characters in whimsical lands. The primary land is known as Sickfeet, and it is the contextual world in which her characters adventure and interact with one another. It is a world of joyful tones, organic emotions, reminiscent textures, and inspiring tales. There is something strangely familiar in her work which reminds the observer of something in the past, while filling it with a fresh and hopeful commentary.
Her aspirations include a Sickfeet book, more art shows on the East and West coast, and a plethora of creations varying from magnets to toys. Ether-Mullen says of her work, “I want to express truths and real life experiences through an unreal world of extraordinary lands and characters.” She finds her sources of inspiration in Bjork, Tim Burton, Dr.Suess, Roman Dirge, Clayton Brothers, Jeff Soto, Edward Gorey, Barry Mcgee, Shepard Fairy, Blaine Fontana, Klimt,Gama-Go and many more…
Jyll curates a Providence art gallery called West Side Arts and resides on the West Side of Providence, RI with her husband, Travis, her son, Teagan, and her dog, Dunkers. Check out her work at www.sickfeet.net and also www.sickfeet.etsy.com
12/15/11
Fulton Street
111 Photographs of 111 Westminster Street
pictures taken with an IPhone
About the Work
This is the view from my desk, so I see the tower all day long and the constantly changing sky behind it. One day the sky was a deep shade of purple. It was almost unbelievable, so I took a picture with my iPhone resting on the window sill. Then another day the clouds looked like pink comets, so I took another picture. I shared them with a friend who works in the building and she replied “Isn’t 111 beautiful?!” -- I didn’t know people had referred to the building as “111” so that gave me the idea to continue the series through the year and create 111 pictures of 111 westminster. Many of the pictures are beautiful on their own, but seeing them all together and comparing the changing colors is the most impressive way to view the series. If you look closely you can find helicopters, airplanes, and the rare wild peregrine falcons who live on the tower.
About the Artist and to see more of Peter’s Work:
191 Westminster Street, 1 & 2
Winter Light
oil paintings
About the Work
Margaret Maurice Owen paints oil paintings on a daily basis that explore paint handling and composition. She documents hrer bright, light infused work on several blogs listed below.
Daily painting blog: www.permanentmagenta.com
About the Artist
Margaret Maurice Owen was born in Durham, NC in 1973. She studied at Parsons-Paris as a high school student, received a BFA from the University of Georgia in Athens, GA and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art Graduate School of Figurative Art in New York, NY. She lives and works in Providence, RI with her husband, artist Michael Owen and their six year old son. Margaret teaches drawing and painting at a wide variety of institutions and is currently gearing up for a painting workshop in Morocco.
More about the artist:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/permnentmagenta
Moroccan Sketchbook Retreat: http://www.moroccansketchbook.com/morocco_sketchbook_04.pdf
10/10/11
URI Library
Alberto Bernard, Self portrait
Providence Art windows is pairing with the interior exhibitions at the URI Campus in Providence. Go inside to see more art from this exhibition!
NEW PERSPECTIVES: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC September12 - October 31 The touring exhibit from The Global Foundation for Democracy and Development is a stunning photographic documentaryby Anne Casale. Gallery Night Reception September 15 5:00pm,-9:00pm Gala Gallery Night Reception with music dance and special guests October 20 5-9pm DOMINICAN/RHODE ISLAND September 1 – November 30 Providence Art Windows Exhibit at URI Providence Campus Library featuring Rhode Island community artists originally from the Dominican Republic including, Elizabeth Berroa, Alberto Bernard Luis Cereda, Felix Diclo, Francisco Hernandez, Evangelista Jimenez, Norlan Olivo, and Miguel Rosario. DOMINICAN*NOH! The premiere of a play written and directed by Jhomphy Ventura October 21 & 22 7:30pm October 23 2pm The bilingual play with music and humor explores the challenges faced by families fromthe Dominican Republic trying to maintain their cultural traditions while embracing their new home. URI Providence Campus 1st & 2nd floor Lobby Gallery 80 Washington Street Providence RI 02903 Hours M-TH 9-9, F&S 9-5 closed Sundays and holidays All exhibits and events are free and open to the public
3/22/11
URI LIBRARY
This window is a part of a collaboration of Hera Gallery and The Hive Archive, "Crossing Currents: Feminism Now."
ABOUT THE WORK
Politics is the art of the possible. Otto von Bismarck. 1868
Feminism is a political stance. Feminism expands what is possible. Instead of the von Bismarck quote that begins this statement, in this exhibition I am using poet, activist, and essayist Adrienne Rich concept of the Arts of the Possible. Rich believes that newness and social change are made through connective creative acts. Like Rich, I see the challenge of the von Bismarck quote to be: How do we make more things possible? In this spirit I invited artists and writers, who’s work builds new lexicons of imagery and troubles well-worn parameters. Creativity can supersede cultural conventions, but when it is really effective it expands what is possible artistically, personally and politically.
