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The Chazan Gallery at Wheeler
228 Angell Street

The Chazan Gallery will be closed through August’s Gallery Night, reopening in September.
The Chazan Gallery at Wheeler, a nonprofit artists' space, presents a wide range of contemporary work in exhibitions by artists living or working in the greater Providence area. Artists are selected through an open juried process. Located on the East Side of Providence near Brown University and RISD, the gallery is on the campus of Wheeler School.

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David Winton Bell Gallery
at Brown University List Art Center
64 College Street
The Gallery is closed for July Gallery Night.

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The Krause Gallery at Moses Brown
250 Lloyd Avenue
July 14 - August 7 - Layers of Light and Color
Kay Layne + Maira Reinbergs
Reception Thursday July 16, 5-9pm
Special Viewing Saturday, July 25, 2-4pm

Kay Layne
My work is abstract expressionism in style with contrasting and harmonious colors with geometric shapes imposed over flat or textured surfaces. I favor strong colors in either earth tones or sharp arresting colors in opposition to each other. My textured paint surfaces are created with crumpled tissue paper, paste medium, and/or trowel marks. Frequently I use charcoal over these textured backgrounds to give greater depth to the surface. I grew up in the Texas Panhandle where it is so flat you can see the grain elevators and oil derricks fifteen miles away. I believe that background has influenced my simple planar compositions.

Maira Reinbergs
My paintings are explorations of color. I strive to capture its illusiveness, its subtleties and mysteries. I am interested in the magical interaction of colors- their energizing and transformation through texture, light and translucence. I want my paintings to express harmony, stillness and beauty- that is my quest and meditation.

Located in Moses Brown School on Providence's East Side, The Krause Gallery is dedicated to exhibiting a broad spectrum of contemporary artists' work.

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Providence Art Club
11 Thomas Street
Mon-Fri 12-4 • Sat & Sun 2-4
July 12–July 31, 2009
Receptions: Sunday, July 12, 2-4pm

Maxwell Mays Gallery
Cynthia Triedman and John Wheatley: New Works

Dodge House Gallery
Members' Exhibition: Cash & Carry 

Moitié Galleries
Gillet T. Page: New Work

Founded in 1880 to stimulate the appreciation of art in the community, the Providence Art Club has long been a place for artists and art patrons to congregate, create, display and circulate works of art. Through its public programs, its art instruction classes for members and its active exhibition schedule, the Club continues a tradition of sponsoring and supporting the visual arts in Providence and throughout Rhode Island.

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The RISD Museum of Art
224 Benefit Street enter through the Chace Center at 20 N. Main Street

JULY Gallery Night Programs
5:30-7pm Film Screening: Karsh Is History (Canada/2009/52 min/English)
Included in this evening’s program is an introduction and question + answer session with the director Joseph Hillel. This documentary presents a contemporary reflection, in images and music, on Yousuf Karsh’s work and its place in the context of portrait photography history up to present. Presented in conjunction with the Museum’s exhibit, Yousuf Karsh: Portraits of Artists.
6-7:30pm Summer Concert Enjoy a summer concert with one of Rhode Island’s favorite local bands.

6-8 pm - Free drop-in art lesson! Receive one-on-one instruction from a professional artist/educator. Materials are provided; no experience is necessary.
7 pm - Visita Guiada en Español/Guided Museum Tour in Spanish or English. Meet in the Chace Center Lobby for either choice.

Exhibitions

Marcel Breuer: Design and Architecture
Through July 20, 2009
This is the first exhibition to treat all facets of Breuer’s work with equal weight, from the highly innovative furniture he produced as both a student and teacher at the famed Bauhaus, to the elegant but modestly scaled houses he created after moving to the United States, to the large-scale governmental and institutional buildings he eventually designed for major cities around the world. Developed by the Vitra Design Museum in Germany, the exhibition traces several themes that connect the apparently diverse elements of this prolific and influential designer’s portfolio. The RISD Museum is the exhibition’s second North American venue and the only Northeastern stop. Twelve models — produced exclusively for this exhibition — will highlight Breuer’s extensive architectural work from single-family houses to major religious, cultural, and civic institutions. In addition, drawings, floor plans, photographs, video projections, and interactive computer terminals will shed light on Breuer's long and varied architectural career.

