2014 shows
SPRING AT STUDIO Z
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A select group of artists from the Studio Z stable present their interpretations of the season Spring.
As the area emerges from one of the bitterest winters in memory, Studio Z chooses to brighten weary spirits with a joyous and vibrant Fine Art exhibition reflective of the fresh rainbow of colors that Spring will soon unfold, if indeed the new season decides to arrive after this seemingly endless winter. Please join us to "turn over a new leaf" and share in the lightheartedness of works chosen to encapsulate this welcome transition and a sparkling "breath of Spring". Participating artists include: Francesco Agresti, Maggie Bouchard, Sue Butler, Kim Ellery, Judith Ferrara, Stacey Graham, Angin Jabaryan, Evelyn Luppi, Farnaz Mobbayen, Ian Mohon, Kevork Mourad, Julian Penrose, Cynthia Robinson, Erin Starr, Melissa Thyden, Artur Vars, VF Wolf and more! Studio Z asks visitors to please also visit us on closing day, May 3rd from 2-4pm-- and each bring one flower for a bouquet to be raffled off, along with other raffle prizes, for a special event commemorating the end of the exhibit with a breath of Spring flowers. |
PHOTOGRAPHS,
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Art work on exhibit will be comprised of numerous artists, including several highly recognizable and/or renowned: Serigraphs by Anthony Quinn, works by Marc Chagall, Mihail Chemiakin, Salvador Dali, Honore Daumier, Albrecht Durer, Alan Metnick, Photographers David Black (new to the Gallery Z stable), Sandor Bodo, Stephan Brigidi, William Daby, Virginia Delgado, David DeMelim, Linda DiFrenna, John Hames, Valerie Kitchin, Aristide Maillol, Salvatore Mancini, Angelo Marinosci, Jr., Dore Page, Phillip Palombo, Robert Peabody, III, Howard Rubenstein, Howard Schulman and other photographers / artists/ printmakers* from the Gallery Z/Studio Stable.
Misrepresented reproductions often surface in the art market. Studio Z will be exhibiting examples of the variety of skilled processes used to create authentic prints,* serving as an exploration into the history of prints and multiples reflected against social, political, industrial or purely aesthetic contexts, while spanning the larger history of art. This exhibition will showcase the numerous techniques used by printmakers, including to produce limited edition prints, lithographs, woodcuts, etchings, engravings and serigraphs. *Traditional Printmaking processes for fine art printmaking include Lithography (Planographic), Intaglio (Engraving, Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint, Carborundum, Mezzotint, Photogravure) Relief (Woodcuts/Chiaroscuro, Linocuts, Monotype), Screenprinting (Serigraphy, Stencil). Studio/Gallery Z Visual Arts and Performance Space is located at "The Garage", Butcher Block Mill, 25 Eagle Street, Providence, RI 02908, 401-751-1970. |
"Stiff We Like" By Alaina Mahoney
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Alaina Mahoney, both a painter and a metalworker, received her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in painting from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and is head fabricator at Schiff Architectural Detail in Chelsea, MA. Alaina was born and educated in Brockton, MA by her parents Ginny and John Mahoney (who are also artists) and Mr. Allen at Brockton High School. Alaina settled in East Boston and has a studio around the corner in Chelsea called Carter Street Artists' Union, where she paints colorful renditions of friends reacting to caricatures of their minor interests, and her eye-catching forged plants spread their steel wings. An architectural welder, she has built a furnace for melting iron.
Alaina's body of work for this exhibit at Studio Z is titled "Stuff We Like". Alaina states "The series 'Stuff We Like' involves either me or folks I know doing things that you'd only know about them if you spent way too much time around them. Clearly I've spent too much time with my self so you'll see a lot of self portraits. Some of this series has to do with my brother Greg and me being little kids together; bits of that past that have stuck with us over the years. I think you begin to know an adult when you can instantly pick out the moments that put them right back in the mindset of their early years. This series tries to encapsulate those moments. For instance, you'd only know that I'm scared of moths and fuzzy grass if you spent enough time around me, or if you knew me when I was 5. Well...now you all know so I guess I've blown it." |
VF Wolf is a painter who is surrounded by Fine Art, as a night watchman at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum located in Providence, RI. He was an officer in the Army Reserve from 2000-2007 and has traveled extensively throughout the United States and lived in both Egypt and Ireland. He received a Bachelor degree in art history (2007) and a Bachelor of Fine Art in painting (2011) from Rhode Island College, and was recently was granted a Master of Fine Art from Massachusetts College of Art and Design (2013). VF currently resides and works in Pawtucket, RI.
