Eiman Rezaei MFA 15 JM New graduate Eiman is one of seven jewelry artists from around the world to earn this year’s Marzee Graduate Prize from the well-regarded contemporary jewelry Galerie Marzee in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The prestigious award goes to the most promising participants in the Marzee International Graduate Show 2015, an invitational that opened on August 23 and ran through October 28.
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In May Yuka Otani MFA GL (NYC) was the Artist in Residence at The Studio at the Corning [NY] Museum of Glass. She continues to explore hybrid objects combining glass and sugarglass—a combination of isomalt, flavorings and food coloring—some of which she exhibited last spring in collaboration with Papabubble Japan, an artisan candy store in Tokyo. Last spring Michael Radyk MFA TX (michaelradyk.com)
exhibited in two shows focused on techniques and processes used by textile artists: Influence and Evolution: Fiber Sculpture... then and now at browngrotta arts in Wilton, CT, and The Constant Thread at The Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts & Sciences in Rabun Gap, GA. Michael lives in Kutztown, PA.
2009 Clement Valla MFA DM (clementvalla.com) exhibited work in Greetings from Lake Zwenkau, a May group show
M Benjamin Herndon MFA 16 PR Unititled on Wood (2014 – 15, found root, photolithograph on handmade Japanese paper, 20 x 18 x 12") was among the work by M Benjamin (mbenjaminherndon.com) in Making Meaning, a four-person exhibition curated by Ali Goodwin 99 GD at Drift Gallery in Portsmouth, NH. A second-year grad student, he showed both recent and pre-RISD work in the late summer exhibition and was also selected for inclusion in RISD Craft, the juried sales exhibition held on campus during RISD by Design weekend.
at Fjord Gallery in Philadelphia. United by a single jumping-off point—the digital pictograms that signal defective or broken web links—the pieces in the show could all be read as placeholders for unseen narratives. Clement exhibited a piece that makes use of a webcam and an inkjet print on canvas draped over a table-like structure. Based in Brooklyn, he teaches at RISD. Three exceptional RISD talents, Lauren Tickle MFA JM , Mallary Marks 88 JM and Rebecca Hannon 95 JM , helped the Gallery at Reinstein | Ross celebrate its 30th anniversary by showing their work in the summer exhibition RR30. The NYC gallery exhibits progressive work in studio art jewelry, as well as fine arts relating to jewelry. Lauren lives in Brooklyn.
2010 Halsey McKay Gallery represents Ted Gahl MFA PT (Litchfield, CT) and in May showed his work at NADA (New Art Dealers Alliance) New York. Ted’s overcast paintings “ambitiously explore the territory between the extremes of figuration and abstraction” and are pierced by protruding painted spikes or outside objects. To the delight of foodies everywhere, The Brothers Mueller (Kirk and Nathaniel) MFA DM , recently helped Gather Journal move into the digital space with a website and app. In July the twin brothers showcased their Studio
Mercury work to marketing and creative professionals attending the launch of the 2015 Adobe Digital Publishing Solution at the Morgan Library in NYC.
2011 In July Jason Huff MFA DM (jason-huff.com) took part in the first annual World Wide West Summit—a gathering of people who work at the intersection of art, technology and new media—in Point Arena, CA. Earlier in the year, he spoke at CalArts as part of a panel entitled Narrative Fragments: Art, Language, and Algorithm. Jason discussed new work and his project capturing the advertisements generated by the gmail algorithm when
Nayoung Jeong MFA 14 CR Travelers passing through RI’s T.F. Green Airport got to see Nayoung’s work (nayoung jeong.com) in Personal Space, which was on view from May to September. In July the Providence-based artist also exhibited in Habitats for Strangers, a solo show at the George Billis Gallery in NYC.
the entire text of Brett Easton Ellis’ American Psycho was emailed back and forth between two gmail accounts. In early October, Native American ceramist and mixed-media artist Rose B. Simpson MFA CR kicked off a series of talks by women artists at Western New Mexico University in Silver City and worked with students to create
Steven Pestana MFA 14 DM In GEOMETER, a fall solo show at GRIN in Providence, Steven questioned how the instruments, concepts and methods we use to understand the universe predetermine what we learn from them. Working at the intersection of art, science and technology, he uses his work as a vehicle to explore big-picture connections between disparate realms of everyday life and more general social issues. 102
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