SUSAN MULLALLY, WHAT I KEEP, Oct. 1 – Nov. 4

Reception: Thursday, October 22 from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.

Artist Talk: Thursday, October 22 from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. in DiStefano Hall (next door to Gallery)

Susan Mullally’s What I Keep is a photographic portrait of survival told through the personal items that individuals cherish most.  This collaborative project addresses ideas of class, race, value, ownership and cultural identification.  It includes over 60 portraits, made on Sunday mornings under Interstate-35 at the Church Under the Bridge.  This work is a series of life-size images with brief personal statements by, and about, each person’s choice.  This exhibition contains nearly two dozen 28” x 42” prints.  This project continues to be exhibited throughout the country.

 

BOSS SHOW 2014: Best of Salve Students, Sept. 3 – 17, 2014

OPENING RECEPTION: September 11, 2014 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.

 

BOSS Show 2014: Best of Salve’s Students is an annual survey of outstanding student artwork drawn from the full spectrum of visual art courses taught on campus.  This juried exhibition showcases creative achievement at all studio levels, from introductory to advanced, in a wide variety of media.  This year’s show features photography, painting, drawing, ceramics, graphic design, illustration and interactive digital design.

 

An awards ceremony and reception for the artists is scheduled for Thursday, September 11, 2014 from 5:00 to 7:00 pm.  All are welcome to attend.

 

ART FACULTY TRIENNIAL 2014, Sept. 25 – Nov. 5, 2014

OPENING RECEPTION: September 25, 2014 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.

 

This triennial exhibition highlights some of the most dynamic work currently being made by the artists and art historians of Salve’s Art Department.  This is a unique opportunity to engage the images and objects, information and media that shape their research.

 

The gallery will feature the work of nine faculty in the areas of photography, painting, ceramics, graphic design, sculpture, art history and mixed-media.  This installation combines the recent work of Bert Emerson, Karyn Jimenez-Elliot, Ernest Jolicoeur, Jay Lacouture, Anthony Mangieri, Gerry Perrino, Barbara Shamblin, Susannah Strong and James Yarnall.

 

The Faculty of the Department of Art dedicates this exhibition to Professor Barbara Shamblin who has served the university for twenty-seven years and will retire after the 2014-2015 academic year.

 

On Thursday, September 25 the campus community and the general public are invited to attend an opening reception from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. with the faculty and their work.

JUSTIN KIMBALL: PIECES OF STRING, November 13 – December 14, 2014

OPENING RECEPTION: November 13, 2014 from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.

ARTIST TALK: November 13, 2014 from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.

 

For four years Justin Kimball photographed in abandoned homes, hotels and buildings in the Northeastern United States. For much of this work he accompanied his brother Doug, an auctioneer, into the houses of the deceased or dispersed. While Doug cleared these spaces of items for potential resale, Justin sought within them the evidence of an individual’s life. Photographing “the smallest objects (a note, a box of hair pins, a stain on a pillow),” Kimball re-imagines their existence and relationship to the absent owners. “I use the camera’s descriptive power and the photographic illusion of truth to create the narrative and inspire feelings about its subject. The resulting photographs are my perception of what happened in those spaces: Who lived there? What was hidden and what was seen?” Justin’s 60 color photographs from this body of work are explorations of the minutiae of everyday life—a contemplation of our brief and humble legacies before they are cleaned up and cast to the wind.

Justin Kimball was born in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1961. He completed his M.F.A. in photography at the Yale University School of Art and Architecture and earned his B.F.A. in photography at the Rhode Island School of Design. He is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Photography, the Aaron Siskind Individual Photographers Fellowship, and a grant from the John Anson Kittredge Educational Fund at Harvard University. His photographs have appeared in DoubleTake, Harpers, pdn (Photo District News), Photo Metro, and Picture magazines, and he is the author of Where We Find Ourselves (Center for American Places, 2006). His work can be found in numerous photographic collections, including the Corcoran Museum of Art, George Eastman House, J. Paul Getty Museum, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Portland (Oregon) Museum of Art, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Mr. Kimball has taught photography for more than twenty years at colleges and universities, including the Rhode Island School of Design, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Orange Coast College, and Amherst College, where he is currently a professor of art. He lives with his wife, Maura Glennon, and their two children, Zeke and Ellie, in Florence, Massachusetts.

2015 RHODE ISLAND SCHOLASTIC ART AWARDS EXHIBITION, Jan. 21 – Feb. 01, 2015

AWARDS CEREMONY: January 25, 2015 from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. at Bazarsky Lecture Hall, O’Hare

 

OPENING RECEPTION: January 25, 2015 from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. at Hamilton Gallery, Antone

 

For the sixth consecutive year, the Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery will host this extraordinary survey of the best young talent working in the middle and high school art programs across the state of Rhode Island. This annual show features over one hundred outstanding examples of student work in drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, ceramics, sculpture and design.

