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2016–2017 PC–G EXHIBITIONS

JULY 24, 2016: PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND

Providence College Galleries (PC–G) is pleased to announce our 2016–2017 exhibition season. Curated in celebration of Providence College’s Centennial, this program of exhibitions spotlights artists who mine disparate narratives and histories, including those that tie PC–G the College to communities and traditions both local and international. In addition to a major solo installation by a Providence College alumnus, four solo exhibitions by award-winning American artists, the second annual online exhibition, and presentations by graduating Studio Art students at Providence College, PC–G launches two internationally focused projects—a uniquely formatted exhibition featuring collaborations between Providence College students and Spanish artists and scholars, and a large-scale photographic mural inspired by one of the holiest sites on Earth.

Images: Deb Sokolow, All the best interior decorators work for intelligence operations, 2015, graphite, crayon, colored pencil and collage on paper; Courtesy the artist and Western Exhibitions, Chicago. Will Hutnick, Journal Party, 2014, acrylic paint scraps, tape and ink on paper; Courtesy the artist.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACTJamilee Lacy, Director & Curatorjamilee.lacy@providence.edu*print quality images available upon request

GENERAL INFORMATIONProvidence College—Galleries—Hunt-Cavanagh Galleryat Hunt-Cavanagh Hall—Reilly Gallery at theSmith Center for the ArtsProvidence, RI 02918

GPS Address: 63 Eaton Street

401.865.2400pcgalleries@providence.edupcgalleries.providence.edu

Gallery Hours During ExhibitionsWednesday – Saturday, 12 – 6pm

ERIN LELAND: CATWALK INFORMED BY A PRIEST

Reilly Gallery, Smith Center for the ArtsAugust 24 – October 8, 2016

Artist Talk: September 15, 5pm

In response to her yearlong observation of The Thomas McGlynn Sculpture Collection and Studio at Providence College, and informed by her conversations with collection curator Father Richard A. McAlister, O.P., New York City artist Erin Leland presents an exhibition of four sculptures with inset photographs. The sculptures—mixed-media works reminiscent of theatrical sets with requisite balconies, windows and catwalks—showcase Leland’s own poetic interpretations of the creative work and domestic lives of Dominican Catholic priest and artist Father Thomas M. McGlynn, O.P. and Father McAlister, also a lifelong artist and educator.

Erin Leland, Sinkinches. Courtesy the artist.

WILL HUTNICK:BUT WE’RE GETTING OFF THE SUBJECT

Hunt-Cavanagh Gallery, Hunt-Cavanagh HallAugust 24 – October 8, 2016

Artist Talk: Thursday, September 29, 6pm

Returning to Providence College after nearly a decade, alumnus

Hunt-Cavanagh Gallery with an immersive installation that revels in multi-color, the playful re-use of materials, and abstractly personal histories. The installation features a series of interconnected wall drawings and mobile-like sculptures made up of his signature scrap paintings—bits of tape and overspray that have been stripped from his studio walls and carefully arranged on paper and clear Mylar.

Will Hutnick, Installation view of But We’re Getting Off the Subject at Providence College Galleries, 2016. Courtesy the artist and Providence College Galleries.

CLEMENT VALLA

Reilly Gallery, Smith Center for the ArtsOctober 27 – December 10, 2016

Public Reception: Thursday, October 27, 5–7pm Artist Talk: Thursday, December 1, 6pm

To create this solo exhibition, Providence and Brooklyn-based artist Clement Valla made countless 3-D photographic scans of PC–G’s Reilly Gallery and the tools used to mount its exhibitions. The scans are then manipulated to re-present the space and objects as a series of soft sculptures and diagrammatic prints. With each work, Valla demonstrates the complexity of image and exhibition making and the inherent artfulness within seemingly utilitarian space and objects.

Clement Valla, Untitled, 2016, digital rendering of 3D photographic reproductions of objects. Courtesy the artist.

ROBERT ANDRADE

Hunt-Cavanagh Gallery, Hunt-Cavanagh HallOctober 27 – December 10, 2016

Public Reception: Thursday, October 27, 6–8pm Artist Talk: Thursday, October 27, 5pm

Synthesizing past and present elements of Catholic-commissioned architecture, urban planning and colonial history, Robert Andrade of San Diego presents a large-scale sculpture reminiscent of various cathedral plazas found throughout the Americas. This monumental-sized artwork explores the multi-faceted attributes and narratives of such spaces that are at once sacred, public and eventually historical sites. Accordingly, Andrade incorporates his signature materials and techniques—reflective surfaces, raised wooden platforms, faux marble painting, landscape design and more—to evoke the lasting architectural traditions of the Baroque, Classical, Colonial and Gothic, among other styles.

