Mary Jane Begin’s wonderland realism at Providence Art Club ... Mary Jane Begin’s exhibit “Back to the Future: From The Wind In the Willows to Willow Buds” at the Providence Art Club’s Dodge House Gallery showcases her child’s fantasy wonderland realism ... ... VIVID Begin’s As They Rounded the River Bend ... In 1908, Kenneth Grahame, a banker who had been penning stories on the side, published a book titled The Wind In the Willows ... It was about a gang of forest critters
New works by Catherine Hamilton and Susan Twaddell ... “A bird feeder,” Hamilton writes in her artist statement, “creates an intensified microcosm of the trials and hardships of avian existence.” ... ... A DELICATE TOUCH A detail of Hamilton’s “Squirrel II” (2009) ... Catherine Hamilton is a longtime birder. So the New York artist and former RISD teacher’s sharply realistic pen drawing of a flapping owl is based on a bird-banding trip to a preserve in New Paltz, New York. Her
Versteeg’s ‘In advance of Another Thing,’ ‘Sitings 2010’ at RISD ... If you were going to create a portrait of the Internet, what would it look like? ... Photo: Erik Gould, Courtesy of Museum Of Art, Rhode Island School Of Design, Providence ... SURREAL SURPRISE Johnson and Peterson’s “Column” (2010). ... If you were going to create a portrait of the Internet, what would it look like? I tend to picture something like Keanu Reeves in sunglasses and trench coat breathlessly
Revues ... We all know RISD students like to paint and draw, but can they hoof it? Or belt out a show tune and carry a giant pencil at the same time? Well, yes, it turns out ... ... AN ‘AMAAAZING’ SHOW Kim and Kozatek ... We all know RISD students like to paint and draw, but can they hoof it? Or belt out a show tune and carry a giant pencil at the same time? Well, yes, it turns out ... "Amaaazing'' is how RISD student Greg Kozatek describes his cast in the biting musical comedy, RISD:
Film ... Wakinyan RedShirt has made three films in his life: Lego Star Wars , Bionicle Heroes , and The Wolf Show ... But perhaps his greatest flick, he says, is his latest ... ... THE FILMMAKER RedShirt at work ... Wakinyan RedShirt has made three films in his life: Lego Star Wars , Bionicle Heroes , and The Wolf Show ... But perhaps his greatest flick, he says, is his latest ... Not only did he get to be a crow (with a speaking part, no less: "k-kaw k-kaw"), he got to bang on a drum
Carey Young’s ‘Uncertain Contracts’ at the RISD Museum ... You could be forgiven if you sometimes thought that corporations are the root of what's wrong with the United States ... ... SWEET BUT SLIGHT Khebrehzadeh’s A Swim ... You could be forgiven if you sometimes thought that corporations are the root of what's wrong with the United States. Enron, AIG, Blackwater, Monsanto. Need I go on? But one of the curious facts about our country is how corporations were central to our
The gallery highlights of 2009 ... The lousy economy hit home this year as Stairwell Gallery in Providence and Yes Gallery in Warren closed their doors ... ... PSYCHEDELIC DREAMS Lyon’s “Sound and Light.” ... The lousy economy hit home this year as Stairwell Gallery in Providence and Yes Gallery in Warren closed their doors. RISD Museum cut staff and director Hope Alswang was fired ... I mean, suddenly resigned over undisclosed differences with president John Maeda. In November, beloved