Select Exhibitions
Cammie Staros: Unearthing the Sky at Providence College Galleries November, 2023 - March, 2024
Unearthing the Sky featured a range of work by Los Angeles-based artist Cammie Staros spanning 2016 – 2021, including investigations in ceramics, neon, and stone. Staros’ dynamic sculptures and installations mine Classical antiquities and the contexts in which we view them. Through a combination of ancient techniques, contemporary sensibility, and museological display, her work folds the past in on itself to reveal semiotic systems developed and reinforced through art history. Staros challenges the dominant narrative, which places the relics of her own Greek lineage at the origin of the Western canon, adding broader regional and epochal references to reflect the overlapping nature of visual influence. This is the artist’s first institutional exhibition on the East Coast.
Staying with the Trouble at Tufts University Art Galleries August 30 - December 5, 2021, proposes strategies and coping mechanisms for navigating the current political and socio economic climate, which seems to be simultaneously slipping backward into the archaic and forward into the apocalyptic. With work by Judy Chicago, Young Joon Kwak, MPA, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Ellen Lesperance, Joiri Minaya, Cauleen Smith, Faith Wilding, Paula Wilson, and Carmen Winant with Carol Osmer Newhouse.
On the Wall: Tamara Gonzales (Cosmic Recess) at Providence College Galleries March 17 - October 2, 2021, Gonzales is known for incorporating visual culture that is traditionally associated with lived culture — lace, graffiti, embroidery, textiles and more. Her paintings, drawings and textiles render blocky figures amongst multi-colored fields of florals and faux bois. Created by a range of techniques, from spray painting through lengths of lace to block printing sections of canvas, the artist’s oeuvre shows a unique commitment to developing abstraction through prisms of multiculturalism. On the Wall: Tamara Gonzales continues that commitment with wall-climbing geometric and organic shapes, bright colors and dense patterns coming together in a room-sized mural artwork
Spiritual Material: Kenzi Shiokava at Otis College of Art and Design, 2019
Los Angeles-based, Brazilian-born Japanese sculptor and assemblage artist Kenzi Shiokava (Otis MFA '74) has been making work for over fifty years. His totemic wooden sculptures are carved from discarded and found natural materials, while his assemblages are reanimated objects - ephemera from previous lives. Shiokava's work seeks to manifest the spiritual aspects of natural and man-made materials through a physical reshaping. In the artist's own words:
"Archeology makes the mind wonder and bring an appealing emotion as well as understanding, and an indelible mystery of presence. From its very process I find inspiration. For any discarded material that has gone through the process of history and humanization is the potential of presence, not only physical but also spiritual. I feel in them the mystery of history and seek to bring out the spiritual essence and presence inherent in such materials."
Anna Craycroft: Tuning The Room at Otis College of Art and Design January 28 - April 16, 2017
Polly Apfelbaum: Face (Geometry) (Naked) Eyes at Otis College of Art and Design 2016
Performing The Grid with work by Neil Beloufa, Lucinda Childs with Sol LeWitt and Philip Glass, Charles Gaines, David Haxton, Channa Horwitz, Xylor Jane, Rudolf Laban, Dashiell Manley, Debra McCall, Rebecca Morris, Bruce Nauman, Kelly Nipper, Heather Rowe, Emily Roysdon, Kathleen Ryan and Emmett Williams at Otis College of Art and Design, 2016
UNTITLED (HYBRID) at Marlborough Gallery, NY 2013
Additional Exhibitions:
Leidy Churchman: Lazy River at Boston University Art Gallery 2013
Simpatico at Boston University Art Gallery 2012
Hungry for Death: Destroy All Monsters at Boston University Art Gallery 2011
Affinities: Painting in Abstraction at D’Amelio Terras, NY 2011