VF has titled his body of work for this exhibit "Martial Memories".
VF States "I want my art to be repulsive and attractive. I paint the ugly and disturbing, mask-like figures because I use them as metaphor to analyze the shadow that lies in every society's sub-conscious, that part of the psyche that craves violence and destruction."
"This fascination of studying the dark side of man most likely started when I was a young man in the military. I would witness the violence and brutality on a daily basis and this became the starting point that informed much of my artwork. My art is the by-product of thinking about my life, in particular my military experiences."
VF has titled his body of work for this exhibit "Martial Memories".
VF States "I want my art to be repulsive and attractive. I paint the ugly and disturbing, mask-like figures because I use them as metaphor to analyze the shadow that lies in every society's sub-conscious, that part of the psyche that craves violence and destruction."
"This fascination of studying the dark side of man most likely started when I was a young man in the military. I would witness the violence and brutality on a daily basis and this became the starting point that informed much of my artwork. My art is the by-product of thinking about my life, in particular my military experiences."
"La Strada & Metropolis"
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Anthony Quinn was born in Chihuahua, Mexico during the revolution in 1915 to a half-Irish father, Frank Quinn, and a Mexican-Indian mother, Manuela Oaxaca. As an infant, his mother hid him in a coal wagon for the two of them to escape to El Paso, Texas. The family wasn't reunited with his father until Anthony was three; his sister Stella was born, and they traveled as migrant workers, eventually settling in Southern California, where Anthony grew up a Mexican neighborhood of East Los Angeles.
Anthony began drawing and sculpting from a very young age. During trips to the studio where his father worked, he started sketching movie stars. At the age of 11, he won a California statewide competition with a plaster bust of Abraham Lincoln. Winning another contest as a junior in high school with an architectural plan for a marketplace, the prize, studying and working with renowned architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, changed Anthony's life. World famous as a dynamic actor, recipient of two Academy Awards and six nominations, after more than sixty years creating larger-than-life characters performing on stage, television and in films, in the 80's Quinn developed another full-blown career, as an artist, although he had been painting and sculpting since a youngster. While on movie location in North African and Middle East deserts, he would forage among dunes gathering stones, pieces of rock and wood, which he would transform into works of art during his free time. He began enlarging these "maquettes" into full-sized sculptures for his own home, whereupon people started asking him where they could purchase the artwork. A subsequent solo exhibition at a Honolulu, Hawaii, gallery sold out every piece in the show. A compelling extensive body of work ensued, contemporary in style: sculptures, drawings, paintings. Sinuous and smooth, rounded figurative sculptures, many based on mythological personages, are juxtaposed with bold and imposing angular abstract structures. A sketch would generate a wood cut-out, which he would then cast in wax, clay or bronze. All are clearly imbued with thoughtful symbolism. |
Quinn's last years were spent in beautiful Bristol, Rhode Island, enjoying privacy and creating striking art. At age 86 he died in Boston, from respiratory failure shortly after completing his role in his last film, Avenging Angelo, in Toronto in May 2001. His funeral took place in the First Baptist Church in America on College Hill in Providence, RI. The Anthony Quinn Foundation Scholarship Program, formed to perpetuate Anthony Quinn's vision for an art-conscious society, raises and distributes funds for arts education in the areas of Visual Arts and Design, Performing Arts, Media Arts, and Literary Arts for high school students to apply funds to any recognized pre-college, summer or after-school arts education program.
Larger than life in art, film and in his own life as he lived it, Anthony Quinn left a remarkable legacy of art to behold and savor.
"Agustín Patiño has created paintings made with infinite curiosity, full of mystery, magic, color, of obsessive work, he has painted cities with loud silent voices, he has submerged himself in seas of oceans and continues to search temptations in the metropolis and the outskirts of the harmony of his chaos."
Born in Giron Cuenca, Ecuador; Agustín Patiño studied Architecture at Cuenca State University in Ecuador and received his BFA in Painting and Printmaking from Central University of Quito.
