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Gallery MEET THE ARTIST –PAUL DAVIS Davis eschews the recent wave of digital technology for a decidedly old-fashioned approach to taking pictures – he uses a film camera, and develops and prints the images himself. “I like the technical side of photography,” he explains. ”I like being in the darkroom, developing the picture and making my own prints. I like being in control of the negatives. I’ll never go digital. Digital, I think, takes away from the whole process.” Davis grew up “always drawing,” and attended both the Museum School of Boston and the New England School of Photography. His background in painting enables him to approach photography differently from others. He is keenly aware of difficult it is to find something new and different in some of the scenes he photographs. “A million people take those pictures,” Davis says quietly, “but only a couple of people can make those prints. There's a reason Ansel Adams is so fantastic. It's not really the image, but the skill in making the picture.” A bookbinder by trade, Davis also makes his own frames. “I like taking it from start to finish and making the whole picture,” Davis says. Davis clearly is attracted to the act of making. Whether he is the artwork itself or the frame that surrounds it, Davis takes time and care with its creation. The mats are cut with perfect precision, the frames made with loving care and the paper chosen with consideration. He takes as much time with the image itself, using a medium format camera and spending 15 to 20 minutes setting up and taking on each shot. He has no patience for long involved artist statements. He paraphrases a painter colleague, “If you have to write a story about a picture to get people to like it, you should be a writer not a painter.” Davis continues, “I don't really make the pictures more than they are. I probably see it more as making work that I like as opposed to any sort of art form. It's a solo project, which is what I like. You either really blow it or you make something great and that's a great thing.” The BankRI Galleries are curated by Paula Martiesian. Paula Martiesian is 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 St. next to the Providence Cookie Co. at 17 Peck St. Picture
This Gallery and Framing Center : Downtown Ongoing: 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.
THE PEACE ART PROJECT is a month-long celebration of a peace in Providence. It represents the collaboration of five prominent organizations and the support of many additional community organizations and individuals to encourage nonviolence and peace in our community. Among the participants in the partnership are Steven Pennell of the URI Feinstein Providence Campus Urban Arts and Culture Program, Rebecca Siemering of Providence Art Windows, Jodi Glass of the RI Commission on Prejudice and Bias, Ginny Fox of the Peace Flag Project, and Deanna Camputaro of the Arts, Communication, and Teaching Academy of Central Falls High School, a URI Academy Public School and the Rhode Island for Community and Justice. Drawing on a rich local culture of art and peace, the partnership is mounting exhibitions September 1-30, 2010 in support of the annual celebration of the UN International Day of Peace. The exhibits will take place in downtown Providence in the URI Providence Campus Gallery, the Providence Art Windows and First Unitarian Church of Providence. The exhibits will run throughout September and are free to the public. “Art can inspire us, move us; it helps us to see the world in a fresh way. Opening us up to new ways of thinking about peace through art is the focus of this new year-long collaborative effort by several Providence art, peace and educational organizations,” said Steven Pennell, Coordinator of the URI Providence Arts and Culture Program. “We're delighted to be working with all these groups to create and exhibit art about peace, an important issue for each of us and for our world.” This exciting art/peace partnership is planned as Providence's seventh annual celebration of the United Nations' International Day of Peace. Ginny Fox, Director of the Peace Flag Project and principal organizer of Providence's Peace Day celebrations for the last six years, added “it has been an inspiration to watch these annual peace celebrations grow year after year. We are particularly pleased that in 2010 the peace celebration will span the whole month of September.” Exhibit features the inspiring sculpture of Anne Mimi Sammis along with the In Our Family Exhibit from the Family Diversity Project. ANNE MIMI SAMMIS' works are represented in more than 300 public and private collections world wide. The sculptures range in size from 1-22 feet and in corporate fountains and moveable figures. Sammis supports the global work for peace with her artwork entitled One Thousand Years of Peace, an exhibition of 30 bronze sculptures. This body of work was exhibited at the United Nations in 2001. It was previously shown at the United Nations in 1999 and following that at The Hague, Netherlands, in conjunction with The Hague Appeal for Peace Conference. Ms. Sammis received a commission from the Archbishop of Canterbury for Lambeth Palace, England to honor Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee, June 2002. IN OUR FAMILY, with photographs by Gigi Kaeser and Interviews Edited by Peggy Gillespie and Rebekah Boyd, celebrates the diversity of family life in 21st century America, introducing the viewers to single-parent families, families living with physical or mental challenges, immigrant families, adoptive families, foster families, divorced families, gay and lesbian-parented families, stepfamilies, multiracial families, multi-generational families, and many others in the family circle. Family Diversity Projects (FDP) is a non-profit educational organization founded by exhibit creators, Peggy Gillespie (interviewer/editor) and Gigi Kaeser (photographer). They have created four photo-text exhibits (three of which have been published in book form) to help eliminate prejudice, stereotyping, and harassment of people discriminated against due to race, national origin, sexual orientation, religion, gender, class, and disability. The mission of FDP is to propel forward a world where all families are recognized, valued and fully supported, when "normal" or "different" are words not used to describe family, and where the right to define family is respectfully restored to individuals. The exhibit will feature the work local professional and community artists including Constance Allen, Jon Almond, Nora Almond, Decoda Arlia, Sharon Armour, Sally Baker, Mary Ellen Beniot, Elizabeth Berroa, Alfred A. Brissette, Sr., Jenny Cabreja, Groswon Casey, Gigi Colson, the late Christiane Corbat, Ron Cowie, David (Ronnie) Delanos Jr., Celine DelPesco, Ruth Emers, Lilian R. Engel, Patricia Flyntz, Nancy Green, Jessica Henderson, Jerock, Lee Johnson, Fredrick Kent, Amy Kinney, Kathy King, Gabrielle Lancelot, Nora Lewis, Dana MacKinnon, Saberah Malik, Zan Nordlund, Jocilyn Pagan, Hannah Resseger, Megan Reynolds, Jade Sisti, Basma Samira, Elizabeth Cole Sheehan, Rebecca Siemering, Karin Sprague, Kathleen Sonier, Chris Sisson, Anna-Marie Still, Keleigh Thompson, Jessica Thurber, Anthony Tomaselli, Michele Vara, Amy Webb, and community artists from Beacon Charter School, Central Falls High School, McAuley House, Traveling Theatre Company at the URI Feinstein Providence Campus Lobby Galleries, the Atrium Gallery of the First Unitarian Church of Providence and several of the Providence Art Window locations. September Programming will also include: Thursday, September 16, 5:00-9:00pm A Gallery Night Reception for the exhibit at URI Providence Campus Gallery with Music, Drama Spoken Word and Body Tracing with the Institute for Study and Practice of Nonviolence. Sunday, September 19, 3:00-6:00 pm A Peace Day Celebration sponsored by the Peace Flag Project in Burnside Park with performances by storytellers, dancers, singers, with exhibitors and activities for adults and children and a Walking Meditation around the park at 5:00pm. Tuesday September 21 at 7pm International Day Of Peace Concert at URI Feinstein Providence Campus featuring Morgan's Dreamworld, original Jam-Band, and World Dance Performance by Human Creativity from Central Falls HS. For information call Steven Pennell 401-277-5206 or visit www.uri.edu/prov PARKING LOTS |
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