Check out Thuy!

Senior Visual Arts student, Thuy Nguyen's work is currently up in the Admissions Building on the Roger William's campus for her first solo show! Consisting of traditional woodblock prints, digital images, paintings and photographs, Thuy's work relates to finding and connecting to her cultural and ancestral roots. Be sure to go check her out! Good job Thuy and good luck!

*image courtesy of Thuy Nguyen

Thuy Diem-Nguyen, Roger Williams University, VARTS Class of 2014

About her work, Thuy says:

“For the past few years at Roger Williams, I have switched gears in an unexpected journey of starting in architecture to studying the arts.  The creativity flowed from my conceptual ideas to producing art from my fingertips.  I was able to share my vision through the diverse exploration of mediums such as painting, traditional wood-block printing, film photography and digital media.  I have acquired a collection of work that relates to my personal life and expresses who I am becoming as a young artist. These selected compositions encounter the ideas of self-identity, Vietnamese heritage, and my grandmother who loved to share her stories. Now it is my time to tell my story.”

Jessica Lundberg Installation - Boston City Hall

Jessica Lundberg (VARTS 2011), is part of a great new exhibition at Boston City Hall. On view through November 30.  Way to go Jessica - you rock!

Jessica has a Tumblr page here: http://jessicalundberg.tumblr.com - though it's a little out of date.  C'mon Jess, update that bad boy - you're as bad as me!  We want to see this new work!

Beautiful Work - title Jess?

Jessica Lundberg (right with Professor Tayo Heuser in 2011)

Jessica adjusting the lighting on her installation, Franklin St Warehouse, 2011

Murray and Megan at the DeCordova

Professor Murray McMillan and Megan McMillan will be exhibiting their new project, an installation entitled,  "The Shape of Our Best Intentions," featuring a 2600 lb asymmetrically suspended room, January 23 at the 2012 Biennial at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, MA.  This project was funded by RWU and created with the help of RWU graduate assistant Chris Capozzi.   Way to go M & M!

The Shape of Our Best Intentions

Decordova Biennial Website

http://www.meganandmurraymcmillan.com/

Inter Media Open Studio, Friday Oct 14, 3-5PM

Inter Media Open Studio

Visual Arts Seniors, Roger Williams University

VARTS Warehouse, 255 Franklin St, Bristol

Friday, Oct 14, 3-5 PM

free and open to the public

Please stop by and view the senior visual arts work at mid-term, including painting, sculpture, photographs, videos and prints in the Inter Media studio work spaces.

Speaking in Tongues...

Professor Jeffrey Silverthorne

Professor Jeffrey Silverthorne is back from London and Paris where he was in two shows recently.


Jeffrey was interviewed at Daniel Blau, London during the exhibition Haunting the Chapel – Photography and Dissolution


Read the Full Interview at: Art Review Interview Series


"Most of the time I try to be fairly reasonable about making pictures and there have been some boundaries that have been suggested by people who I care about; they don’t want me to do anything too weird. I believe that I want to explore a wide range of things that I find curious and that I think are genuine and I have a great deal of difficulty with the word and the concept of authenticity, because I think that we are very socially constructed animals and we do these things and they seem genuine, because millions and millions of other people are doing the same thing. I do however believe that there is an authenticity to doing something that you really have to do. You really need to do this and you are putting at risk something. Now, that doesn’t mean you should do it and it certainly doesn’t mean it is going to be good, but I think that when you are doing that, and you are a little more savvy to ways things have been constructed; how it might construct a design to ultimately come to a composition, that I am speaking through many tongues. It is not just a fourth tongue, there are hundreds of tongues and I think that as a maker you try to engage a lot of these tongues so that the image isn’t stuck in one moment. So that it is both in the time and out of the time."


Jeffrey Silverthorne

I Can't Believe this List!

This is just September!  Wow!  

