Sculpture

RISD Galleries Downtown — Block Party Receptions Thursday

Head downtown tomorrow night for sculpture, installations, video, DJ and fun stuff. Check out four RISD galleries as well as video work on Tazza’s outdoor screen. Cash bars, live music. 65 Eddy St: Show Title: “Looking” Graduating Glass Thesis Show Who: Matthew Perez, Charlotte Potter, Rui Sasaki 186 Union St: Show Title: “Black Sheep 2.0”

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Becoming Silhouettes

Lisa Perez’s current exhibit, still even now, at the 5 Traverse Gallery is a meditative study in being and nothingness. The exhibit consists of small sculptural installations made of paper and wood. Her designs are poetic. They simplify the physical world without belittling it. Her best pieces are simultaneously microscopic and macroscopic. Organic grids and

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Iron Chef! The Secret Ingredient: Steel

[Postponed to September 19. Good call. Ed.] The Steel Yard continues to impress and amaze with all the arts, culture, production and fun they bring into the world — like that really cool girlfriend or boyfriend who was always full of surprises, and that you regret, to this day, that you didn’t spend more time

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What Are You Lookin’ At?

Only a couple of weeks left for the Elizabeth King show at the Bell Gallery.  Talk about your mixed media — jeez, leave something for everyone else to do — sculptures of wood, brass and porcelain; disorienting chromogenic photographs that look backlit, but aren’t I don’t think; and paintings.  And eyeballs, lots and lots of

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If Ritalin was sculpture…

… it might look something like this. ‘Cut Folded Dyed & Glued‘ and totally mental! The new show at the Bell Gallery, Brown University, features the abstract and insanely labor-intensive sculptures of Jae Ko and Imi Hwangbo. What is the deal with these Korean artists and detailing? (See: Do-Ho Suh‘s 2003 Bell Gallery show.) Are

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