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By Raina BelleauApril 29, 2018 0

Review: 33° at David Winton Bell Gallery

Just as the last embankments of winter snow dissipated into rivulets in the corners of Brown University’s campus, five mural-sized photographs of polar icescapes materialized on its prominent building facades. Installed in conjunction with the more traditional gallery exhibition, 33°,…

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By Raina BelleauJanuary 22, 2018 0

A Dialogue on Distortion: Graham McDougal and Bayne Peterson

With its walls hung with Graham McDougal’s dizzying prints, and pedestals scattered across the floor with Bayne Peterson’s undulating sculptures perched atop them, Providence College’s Hunt-Cavanaugh Gallery takes on the feeling of a television set between channels, a physical manifestation…

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By Raina BelleauNovember 7, 2017 0

Painters & Photographers at Reilly Gallery, Providence College

Painters & Photographers, curated by Jamilee Lacy, starts the gears turning with it’s title. Are these paintings or are they photographs? Yes, most of the artists presented use traditional photo processes to create their images, film, camera, enlarger, etc., but…

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By Raina BelleauOctober 30, 2017 0

It’s What You Don’t Say at Chazan Gallery

Jacqueline Ott, Lisa Perez and Sean Riley conceived of It’s What You Don’t Say, now on view at The Wheeler School, over a year of conversations and visits to each others’ studios. The result is a harmonious group show, reflecting…

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By Raina BelleauSeptember 27, 2017 0

Crossing Borders at Periphery Space

Crossing Borders is a reflection of intercultural identity, both for the artists represented and for the larger society in which we operate. At times it feels like a celebration, sometimes like a confrontation, while yet other moments take a more…

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By Raina BelleauJune 13, 2017 0

On the Wall: Assaf Evron

I remember many discussions from my time in art school about the “conventions of the gallery” and it’ white-walled, white-pedestalled attempts at non-architecture. With this consideration, the “white cube,” it is perhaps an odd choice for a show about architecture.…

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By Raina BelleauMay 8, 2017 0

Review: The Split at GRIN

At first glance, The Split, curated by Amanda Schmitt, feels schizophrenic. The works span media from video to drawing, painting, sound, and sculpture and a diagonal wall physically extenuates the mental dissonance. At first, it is very tempting to read…

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By Raina BelleauApril 26, 2017 0

Pierre Huyghe at the Bell Gallery at Brown University

Stills from Pierre Huyghe’s 19-minute video, Untitled (Human Mask) have haunted me since its 2014 debut. The image of the ghostly porcelain face touched ever so gently by the impish hairy hand has appeared and reappeared before me in magazines…

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By Sandra ErbacherAugust 10, 2015 0

Review: Woander at GRIN Providence

Woander, curated by Corey Oberlander and Lindsey Stapleton and on view at GRIN until 29 August, confronts our heavily mediated relationship with nature. By calling attention to common clichés, taboos, past-times, and memories associated with our organic surroundings, the works by…

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