Professor Murray and Megan McMillan

 "What Stands Between Us and the Sun"

Video Dumbo

Brooklyn, NY

Saturday, Sept 24th at 8:30pm.

Video Dumbo: http://www.videodumbo.org/

"What Stands Between Us and the Sun" on Vimeo:  http://vimeo.com/channels/meganandmurrray

Professor Tayo Heuser

"Contemporary Art" 

Chateau de Fernelmont

Belgium

Opening Saturday, September 10, on view through September 25.

http://www.chateaudefernelmont.be/www_chateaudefernelmont_be/fca-2010.pdf

"Three"

Chazan Gallery at the Wheeler School

Providence

September 15 - October 5

Opening, Thursday, Gallery Night, September 15

http://www.gallerynight.info/wheeler.html

Gallery Night celebrity tour guide: Mary Rebecca Leuchak, Ph.D, Program Coordinator and Associate Professor, Art and Architectural History Program, Roger Williams University

Professor Jeffrey Silverthorne 

"HAUNTING THE CHAPEL: PHOTOGRAPHY AND DISSOLUTION"

Daniel  Blau

London

9 Sept - 8 Oct 2011

gallery talk on Sept. 6th

http://www.danielblau.com/exhibitions/2011/haunting-the-chapel-photography-and-dissolution/

"Travel Plans, 1970-2010"

Galerie VU' 

Paris

September 9 – October 29, 2011

opening the 7th and 8th.

http://www.galerievu.com/

Professor Michael Rich 

"Biennale of Chianciano"

Chianciano Art Museum, Italy

September 17 - 24

Opening Reception, Saturday, Sept. 17 5 PM

http://www.museodarte.org/EN/Biennale.html

"Block Party: Studio Tenants of 560 Mineral Spring Ave"

Mill Gallery, Pawtucket, RI

September 2- 25

Reception 9.25 5-8PM

http://www.themillgallery.com/gallery.htm

Student Phil Shaw

"We are all Born Superstars

Sapphire Lounge, New York, NY

Opening September 23

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=152461978173827

Alumni Justin McGovern, 

Exhibition 

Orbie's Cafe, Wakefield, RI

Friday September 9, 6:30 -  9:00 PM

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=244519795589978

RWU VARTS Students Open Studio Show at the Warehouse

Pics from the Open Studio, 5/13/11 - thanks D-Moers!

Hope Gallery Show in the Patch

Read the article here: "Hope Gallery Features Roger Williams University Student Artists"

VARTS Senior and Art Superstar Lauren Opaciuch with her work! Photo: Leigh Medeiros, Bristol-Warren Patch

VART on the Move!

Murray McMillan invites you all to two shows created by students in his Spring 2011 Courses:

The 4^th Annual RWU Student Film Festival

Wednesday May 11, 7PM

Arch 132 DF Pray Lecture Theatre.

Moving Art: An Interdisciplinary Art Exhibit in UHaul Trucks

Wednesday May 11 8PM

outside the Rec Center in UHaul Trucks.

RWU is White Hot!

Our good friend Brian Miller has just written a beautiful review of the exhibition which was in the SAAHP Gallery This Winter.  You can read the full text at whitehotmagazine.com.  This was a really beautiful show.  Thanks to Elizabeth Duffy for organizing it and to Jess Frost for her curatorial vision!

Hiroyuki Hamada / Christopher Saunders
Installation View • SAAHP Gallery
Roger Williams University • Bristol, Rhode Island

On Display now in the SAAHP Gallery

Christopher Saunders and Hiroyuki Hamada

curated by Jess Frost

Please stop by the gallery and see the beautiful show of work by Christopher Saunders and Hiroyuki Hamada, curated by Jess Frost at Art and Estate. Jess will be speaking about the show on March 23rd, 6PM.

PS1 Studio Visit: Christopher Saunders

Christopher Saunders Homepage

Christopher Saunders Studio, Brooklyn

Hiroyuki Hamada Homepage

Hiroyuki Hamada Blog