Commitment to the Struggle: The Art of Sue Coe includes drawings and prints on such varied topics as the Ku Klux Klan, apartheid, Malcolm X, and skinheads; AIDS; labor and sweatshop conditions; war and the economic interests of the petrochemical industry; and vivisection, animal rights, and the American meat industry. Coe powerful illustrations have appeared in The New Yorker, Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, National Lampoon, and Artforum, among other publications.
Curated by Jo-Ann Conklin
image: Cross your heart and hope to die, 1997
New works by Yizhak Elyashiv, David Newton, and Judyth van Amringe, all of whom reside in Providence, will be on view at the David Winton Bell Gallery. The relationship between these Exhibition curator Jo-Ann Conklin notes a quiet tone that the objects possess, despite obvious differences in medium (Elyashiv works in drypoint and monotype; Newton in wood; van Amringe in porcelain and stoneware). "The artists share a maturity of vision, and a skilled use of materials."
Curated by Jo-Ann Conklin
image: Yitzak Elyashiv, Untitled, 2002
Best known for his dramatic paintings, Malangatana is an internationally recognized artist who has produced a broad range of work in diverse mediums—from drawings, murals, ceramics and sculpture, to poetry and music. His exhibition at the Bell Gallery features 15 paintings and 25 drawings, spanning the past 40 years of his career—and, for the first time, introducing his larger creative opus to the North American public. Malangatana's works are frequently commentaries on the historical and political events in his country, including Portuguese colonialism and Mozambique's anti-colonial struggle, civil war and independence. His works explore broad universal themes of violence and resistance to violence, capturing both the hardship of human life and its heroic aspects.
Curated by Vesela Sretenovic
image: Juizo Final (Final Judgement), 1961
The 22nd annual Student Exhibition provides the public with an opportunity to explore the formal and conceptual concerns that engage the student artists at Brown. This year's jurors are Laurie Riccadonna and Julian LaVerdiere. The show includes works by: Megumi Aihara, Jonathan Allmaier, Thomas Beresford, Sarah Bernard, Amy Bilderbeck, Kern Bruce, Zachary David Culbreth, Caryn Davidson, Mark Domino, Alissa Faden, Lucas Foglia, Edrex Fontanilla, Brandon Gross, Christopher Gudas, Gudrun Gunther, Nicole Herschenhous, Loren Holland, Sibel Horada, Clare Johnson, Darren Jorgensen, A-mi Kim, Max Kuller, Joanne Leavy, Matt Lewkowicz, Polina Malikin, Philip Maysles, Sarah O'Dea, Andrea Parada, Nathaniel Pollard, Ann Rundquist, John J. Speicher, Vivian Tang, Jenna Wainwright, Maria Walker, and John Wiener.
image: Loren Holland, Peep-hole, 2001
Over the course of five weeks in the spring of 2001, Mark Dion, along with photographer Bob Braine and nearly 90 volunteers, took to the shores, vacant lots, and farmland of New England. The result of these surveys is New England Digs, a multi-process exhibition that involved finding sites in Brockton, Providence, and New Bedford, collecting materials, cleaning them, and re-contextualizing the objects into a final exhibition.
Curated by Lasse Antonsen, Jo-Ann Conklin and Denise Markonish
image: Drawer of swizzle sticks and other materials excavated for New England Digs
Extreme Horiticulture includes photographs taken over the last three years in private and public gardens around the US. Continuing the artist's interest in nature and man's effects on nature, the exhibition illustrates nature at its most rigorously controlled: in landscaped and manicured gardens throughout the United States. Subjects range from the sublimely beautifulBirch Allee at Stan Hywet Gardens in Akron, Ohio, to the ridiculous Fifty-foot Inchworm, an azalea topiary at Cypress Gardens, Florida.
Curated by Jo-Ann Conklin
image: Fern Garden with Topiary, Lotusland, Montecito, CA, 2000
Curated by Jo-Ann Conklin
image: Metallic Brushstroke Head, 1994
Before Reflection Begins: Jin Soo Kim, Wolfgang Laib, Ernesto Neto, Valeska Soares, Marisa Telleria-Diez aims to emphasize the experiential and multi-sensory dimensions of art rather than its visual and aesthetic aspects. In this respect, all the works featured in the exhibit seek to engage the viewers in an experience that goes beyond sheer visual perception; an experience that is primarily bodily and pre-reflective, involving environmental space and body-movement, as well as other senses such as touch, smell, and sound. The participating artists—Jin Soo Kim, Wolfgang Laib, Ernesto Neto, Valeska Soares, and Marisa Telleria-Diez—each engage different sense-perceptions and raise the question of how meaning derives from sensory experience. By doing so, they reveal in their works pre-verbal, sensual meaning that operates via affection rather than cognition, in a domain of (pre)consciousness rather than rationalization, or, as French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty suggests, "before reflection begins...."
Curated by Vesela Sretenovic
image: Wolfgang Laib, Milkstone, 1982/88
Sean Scully: Walls, Windows, Horizons presents Scully's recent paintings along his photographs, pastels, watercolors, and prints. The aim of the exhibition is two-fold: to reveal the artist's creative process rooted in the recognizable world yet expressed through abstract shapes; and to explore his interchangeable use of media and their mutual relationships. By juxtaposing Scully's painting vis-a-vis photography and other works on paper, the exhibition shows how certain motifs of concrete, visible reality— such as walls, windows, and doors are transported from photographs to paintings, as well as how certain colors and hues are transported from paintings to photographs. In addition, a selection of pastels, watercolors, and prints further emphasizes Scully's preoccupation with the same motifs, yet in different media. Although the scale and materiality of the paintings are seemingly sacrificed in the works on paper, something else comes in exchange—the softness and intimacy of paper.
Curated by Vesela Sretenovic
image: 11.11.97, 1997
This selection of recent additions to the gallery’s permanent collection featured four Providence artists who show their work widely throughout the country — Yitzak Elyashiv, Irene Lawrence, Richard Fleischner and Howard Ben Tré.
image: Richard Fleischner, Melon Eaters (Balkens), 1999
Ann Fessler's Close To Home evokes the sights and sounds of the rural Midwest, as it tells the autobiographical tale of a young girl who grew up in a river community and was later propelled—by coincidence, dreams, and fate—to the hometown of her biological mother at the headwaters of the same river. Premiering at the Bell Gallery, the multi-media installation is the latest in a series of works in which the artist addresses issues related to adoption. Fessler's greatest strength may be her ability to comment on highly personal subjects without falling into sentimentality. The videos are poignant and touching, but her intelligence, critical distance, and well-honed sense of humor save them from sentimentality.
Curated by Jo-Ann Conklin
image: installation view
Selections from the Collection focuses on the prints and drawings that dominate the Bell Gallery collection and represent its greatest strength. The exhibition aims to provide an overview of the collection’s prints and drawings rather than to arrange them according to specific subject matter, conceptual framework, or geographic location. Its organizational principle is governed by the aesthetic and historical merit of the artworks, but also follows a chronological order, dividing the works loosely into three main sections: old master, modern, and contemporary.
Curated by Jo-Ann Conklin and Vesela Sretenovic
image: installation view with Robert Arneson, A Hollow Gesture, 1980 and Tom Wesselman, Nude, 1965
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