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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 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 Leah Triplett HarringtonAugust 8, 2017 0

Sensual, Tactile, Experiential: Amy Beecher at GRIN

Amy Beecher sat cross-legged and casual on a magenta carpet in a thoroughly pink and red room on a warm Saturday night in May. Speaking in a clear, precise, and uninflected lilt, Beecher read aloud to an audience surrounding her,…

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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 Alexander CastroMarch 22, 2017 0

See It Before It’s Gone: Allison Paschke at AS220

Providence artist Allison Paschke can be disobedient in museums. Sometimes, she’ll find a sculpture or object irresistible, and smooth her hand carefully over its surface. In her latest exhibit at AS220 Project Space, Paschke extends this “mischievous glee” to her…

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By Alexander CastroMarch 7, 2017 0

See It Before It’s Gone: Cabell & Foster at GRIN

In One Makes an Instrument of Themselves, and is Estranged Also, collaborators Mimi Cabell and Lindsay Foster probe the “the commercialized self, the marketized private life.” As today’s corporate landscape ostensibly reorients itself toward workers’ happiness, Cabell and Foster remind…

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By Alexander CastroJanuary 25, 2017 0

See It Before It’s Gone: Taylor Clough at Occam Projects

Taylor Clough’s Is, And of The at Occam Projects features an assortment of paintings on canvas and paper, absorbingly and tauntingly saturated. Clough painted people as an undergrad, but her current sceneries are unpopulated. Though lacking in figuration, she paints…

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By Alexander CastroNovember 23, 2016 0

Review: Anna Shapiro at AS220

Pregnancy and parenting can create serious changes to an artist’s process. As installation maestro Sarah Sze elaborated on a 2012 exhibit in London: “The pieces in this show appear to measure space, or time, and now that I have two…

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By Alexander CastroOctober 27, 2016 0

Review: Jessica Rosner at Yellow Peril Gallery

Jessica Deane Rosner can’t discuss the inspiration for her latest exhibit. It might suffice to say that, last September, she experienced a terrible and life-changing event. It forced Rosner to reconsider her self-concept as someone bold and brave. The aftermath…

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By Mary BergsteinJune 30, 2016 0

The Congeries of Dennis Congdon

In Marguerite Yourcenar’s essay, “That Mighty Sculptor, Time,” she speaks of the “involuntary beauty” of ruined sculpture from the ancient past: …statues so thoroughly shattered that out of the debris a new work of art is born: a naked foot…

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By Amy BeecherJune 28, 2016 0

The GIF Becomes Landscape: Geographically Indeterminate Fantasies

I am viewing Providence College–Galleries’ inaugural digital exhibition, Geographically Indeterminate Fantasies, curated by Art F City, and on view in its “IRL” physical form through July 2nd at GRIN, from a window seat of an Amtrak train. The railroad, a…

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By Alexander CastroFebruary 10, 2016 0

See It Before It’s Gone: “Besides” at GRIN Providence

“Subtle, persistent revolt” is how GRIN owners and curators Corey Oberlander and Lindsey Stapleton describe their latest exhibit, Besides, on view through February 13. This succinct phrasing suggests small-but-continuous acts of resistance. The second installment in a two-part arc that…

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By Sandra ErbacherAugust 30, 2015 0

Prospect: An interview with Jodie Goodnough

Jodie Mim Goodnough is a Providence-based artist who uses photography, video, performance and sculpture to examine the various coping strategies we employ to find comfort in an often uncomfortable world, from religious rituals to pharmaceuticals and everything in between. She…

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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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By Brian Christopher GlaserJune 26, 2015 0

Boston Common: GRIN

“Boston Common” highlights the people and organizations that shape Boston and New England’s cultural sector by going straight to the source to find out who they are, what they are doing, and how and why they do it. We hope…

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By Rachel ShippsDecember 1, 2014 0

Bayne Peterson: The art of being the Stranger

Bayne Peterson graduated from RISD in 2013 with an MFA in sculpture. This year he has exhibited work in Brooklyn, Cambridge, Providence, and Philadelphia. He received a Graduate Studies Grant in 2013, In Search of the Primus Stove Carver. His…

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By Michael RoseJuly 9, 2014 0

New Look, Old Favorites: RISD Museum Unveils Redesigned Galleries

The RISD Museum balances an unusual identity. It is an important community museum, but also serves as the university collection for the nation’s preeminent art and design college. Unlike many university museums, which opened during the life of a college…

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By Paulina PerlwitzMay 14, 2014 0

An Interview with May Babcock at AS220

May Babcock’s recent show at AS220 featured several new works by the mixed media artist who recently relocated to Providence, RI, after living in Baton Rouge, LA, where she attended the MFA program at Louisiana State University. Babcock was and…

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By Michael RoseMarch 3, 2014 0

Of Arts and Liberal Arts: Investment at Providence College

At a recent speech in Wisconsin, President Obama drew the ire of many when he noted that a degree in art history are often less economically viable than some skilled trade jobs. While the economic facts behind his statement are…

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By Michael RoseFebruary 10, 2014 0

Imaging The Endangered: Jesse Burke for the Providence Preservation Society

The Providence Preservation Society recently released their annual list of the Most Endangered Properties in Rhode Island’s capital. The list is a tradition around which preservation efforts in the city coalesce, focusing the efforts of advocates for historic properties. Numerous…

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