Reception & Artist Talk POSTPONED
March 2020
"Puzzled, Fragments & Flower Power"
Artist Umberto Crenca
Thursday, March 5th - Sunday, April 5th
March Artist - Umberto Crenca
Postponed Until Further Notice
Opening reception Thursday March 19th 5-9pm Artist talk: Saturday March 21st 5pm |
Gallery Z is celebrating twenty years of showcasing fine art with over 200 exhibits in two decades. Director Berge Ara Zobian is honored to celebrate Gallery Z’s 20th anniversary with his dear friend, Umberto Crenca, artist and co-founder of AS220, with a solo exhibit of Umberto Crenca’s political and social artworks at Gallery Z from March 5th through April 5th. An opening reception for Umberto Crenca will be held at Gallery Z on Thursday, March 19, from 5-9pm. Additionally, on Saturday, March 21st at 5 pm, also at Gallery Z, Umberto Crenca will give a talk about his works.
A visual and performing artist, Crenca’s works have been exhibited and performed widely in galleries, pop-up spaces and performance venues, including the Galleria Del Corso (Latina, Italy), La Galeria Matadero (Puerto Rico), the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, the Newport Art Museum (RI), and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Scotland). He lives and maintains a studio in Providence, RI, with his wife, artist and musician Susan Clausen. Umberto Crenca remains committed to the revitalization of Providence’s historic downtown. He served on Mayor Cicilline’s Arts, Culture & Tourism Advisory Board and on the steering committee for the department’s Creative Providence cultural assessment and planning initiative, the Providence School Board (2005 thru 2008). Crenca acted as advisor to the LINC initiative, a national effort to create better support systems for individual artists. An accomplished educator, Crenca has spearheaded efforts to bring more meaningful arts experiences to incarcerated youth, taught visual art in Providence at Urban Collaborative Accelerated Program (UCAP), also at New Pride School, and served as a mentor for The Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center (The Met School). In 2013, Crenca received the Making a Difference Award from the Providence/Warwick Convention and Visitors Bureau for support of the Rhode Island Tourism Industry and was Keynote Speaker at the Wilmington Renaissance Corporation’s Annual Meeting entitled “Bridging Big Ideas to Life.” In 2011, Crenca was mentioned in Fast Company’s Fast Cities feature “United States of Innovation“, which listed bold ideas and brilliant urbanites who are helping to build the cities of America’s future, and received the Rhode Island Foundation’s 2011 Community Service Award. In 2010, Crenca received a Rhode Island Pell Award for Excellence in the Arts, and was honored with a Charles B. Willard Professional Achievement Award from Rhode Island College. Rhode Island Monthly magazine included Crenca as one of the region’s most influential individuals in “Who Really Runs This State: The 28 Most Influential Rhode Islanders in 2010.” In 2016, Bert was recognized by the Obama White House as a “White House Champion of Change.” In the same year, he received honorary doctorates from Brown University and Roger Williams University. |
Watch as Umberto Crenca takes us through his Solo Exhibit at Gallery Z
Umberto Crenca Original Artwork Available for Purchase Here
At GALLERY Z/Federal Hill
Gallery Z, the Atwells Ave. location currently displays an extensive and diverse selection of small-to-medium-sized original fine art works (paintings, photographs, drawings, glass, sculptures, collages, assemblages) from Gallery Z's deep stable of fine artists: locally, nationally or internationally renowned, along with a selection of jewelry, pottery and unusual specialty handicrafts from Armenia and around the world.
Interested in hosting your own event at Gallery Z? Visit our space rental page and call (401) 454-8844 for rates.
Gallery Z, located at 259 Atwells Avenue on Historic Federal Hill hosts opening receptions for its current exhibition every third Thursday of the month from 5 to 9PM, twelve months of the year*.
March through November, Gallery Z participates in Gallery Night Providence.
*With the exception of Holidays
Interested in hosting your own event at Gallery Z? Visit our space rental page and call (401) 454-8844 for rates.
Gallery Z, located at 259 Atwells Avenue on Historic Federal Hill hosts opening receptions for its current exhibition every third Thursday of the month from 5 to 9PM, twelve months of the year*.
March through November, Gallery Z participates in Gallery Night Providence.
*With the exception of Holidays
Visit Berge Ara Zobian Photographer
