Art Seen: Spoken Word’s Christopher Johnson
If you follow poetry and know anything about spoken word and the art’s local action and inertia, you should know Christopher Johnson’s name. To say that Chris Johnson is a colorful and interesting guy is less than an understatement. He is energized, mysteriously humorous and a walking billboard for where the spoken word performance art thing has taken us. […]
Cover Artist DECEMBER New Year’s & Polar Plunge Issue : Liz Wikstrom
The talented Liz Wikstrom brings us a polar plunge in the most literal sense Check out more of her work here : http://lizwikstrom.com/
Dash Around Town: Hope Gallery’s Anita Trezvant, Imago and The Wilson Collection
Art Galleries in this economic climate are really small miracles that require real same, business sensibilities and luck up the yin-yang. Anita Trezvant has most of that working for her. Since she took over the Co-op and reignited the Hope Gallery in Bristol a few years ago, she has had the right navigational skills to […]
Girls, Girls, Girls: How the Art World Sees Women Today
Some things I learned about women from “SHE: Picturing Women at the Turn of the 21st Century,” the exhibition on view at Brown University’s Bell Gallery (64 College St, Providence, through Dec 21): Women have big breasts, big butts and they like to lie around. Also a lot of big shot, blue-chip artists are way […]
Buying Aht for the Holidays
There was no Black Friday advertised at Sotheby’s and Christie’s, but word is that they might start offering a gift card of sorts. I’m not much for using gift cards (I feel pressure to go the mall) nor do I frequent the auction houses (too much historical thievery for my taste), but I do make […]
Art Seen: Master Photographer Alan Metnick at Studio Z — ROADNOTES “Following Jesus Crossing the Hudson Through Nothing Left to Treblinka”
Alan Metnick is a great photographer. There, I’ve said it. And if you doubt that statement even a little bit, I invite you to race out of your head space, kick off your zombie-brain and head down to Studio Z in the Eagle Square part of Historic Providence and go get yourself enlightened. See what […]
Gallery Listings DEC 2014
Gallery Z: Roadnotes, Alan Metnick, Artist Talk Dec 6, 2-4pm. 25 Eagle St, Butcher Block Mill, Providence. galleryzprov.com Thru Dec 13 Pawtucket Arts Collaborative: 10” x 10” x 10”. One hundred works of art under $150. PAC Mill Gallery, 560 Mineral Spring Ave, Pawt. goo.gl/65MP6n Thru Jan 8 Mad Dog Studios & Gallery: Holiday […]
Monster of the Month: DECEMBER 2014
Done by the Talented Erminio Pinque from Big Nazo Lab
DECEMBER 2014 COVER ARTIST: STEVE MARDO
We asked Steve to do a continuation of our previous cover seen here check out his other work at www.stevemardo.com