Agustín has created three monumental murals in Providence: the first one called "The Plaza of Art and Cultures/La Plaza del Arte y Las Culturas" mural, 22' x 140', on Broad and Ontario Street, finished in 2009. The second mural, finished in October 2010, is Dialysis of the Planet, 22' x 140', on Broad Street and Plenty Street. Both murals have had a positive impact on the South Side of Providence. The third mural, called the Air Museum, 30' x 160', finished in October 2013, is at the Wheeler School on the East Side of Providence. His large-scale public art work has transformed neighborhoods in Chile, Ecuador, and the United States. His paintings are in collections in Latin America, Europe, and the U.S. Agustin's work was exhibited at the RISD Museum of Art as part of the Art League of RI; he is also part of the 2010 Networks Series. He has had several solo exhibits in Rhode Island, Boston, Ecuador, Dominican Republic, Chile and Venezuela.
Agustín has participated in many international juried exhibits including in 2012: About Change, World Bank Exhibit on Latin America. He has participated in many juried exhibits and is the winner of several awards and prizes, including Second Prize in the Pawtucket Foundation Exhibit, and Second Prize in the 2010 Open Painting exhibit at the Providence Art Club, The Bradford F. Swan Award, Providence Art Club Open Painting 2010 Exhibition, The Viva El Arte 2007 at the Arts Worcester in Worcester, MA and The Luis Martinez Award in Ecuador, "Public Choice Award" in the 1994 Biennale in Cuenca, Ecuador among others.
From Agustín Patiño's Artist Statement: As part of this project, I lived four and half years with my family in the Amazon region of the Ecuador, what is referred to as the Amazonia. I painted the jungle, the vegetation, the water, the enormous cascades, the people, the animals, the birds and the insects of the area that make of the Amazonia one of the most unique landscapes in the planet. Motivated by the art and the nature, my family and I learned how to value the ecosystem and the species that inhabit it that region with more ecological, human conscience and vast respect to Nature.
After having lived this experience in the Amazonia, and in great Metropolis like NY, Quito, Madrid, Roma, Lima, Paris, Berlin and others, my vision is to create paintings and large murals in different parts of the world where conversations can be started about the Environment, The Ecology and Ecosystems.
I think that this humanistic, artistic and aesthetical attitude coincides fully with the idea of my contemporary art.
In this long pilgrimage through different cultures, countries, cities and forests, I have created paintings made with infinite curiosity, full with mystery, of magic, of color, working passionately, I have painted cities with voices from all the languages, I have dived in oceans of seas and I have continuous looked for temptations in the metropolises and harmony among the banks of my chaos. - Agustín Patiño
Artist Statement
In "La Strada and Metropolis," the upcoming Studio Z art exhibit with sculptures and paintings by masters Anthony Quinn and Agustín Patiño, we witness the vision and expression of two artists from different backgrounds and how they connect in the infinite universe we call art.
Quinn, born in Chihuahua, Mexico and Patiño, born in Cuenca, Ecuador, are immigrants who never forgot their Latin American roots. Their artistic expressions in film, painting and sculpture have a strong appeal and captivate audiences. Their body of work is recognized around the world and continues to be at the forefront of the contemporary art scene.
Anthony Quinn is not only recognized as one of the pioneers of Latino actors in Hollywood, but also for the extraordinary sculptures and paintings he created throughout his life. Equally, the muralist and master painter Agustín Patiño has developed his own style. He has worked on public art projects and created monumental murals in North and South America. Both artists chose Rhode Island as the ideal place to establish their respective studios and to create their indelible work.
When we examine their art, we appreciate the depiction of people's struggle and the subjects' connections to their community. Quinn and Patiño's art work not only transmits messages of joy and hope but also reflects each painter's solidarity with humanity.
Larger than life in art, film and in his own life as he lived it, Anthony Quinn left a remarkable legacy of art to behold and savor.
"Agustín Patiño has created paintings made with infinite curiosity, full of mystery, magic, color, of obsessive work, he has painted cities with loud silent voices, he has submerged himself in seas of oceans and continues to search temptations in the metropolis and the outskirts of the harmony of his chaos."
Born in Giron Cuenca, Ecuador; Agustín Patiño studied Architecture at Cuenca State University in Ecuador and received his BFA in Painting and Printmaking from Central University of Quito.
