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 […]
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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 […]
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Originally inspired by the redwood forests in her native California, Allison Newsome sculpts on site, in response to the land. She writes, “I tote my clay, wax, aluminum, plaster, into the elements and then return to my studio with the memories embedded in my fingertips, like a naturalist returning from the field with specimens.” Her […]
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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 […]
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A multi-disciplinary artist, Lisa Perez makes abstract sculptural paintings, objects and works on paper that investigate attention, perception and spatial dimension. Fusing the subtle edges between mediums, her practice takes a malleable approach to form. The work invokes minimalism initially, but slowly one encounters an unfolding of playful extremes in color, shadow, form, and a […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Peter Diepenbrock has achieved a distinguished record of accomplishment as one of Rhode Island’s most prolific contemporary sculptors. Diepenbrock holds a BFA, and a BID in Industrial Design from the Rhode Island School of Design. He has exhibited his mid-scale work locally […]
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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 […]
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NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: John Dunnigan is a designer, maker, author and educator. His studio work has been shown in more than one hundred exhibitions, including ten solo exhibitions, and is included in private and public collections such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the […]
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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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