paintings that explore personal and cultural history; he discusses his artistic process in an interview with Emily Jaeger, posted to the online Woven Tale Press (7.10.17).
Adam Anderson MLA 12 Ten Thousand Suns, a “summer-long botanical performance” that has brought more than 10,000 glorious sunflowers to former Interstate 195 land in Providence the past two years, attracts hundreds of visitors daily during bloom season. “This project actively transforms a challenged land area into a biodiverse and artful habitat,” explains Adam, who teaches at RISD.
2007 Shraddha Aryal MIA is the new director of exhibition design and production for the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, which is due to open in Los Angeles in 2019.
Amanda Thackray MFA 12 PR For Porifera, a summer solo show at Index Art Center in Newark, NJ, Amanda examined “the relationship that scientists and researchers pursue with nature.” In addition to this 25-foot twine and handmade paper installation, the exhibition featured cast-glass multiples and works on paper.
2006 Last April Eduardo Terranova MArch was named best new exhibitor at ArtExpo New York
2017. Working with a range of materials—big expanses of gold, plaster, burlap—the NYCbased artist creates textured
Last summer Tokyo-based glass artist Yuka Otani MFA GL continued her sugar-sculpture explorations in C12H22011: A Journey around Sucrose, a solo show at Telling Arts in Taipei, Taiwan. She notes: “The exhibition showcased my ongoing fieldwork in Taiwan in relation to the history and cultural assets of the local sugar industry.”
Dress-Up (frog-legs), a wonderfully wry and eerie sculptural work by RI-based artist Jesse Thompson MFA SC, earned the gold award for dimensional work in Spectrum 24 (11.17, Flesk Publications), an annual anthology of fantastic art. A stop-motion puppet animation by Stephanie Williams MFA SC is featured in Fictions, an emerging artist exhibition on view through through January 7 at the Studio Museum in Harlem. She also had work in several
shows last year, including project #9 at ’sindikit in Baltimore (September– October), Spiral, Recoil at The Delaware Contemporary in Wilmington (August–October) and two shows at MCLA Gallery 51 in North Adams, MA: Cloud Headed (July) and Babel’s Bricks (May–June).
2008 Jonas Criscoe MFA PT (Austin, TX) went with The Nuclear Option (silkscreen, paper & encaustic on panel) for Just under 100: New Prints 2017/ Summer, a group exhibition at IPCNY juried by Katherine Bradford. Lois Harada 10 PR had two pieces in the show, and Joohee Yoon 11 IL, Overpass
Serena Perrone MFA 06 PR Last spring and summer, Serena’s solo show Fata Morgana was on view at The Print Center — where she was one of three winners of the 91st Annual International Competition — in Philadelphia. She is an assistant professor of Printmaking and Drawing at PrattMWP College of Art and Design in Utica, NY. 92
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