Agustín has created three monumental murals in Providence: the first one called "The Plaza of Art and Cultures/La Plaza del Arte y Las Culturas" mural, 22' x 140', on Broad and Ontario Street, finished in 2009. The second mural, finished in October 2010, is Dialysis of the Planet, 22' x 140', on Broad Street and Plenty Street. Both murals have had a positive impact on the South Side of Providence. The third mural, called the Air Museum, 30' x 160', finished in October 2013, is at the Wheeler School on the East Side of Providence. His large-scale public art work has transformed neighborhoods in Chile, Ecuador, and the United States. His paintings are in collections in Latin America, Europe, and the U.S. Agustin's work was exhibited at the RISD Museum of Art as part of the Art League of RI; he is also part of the 2010 Networks Series. He has had several solo exhibits in Rhode Island, Boston, Ecuador, Dominican Republic, Chile and Venezuela.
Agustín has participated in many international juried exhibits including in 2012: About Change, World Bank Exhibit on Latin America. He has participated in many juried exhibits and is the winner of several awards and prizes, including Second Prize in the Pawtucket Foundation Exhibit, and Second Prize in the 2010 Open Painting exhibit at the Providence Art Club, The Bradford F. Swan Award, Providence Art Club Open Painting 2010 Exhibition, The Viva El Arte 2007 at the Arts Worcester in Worcester, MA and The Luis Martinez Award in Ecuador, "Public Choice Award" in the 1994 Biennale in Cuenca, Ecuador among others.
From Agustín Patiño's Artist Statement: As part of this project, I lived four and half years with my family in the Amazon region of the Ecuador, what is referred to as the Amazonia. I painted the jungle, the vegetation, the water, the enormous cascades, the people, the animals, the birds and the insects of the area that make of the Amazonia one of the most unique landscapes in the planet. Motivated by the art and the nature, my family and I learned how to value the ecosystem and the species that inhabit it that region with more ecological, human conscience and vast respect to Nature.
After having lived this experience in the Amazonia, and in great Metropolis like NY, Quito, Madrid, Roma, Lima, Paris, Berlin and others, my vision is to create paintings and large murals in different parts of the world where conversations can be started about the Environment, The Ecology and Ecosystems.
I think that this humanistic, artistic and aesthetical attitude coincides fully with the idea of my contemporary art.
In this long pilgrimage through different cultures, countries, cities and forests, I have created paintings made with infinite curiosity, full with mystery, of magic, of color, working passionately, I have painted cities with voices from all the languages, I have dived in oceans of seas and I have continuous looked for temptations in the metropolises and harmony among the banks of my chaos. - Agustín Patiño
Artist Statement
In "La Strada and Metropolis," the upcoming Studio Z art exhibit with sculptures and paintings by masters Anthony Quinn and Agustín Patiño, we witness the vision and expression of two artists from different backgrounds and how they connect in the infinite universe we call art.
Quinn, born in Chihuahua, Mexico and Patiño, born in Cuenca, Ecuador, are immigrants who never forgot their Latin American roots. Their artistic expressions in film, painting and sculpture have a strong appeal and captivate audiences. Their body of work is recognized around the world and continues to be at the forefront of the contemporary art scene.
Anthony Quinn is not only recognized as one of the pioneers of Latino actors in Hollywood, but also for the extraordinary sculptures and paintings he created throughout his life. Equally, the muralist and master painter Agustín Patiño has developed his own style. He has worked on public art projects and created monumental murals in North and South America. Both artists chose Rhode Island as the ideal place to establish their respective studios and to create their indelible work.
When we examine their art, we appreciate the depiction of people's struggle and the subjects' connections to their community. Quinn and Patiño's art work not only transmits messages of joy and hope but also reflects each painter's solidarity with humanity.
Two Points of View"
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Liz Dexheimer's fascination with the intricacies of particular natural environments enables her to capture the patterns, silhouettes and blended colorways found in the watery and wooded settings to which she is drawn - ponds, swamps, woodlands - softly rendered into perfectly composed contemplative abstracts in muted tones with an Asian influenced touch.
