Alicia Renadette: Resurfacing

January 23 – February 19, 2025

Public Reception: Thursday, January 23 from 5:00 – 7:00 PM                                        

The Department of Art and Art History is pleased to announce the opening of Alicia Renadette:  Resurfacing, an exhibition of mixed-media sculpture and drawings in Salve Regina University’s Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery.

In this one-person exhibition, viewers encounter nearly twenty new works that vary in methodology, material, and size.  From large scale wall pieces and immersive floor sculptures to multi-layered drawings and smaller works on pedestals, Renadette welcomes us into a world of strangely familiar, yet alien forms that are teeming with energies, histories, and growth.

Alicia Renadette is a Rhode Island-based multi-disciplinary artist and Salve Regina’s most recent Artist-in-Residence.  Her work mines domestic life for objects rich in association with memory, childhood, and identity.  She collects, deconstructs, and transforms these discarded and often banal objects into entangled and encrusted mutant forms.  Through her accretive process that involves, sewing, cobbling, and collage, Renadette’s sculptural abstractions become enlivened with new layers of information and hybrid meaning.

Renadette’s work has been exhibited nationally with shows at the Sculpture Center (NY); Southern Exposure (San Francisco); Brattleboro Museum and Art Center (VT) and at the Governor’s Island Art Fair (NYC).  She has been the recipient of grants from RISCA, Assets for Artists with Mass MoCA, Vermont Studio Center and the local cultural councils of Holyoke and Lowell, MA.  Renadette holds an MFA in Sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute and a BFA in Experimental Studio/ Sculpture from the Hartford Art School.  She is currently the Gallery Co-Director at OVERLAP, Newport, RI.  Her home studio is in Providence, RI.

The exhibition Alicia Renadette: Resurfacing runs from January 23 through February 19, 2025.   On Thursday, January 23 the campus community and the general public are invited to attend a reception for the artist.  This reception will run from 5:00 to 7:00 PM in the Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery.

The Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery is located in the Antone Academic Center on the campus of Salve Regina University.  It is handicap accessible with parking along Lawrence and Leroy Avenues.  Its exhibits are open Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00 to 6:00 p.m., Wednesdays and Fridays 11:00 to 5:00 p.m., and Saturdays and Sundays noon to 4:00 p.m.  The gallery is closed on Mondays.  We invite you to visit us.