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We see buildings every day. We walk by them and occasionally look up. Sometimes we miss some of the nuances in our busy day.. Well, come and check out a different perspective..... View photographs that showcase quiet attributes, secret passages and their understated beauty in an exhibition of Architectural Photography. AIAri will be showing photos of the built environment, architectural details and the building's place in the world. Join us for a different view of our favorite buildings! BankRI
Gallery November 4 through December 1 “Some of the genuine curiosities of being alive are what keep me making pictures.” - Jeff Silverthorne Photographer Jeffrey Silverthorne learned early on that the world was a much larger place than his own backyard in New Haven, Connecticut. His father, an anthropologist, and his mother, a ceramicist, traveled the world with their four children visiting Bahrain, England, France, Greece and Portugal. “My parents' desire to travel has been of influence to me,” Silverthorne explains. “Their patterns, their personalities, their repetitions of travel have helped me to recognize the benefit of getting outside of myself. The world is much larger than one's immediate self.” At the age of eight, Silverthorne picked up a Brownie camera partly as a way to “keep track” of his traveling experiences. He continued to take pictures all through high school and when he graduated, he chose from two radically diverse possible futures - he could enlist in the army or go to art school. Silverthorne chose art school, attending the Rhode Island School of Design and earning a BFA in Photography, an MAT in teaching and an MFA in photography. Silverthorne was impressed by photographer/teacher Harry Callahan’s work ethic and describes Richard Lebowitz’s classes as “an ongoing pleasure.” But the most vivid lesson Silverthorne learned at RISD was a reverse form of knowledge, the overwhelming idea that he knew what he didn't want. “I don’t want those pictures that look like, smell like and taste like the expectations of photography, although I know I am not immune to this disease.” Silverthorne embarked on a lifetime search eschewing the easy views and embracing the ambiguities life has to offer. “In many ways, one establishes relationships according to one’s expectations. Sometimes you see what you expect to see. Ultimately, for me,” Silverthorne muses, “being available to contradictions makes the work, and life, more interesting..” A photograph of Silverthorne himself would show a gracefully aging man in his sixties with glasses and an air of perpetual distraction. His rumpled corduroy jacket, wrinkled shirt and grey hair curling over his collar mark him as an academic, and in fact, he is one. Silverthorne has taught all over the United States and internationally. He currently teaches at Roger Williams University in Bristol, RI. What the photograph wouldn’t reveal is an artist who continually tests the boundaries and preconceptions of his chosen medium. The mild-mannered professor has traveled the globe searching for “situations or psychological spaces” that define the people and places he photographs. Often these are uncomfortable places, sometimes fraught with danger, real or imagined. His subject matter includes border towns, transvestites, and people who are no longer alive. He both searches out photographs in far away places and constructs them in his Pawtucket industrial loft space. “I try to choose things that test the personal limits of the person inside the photograph and to a lesser extent mine. What I am most interested in photographing are things that people feel strongly to do, whether they are socially acceptable or not, almost as if the thing had taken over the person and yet was an integral part of the person.” The portraits on exhibit at the BankRI Galleries are representative of different time periods and diverse ways of making pictures. They are conversely both illuminating and mysteriously enigmatic, full of contradiction and ambiguity. They are not just portraits of individuals in time and space, but photographs of the full spectrum of a larger humanity with all its nobility and weakness. Jeff Silverthorne will be exhibiting in November with Galerie VU’ and Leica during Paris Photo at the Carousel, the Louvre, Paris, France. The BankRI Galleries are curated by Paula Martiesian, a Providence-based artist and arts advocate.
Copacetic
Rudely Elegant Jewelry Ongoing: Copacetic Rudely Elegant Jewelry opened in 1985 and carries jewelry and clocks from over 120 artists, including 30 of which are local. Copacetic also carries a variety of unique gadgets and repairs are done not only on fine jewelry, but also on sterling silver, antique, and costume jewelry. Copacetic Rudely Elegant Jewelry Inc. after residing in the Arcade since 1985, is now located just 100 steps away, across Weybosset Street next to the Providence Cookie Co. at 17 Peck St. Picture
This Gallery and Framing Center : Downtown Ongoing: URI
Feinstein Providence Campus Gallery In support of the URI Honors Colloquium on Racism, the URI Feinstein Providence Campus, International Gallery of Heritage and Culture, and the Rhode Island State Counsel on the Arts will present an exhibit of art works in all media from professional and community artists of all races and ethnicities sharing their stories of representation and misrepresentation, their treatment and mistreatment based on perceptions of race and racism. The exhibit explores the construction of race and racism through stereotypes and misinterpretations of cultural differences URI Providence Campus, the International Gallery of Heritage and Culture, and RISCA are collaborating on this project to involve the many cultural groups in the community and include their stories in the exhibit. In addition to the exhibit of more than 150 works of art and the Gallery Night Reception November 18th 5:00pm-9:00pm will also highlight local ethnic musical groups and ethnic foods. On November 20th at 3pm, we will host a Community Forum with a panel of community leaders who will share their experiences and enter into community dialogue about “Racism in Rhode Island, Where are we Now, Where do we Need to Go from Here.
The Community Folk Artists/Performers on November 18th beginning at 5:00pm with stories by Valerie Tutson, the play “Tiger, Tiger” by AWARE from JWU Hmong refugees, music by Momin Malik, and World Dance by Human Creativity from Central Falls HS. The Community Forum on Racism will include Dr. Donald Cunnigen with Melba DePena, Delia Rodriguez Argentine, Silaphone Nnongrongsontay. For information call Steven Pennell 401-277-5206 or visit www.uri.edu/prov PARKING LOTS |
the gallery
A truly unique gallery showing original
works by Rhode Island artists, featuring limited edition photography
of Richard Benjamin. The gallery also displays
a large selection of framed antique maps of Rhode Island and around
the world along with framed antique bird and fish prints, watercolor
landscapes by Elsie Kalan, oil landscapes by Burl
Dawson and works by other local artists.
Among the Artists featured in the exhibit are Central Falls High
School Students and Youth In Action from Rhode Island For Community
and Justice, Rhode Island Holocaust Museum Collection, and individual
artists: Pablo Alvarez, Alfonso Acevedo, Sharon Armour, Rebecca Flores
Armado, Astrid, Elizabeth Berroa, Tallibah Cabral, Carlos Cabral,
Jenny Cabreja, Grosewon Casey, Priscilla Carrion, Nilton Cardenas,
Pamela Counci, Gigi Colson Desaulniers, David Delanos, Tamara Diaz,
Felix Diclo, Kim Ellery, Shaynah Ferreira, Ana Flores, George Garcia,
Stephen P. Gross, Benny Harris, Francisco Hernandez, Lee Johnson,
Aaliyah Jones, Evangelista Jimenez, Victor Justo, Fredrick Kent, Elena
Krajeski, Stephen Koharian, Nixon Leger, Sabrerah Malik, Cindy Taylor
Meeks, Titilola O. Martins, Ona Moniz-Johns, Donna Mitchell, Kendall
Moore, James Montford, Munir Mohammed, Arides Pichardo, Lydia Perez,
Angel Quinonez, Lincoln Read, Hannah Resseger, Riverzedge Bekah
Greenwald, Amy Jean Romero, Basma Samira, Jade Sisti, Simone Spruce
Torres, Anthony Tomaselli, Sidney Tillet, Sirarpi Heghinian Walzer,
Sandra Yeghian Follow
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