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The Chazan Gallery at Wheeler
  Contemporary/Emerging Artist Gallery 
228 Angell Street
September 16-October 6
Elizabeth Duffy, Carl Hasse, and Duncan Johnson
Opening Reception Thursday, Sept. 16 from 5-7 pm

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
  university gallery | east  
64 College Street
Mon - Fri, 11-4 pm
Sat & Sun, 1-4 pm
August 28 – October 31, 2010
Alison Owen: divisibility
Reception: Friday, September 10, 5:30-7:30 pm
Alison Owen creates installations that respond to the layered details of a space, in conversation with the original architect as well as every individual who has left a mark. For divisibility, her sprawling solo installation in the Bell Gallery lobby, Owen draws both on the List Center’s distinctive architecture by Philip Johnson, and to the Hay Library Centennial show opening in the adjacent gallery, showing rare visual materials that resonate with Owen’s lush, decorative, yet ragged aesthetic.  She gathers dirt, dust, and lint from the site for use in ornate wallpaper and interventions throughout the space. Decoration, domestic labor, and creative activity merge, replying to the details and arising from the detritus of the exhibition venue.

Alison Owen has exhibited widely across the United States and Europe, most recently at The Soap Factory in Minneapolis, Smack Mellon in New York City (where their jury awarded her “2010 hot pick” status), and at Artspace in New Haven.  A Providence resident, she is a 2010 RISCA New Genres Fellowship recipient, and has held artist residencies at id11 in Delft, at the Bronx Art Museum, and at Gallery Aferro in Newark, among others. She holds an MFA from Claremont Graduate University. 

Among the best venues for contemporary art in New England, the David Winton Bell Gallery presents four exhibitions a year focusing on internationally recognized artists and contemporary trends. In addition, the Gallery mounts an annual student show, a triennial faculty exhibition, and an annual exhibition of New England artists.

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The Krause Gallery at Moses Brown
  Contemporary/Emerging Artist Gallery  
250 Lloyd Avenue
September 2 - 24
Solo exhibition of sculpture and works on paper by New York artist, Alexey Klimov
Please join us on Thursday, September 16th from 5-9 and talk with the artist about his work.  Alexey has exhibited in numerous galleries and museums across the country.  His work uses strong angles, planes and dramatic color within his sculptural and graphic works.

Located in Moses Brown School on Providence's East Side, The Krause Gallery is dedicated to exhibiting a diverse selection of contemporary work from both local and national artists.

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Providence Art Club
Traditional/Historical Gallery
11 Thomas Street
Mon-Fri 12-4 • Sat & Sun 2-4

September 12-October 8
OPENING RECEPTION: Sat, 9/18/10, 5-7pm

Dodge House Gallery     
A tribute to Edward Bannister and George Whitaker, our founders
Maxwell Mays Gallery
Reenie Barrow and Penelope Manzella: The Secret Life of Flowers

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The RISD Museum of Art
  university gallery | east  
224 Benefit Street enter through the Chace Center at 20 N. Main Street
401 454-6500         
www.risdmuseum.org

Gallery Night Events - September 16, 5-9pm
Free admission, all galleries open, all programs are free
All galleries open until 9pm! Free admission! Programs are free!
Take gallery exploration into your own hands. Enjoy live music with wine at our cash bar. Exercise your artistic potential with optional coaching. Watch award-winning, independent documentaries focused on art and culture.

Hands-On Art
6–8pm | Museum galleries
During free Museum hours, draw in the galleries with the guidance of an art educator. All materials provided, no experience necessary.

The Art of Fair Use
6:30pm | Spalter New Media Gallery  + Danforth Lecture Hall
Siebren Versteeg’s work takes form from an infinite flow of images downloaded from the Internet to monitors in the gallery space. He uses commercial databases to investigate our media-saturated world in which the real and the virtual have become intertwined. Versteeg and Steve McDonald, RISD’s general counsel, discuss when and how artists may incorporate others’ works in their own, and the ever-evolving terrain of authorship, copyright, and fair use. Co-sponsored by RISD’s Digital Media Department.

Screening
Beautiful Losers
6:30pm | Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center
Filmmaker Aaron Rose’s documentary explores the vibrant world of a group of underground artists involved in graffiti, skateboarding, and music in New York during the early 1990s. What begins as outsider art soon influences fashion, film, and pop culture. Interviews with Harmony Korine, Margaret Kilgallen, Ed Templeton, Shepard Fairey (RISD BFA 1992), Thomas Campbell, and others. (2008/90 min./not rated) Co-sponsored by Cable Car Cinema.

EXHIBITIONS
Siebren Versteeg:  In Advance of Another Thing
Through Sunday, Oct. 10
Siebren Versteeg (American, b. 1971) uses online mass media and commercial databases to investigate our media-saturated world, in which the real and the virtual have become intertwined.

Tristin Lowe:  Under the Influence
Through Sunday, Oct. 24
Using low-tech but labor-intensive methods and material, sculptor Tristin Lowe (American, b. 1966) has created a sizeable version of the moon to fill the Museum’s Lower Farago Gallery by covering an inflatable sphere, 12 and a half  feet in diameter, in white felt.

Odyssey: The Photographs of Linda Connor
Through Sunday, Oct. 31
This artist-designed installation of 69 photographs presents more than 30 years of work by Linda Connor (RISD BFA 1967), who has traveled the world in search of contemplative settings, capturing the rich detail of her subjects with remarkable clarity.

Designing Traditions Biennial: Student Explorations in the Asian Textile Collection
Through Sunday, Nov. 14
To honor a long tradition of fruitful exchanges between the Museum and the School, intricately crafted objects from Japan to the Middle East are selected from the Museum’s collections to inspire the newest generation of designers.

Of Clover and Chrysanthemum: Autumn Themes in Japanese Woodblock Prints
Through Sunday, Dec. 12
Autumn themes decorate a wide variety of objects in Japan. In woodblock prints, characteristic subjects such as chrysanthemums, morning glories, and autumn grasses, are featured.

Opening of Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Galleries
Friday, Sept. 24
The Museum’s renovated and reinstalled ancient, medieval, and Renaissance galleries are unveiled, with their architectural spaces in the 1926 Radeke Building returned to their original grandeur.

The RISD Museum of Art was founded as part of Rhode Island School of Design in 1877. Its permanent collection of more than 84,000 objects encompasses painting, sculpture, decorative arts, costume, furniture, and other works of art from nearly every part of the world and every era, including objects from Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, and art of all periods from Asia, Europe, and the Americas, up to the latest in contemporary art. There are two entrances to the Museum, enter through the Chace Center at 20 N. Main Street, near the corner of N. Main and College Streets or through the Farago Wing on the corner of Benefit and Waterman Streets.

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