Please join us for the opening reception celebrating two exciting new exhibitions in the Beard & Weil Galleries. Props & Fine Art from Movies, Television & Theatre and Working Objects: Props by Ross MacDonald will be on display through April 13, 2018. Haas Visiting Artist Ross MacDonald will give an artist lecture at 5 p.m. in Ellison Lecture. The galleries are open Monday-Saturday 12:30-4:30 p.m., the galleries will be closed for spring break March 10-18.
Artist Ross MacDonald has worked as a prop maker for Boardwalk Empire, National Treasure, Hateful Eight, Joy and John Wick among others.
Exhibition runs March 1 – April 13, 2018; the galleries will be closed March 10–18 for spring break.
Film, television and theatre professionals create works of art that only work if they are unseen, yet they often drive plot completely. This exhibition features the work of Carl Sprague, Annie Atkins, Eric B. Hart, Jay Duckworth and others.
Exhibition runs March 1 – April 13, 2018; the galleries will be closed March 10–17 for spring break.
Artist Ross MacDonald has worked as a prop maker for Boardwalk Empire, National Treasure, Hateful Eight, Joy and John Wick among others.
Exhibition runs March 1 – April 13, 2018; the galleries will be closed March 10–18 for spring break.
On & On: Art without End
On & On features works that have no beginning, no middle and no end. On & On artists make work about time as it moves on, but also the ‘electrical on’, in other words, ‘turned on’. The show is deliberately staged as a loopy, pulsing, loudly colored response to the short days of winter”. Beard Gallery, Watson Fine Arts
WORK/PLAY: Color-ism
WORK/PLAY, aka Danielle and Kevin McCoy, work in graphic design, printmaking, textiles, teaching, curating, and activism. Weil Gallery, Watson Fine Arts
Related Events:
Artist Talk with WORK/PLAY: January 25, 5:00 p.m.
Ellison Lecture, Watson Fine Arts
Resonance Dance Party featuring DJ Elementary: February 22, 8:00 p.m.
Resonance is a color + music public art project conceived of by artist Lynne Harlow. It explores the intersection of color and sound with an emphasis on our personal, deeply subjective associations with songs and colors. Beard & Weil Galleries, Watson Fine Arts
On & On features works that have no beginning, no middle and no end. On & On artists make work about time as it moves on, but also the ‘electrical on’, in other words, ‘turned on’. The show is deliberately staged as a loopy, pulsing, loudly colored response to the short days of winter”.
Exhibition runs January 24 – February 23, 2018
Closed Sundays
WORK/PLAY, aka Danielle and Kevin McCoy, work in graphic design, printmaking, textiles, teaching, curating, and activism.
Exhibition runs January 24 – February 23, 2018
Closed Sundays
Drawn Threads
While contemporary culture has continued to use thread for utilitarian and decorative purposes, artists have explored its use and representation as a conceptual and expressive means for decades. These six artists rely on thread as both inspiration and drawing tool, creating works that span sculpture, installation, photography, painting and more. Participating artists include J Carpenter, Marjorie Forté, Leslie Schomp, Jodi Stevens, Antoinette Winters and Melissa Zexter. Beard Gallery, Watson Fine Arts
Trained in fashion design and painting, Providence-based artist Taleen Batalian creates a site-specific installation that explores the boundaries between garment and sculpture, between form and function and between the beautiful and the grotesque.
Weil Gallery, Watson Fine Arts
September 5–October 21, 2017
Beard and Weil Galleries, Watson Fine Arts
Silkscreen printer Helen Popinchalk re-creates selections from the series Los Caprichos by Francisco Goya in eye-popping neon color exhibited under black light. Goya’s topsy-turvy world, intermingling the sacred and the profane, is granted a contemporary visual twist with psychedelic color, reinforcing the fact that Los Caprichos is sadly as relevant now as when he created it.
Exhibition runs: October 30–December 16, 2017
Closed Sundays
Artists Raúl Gonzalez, Edward Monovich and Karen Moss respond to society’s many ills, including global conflict, economic inequities and ecological disasters, with an eye toward raising consciousness and creating social change. All three artists reference pop culture, using imagery from comics, coloring books, children’s toy packaging and advertising.
Exhibition runs October 30–December 16, 2017
Monday–Saturday only