Me & We: the Individual and the Collective

HGP's Annual Spring Juried Show of work by Brown and RISD Students

On view in the Social Hall and Hallway Gallery

April 2 - 16

Opening Reception April 2, 7-10pm with live music by Yoni Dolgin

Juried by Robin Cembalest, Executive Editor of Art News
Curated by William Stover, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at MFA, Boston

Featuring work by:
Elizabether Allen-Cannon, Anne Blazejack, Eva Cohen, Maggie Cowles, Matthew Cylinder, Sara D'Apolito-Dworkin, Danielle DesBorde, Eve Essex, Danny Floyd, Brooke Hair, Katie Koti, Stephen Larrick, Thomas Lasseau, Sarah Moore, Sophie Narrett
Anne Oram, Brice Peterson, Cecilia Salama, Nora Korsts Saltzman, Shili, and Evelyn Tilney

Encounter: Artistic Interpretations of Israel

On view now in the Hallway Gallery, artwork from or inspired by the RISD Taglit Birthright Trip in December 2008.

Closing Reception

Thursday February 19

7-9PM

Graham Day Guerra "Ex Nihilo" and Leigh Tarentino "Recent Work"

images (c) Leigh Tarentino and Graham Guerra, respectively

Hillel Gallery Project is honored to be exhibiting work by artists Leigh Tarentino and Graham Guerra.

Leigh Tarentino is an Assistant Professor at Brown who makes paintings, works on paper and digital prints constructed from photographs of the built landscape. She received a BFA in Painting from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design. 

Her upcoming exhibition in February 2009 will be at Black and White Gallery in New York. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Stas Namin Centre, Moscow, Russia; Bank Gallery, Los Angeles; the University Art Museum, State University of New York at Albany; and The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, among others. Her work has been included in Scope New York, London, Miami and Hamptons. She was awarded a Pollock-Krasner grant in 2008. She is represented by Black and White Gallery in New York. 

Graham Guerra is an Assistant Professor at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Pratt Institute of Art. He received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Yale University. His large-scale charcoal and graphite drawings are created based on virtual models that he generates using digital photographic and 3D rendering technologies.

His work has been shown at Wardlow Gallery, Melbourne, Australia; Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston; Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn; Van Brunt Gallery, New York; and Bellwether, New York, among others. His work has been included in Scope New York, Miami, and Hamptons as well as Kunst Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland. In 2008 he was awarded a Faculty Development Grant from the Pratt Institute of Art and a Wardlow International Residency in Melbourne, Austrialia.

Both exhibits will run from January 23- February 4 with a reception on January 29 at 7pm.

Project Open Door

Please join us for the opening of the  Third Annual Project Open Door Student Exhibition at Brown / RISD Hillel January 15, 2009 from 3:30 - 6:30pm.

Project Open Door provides high school students in under-resource urban areas with free intensive studio learning experiences, college and portfolio preparation, and individual mentoring with professional artists and RISD students. 

The exhibit will be on view January 14-18, 2009 with special winter gallery hours:

   Wednesday, January 14 from 9:00am - 5:00pm
   Thursday, January 15 from 9:00am - 6:30om
   Friday, January 16 from 9:00am - 1:00pm
   Saturday, January 17 from 11:00am - 5:00pm
   Sunday, January 18 from 12pm - 4:00pm

Sculpture/Furniture by Ian Gonsher

Hillel Galery Project is proud to present the Sculpture and Furniture of Providence Artist Ian Gonsher, on view now in the Hallway Gallery.

Half&HALF

Work by HGP Committee members from Brown and RISD

On view in the Social Hall and Hallway Gallery November 13-20. 

Reception Thursday November 20 from 7-10PM. 

Live Music, Wine, Cheese, and Art

Featuring work by:

Chuka Chukama, Raphael Cohen, Sam Cohen, Dana Davis, Natalia Fadul, Christina Graham, Ben Hyman, Ariel Isaacs, Madeline Jacobs, Jenny JungMin Lee, Hieu Nguyen, Susie Peck, Erik Peterson, Edo Rosenblith, Tali Rozensher, Claire Russo, Sarah Schuster, Lauren Snyder, Tracy Szatan and Chris Wolston

BRYTE Exposures: Photography by Members of Providence's Refugee Community and Brown Students

Brown Refugee Youth Tutoring and Enrichment (BRYTE) is a student-run organization that works with the International Institute of Rhode Island to engage recently resettled refugees in Providence in one on one tutoring. The students in this program are from Liberia, Haiti, Iraq, Somalia, Eritrea, Burundi, Rwanda, and Iran. The photographs in this exhibition were taken primarily by refugee-students in the BRYTE program. Each student involved was given his or her own camera and asked to record his/her visual experience in Providence. Many of the refugee students and their families involved in the exhibit will be at the opening. There will also be a dance performance by a refugee dance group in Providence led by a Rwandan student who participates in the program. Food and beverages will be provided. 

The reception is Sunday November 2 from 4-7PM. Come to meet some members of Providence's international community and to celebrate their work! The dance performance will begin at 4:30.

Art, Music, Wine, Cheese, People

 Come to the reception for "IN YOUR FACE!" Hillel Gallery  Project's annual fall juried show, October 16 from 7-10pm at 80 Brown St.

Come enjoy art, wine, people, and live music (bands TBA)

Curated by Brown and RISD professors Wendy Edwards and Linda Sormin. 

Including work by: Tatiana Berg, Akriti Bhambi, Anne Blazejack, Genevieve Busby, Jessica Chermayeff, Amanda Dandeneau, Jay Gidwitz, Brooke Hair, Nora MacLoed, Allan Mullenix, Dana O’Malley, Jordan Seaberry, Affandi Setiawan, John Szymanski, Caitlyn Thompson, Jackie Aida Tobia, Aaron Weinstein, Bryan Wilson, Sarah Young, and Tihtina Zenebe

"The Dream Has Ended"

"The Dream Has Ended" featuring work by Buck Hastings (RISD Painting BFA 2006), Colleen Doyle (RISD Film BFA 2006), Kara Healey (RISD Photo BFA 2004, Parsons Photo MFA 2007) and Shawn Gillheeny (RIC Printmaking BFA 2008) is currently on view in the Hallway Gallery. 

Reception on Thursday, September 25 at 7PM