2015 RHODE ISLAND STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS FELLOWSHIP EXHIBITION, Feb. 13 – March 06, 2015

OPENING ARTISTS’ RECEPTION: Friday, February 13, 2015 from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m.

FELLOWSHIP WRITERS’ NIGHT: Thursday, February 26, 2015 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

ARTIST TALK and CLOSING RECEPTION: Friday, March 6, 2015 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

 

The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts presents 25 of the State’s Finest Artists at the 11th Annual RISCA Fellowship Exhibition, Friday, February 13 through Friday, March 6, 2015. The RISCA Fellowship Exhibition is an annual event that showcases works by Rhode Island artists who have been recognized by the State for artistic excellence. Fellowship Winners receive a $5000 award and Fellowship Merit Award Winners receive a $1000 award. Artwork by each artist will be included in the 2015 RISCA Fellowship Exhibition.

 

All events are free and open to the public.

 

2015 NCECA EXHIBITION PROGRAM AT SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY, March 25 – April 19, 2015

Two Openings on One Night!  Friday, March 27, 2015, 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.

GERRY WILLIAMS: EFFIGIES IN CLAY in the Hamilton Gallery

Gerry Williams – Effigies in Clay, a Memorial Tribute to Gerry Williams.  Salve Regina University honors the creative legacy of New Hampshire potter Gerry Williams.  This exhibition features Williams’ ceramic work from his family’s collection and other private collections.

 

PALACE POTTERY in the Library of Ochre Court

Palace Pottery features the private pottery collection of James Baker and the ceramic work of Susan Harris, Michelle Erickson and Jay Lacouture.  These four artists have developed installations in Ochre Court, a historically significant “Guilded Age” building that responds to the decorative aspects of pottery form.

SENIOR THESIS SHOW 2015, April 23 – 30, 2015

OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, April 23, 2015, 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.

Lauren Bingham,

Lila Macari

Samantha Nigro

Ashley Rek

Benjamin Straub

Sigourney Faul will deliver a presentation on her Senior Thesis in Art History starting at 5:00 p.m. in DiStefano Lecture Hall on April 23, 2015.

The Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of the Senior Thesis Show 2015. This group exhibition features selections from five thesis projects in painting, illustration and ceramics.

PICTURING WAR: PHOTOGRAPHS BY CLAIRE BECKETT AND SUZANNE OPTON, Feb. 13 – March 7, 2014

OPENING RECEPTION: February 13, 2014 from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.

PANEL DISCUSSION: February 13, 2014 from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.

 

For her Simulating Iraq project, Claire Beckett photographs role-playing exercises at U.S. military training centers. In settings fabricated to look like Iraqi villages, soldiers and civilians in Middle Eastern dress enact engagement scenarios used to prepare troops for deployment. Beckett’s work conflates identities—both of people and place—creating an ambiguous reality that elicits both curiosity and confusion from the viewer.

The subjects of the intimate close up portraits in Suzanne Opton’s Soldier series are American military personnel that have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. While requested to lay their heads on a table, few of her subjects seem at ease, their wartime experiences internally manifested but only suggestively visible on their faces. Opton’s portraits convey individuality and vulnerability, countering the fearlessness and strength we have come to associate with the military, particularly in America.

There is a performative aspect in both photographers’ work—whereas the players in Beckett’s photographs simulate activities associated with today’s wars, Opton’s subjects express the internalized actuality of that experience. Both photographers interpret aspects of soldiers’ experiences of war—as an artificial construction in the case of Beckett’s trainees and as the unimaginable reality hidden in the faces of the veterans in Opton’s portraits.

Claire Beckett holds an MFA in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art and teaches photography at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Represented by Carroll & Sons (Boston), her work has been shown nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions at the Wadsworth Atheneum (Hartford, CT) and the University of Rhode Island.

Suzanne Opton is a self-taught photographer whose work is strongly influenced by performance art. The recipient of a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship among other awards, she teaches at the International Center of Photography. Her work was recently shown in solo exhibitions at the Chrysler Museum (Norfolk, VA) and the Linfield Gallery at Linfield College (McMinnville, OR).

Michelle Lamunière is the Photography Specialist at Skinner Auctioneers and Appraisers in Boston and Marlborough, Massachusetts. For over twelve years, she served as a curator of photography at the Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum. Lamunière has written on contemporary photography for Exposure and Contact Sheet and curated exhibitions for the Addison Gallery of American Art and Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. She holds a Ph.D. in Art History (2009) from Boston University.

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.

BOSS SHOW 2013: Best of Salve Students- Summer through Sept. 29

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The BOSS (Best of Salve Students) show is an annual survey of outstanding student artwork drawn from the full spectrum of visual art courses taught on campus. The juried exhibition showcases creative achievement at all studio levels, from introductory to advanced, in a wide variety of media. A reception for the artists will be held from 5-7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 12.