Investigating the Department of "Special Collections"
December 6, 2000 - January 16, 2001
From illustration through limited edition printmaking, this exhibition will
reveal the generally unknown permanent collections of the University of Rhode
Island.
2001_Calendar_of_Events = MAIN GALLERY
Figure/Disfigure
January 25 - March 11, 2001
A provocative group exhibition curated by Judith Tolnick will showcase the
work of 8 contemporary artists: Painters, Vincent Ciniglio, Mike Cockrill,
Diane Edison, Frank Holliday, Rima Jabbur, Elizabeth Olbert, Carol Radsprecher;
and sculptor, Barbara Lubliner. "Figure/Disfigure" will elaborate and
problematize the figurative project inaugurated by the curator's "Go Figure!:
The Temptation Continues," of 1997.
Annual Juried Student Exhibition
April 3 - May 6, 2001
Lighthouse: Recent Works by Ernest Silva
June 2 - September 30, 2001
An installation designed and developed by distinguished LaJolla,
California-based artist Silva, who earned his BFA degree from URI in 1971.
With this exhibition, Silva marks his 30th reunion from URI. Silva will
combine painting and sculpture in an innovative installation sure to appeal to
all ages of viewers.
Projected Memories by Harvey Stein
January 23 - March 6, 2001
Harvey Stein is a professional photographer, teacher and author living in
New York City. "Projected Memories" are arresting, surrealist-informed
portraits meant to be somewhere between abstraction and representation; between
the commonplace and the extraordinary; reality and dream; entrapment and
release.
Verisimilitude by Mattion Grazier
March 28 - April 30, 2001
Mattion Grazier is an emerging Boston-based photographer who has documented
human subjects in various telling personal environments. However, in his
compelling series of images, all of Grazier's subjects are masked. They
where white plaster masks, designed by the photographer in conjunction with his
subjects.
CORRIDOR GALLERY
(The Corridor Gallery is reserved for faculty of the Department of Art,
URI, and invited guests)
Barbara Pagh
January 18 - February 18, 2001
Examples of the latest evolution in her personal iconography through
printmaking using handmade papers by URI Professor of Art, Barbara
Pagh.
Olivia McCullough
February 21 - March 25, 2001
An exhibition featuring works by well-known Rhode Island-based
photographer, McCullough, a frequently visiting instructor at URI.
Annu Matthew
March 27 - Commencement, May 20, 2001
Satirical photographs, some large-scale digital experiments, by URI
Assistant Professor of Art. Matthew's works are derived from her own
personal experiences as a young woman born in England, growing up in India and
more recently settling in Rhode Island by way of
Philadelphia.