(7.10) Noted music photojournalist, and Providence native, Richard McCaffrey, and designer Robert Blunt will be celebrating the release of their new book, Richard’s Rock & Roll Alphabet with a book signing at Muldowney’s Pub, Thursday. Two more days of local book-signings follow (see below). Think of the shows this man has seen! McCaffrey’s subjects include: …
Pull on your wellies and head downtown for the AS220 January Gallery Openings this Saturday. The weather should be warm and rainy, so some gutter-hopping will be required to take in all the artists. (Look, it’s not mud and it’s not fire, it’s just a bad hair day . . . no griping.) Main Gallery …
(2.3) Check out the new Media Arts Studio at AS220 — Green Screen Fun/Printshop/Fab Lab/Media Demos. The AS220 Media Arts program is expanding it’s footprint into Unit 206 of the Mercantile Block on Washington Street with expanded classroom space and two new computers for: Adobe Photoshop or Premiere; web programming; and 3d modeling for art …
(11.14) Sorry, late on this. The Dean Hotel, in collaboration with the Providence Athenaeum, presents PROUSTFEST 2014! Professor Mary Bergstein on her new book: In Looking Back One Learns to See: Marcel Proust and Photography. Bergstein has published widely on topics from Italian Renaissance sculpture to contemporary photography. Marcel Proust offered the twentieth century a …
The Providence Polaroid Project is a new installation on Westminster Street (where Craftland used to be). The Providence Polaroid Project is an interactive gallery space and Polaroid Camera Shop. For 5 weeks this summer, participate in our project and help build our gallery walls with your own instant photography. Come inside and browse our extensive …
A reception Thursday kicks off an exhibit at the Johnson & Wales University Culinary Arts Museum theater featuring images of a previously undiscovered, edible, micro-universe. In ‘Lilliputian Landscapes’ photographer Judy Robinson-Cox reveals what’s really going on in your crisper when you’re not looking. The images in this show are photographs of tabletop dioramas constructed from …
Rhode Island native Stephen Spencer had worked various commercial photography gigs — including staff photographer at the Mystic Aquarium — before switching gears and becoming manager of museum operations the J&W Culinary Arts Museum. Officially out of the photography business, Spencer began taking pictures for himself. “I like to shoot everyday stuff,” Spencer says. “I …
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Urban wildlife photographer Peter Green (last featured here with his downtown snapping turtle) has some beautiful prints as well as his now famous poster of 111 Westminster Street (the Superman building) available for sale. This picture was selected by iolabs as its holiday paper cuts edition. Green’s work can be viewed here. He snapped one …
Head over to the Bell Gallery for a new exhibit of some very large and very strange photographs by Norwegian artist Simen Johan. An ongoing series that began in 2006, Until the Kingdom Comes opens here starting with a talk and reception Friday. Join Johan and exhibit curator, Jo-Ann Conklin, for a conversation about the …
Check out the new exhibit up now at the BankRI Galleries on Pitman Street — “Construction Zone: High Contrast Photographs by David DeMelim.” Although DeMelim originally attended the University of Rhode Island to study marine biology, he found himself taking art classes, primarily in photography and printmaking. “Pretty soon,” DeMelim says, “I had enough credits …
Well, you can’t get much more Providence than this — a Rhode Island Red hanging out in Antonelli’s Poultry on Federal Hill. Freelance photojournalist Ryan T. Conaty has been scoring some plum assignments lately, including these amazing photos for a piece written by Freda Moon, “36 Hours in Providence”, which ran in the July 11 …
A new exhibit by photographer David Silverman is up at the Pitman Street BankRI Gallery. Known for his sports photography, with clients that include the Patriots and the athletics departments of Brown University, Bryant, MIT and Yale, Silverman began to travel to far off locations to try his hand at wilderness photography. His first trip …
Last Friday was banding day for the four peregrine chicks atop the Superman building, and for the fourth year in a row Providence wildlife photographer Peter Green went along with the experts from the Audubon Society to document the event. The photographs are amazing (go to Providence Raptors) but this one best hints at the …
What wine goes with acorn and possum stew? And, how much. The Bell Gallery presents Lucas Foglia: A Natural Order, now through May 27th. A Natural Order is Foglia’s first solo museum exhibition, mounted in conjunction with the release of his first monograph A Natural Order, published by Nazraeli Press. A Natural Order focuses on …
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That doesn’t usually need to be said, but at first glance the work of local photographer Rod O’Connor reads as painting. The image here is of ‘Providence Docks.’ O’Connor uses an unusual photographic system in his work – high dynamic range technique. The technique sandwiches several versions of the same shot, all taken with a …
The photographer behind the new exhibit at the Pitman Street BankRI has a compelling backstory. In 1986 an accident at the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, the Ukraine, caused widespread radiation contamination and at least thirty-one deaths. Seven years later in the small town of Gomel, Belarus, the aftereffects of the Chernobyl blast were still …