Jordan Taylor MFA 14 CR The Door is Ajar is among the recent work Jordan exhibited in The Door is Ajar, The Jar is a Door, a spring solo show at Laura Craig Galleries in Scranton, PA that included collaborative work with Adriel Tong MFA CR . Jordan is now working as a full-time artist in residence and lead craftsman in ceramics at Theaster Gates Studio in Chicago.
a mural using spray paint in the university’s McCray Gallery. Rose’s work responds to her daily struggle to integrate the traditional values of her indigenous ancestry and the perspective of colonization reflected in modern life. Her sculptures are on view through the end of the year at SITE Santa Fe.
2012 Harmony Murphy Gallery in Los Angeles represents Brooklyn-based painter Anthony Giannini MFA PT and showed his work at the Seattle Art Fair in late July/ early August. Aarti Kathuria MIA and Srikirti Sreedhar MIA originally developed Happttook, a 3D wallpaper that can be applied to any surface, in an Interior Architecture studio at RISD. Composed of dense plastic,
metal rivets and suction cups, the product is part wall covering, part sculpture and has been gaining attention from buyers around the world, including a daycare company in India with centers in several cities. Based in Providence, Aarti is principal of Hopskcotch (hopskcotch.com), a design and installation firm. Srikirti lives
in Boston and works as an architectural designer at RE Dineen Architects and Planners.
2013 Rob MacInnis MFA PH (see pages 40–43 + back cover) Ariane Van Dievoet MDes runs the Brooklyn-based modernist design studio Avandi (avandistudio.com), which showed its architecturally inspired tableware, jewelry and gifts at NY Now in August. Artist and designer Federico Pérez Villoro MFA GD recently founded Second Thoughts (secondthoughts.mx), a nonprofit educational program developed with Fundación Alumnos47 and Museo Tamayo in Mexico City. The yearlong
Whitney Oldenburg MFA 15 PT As she was graduating last spring, Whitney earned two coveted honors based on the strength of her work: RISD’s Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship and a Fountainhead Fellowship in Painting + Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in Richmond, VA. As a result, she’s now doing a nine-month residency at VCU, where she is also teaching and will exhibit at the culmination of her stay. Please email class notes submissions to: risdxyz@risd.edu.
series of lectures, workshops and panel discussions will feature international artists whose practices use graphic design as a medium of critical research and experimentation.
installed an audio/video piece at Boston’s Illuminus light festival and self-published a comic, The Fictionalist—A Science Fiction Manifesto, Part One (thefictionalist.com).
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Maya Krinsky MFA PH recently curated Language vs. Language, a fascinating interrogation of “the complexity of communication between and across languages” that opened the fall season at RISD’s Sol Koffler Graduate Student Gallery. Maya is based in NYC, where she’s participating in the Independent Study Program at the Whitney, but also teaches a course at RISD called Studio Languages.
Over the summer Doreen Garner MFA GL presented visceral work she describes as “visually combative” in Pussy Don’t Fail Me Now, a three-woman exhibition at the Cindy Rucker Gallery in NYC. Organized to prove that women artists shouldn’t be underestimated and haven’t shown the limits of their powers, the show described itself as a “cheeky retort to the haters.” Based in Brooklyn, Doreen is doing an AIRspace residency this year at the Abrons Arts Center in NYC. When Ricardo De Lima learned he was one of the four winners of the 2015 James and Audrey Foster Prize show at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, he invited Jesse Kaminsky MFA SC to collaborate on it. Jesse installed his Field Service Radio console to broadcast music and discussion shows during the final four months of the exhibition, which ran through August. Earlier this fall the Providence-based artist also
This fall Aaron Pexa MFA GL exhibited work in The Lucent Parlor, a fall solo show at Cade Tompkins Projects in Providence.
2015 After earning a 2015 Emerging Artist Award from the St. Botolph Club Foundation in Boston, Tony Bragg MFA PT (tonybragg.com) has established a studio practice in Providence, where he’ll continue to explore the local “forests, abandoned places and cultures” essential to his creative process.
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