Ms. Dexheimer's paintings and works on paper have been exhibited widely in solo and curated group exhibitions throughout the eastern United States. Numerous museum and university shows include the Mattatuck Museum, the New Britain Museum of American Art, Sacred Heart University, CT, Hampshire College and the Whistler Museum in MA, Plymouth State University, NH, amongst many others. Ms. Dexheimer's work is also in numerous private and corporate collections, including those of United Peoples Bank and the Ritz Carlton Corporation. Most recently, a suite of her large-scale works on paper was acquired by the JW Marriott Corporation for its corporate headquarters in Manhattan, the Essex House. Ms. Dexheimer works frequently with master printer Marina Ancona of Ten Grand Press, both in Brooklyn and Santa Fe, and has worked on large-scale commissions with master printer Brandon Graving of Gravity Press in North Adams, MA. In 2011, she was awarded a painting residency at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT. Ms. Dexheimer studied at Oberlin College, the School of Visual Arts and Parsons School of Design and is a juried member of the Silvermine Artists Guild in CT. A native of Manhattan, she resides in Washington, CT, where she maintains a studio. |
Fran Henry - Meehan :
Raised on Long Island, New York, Fran Henry-Meehan studied graphic design at Parsons School of Design in New York City. In 1972 Fran relocated to Connecticut, then known as "the country", in order to raise her family. After a long hiatus from the art world, Fran decided to re- enroll at the Silvermine School of Art in New Canaan, CT, in 1991, where she did advanced work with Jacki Kouffman and David Dunlop, studying both painting and the monotype technique. She is an artist member of the prestigious Silvermine Guild of Artists, a former Board of Trustee member and Chairperson of the Silvermine Guild Art Center, and a member of the Monotype Guild of New England.
Ms. Henry-Meehan's work has been exhibited widely in prestigious exhibitions, including the Connecticut Women's Art Exhibit, The Art of the Northeast, The Boston Printmakers North American Print Biennial Exhibition, and many other regional, national and solo exhibits. Her work is part of numerous public and private collections.
Artist Statement - Fran Henry-Meehan
My artwork reveals the inner struggle I experience between abstraction and representation. It is a constant battle for me because I see things realistically as well as abstractly. I tell myself to choose one but somehow can't. The final product is a blend of both. The subject is whatever appeals to me. It is usually the landscape or an aspect of landscape either manmade or natural. The viewpoint of my work is totally subjective. I do not try to influence the viewer in any way. Whatever they may interpret in my work is personal to them and I don't attempt to interfere.
Artist Statement - Liz Dexheimer
This series is inspired by the elaborate combinations of linear and fluid elements found in the tangled frameworks of Nature's quieter water environments such as stilled swamps, murky koi ponds and detritus-filled wetlands. It is a reaction to the play between light and dark, motion and stillness, surface elements and what lies beneath. There has always been a yin-yang aspect in my overall body of work; some of the pieces deal with the tangible, gestural elements of the environment, others reflect the more atmospheric, intangible qualities. My process, in both painting and on paper, involves creating structure by building layers of visual information to suggest form.
Raised on Long Island, New York, Fran Henry-Meehan studied graphic design at Parsons School of Design in New York City. In 1972 Fran relocated to Connecticut, then known as "the country", in order to raise her family. After a long hiatus from the art world, Fran decided to re- enroll at the Silvermine School of Art in New Canaan, CT, in 1991, where she did advanced work with Jacki Kouffman and David Dunlop, studying both painting and the monotype technique. She is an artist member of the prestigious Silvermine Guild of Artists, a former Board of Trustee member and Chairperson of the Silvermine Guild Art Center, and a member of the Monotype Guild of New England.
Ms. Henry-Meehan's work has been exhibited widely in prestigious exhibitions, including the Connecticut Women's Art Exhibit, The Art of the Northeast, The Boston Printmakers North American Print Biennial Exhibition, and many other regional, national and solo exhibits. Her work is part of numerous public and private collections.
Artist Statement - Fran Henry-Meehan
My artwork reveals the inner struggle I experience between abstraction and representation. It is a constant battle for me because I see things realistically as well as abstractly. I tell myself to choose one but somehow can't. The final product is a blend of both. The subject is whatever appeals to me. It is usually the landscape or an aspect of landscape either manmade or natural. The viewpoint of my work is totally subjective. I do not try to influence the viewer in any way. Whatever they may interpret in my work is personal to them and I don't attempt to interfere.
Artist Statement - Liz Dexheimer
This series is inspired by the elaborate combinations of linear and fluid elements found in the tangled frameworks of Nature's quieter water environments such as stilled swamps, murky koi ponds and detritus-filled wetlands. It is a reaction to the play between light and dark, motion and stillness, surface elements and what lies beneath. There has always been a yin-yang aspect in my overall body of work; some of the pieces deal with the tangible, gestural elements of the environment, others reflect the more atmospheric, intangible qualities. My process, in both painting and on paper, involves creating structure by building layers of visual information to suggest form.
"People, Place & Time"
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Anthony Tomaselli is always evolving his vision, and in his latest solo exhibit of paintings at Studio Z will be presenting new works he has been working on, including while in his studio in the spectacular Fleur de Lys building at the Providence Art Club.