Robert Andrade, Mountain Temple Skyscraper, 2016, asphalt, mirror-tinted Plexiglass, plastic topiary, 32 x 32 x 20 inches. Courtesy the artist.

DEB SOKOLOW

Reilly Gallery, Smith Center for the ArtsJanuary 19 – March 3, 2017

Public Reception: Thursday, February 23, 6–8pm Artist Talk: Thursday, February 23, 5pm

Deb Sokolow is a Chicago artist and writer whose text-driven, Choose Your Own Adventure-style drawings incorporate comical speculation into the details of institutional histories, urban legends and political conspiracies. In this solo exhibition Sokolow salutes Providence College’s 100-year history, taking the College’s campus and Rhode Island setting as inspiration to create a playfully dark and funny hand-drawn tale of intrigue.

Deb Sokolow, Bullet Proof Vest, 2016, graphite, crayon, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on paper, 11 x 8 1/2 x 1/2 inches. Courtesy the artist and Western Exhibitions, Chicago.

Miguel Guzmán Pastor, Root of minus one, 2015, wood, acrylic, clay, epoxi resin, pigment, sand from Icelandic beach of Vik, plaster bandage and cast of Selene’s horse.

MANY CITIES, ONE PROVIDENCE: CITIES OF CASTILE

Hunt-Cavanagh Gallery, Hunt-Cavanagh HallJanuary 19 – March 3, 2017

Public Reception: Thursday, January 26, 6–8pm Artist + Curator Talk: Thursday, January 26, 5pm

Spanish architect, art historian and curator Eduardo Vivanco Antolin and artist and architect Miguel Guzmán Pastor present this exhibition to provide a glimpse of the contemporary art and architecture in urban areas of this region in Spain, a hub-site for St. Dominic’s early ministry and studies in the arts. In addition to creative considerations of the cities of León, Palencia, Segovia and Salamanca, Vivanco Antolin and Guzmán Pastor draw visual parallels between the cities and region of Castile and Providence and greater New England.

Carla Gannis, Selfie Drawing 51: Electronic Graveyard No.2, The Upload, 2015, digital drawing. Courtesy the artist and Transfer Gallery, New York.

LATENT LEGACY

Online ExhibitionLaunches March 1, 2017

What happens when legacy fades? Is it still present yet not visible, apparent, or actualized? Featuring more than a dozen digital and Internet-based artists from around the world, this second annual online exhibition installed permanently on PC–G’s website ponders how and why some legacies are carefully maintained, cyclically forgotten and remembered, or irretrievably lost.

Assaf Evron, Installation view (detail) of Untitled (Athens and Oraibi), 2015. Courtesy the artist and Chicago Architectural Biennial.

ON THE WALL: ASSAF EVRON

Reilly Gallery, Smith Center for the ArtsApril 27 – July 29, 2017

Public Reception: Thursday, April 27, 6–8pmArtist Talk: Thursday, April 27, 5pm

For the third annual installment of PC–G’s On the Wall indoor mural program, Israeli artist Assaf Evron, activates the extensive archive of the École Biblique et Archéologique Française de Jérusalem’s photographic images, negatives and objects, which all document the Temple Mount/Haram Al-Sharif in Jerusalem. Mounting a large-scale photographic environment onto the gallery walls, Evron mixes imagery from the archive with his own photos, taken within some of the site’s most cavernous spaces. Holistically, Evron’s installation visually investigates the structure’s natural layers and hidden architectural elements—its nooks and crannies, caverns, underground, infrastructure and more—and, by extension, metaphorically explore its overlapping historical, religious and political narratives.

On the Wall: Assaf Evron is presented in conjunction with Providence College’s international conference “Marking the Sacred: The Temple Mount/Haram Al-Sharif in Jerusalem,” taking place, in part, within the exhibition June 4 – 7, 2017.

STUDENT EXHIBITIONS

STUDIO ART THESIS EXHIBITIONSHunt-Cavanagh Gallery, Hunt-Cavanagh HallReilly Gallery, Smith Center for the ArtsMarch 18 – April 8, 2017

Public Reception: Saturday, March 18, 3–5pm

STUDIO ART MINORS EXHIBITIONHunt-Cavanagh Gallery, Hunt-Cavanagh HallApril 20 – 29, 2017

Public Reception: Thursday, April 20, 5–7pm

BEST OF SHOW—2017 GRADUATING STUDIO ART MAJORSHunt-Cavanagh Gallery, Hunt-Cavanagh HallMay 11 – July 29, 2017

Cover of the 2015-2016 Art Journal, a compendium of thesis projects by graduating Providence College Art & Art History majors. Courtesy Providence College’s Department of Art & Art History.