Leah Wolff (Critic, Painting) currently has a group exhibition, Pattern Interrupt, on show at the Agency (20 Jay Street, Suite M14, Brooklyn). Wolff co-curated the exhibition with Guy Ben-Ari and is on show now through to 3rd August 2017 with a closing reception on the 3rd Augst 6:00PM to 9:00PM.
Three prints from Professor Henry Horenstein’s (Professor, Photography) Honky Tonk series were recently acquired by The Getty Museum. The RISD Museum showcased Honky Tonk in a one-person show in 2007.
This June, Steve Subotnick’s (Critic, Film/Animation/Video) film LITTLE GIRL will screen in festivals in New York, Estonia, and Australia; and STRANGE FISH will screen in Animafest, Cyprus. This August, Subotnick’s film, FIGHT, will participate in a group show at the Studio 44 gallery in Stockholm.
Fred Lynch (Associate Professor, Illustration) was published in XXI, the French illustration journalism magazine in May. The image and story were drawn from of his ongoing series Paul Revere’s Ride Revisited which examines history, preservation and change in America. For the story, Lynch revisited the site of a Catholic covent and school in Somerville, Massachusetts which […]
Fred Lynch (Associate Professor, Illustration) wrote about his work for the The Common, the award-winning literary magazine which examines “A Modern Sense of Place.” The publication is sponsored by Amherst College. For the feature, Lynch described his ongoing series of drawings from Central Italy that explores discovery and the experience of place through site-specific inquiry. […]
Brian Kane (Critic, Industrial Design) took part in a panel discussion at the Splice Audio Visual Performing Arts Festival 2017 in London, England. His panel discussed, Sampling in AV, and examined the development, use, and abuse of audiovisual sampling. Kane also took apart in a performance and interactive installation, Emergency Broadcast Network “Full Release” Kane performed with fellow RISD […]
Johnny Adimando (Technical Assistant, Printmaking) was recently featured in an artist profile by the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA). Adimando was the recipient of the 2016 RISCA Fellowship in Drawing and Printmaking, the profile is quoted in full below. Johnny Adimando’s work has been defined as; “art that speaks to a constantly […]
Steven Subotnick (Critic, Film Animation Video) will have his film, Dandelion, presented by the Pompidou Centre in Paris, in their Mon Oeil web series, which seeks to present contemporary art to children. Subotnick’s other upcoming screenings include Strange Fish in the Animafest Zagreb in Croatia this coming June, and Little Girl at the Anima Mundi Festival, […]
The Seventh Art Stand is an act of cinematic solidarity against Islamophobia. In May 2017, participating institutions across the US will show films by filmmakers from the countries affected by the proposed travel ban. With two days of programming, the Rhode Island School of Design joins Dorcas International to engage the intersection of film and […]
Jane South (Assistant Professor, Film Animation Video) was recently appointed to the Chair of the Fine Arts Department at the Pratt Institute. The current Chair of Fine Arts, Deborah Bright, said of South “Jane South has an impressive background in combining her leadership experience of Fine Arts programs in the US and Europe with her […]