Best known as the creator and, since 1994, the artistic and executive director of WaterFire, Barnaby Evans received his BS in biology and environmental science from Brown University in 1975. He had an early career as a photographer, exhibiting his work nationally and internationally. Today WaterFire epitomizes Evans’ mission to create innovative art works that

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Born in New York City, Paul Housberg studied painting early in his career, but was drawn to glass for its atmospheric color. After receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees from the Rhode Island School of Design,

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Denny Moers is known for his highly imaginative, technically innovative monoprints created by controlling the action of light and chemistry on the chemical-sensitized photographic paper during the print developing process, giving his black and white photographs an extraordinary range of tonalities. Moers

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Elizabeth Pannell lives and maintains a studio in Providence, Rhode Island. As a plain air painter working primarily in oils and gouache, Pannell strives to capture the essential impressions of the New England coastal areas with intensity and immediacy. She is a

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Walter Feldman was born in 1925 in Lynn Massachusetts. His parents were immigrants from Eastern Europe and Feldman grew up in Chelsea “… a Russian-Polish-Jewish community surrounded by Irish”. His father ran a small grocery store and moonlighted as a tailor, while

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Deborah studied textile design and painting at the Rhode Island School of Design. As a designer and creative director in the industry in New York City, Los Angeles and Europe she worked with designers and fabric manufacturers in global fashion centers.Based on

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Duane Slick is an artist of Native American descent, the Meskwaki Nation of Iowa and the Ho-Chunk Nation of Nebraska. His paintings blend the subjects of oral and visual Native American traditions with a focus on trickster strategies and modernist/post-modernist painting histories.

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: I am a painter who has lived and worked in Providence Rhode Island for the past fifty-five years. I received my BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1971 and my MFA from RISD in 1973. My paintings

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: “Layers and repetition are fundamental in my work. While these two words describe the physical aspects of the work, they also describe the act of making them. A shape’s outline is cut repeatedly until there is nothing left, a painting is cut

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Astrid is an Armenian American interdisciplinary artist, born in Havana, Cuba. She received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design, and her MFA from Hunter College in New York City. Her prolific body of work includes stained glass, ceramic sculpture, oil

Making art is a marinade of questions. The questions concern everything from major concepts to small details. Solutions arrive from constant immersion in the marinade. Source: NetWorks 2008 Catalogue Credits: Produced & Edited by Jeff Rand for Luminosity™ Camera/Sound: Chris Sweitzer Production Assistant: Angus McFeldstein Artwork images: Jonathan Bonner © 2008 Executive Producer: Joseph A.

Richard Whitten’s paintings are meticulously crafted images on shaped wood panels. They are definitely painting but teeter at the edge of becoming sculpture. Whitten says, “My paintings imply the existence of places and objects of desire that, like the garden and flowers in Alice in Wonderland, can be glimpsed but  neither reached nor acquired. They

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Dean Snyder was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. he received a b.fa.  in photography and sculpture at the Kansas City Art Institute in 1974. In 1975-76 Snyder received a British Arts Council Fellowship for postgraduate work in sculpture at Lanchester Polytechnic, Coventry, UK.

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Allison Paschke lives and works in Providence RI. Her delicate and sculptural wall pieces and installations explore geometry using translucent and reflective materials such as mirrors, resin, acrylic gels, and porcelain. Paschke earned a BFA from Kansas City Art Institute and an

Gail Whitsitt-Lynch’s art reflects her curiosity and fascination with animate structures, examining how and why they appear over and over again in nature. With her work she hopes to draw viewers into a dialogue, intending to widen the definition of artists’ community. She explores a variety of materials, both two- and three-dimensional. Wood is the

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Jane Masters is a local multimedia artist originally from Europe and the Caribbean. Her works in drawing, print-making, sculpture and installation collapse the distinction between the fine and decorative arts. Integrating hand rendering with industrial processes, she creates complex patterns, images and

