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| artists in wunderground |
10.17.06 | issue #21 |
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 This fall The RISD Museum’s main gallery looks nothing like you may remember it — no gilt-framed paintings or neoclassical sculpture, no open expanse of space with benches strategically placed for quiet, in-depth viewing. Instead, eight emerging artists — seven from RISD, one from Brown — have transformed the gallery into a fun, fanciful and visually stimulating sculptural village they call Shangri-la-la-land. The installation provides the three-dimensional component of Wunderground, a groundbreaking exhibition at the Museum that also includes a floor-to-ceiling display of 2,000 screen-printed posters created in the last decade by these artists and others in Providence’s underground art circles. If you can’t get there by January 7 to see it for yourself, check out the audio slide show and/or order the catalogue, which is a fascinating and visually provocative piece in its own right with an essay by the show’s curator, Judith Tannenbaum (the Richard Brown Baker Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum); artists’ interviews and statements; and reproductions of installations, posters, photographs and illustrations.
risd athena awards
• RISD will present the 2006 Athena Awards and announce the winner of the $25,000 RISD/Target Emerging Artist Award in partnership with surface magazine on Thursday, November 9 at the headquarters of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia in Manhattan. Click here for information about award recipients and tickets to the event.
from the alumni association
• New alumni clubs have taken root in cities as far-flung as San Diego, Baltimore and Minneapolis (not to mention several in India). Check out what’s happening in your area by contacting the closest of the 40 regional alumni groups.
• Where do you go after work? How about stopping by a RISD After Work event close to you? They’re taking place in Philadelphia and Baltimore this month and in St. Louis and Washington, DC next month, with many more in the offing.
• Consider it brain food for artists. At the full-day ArtSmart professional development conference for emerging artists on November 11 you can consume information on grants, exhibitions, residencies, MFA programs and more. Stir in keynote comments from Sascha Lewis, co-founder of Flavorpill and ArtKrush, along with a creative flow workshop by Mitchell Rigie ’78 IL, and you’ll leave as satisfied as after an eight-course meal. Registration for alumni, faculty and staff begins on October 25.
look around
• From OUCH!, a voodoo doll toothpick holder by John Cave ’99 FD, to a curvaceous porcelain vase by Ebi Baralaye ’06 CR, the new collection at risd|works is worth a browse, either online or on site at 10 Westminster Street in Providence. You’ll find freshwater pearl earrings by Ryan Kundrat ’01 ID, a laptop bag made of recycled billboard vinyl by Leslie Roeder MID ’02, the latest RISD student films on DVD and lots of other gift-worthy items, all designed and/or made by RISD alumni and faculty members.
• Although Jesse Burke MFA ’06 PH frequently focuses his camera on beer, deer and mudfights, he also has a penchant for photographing men. His latest series, Semper Vigilans, presents a series of portraits of Providence police officers commissioned by Chief of Police Dean Esserman and RISD’s President Roger Mandle, who supported the project as a means of documenting the “intense dedication” of the force. An exhibition featuring the series is on view through October 28 at The Gallery at City Hall in Providence.
• Struere, the Los Angeles firm founded by Hraztan Zeitlian BAR ’88, has won a 2006 American Architecture Award for its stunning Hilal (Half Moon) proposal for the new headquarters of the Organization of the Islamic Conference in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. As conflicts continue between western and Islamic cultures, Zeitlian hopes that although his design will not actually be built, his concept for the building will offer a much-needed bridge toward understanding.
• “For me, the true challenge is to give the piece a timeless presence or quality,” says Seattle-based glass artist Benjamin Moore MFA ’77 SC, winner of the Pilchuck Glass School’s 2006 Libensky Award. “Everywhere you turn, Benjamin has participated in making the glass world a more complete and better place,” noted one of the jurors for the prestigious prize, which is named for renowned 20th-century Czech glass artist Stanislav Libensky.
on campus
soleri speaks
Visionary architect Paolo Soleri, best known for integrating architecture and ecology under the rubric “arcology,” will visit RISD studios next week. He will also speak about his pioneering use of solar, renewable and sustainable energies on Tuesday, October 24 at 7pm in the RISD Auditorium. This month the Bannister Gallery at Rhode Island College is featuring Green Aesthetics/Green Ethics, an exhibition of models and drawings by Soleri.
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© Rhode Island School of Design 2006
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Mary Curtis Ratcliff ’67 AE
Art Scape Gallery
Walnut Creek, CA
October 26-November 30
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Clara Lieu ’98 IL
Danforth Museum of Art
Framingham, MA
October 25-December 10
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Sonya Sklaroff ’92 PT
Jenkins Johnson Gallery
San Francisco, CA
through November 11
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Jon Laustsen MFA ’02 SC
Lee Fearnside MFA ’02 PH
Scott Lapham ’90 PH
Laconia Gallery
Boston, MA
through November 25
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Jennifer Flume ’00 ID
Andrea Valentini BIA ’95
Zollverein
Essen, Germany
through December 3
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Emma Copley ’01 PT
Clarion Contemporary Art
London, England
through October 28
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Susan Doyle ’81 IL/MFA ’98 PT/PR + Wendy Wahl MAE ’85
Wheeler Gallery
Providence, RI
through October 29
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