This grouping of artists and writers reveals their similarities slowly. All the artists see humans as fantastic creatures capable of dark and delicate ruminations. Each artist sees through a warped mirror. They individually build new worlds of wonder or disquieted longing. Collectively they speak of the fantastic and imagined body, as a metaphor and method to promulgate questions of gender and ethical living.
Kyla Zoe Rafert creates odd Victorian domestic settings populated almost exclusively with pensive young women. Much like the protagonist in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's classic feminist novella the Yellow Wallpaper, they are subsumed into the domestic patterns that decorate their seemingly sedate parlors. Rafert is a consummate printmaker. Formally, her etchings highlight her dead-on draftsmanship and beauty and the eeriness of brutally made marks.
Curator
Delia Kovac
February 2011
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Marissa Paternoster forges dark worlds. With thousands of tiny lines she builds figures that are equal parts post-modern mannerism and cartoon nightmare. Paternoster’s work ceaselessly confronts the viewer with a pained and elusive slippery subject. Her bodies are disjointed and without firm boundaries. In her work gender becomes a horrible carnival ride where desire and etiquette reveal their disgusting and abhorrent origins.
Amy Squires uses the body as her subject. In her site-specific installations and two-dimensional works, she takes traditional feminine tropes and inverts and celebrates them. Her work is influenced as much by minimalism as it is the Feminist Art movement of the 1970’s. Her work is inherently interdisciplinary and encompasses the contradictions of combining corporeality with immateriality.
LNY, reclaims portraiture as a vibrant contemporary art form. His work is global. It can be found on the streets of Japan, Korea, the USA, France, China and Germany. His work humanizes and commemorates individuals moving though the global diaspora. His oversized and painstakingly drawn portraits of immigrants and other dislocated subjects are found in indistinguishable urban sprawls. His work reveals the human politics of place and displacement while meshing socially engaged street art with magical realism.
Natalie Northrup, is devoted to the poetry of formalism. Her work is stridently handmade, revealing the labor inherent to fine art and women’s traditional handwork. Beyond that her work on paper and fabric pieces speak of brevity and abjectness in the same breath. Her roughly hewn marks refuse to be refined or controlled. Her marks read like an untidy Emily Dickenson poem. Her puckered and pulled fabric work reveals the ambiguity between preciousness and benign neglect. She finds the power of ambiguity.
Arthur Middleton, as a writer traverses unmarked paths guided by his heart light. Though seemingly straightforward his work is not simple. He mines lost historical and imagined modern spaces to find passionate, radical, and tender domesticity. He does not write to come to terms with the world. He writes new worlds into existence.
Author Joanna Ruocco and artist Sarah McDermott maintain an ongoing collaboration across disciplines and time zones. McDermott deftly draws and prints sinuous lines onto textured papers. This saturation of information, both graphic and tactile, dovetail with Roucco’s dexterous uses of language and her flexible and creative lexicon. McDermott illustrated Ruocco’s book The Mothering Coven (Ellipsis Press). Their latest joint effort is the book Compendium of Domestic Incidents. They are 2/3rds of a collective that publishes Birkensnake, an experimental fiction journal.
1/17/11
Trinity Rep
Jennifer French
Animal Alphabet
2010
Acrylic & Collage on Canvas Boards
About the Work
About the Work
After a year of being a stay-at-home mother, feeling compelled to begin making art again, I decided to create my own entry into the long tradition of alphabet books for children. Always inspired by the paper detritus of our culture, I drew imagery from materials accumulated over many years: old magazines, text books, coloring books, catalogs and junk mail, and combined them into loosely narrative collages. Patterns and details were painted into the collages, resulting in an amalgam of alphabet book, surreal landscape, and medieval icon. I find strange beauty in the darker corners of history, inspiration which found its way into this series as a slightly sinister sense of narrative, reminiscent of folk tales.
About the Artist
Jennifer Eli French was born in Denver, Colorado, and spent her childhood moving frequently. She attended high school in England and earned a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Jennifer lives in Providence with her husband, Rob, and twin sons Hank & Dexter.
Prints of the entire Animal Alphabet are available in her Etsy shop:
www.etsy.com/shop/
To see more of Jennifer's work:
Contact Jennifer at jen.eli.french@gmail.com for more information.
12/13/10
Now on View
Providence Art Windows is pleased to announce that its winter installation series will be on view through March 2011. The current art and art installations in the downtown windows are produced by Jon Creamer, Jennifer French, Abby Saunders, Serena JV Elston and the International Gallery of Heritage & Culture.
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