Brian Chippendale

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Brian Chippendale and Jungil Hong’s dazzling new work

A sense of wonder
Brian Chippendale and Jungil Hong were at the center of the gang of artists who pioneered the rascally psychedelic art that boiled out of Providence's screenprinting/postering/comic book/puppet show/wrestlemania/noise rock underground in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
By GREG COOK | November 29, 2011

Review: The eye-popping vitality of 'Printed in Providence'

Lasting impressions
Providence printmaking continues to be the primary representative of the city's art in books from Street World (2007) to Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today (2009) to the Museum of Modern Art's Modern Women (2010). It's a printmaking of posters and zines, do-it-yourself art often operating underground, on the streets, outside the usual institutions.
By GREG COOK | February 23, 2011

Local heroes, ’09 edition

From Suicide Bill & the Liquors to Roz Raskin & the Rice Cakes
The Rhode Island music community flourished in 2009, with new full-lengths from the Coming Weak, California Smile, and the pride of Cranston West and official big-leaguers Monty Are I, who released Break Through the Silence in September.
By CHRIS CONTI | December 22, 2009

Alternative universe

Boston Expressionism in context
In the 1930s and '40s, Boston painters developed a moody, mythic realism. They mixed social satire with depictions of street scenes, Biblical scenes, and mystical symbolic narratives, all of it darkened by the shadow of the Great Depression and World War II.
By GREG COOK | December 16, 2009

Lightning Bolt | Earthly Delights

Load (2009)
I’m not sure why people are so worried about the Hadron Collider, especially since Lightning Bolt have been tearing black holes in the fabric of Providence on a regular basis for the past 15 years.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | October 14, 2009

Their back pages

'Book As Post Modern Medium (The Book Show)' at 5 Traverse
An often overlooked factor of Providence's underground art scene that flourished in the decade bookending the start of the millennium was the central place of the zine.
By GREG COOK | June 02, 2009

Building a world

Chippendale on ‘trying to make intense moments’
During a recent chat at his Providence loft, Brian Chippendale spoke about his art, Fort Thunder, drumming, adrenaline, and getting lost in fantasy worlds.
By GREG COOK | May 20, 2008

Mesmerizations

Providence art: 2007 in review
Rhode Island confirmed why it’s the capital of New England art-making with two major developments in 2007.
By GREG COOK | December 18, 2007

Sketch artists

The BCA’s ‘20th Drawing Show,’ plus Little Lulu
A man with an ax walks out onto ice crusting over part of a pond and proceeds to chop a wavy line.
By GREG COOK | December 09, 2007

The brain drain

Rhode island needs a more robust economy to retain the young and the educated
Rhode Island is lucky to have Kipp Bradford.
By IAN DONNIS | February 15, 2007

Is Struever Brothers targeting Olneyville’s Artcraft Braid complex?

Citywatch
Advocates in Providence’s arts underground remain concerned about what they see as a looming threat to the Artcraft Braid Co. complex in Olneyville, home to a mix of artists, musicians, and manufacturing jobs.
By IAN DONNIS | February 14, 2007

Olneyville Holiday Art Sale renews ill feeling for development critics

City watch
Feelings about increasing development on Providence’s West Side remain quite raw in some quarters, as evidenced by the dissonance over the “Olneyville Holiday Art Sale” planned this Saturday, December 9, at Rising Sun Mills.
By IAN DONNIS | December 06, 2006

Out of the shadows

The Providence ‘Wunderground’ gets its due at the RISD Museum
Although “Wunderground: Providence, 1995 to the Present,” an exhibition that opened last weekend at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, covers a brief period of time, it also represents a dramatically compressed cycle of change in the life of the city. Images from the Wunderground Print the legend: Providence's "Wunderground" and MassArt's "Crafty." By Greg Cook
By IAN DONNIS | September 27, 2006

The more things change, the more they stay the same

The artist-development clash, as seen through the Phoenix archives
In December 2000, the threat to replace Fort Thunder and other old mills in Eagle Square with a bland strip mall attracted a broad and spirited opposition movement.
By IAN DONNIS | September 14, 2006

Matter of the moment

The Providence underground gets its due at the RISD Museum
Although Wunderground: Providence, 1995 to the present, an exhibition opening this Friday at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, encapsulates a very brief period of time, it also represents a dramatically compressed cycle of change in the life of the city.
By IAN DONNIS | September 13, 2006

Tensions remain hot on west side development

City watch
Critics have suspected for several years that a string of development on Providence’s West Side was nothing less than the cutting edge of gentrification.
By IAN DONNIS | May 10, 2006

Sensory overload

Intriguing images at Gallery Agniel
In recent decades, graphic novels have gone from grabbing street cred to gaining academic credibility.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | March 01, 2006