Yousuf Karsh: Portraits of Artists
Through August 23, 2009
This exhibition celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of Yousuf Karsh (Canadian, born Armenia, 1908-2002) one of the most admired portrait photographers. Through his long life he photographed over 15,000 individuals, many of whom were among the 20th century’s most notable, such as Sir Winston Churchill and Albert Einstein. Artists and designers were frequent subjects and the focus of this exhibition of some twenty photographs portraits including celebrated images of Georgia O’Keeffe, Pablo Picasso, and Frank Lloyd Wright--all promised gifts to The RISD Museum from the Estate of Yousuf Karsh. Complementing this show is a selection of portraits of artists from the Museum’s distinguished print, drawing, and photography collections in the Buonanno Works on Paper Gallery. Zone of Attraction: Indonesian Textiles from the Permanent Collection
Ongoing
This exhibition explores the wealth of cultural diversity in textiles from the islands of Indonesia. The geographical fact that the Indonesian Archipelago sits strategically between the Indian and Pacific Oceans has formed the world’s most complex and varied textile cultures. Centuries of contact with India, China, The Middle East, and Europe have resulted in a mosaic of printed and woven splendor unequalled in the world today. Techniques such as batik, embroidery, ikat, supplementary patterning, and gilding are all evidence of previous foreign contact. Examples of these techniques reflect Indonesia’scultural history beginning with migration from Southeast Asia in 8th century BCE though the twentieth century.  These textiles contribute to the story of Indonesia’s history of trade, religious practices, ethnic migrations, and colonialism.

Nature/Artifice: Contemporary Works from the Collection
Ongoing  
The relationship between nature and artifice, reality and fiction, is central to a selection of contemporary paintings, sculpture, and video in the Museum's collection. In some cases, natural materials- a lemon, thistles, or rocks, for example -are placed in artful arrangements or altered to extend their significance. Conversely, manufactured materials-ranging from audiotape to flip-flop sandals-may be configured to resemble natural phenomena such as a cascading waterfall or the Caribbean Sea. A number of the featured works were acquired recently and are being exhibited for the first time.

Carl Ostendarp “Pulled Up”
Through Sunday, August 23, 2009  
Carl Ostendarp (American, b. 1961), known for paintings that respond to and take off from the history of late modernist art, will create a mural installation specifically for the RISD Museum. In anticipation of the exhibition, Ostendarp has been invited to visit the Museum’s storage spaces in order to select objects from the collection that will be juxtaposed with his own works. Ostendarp’s style is characterized by simple biomorphic forms, words or images, and flat color that merge pop, color-field, and minimalism into a profoundly deadpan but witty language of their own.

Shih Chieh Huang (Spalter Media Gallery Rotation)
Through September 2009
Shih Chieh Huang (Taiwanese, b.1975) describes his work as an “interchanging process between people and space.” The artist uses a low-tech approach to create installations with which the viewer interacts through sound and movement. Everyday objects such as electronic appliances, toys, plastic bags, and containers are combined with air, water, light, cables, motion sensors, computer parts, and video footage to construct colorful and playful environments. Huang’s installations contain numerous kinetic components which are constantly in flux, with elegant and strange results.

Watercolors in the Porcelain Gallery: Flower and Still Life Painters
Ongoing
Due to the remarkable generosity of an anonymous donor, The RISD Museum has one of the finest collections of 18th- and 19th-century British watercolors in this country. Rotating exhibitions of watercolors from this rarely-seen collection are on view in the Museum's Porcelain Gallery, home to an outstanding group of 18th-century figural ceramics donated by Miss Lucy Truman Aldrich in 1937. Now on view are works by British artists who specialized in painting flowers, fruits, birds and their nests. This subject matter appealed to both professional and amateur watercolorists, including a number of female artists.

The Lure of Ink: Japanese Monochrome Prints and Books
Through Sunday, July 5, 2009
The earliest Japanese woodblock-printed books and single-sheet prints were monochromatic. Even after the technique of color woodblock printing had fully developed in the mid-18th century, artists continued to produce one-color works, some of which were dependent on the Japanese painting tradition. This exhibition will examine the variety of printed effects that could be achieved in monochrome printmaking, including book illustration.

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School One
220 University Avenue
Mon-Fri 12-4 • Sat & Sun 2-4
Ph: 401-331-2497
http://www.school-one.org/
May 21, 2009 - 5-9pm
Annual Alumni, Staff, and Student Art Show
School One is a dynamic inviting community, empowers its diverse students to take responsibility for their learning through challenging, creative and personalized educational programs in order to prepare for productive futures, become self-reliant, commit to important ideas, make sense of their world and contribute to it in useful ways.