NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Philip Jamoulis Jameson (1930-2022) was a large format black and white photographer who specialized in natural landscapes and the built environment. He worked in Italy, Greece, Switzerland, the American West and New England. In his later years he enjoyed working primarily in

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Lucas Foglia is a fine art photographer who makes stories about people in nature. His work is published and exhibited internationally. His prints and public installations are represented by Fredericks & Freiser Gallery in New York, Micamera in Milan, and Michael Hoppen

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: For the past decade Benson has continued to carry on the rarified craft of letter carving as well as exploring a new thread of artistically expressive and intellectual work that examines the scientific and informational languages of the digital age, and 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

With camera in hand, Reenie Barrow is equally happy photographing flowers from her back yard as well as packing her bags and traveling from Havana to Hanoi, through the Mid-East, Europe, Mexico, Asia, Easter Island and several movie sets. She says, “The thread that binds my work is a straightforward presentation with the ultimate goal

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Artist Printmaker, works on paper Original NetWorks Catalogue Bio: Born in Israel in 1964, Yizhak Elyashiv received a BFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. He lives in Providence

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: I’ve always been drawn to objects. Initially it was the structure of furniture or historical architecture which led me to the world of sculpture. Throughout my career I’ve experimented with a wide range of materials always returning to a focus on clay

Born in Rhode Island in 1963, Stephen Brownell has a degree in botany from the University of Rhode Island, but pursues a painting career at his Providence studio. Source: NetWorks 2009-2010 Catalogue Credits: Video: Richard Goulis Still Photography: Scott Lapham, Erik Gould Music: DB Leonard Executive Producer: Joseph A. Chazan M.D

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Michael McCoy Glancy, Sr. (1950 – 2020) was born in Detroit, Michigan, and later earned a BFA from the University of Denver in 1973 and a BFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 1977. Enticed by the

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Jessica Deane Rosner primarily works on paper with ink, gouache, watercolor and pencils to create labor intensive, intricate drawings. Within every series and across media that include paper, thread, and text, she strives for control allowing mistakes and accidents to remain visible,

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Meg has been making one-of-a-kind and limited-edition rugs in Rhode Island since 1990. She has degrees in textiles from Tyler School of Art and Rhode Island School of Design. The ultimate luxury underfoot, her rugs have also been hung at the Fuller

Born in 1954 in Wisconsin, Donna Bruton received a BFA from Michigan State University, an MFA from Yale University and a certificate in painting from the Art Institute of Chicago. She resided in Portsmouth, Rhode Island and was a professor of painting at the Rhode Island School of Design. Source: NetWorks 2009-2010 Catalogue Credits: Video:

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

Collage is at the heart of John DeMelim’s art; to him it is the most cohesive way to represent the myriad of differing realities we experience each day. His images derive from extensive travel and study of ancient cultures in the Amazon, New Guinea, and Mexico, as well as visits to Mali, Japan, and Greece, with his late wife.

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Ana Flores is an award-winning sculptor, ecological designer, and educator. She has been promoting interdisciplinary dialogue and groundbreaking collaborations between the arts and sciences for over two decades. She has worked with communities to design award-winning outdoor installations, parks, and programming that

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Richard Goulis is a multimedia and performance artist who has been a fixture on the local art scene since he first arrived in Providence in 1980 to study at RISD. Between 2008 and 2016 Goulis produced and directed over 100 videos as

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

Hank Gilpin enrolled at the Rhode Island School of Design to do graduate work in photojournalism after serving as a photojournalist in Vietnam. He instead discovered the joy of woodworking under the influence of instructor Tage Frid, who convinced Gilpin to enter the world of studio furniture. After apprenticing with Frid, Gilpin established his shop

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: David Frazer Professor Emeritus, Painting Department, Fine Arts Division, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) has a BFA from RISD 1970 and an MA from University of New Mexico (UNM) 1976, both in painting. He taught painting and drawing at RISD 1978

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Eugene Lee (1939-2023) was a set designer for theatre, film, and television. He is currently represented on Broadway by the musical Wicked. Other Broadway credits include Candide, Sweeney Todd, Show Boat, and Ragtime. Eugene’s film work includes Coppola’s Hammett, Huston’s Mr. North,

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: Xander Marro has been living the good life in the feminist sub-underground for too many years to count on her long bony fingers. She draws pictures (usually narrative), makes movies (usually not narrative), produces plays with elaborate sets and costumes (usually narrative,

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.

Originally from New Orleans, Coral Bourgeois, born in 1954, received her BFA from Northern Texas State University. An artist who works with tiles, her studio is located in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Source: NetWorks 2009-2010 Catalogue   Credits: Video: Richard Goulis Music: Miles Stenhouse and the Road to Ruin Producer: Joseph A. Chazan M.D. Additional Information:

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Gretchen Dow Simpson was the recipient of several prestigious commissions, including assignments from Bostonian Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Absolut Vodka, and Kirin Seagram Company. She held solo shows and group exhibitions in museums and galleries across the country. Her work is held

Originally from East Providence, Rhode Island, Tony Ramos was born in 1944, obtained a BA in art from Southern Illinois University and MA from California Institute of the Arts, Valencia. He lives and paints in France. Source: NetWorks 2009-2010 Catalogue Credits: Video: Richard Goulis Video excerpts: “Hydroscapes,” Electron Movers © 1976, Laurie McDonald, Alan Powell, Philip Palombo,

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

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,

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Kate Blacklock is a Providence based artist who received her undergraduate degree from University of California at Santa Cruz and her MFA from The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). She has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago,

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: I am a painter. I also design for theatre. I’ve been painting and drawing for a while now around Providence. I am interested in the Narragansett Bay and color and light and zoology and landscape. I read poetry and plays and often

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Tayo Heuser was born in Washington D.C., and grew up in North, East and West Africa and Europe. She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI and Masters degree from Vermont College in Montpelier, VT. Currently,