The Sarah Doyle Gallery
The Sarah Doyle Gallery is our own professional gallery. We exhibit five to six juried shows a year, as well as a staff-faculty show, a commencement show, and various special exhibits. The goal of the gallery is to expose Brown students to high quality professional art here on campus. The gallery openings offer everyone the chance to interact with the artists, ask them questions, and enjoy their Artist Talks on the nights of Opening Receptions. The other great thing about the gallery is that it brings all kinds of diverse and interesting people from campus, the Providence community, and the region into the women's center, giving them a chance to discover what an exciting place this is.
The gallery space in the "new" women's center is huge and beautiful. In the original building, the gallery had one small room and bled over into one of the meeting rooms, making the space a little haphazard and confusing. Of course we loved our old little space, but the new building opens all kinds of opportunities for the Sarah Doyle Gallery. We can show more work in a lovely space. The new building is a welcome and wonderful home for not only the gallery, but also for the center in general
OPENING RECEPTION: When Is It Time to Panic?
by Artist Liz Shepherd
Thursday May 1, 2008 6-8pm at Sarah Doyle Womens Center
There will be lots of free, delicious food and great artwork, bring your friends!
The Sarah Doyle Women’s Center at Brown University is pleased to host When Is It Time to Panic? an exhibit of sculpture and prints by artist Liz Shepherd. Her prints merge computer generated imagery and traditional printmaking techniques producing darkly uncanny and witty images. While natural disaster was one motivation for the flying chairs and piles of objects, these images also call to mind lives that have been disrupted by events as large as war or as intimate as the upheaval that accompanies tragic illness.
For her sculpture, Shepherd starts with furniture selected for its spare, anonymous style. The ensuing disruption by cutting or piercing of these ordinary objects inspired the moniker of Shepherd as “the Gordon Matta-Clark of furniture”. Shepherd’s work, at once ironic and romantic “walks the line between dream and nightmare”, according to a review in the Boston Globe.
Shepherd graduated with a MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University where she twice won the Boit Award. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), The Boston Public Library, Edinburgh (Scotland) College of Art, the collections of Percussion Software and Cell Signaling Technologies as well as numerous private collections.
Her work will be on display in the Sarah Doyle Gallery from April 28th to May 29th. Please join us and her son Henry Shepherd ‘08 for an opening reception on May 1st from 6-8pm at the Sarah Doyle Women’s Center Gallery located at 26 Benevolent Street in Providence, RI.
