Tina Tryforos is an artist who has continually experimented with photographic processes throughout her 30-year career. Her art is semi-documentary and often begins with autobiographical material that explores the natural world and how humans interpret it. She is a book artist, educator, mother, gardener, lover of the sea, and is currently a photography mentor for […]
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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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Artist Statement I was born with my mother buried inside of me — disappeared by many violences, but especially the violence of my birth.A daughter is sometimes a thief. In the Korean dictionary, there are multiple idioms that say this. She is a beautiful thief. She steals from her mother. Her mother encourages this. She […]
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Mick Chivers is an artist and commercial fisherman pursuing an AB in Visual Arts from Brown University. Raised on a small homestead and participating in the region’s fishing industry, Mick grew in tune with both artisanal and industrial food-production pathways, gleaning a deep and experiential appreciation for the organisms our society extracts to sustain itself. […]
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Pippi Zornoza is an interdisciplinary artist working in installation, sound, performance, printmaking, communing, collecting, and archiving. Much of her work deals with emotional residue as material. The form that the work takes is ever shifting. However, certain through-lines persist – a preoccupation with space (specifically the day to day spaces we inhabit, as well as […]
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Anne Tait is a multimedia artist trained in printmaking, painting and embroidery. She has lived and worked in Providence since 1997. Her work has been supported through grants from the Rhode Island Council for the Arts, the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, the Vermont Humanities Council for the Humanities and the American Culture Association. […]
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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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