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: Erminio Pinque is a performer, puppet & prop fabricator, Instructor of “Creature-Creation” and Artistic Director of BIG NAZO LAB, an international touring troupe and creature-making studio that employs a variety of mask and wearable sculpture techniques to create mobile spectacles and audience […]
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Original NetWorks Catalogue Bio: Malcolm Grear was born in Kentucky in 1931, trained as a welder in the Navy and studied at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. He is Professor Emeritus in Graphic Design at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he taught for thirty-eight years, and is known for his “visual identity” work […]
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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 […]
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NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: American, 1927-2012, Providence illustrator and painter, former RISD professor Original NetWorks Catalogue Bio: Born in 1927 to Greek immigrant parents in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Thomas Sgouros is a fifty year veteran of the Rhode Island School of Design Department of Illustration, where he […]
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NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: ANNU PALAKUNNATHU MATTHEW’s (b. United Kingdom; lives in Rhode Island, USA) photo-based work draws on old photographs to re-examine historical narratives in the US and South Asia.Matthew’s recent solo exhibitions include the Royal Ontario Museum, Canada, Nuit Blanche Toronto, the Newport Art […]
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Bob Dilworth, born in 1951, received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; he is currently professor and chair of the art department at the University of Rhode Island. He resides in Providence. Source: NetWorks 2009-2010 Catalogue Credits: Video: Richard Goulis Additional […]
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NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Toots Zynsky received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1973. In 1971, she assisted in the founding and early development of the Pilchuck Glass School. Later that year she explored new possabilites in creating large slumped plate glass […]
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NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Jacqueline Ott is an artist who lives in Providence and works in her Pawtucket, Rhode Island studio. Born in Camden, New Jersey, she received a BFA from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and an MFA from Rhode Island School of […]
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NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Walter Feldman was born in 1925 in Lynn Massachusetts. His parents were immigrants from Eastern Europe and Feldman grew up in Chelsea “… a Russian-Polish-Jewish community surrounded by Irish”. His father ran a small grocery store and moonlighted as a tailor, while […]
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