NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Artist Meredith Stern has a BFA in Ceramics from Tulane University in New Orleans. She is a founding member of the international group the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative. She has a multifaceted practice that includes printmaking, ‘zine publishing, gardening, and utilitarian ceramic ware. […]
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Brian Shure is a painter and printmaker working with representations of people in public spaces. He received a BA from Antioch College. He worked as a professional lithographer for 15 years, has published and printed editions under the Smalltree Press imprint, and was a Master Printer and Coordinator of the China Woodblock Program at Crown […]
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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 […]
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NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: David Allyn is an artist whose work is an investigation into the evolution of urban space and culture at the intersection of ceramics and printmaking. His process begins with selecting architectural sites and documenting the locations with photographs as a way to […]
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NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Ilse was born in Frankfurt/Main, Germany in 1932. She grew up in Japan between 1936-1947, returning to Germany at the age of fifteen. In 1954 Ilse began to study fine art at the art academies of Hamburg and Berlin, focussing on lettering […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Andrew Raftery is an artist specializing in fictional and autobiographical narratives of contemporary American life. Andrew loves prints for their ubiquitous role in our world: on wallpaper, ceramics, textiles, and other functional objects, such as bandboxes. He welcomes the challenge of using […]
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A multi-faceted artist and musician, Andrew Moon Bain was born in 1974 in Texas and grew up in the Pacific Northwest, playing classical music in the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra. Since receiving a BFA in sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design, Bain has become an active part of the Providence arts community as […]
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Nancy Friese obtained her BS in nursing from the University of North Dakota, in the state where she was born and maintains a farmstead studio. She changed her career course and studied painting and printmaking at different venues, culminating in an MFA from the Yale University School of Art in 1980. Primarily a landscape painter […]
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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 […]
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NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Leslie Bostrom received her BA from the University of Maine, Orono, and her BFA in Paintingfrom the Rhode Island School of Design. Between undergraduate and graduate school, sheworked as a master printer in San Francisco, specializing in intaglio.Bostrom has taught drawing, painting, […]
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