Marlene Malik finished her MFA at RISD and exhibited throughout her career. She taught sculpture at Brown University in the Visual Art department until 2005. Residing in southern Rhode Island in Kingston near URI where her husband taught physics and they raised their three children, she has her drawing board and studio. Artist Statement I […]
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Eric Telfort is a multidisciplinary artist who earned his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and after working as a production artist in the video game industry, earned an MFA from the New York Academy of Art in 2009. Telfort has lectured throughout the US and internationally in Japan, and Zimbabwe where he […]
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Wiharso has had more than 45 solo gallery and museum exhibitions since 1995 across Asia, Europe and the United States and participated in numerous biennale exhibitions including the 2019 Kunming Art Biennale; 55th Venice Biennale; Prospect.3 New Orleans, Prague Biennale 6 as well as in many prestigious international institutions including Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, National Gallery of […]
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Founder of Providence Painted Signs the graphic arts has been a constant in his life for the past 20 years. Gilheeney has a BFA in Printmaking from Rhode Island College. He has paintings in Private, Corporate and Museum collections. Most days he can be found at the sign shop with a paint brush in his […]
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Gordon Riley studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, graduated from the Maine College of Art, and has exhibited throughout New England for the last 30 years, including the Newport and Attleboro Art Museums, Candita Clayton, Art Prov, Providence Art Club, Art League of RI, and Pawtucket Arts Collaborative in […]
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Masha Ryskin is a Russian-born artist who exhibits nationally and internationally. She holds a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the University of Michigan. Ryskin is a recipient of numerous grants, including two Fulbright Fellowships, a Rhode Island Fellowship in Printmaking and Drawing, and Rhode Island “Make Art Grant”. She […]
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Jordan Seaberry was born and raised on the southside of Chicago, and first came to Providence to attend Rhode Island School of Design. Alongside his art, he built a career as a grassroots organizer, working as a prisoners’ rights organizer, and later as Director of Public Policy at the Nonviolence Institute. He now works as […]
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Sarah Hardesty’s drawings, paintings, and installations reference geologic and environmental happenings and incorporate personal experience with a layering of time, space, and reflection. Hardesty’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Arlington, VA; VisArts, Rockville, MD; Metro Micro Gallery, Arlington, VA; ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, NY; Davidson Contemporary, New York, NY; […]
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Mara Trachtenberg is a multidisciplinary artist working in cut-paper stop motion animation, collage, sculpture and installation. Born in Queens and raised in Long Island, New York, she holds a BA in English and Women’s Studies, a BS in Art Education and an MFA in art with a concentration in Photography. Trachtenberg’s Speculative, Maximalist World Building […]
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Jean Blackburn is a contemporary sculptor, painter, and educator who “finds ways to re-assemble objects so that they achieve levels of significance and emotional resonance one would barely have imagined possible” (Michael Amy, Sculpture Magazine). Her paintings and sculptures address the domestic settings’ power to shape and reflect our understanding of the world. Blackburn has […]
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Michele Provost grew up in Massachusetts and studied Fine Arts/Painting at UMASS/Dartmouth. Since then, she has always maintained a studio and has exhibited her work consistently. One of her early shows was a two person exhibition at the Providence Central Congregation Church Gallery in 1984. The subject matter of her work has evolved over the […]
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I am a sculptor and mixed media artist working in Bristol, Rhode Island. Throughout my educational trek, from Interlochen Arts Academy, to Washington University’s School of Fine Arts, to The Johnson Atelier Technical Institute for Sculpture, I’ve developed an extensive set of skills that have shaped my thinking and my artwork. I’ve explored a variety […]
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