Various collections will be represented: new cityscapes as Anthony continues to capture iconic historic Providence, presents his latest beloved NYC taxicabs scenes and newly exhibits a series of impressionistic nudes. Anthony Tomaselli , one of Providence's foremost artists, was born and raised in Rhode Island and has resided here almost his entire life. He is a highly acclaimed painter and recipient of many awards and honors. He received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Studio Art at Rhode Island College in 1976 and studied architecture extensively at the Boston Architectural Center. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout New England, and is currently represented by numerous galleries on the East Coast. Masterfully capturing the light and the essence of his subject matter, Anthony Tomaselli's immediately recognizable and admired style elicits viewers' personal connections to places and times in their own lives, as the universality of his depictions speaks personally to them. "I paint pictures to create conversation. Conversation within myself, conversation between you and place and conversation between my soul and yours." - Anthony Tomaselli |
Photographic Odysseys &
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Studio Z/Gallery Z Director Berge Ara Zobian presents a third solo exhibit by esteemed artist, photographer and educator, Larry Sykes.
The keynote of this new exhibit is the artist's focus on the human aspect in these particular photographic essays. One of the series on display will be "Where a War Was", capturing the war in Eritrea through photographs. A wide diversity of other series will be shown, photographic journeys in Rhode Island and Providence, other U.S. cities, the Dominican Republic, Africa and Brazil. For over fifty years Sykes has captured the world's societies in his camera. In his words, "Material culture is a reflection of identity that mirrors a character that is congealed, accentuated, or masked. The photographer looks beyond the mask. He re-envisions and constructs alternative social possibilities that mediate contradictions in material forms and social cultures. In return, the viewer is compelled to confront the layered meanings that objects assume, as they are seen through a single lens with multiple dimensions." Storytelling is Sykes objective in creating his art. Each cultural artifact has an inseparable identity that ties itself to society, but as there is no direct route from the material object to the social history, it is up to the storyteller to connect history to memory, which Sykes encapsulates through photography. He is at the same time a photographer, archaeologist, and material culturalist. Everyday structures are imbued with deeper implications through his camera's lens. Sykes (b.1931) is a retired professor of art at Rhode Island College, where he developed the college's photography concentration curriculum. He received his masters at Pratt Institute, New York, and his undergraduate degree from Morgan, where he became Director of the Carl J. Murphy Fine Arts Center. He later taught at New York University, the College of Art in Kumasi, Ghana, and the Parsons School of Design West Africa Program. Later, Sykes served as commissioner for the Rhode Island Council of the Arts. His works have appeared in numerous books, journals, and museums worldwide, including commissions for the Smithsonian National Zoological Park. "The amazing Larry Sykes, a professor to many and a mentor to most, crosses the intellectual landscape through powerful images, haunting experiences and an iron clad sense for historic perspective.... with the wisdom of a cunning shaman, the artist will take you through a personalized journey ..." Angelo Marinosci, Jr., Art Critic / Photographer |
Alan Metnick
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"Ya never know what the road will deliver. Snarling dogs at synagogue doors, women with flowers, Pompeii penis's, a graffiti face or two, jacked cars, a pimped out Citroen,cannons here, cannon balls there, pyramid bomb shelters, and so it goes,and so do I." – Alan Metnick
This third solo exhibit by Studio Z/Gallery Z for Alan Metnick, prolific in various mediums, showcases new photographic works in black & white and sepia tones, sleek, crisp and poignant, drawing the viewer’s imagination in to interpret the messages behind the images. Alan Metnick is a Providence-based artist who was born in Chicago in 1941 and has been creating his art for over forty years. He received a BS in History from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1963 and an MFA in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1973. He has taught photography and silk screening at numerous colleges throughout New England. His works have been exhibited in a multitude of galleries, including numerous solo shows, including the Newport Art Museum, RISD, ICA/Boston, and several exhibits in Poland. His works are in numerous museum collections throughout the U.S., among others the Metropolitan Museum of Art/New York, Library of Congress, Los Angeles County Museum of Art/ Los Angeles, Museum of Fine Arts/ Houston, TX; Art Institute of Boston, High Museum of Art/Atlanta, GA, Armenian Library Museum of America/Watertown, MA, among several others. Besides photography, Alan's art works include serigraphy, stained glass, painting and drawing. |
