‘Focus on Four’ is a sharp sampler
By GREG COOK | October 29, 2009
Related:
2009: Worth another look, Review: 'Networks 2009-2010' at the Newport Art Museum, Review: ''Remember the Ladies'' at the Newport Art Museum, More 
- 2009: Worth another look
The lousy economy hit home this year as Stairwell Gallery in Providence and Yes Gallery in Warren closed their doors.
- Review: 'Networks 2009-2010' at the Newport Art Museum
In art communities like Providence, local institutions often ignore their town's history. Which can convey the message that little art made here ever mattered. And the corollary: Little made here ever will matter. Which is, of course, silly in the town of Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, Shepard Fairey, Kara Walker, Fort Thunder, and Dirt Palace.
- Review: ''Remember the Ladies'' at the Newport Art Museum
Rhode Island is one of the preeminent places for art-making in America, thanks in great part to the Rhode Island School of Design, but what would it be without its pioneering women?
- Review: Tom Wolfe at The NMAI and Trent Burleson at the NAM
Tom Wolfe is famous for authoring the nonfiction books The Right Stuff and The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test , as well as the novel The Bonfire of the Vanities . And for wearing white suits, sometimes with matching homburg hat and gloves.
- Emily Klass at Craftland; China Blue at Newport Art Museum
The main motif of Emily Klass's pen and black ink drawings is circles.
- Cultural studies in Newport
Jason Evans's bread and butter is commercial sports photography, shooting the likes of Tiger Woods, Alex Rodriguez, and tennis stars Roger Federer, Venus Williams, and Lindsay Davenport.
- A British invasion and the local hall of fame
The art season follows the school year.
- Slideshow: 'Networks 2009-2010' Exhibit at the Newport Art Museum
Local Providence artists collaborate for the 'NetWorks 2009-2010' exhibit at the Newport Art Museum through January 17, 2010.
- Louise Marianetti at Bert Gallery; plus, Brian Knep at RISD
The starched woman in Louise Marianetti's 1942 painting holds a copy of the libretto to Verdi's Aida . Her blonde ringlets are decorated with flowers, a pair of blue birds, and a veil. But what sticks with you how she stares with her eerie blue eyes.
- Review: The eye-popping vitality of 'Printed in Providence'
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.
- Review: Leitzel and Billings at AS220; and ''Creative Collective''
In Marc Leitzel's sharply real scratchboard drawings in AS220's main gallery (115 Empire Street, Providence, through June 25), he depicts a tense moment between a couple in bed, a wind-blown woman wrapped in a cape, and a woman with tree branches and leaves bound up in her hair and opossums or rodents peeking out from the leaves.
- Less
Topics:
Museum And Gallery
, Baseball, Sports, Nicholas Nixon, More
, Baseball, Sports, Nicholas Nixon, Fine Art Photography, Charlotte Estey, Charlotte Estey, Gertrude Kasebier, Gertrude Käsebier, Nancy Whipple Grinnell, Berenice Abbott, Less