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: American, 1927-2012, Providence illustrator and painter, former RISD professor Original NetWorks Catalogue Bio: Born in 1927 to Greek immigrant parents in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Thomas Sgouros is a fifty year veteran of the Rhode Island School of Design Department of Illustration, where he

David DeMelim pursues parallel explorations in printmaking and photography. He earned a BFA from the University of Rhode Island, studying with Bart Parker and Chris Cordes, and has been involved in advancing computer driven printing technology. With a focus on the built landscape and its human connections, DeMelim considers form, weight and proximity in his

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Daniel Clayman has been working with glass as his primary medium for forty years. His work reveals his interests in engineering, the behavior of light, and how the memory of experience acts as an impetus to his studio explorations. Working large and

Jillian Barber, originally from England, grew up in Westerly, Rhode Island. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design where she studied ceramics with Norm Schulman and glass with Dale Chihuly. Barber has had a career in ceramic sculpture, mask making and costume design. She brings a passion for portraiture to her mythical and

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Jerry Ehrlich was born in 1952 in Providence, Rhode Island. He has lived in Italy, Japan, Austria, and currently resides in Narragansett, Rhode Island. Travel and a side gig in historic building restoration have helped to inform his work and process. His

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines proportion as ‘the relation of one part to another.’ Pleasing proportions render the whole harmonious, symmetrical and agreeable. I feel that this is central to good furniture design. With considered, but rough, mathematical proportions arrived at visually, I strive to create furniture which is graceful, balanced and sensuous. I

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: As an artist, Laura is interested in the intersection of fine and folk art, and is inspired by history and artifact, utilizing traditional iconography in some very contemporary contexts. She works primarily in limestone, soapstone, and slate. Laura has shown her work

Nicole Chesney, born in 1971, moved to Providence seven years ago, after undergraduate studies at the California College of Art and the Massachusetts College of Art, as well as an MA from the Canberra School of Art, Australian National University. Source: NetWorks 2009-2010 Catalogue Credits: Video: Richard Goulis Music: Written and Performed by Michael Delia “Piece

Neal Walsh, born in Rhode Island in 1969, graduated from the University of Rhode Island and received important artistic training as the studio assistant for Pawtucket-based Polish artist Wlodzimierz Ksiazek. He serves as Gallery Director for AS220. Source in: NetWorks 2009-2010 Catalogue Credits: Video: Richard Goulis Edited by: Saulius Sruogis, Richard Goulis Additional footage: Jill

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Agustín Patiño is a classically trained artist, he studied architecture at Universidad Estatal de Cuenca for several years, and he then continued at the Universidad Central de Quito, where he studied painting, printmaking, and sculpture. Agustín specializes in large-scale public art projects,

David Barnes is a Newport artist with a long trajectory of success as a painter and teacher in Rhode Island. He received a BFA from the University of New Hampshire and an MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. His recent paintings have reflected his interests in the art historical past as well as the technological, fast-paced present—particularly the Internet.

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Jacqueline Ott is an artist who lives in Providence and works in her Pawtucket, Rhode Island studio. Born in Camden, New Jersey, she received a BFA from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and an MFA from Rhode Island School of

Sculpture and science intersect in the work of Stephen Metcalf, whose large, often kinetic works derive from a structural principle called ‘tensegrity’—defined by inventor Buckminster Fuller as ‘tensional integrity’ or contemporary sculptor Kenneth Snelson, as ‘floating compression.’ Since his student days at the Kansas City Art Institute, from which he received his BFA in 1972,

Judyth vanAmringe’s art is based on years of design work as well as the intricacies of artistic process. She is a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and has attended the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. For many years vanAmringe worked in New York City as a designer, running a business that made accessories

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Richard Fishman is a sculptor whose work is represented in numerous private and public collections including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Skirball Museum, the Rose Art Museum, Brandies University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Over the course of his

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: The images that I chose represent my most recent series of work. I produce about 10 to 20 works per series. In each series i try to explore new images as well as inventing new processes It keeps me excited about producing