Two works by Alexander Rosenberg GL (Philadelphia) were on view in Touch & GO, a group exhibition that ran from early September through early October at Columbia University’s Neiman Gallery in NYC.
Jamie Allen 05 IL My Mind is the Turquoise Sky (mixed media on watercolor paper, 45 x 45") is among the new paintings in Surround, a fall solo show at the Pegge Hopper Gallery in Honolulu, HI, where the artist lives and works. Jamie is represented by the Halele’a Gallery on the island of Kauai.
Island City. In addition, an essay she wrote entitled Engaging with Silence: Using Art as a Heuristic to Develop Understanding about Meditation was published in the book Mindfulness and Educating Citizens for Everyday Life (2016), which was released by Sense Publishers.
2005 Kristy McKenzie AP (see page 96) Providence-based artist Joan Wyand CR created Crude Constellation, three site-specific pieces made from found rope and slipcast ceramic flotsam, for the second annual Steel Yard x Newport summer sculpture event in Newport, RI.
2006 Family Tree, a solo show of detailed “blueprints” by Mark Bennett PT depicting famous houses from classic TV sitcoms, was on view in the fall at Mark
Moore Gallery in Culver City, CA. In conjunction with the show, the Tennessee-based artist was interviewed for the NPR program Design and Architecture. Nina Boesch GD exhibited recent work in Upcycling New York, a solo show that ran in late fall at the German Consulate General in NYC, where she lives. Kim Harty GL (Chicago) was among three alums to show work in Paracosm, a group exhibition that ran from mid September through late October at Norte Maar Gallery in Brooklyn. Her work was also included in To Touch the Sky with Two Arms, a fall two-person exhibition at Holding House in Detroit. Tara Kopp SC (see next page) RISD alumni were well represented in People Who Work Here, a group show that ran last
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summer at David Zwirner in NYC. Brendan Loper PT, Mike Schreiber MFA 11 PT and Xavier Donnelly 14 SC showed work in the second exhibition of art made by people who work at the gallery. At last year’s International Contemporary Furniture Festival in NYC, Rich/Brilliant/Willing (Theo Richardson FD, Charles Brill FD and Alex Williams FD) unveiled a trio of new lights designed in partnership with David Rockwell of Rockwell Group. The Brooklyn-based designers’ first-ever collaboration resulted in the Witt Chandelier and the Notch and Phase sconces, which they describe as “reinterpretations of basic geometric forms as minimalist, almost jewel-like sculptures.”
At last summer’s CatConLA in Los Angeles, Jamie Shelman PT exhibited the cat-inspired cards and prints that he makes from his Baltimore-based studio The Dancing Cat. Last spring Leah Wolff PT participated in two group shows, Contemporary Ceramics at The Leroy Neiman Gallery in NYC and The Split between the Eye and the Gaze at Kunstraum Gallery in Brooklyn, where the
Daniel Hertzberg 03 IL On July 23, 2015, Dan and his wife welcomed twins Isaac Charles and Lincoln John Ponder-Hertzberg into their home in Morristown, NJ. His illustrations have appeared recently in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Politico, among many other publications.
artist lives and runs the collaborative arts organization Meta Meta Meta with cofounder Guy Ben-Ari. Leah also had a piece in Lucky Draw, the annual art fundraising event hosted by SculptureCenter in Long Island City and showed work in VerbLIST, a group exhibition that ran last fall at E.Tay Gallery in NYC.
R. Kikuo Johnson 03 IL Last spring Kikuo landed his first cover for The New Yorker. In addition to teaching at RISD, he does a lot of editorial work for publications such as The Atlantic, The Guardian, GQ, Newsweek, New York Magazine, The New York Times, Real Simple and Wired. And by the time the year was over, his artwork had appeared on three New Yorker covers. // RISDXYZ
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