On view now in the Hallway Gallery, artwork from or inspired by the RISD Taglit Birthright Trip in December 2008.
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.
The Schusterman Visting Artist Program, The Brown University Creative Arts Council, the Office of Multi-Cultural Affairs at RISD, and Brown-RISD Hillel is planning an exciting community collaboration to bring the accomplished Israeli animator and illustrator, David Polonsky, to Providence for a three month artist-in-residency project from February 9th – May 1st 2009.
Polonsky has contributed illustrations for every major daily newspaper and magazine in Israel, and has won several awards for his illustrations for children’s books. He just received Israel’s Academy Award for best art direction for Waltz with Bashir, which is about film director, Ari Folman’s, attempt to reconcile his memory of the 1982 Lebanon war. A full-length animated documentary, Waltz with Bashir was nominated for the Palme d’Or, the top prize at the Cannes film festival, earlier this year and had its American premiere at the New York Film Festival in September. Waltz with Bashir will have its commercial release in the United States in December. It is also Israel’s nominee to Hollywood’s Academy Awards this February in the foreign language category.
New York Times: Cannes Film Festival
New York Times: Waltz With Bashir Review
Haaretz: Waltz With Bashir Nominated for Golden Globe
David Polonsky is being hosted part by the Brown University Creative Arts Council, Hillel Gallery Project, RISD Office of Multi-Cultural Affairs, Brown Ivy Film Festival, Israeli Film Festival, Brown Israel Committee, Brown Students for Israel, Kol Kivunim, and RISD Kehillah, among others.
