05/18/12- 06/02/12 |
RISD Thesis Exhibition
Rhode Island Convention Center
Presented by RISD Museum
at Rhode Island Convention Center
May 18-June 2, 2012
The thesis work of students receiving graduate degrees from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) will be on display in RISD’s 2012 Annual Graduate Thesis Exhibition. The work of graduate students in Architecture, Cermaics, Digital+Media, Furniture Design, Glass, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Interior Architecture, Jewelry + Metalsmithing, Landscape Architecture, Painting Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, Textiles, Teaching and Learning in Art Design will be on exhibit from May...
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05/18/12- 11/11/12 |
Designing Traditions Biennial: Student Explorations in the Asian Textile Collection
RISD Museum
Presented by RISD Museum
at RISD Museum
May 18-November 11, 2012
This popular biennial exhibition reveals the working design process of contemporary student textile designers inspired by objects in the RISD Museum of Art’s collection. The vast Asian textiles collection was among the earliest donations to the Museum and has long served as an integral design resource for Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) students. Now, in a collaboration between the Museum and the School, intricately crafted objects ranging from Hawaiian bark cloth to a Chinese...
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04/13/12- 02/24/13 |
Everyday Things: Contemporary Works from the Collection
RISD Museum
Presented by RISD Museum
at RISD Museum
April 13, 2012-February 24, 2013
Everyday Things brings together contemporary works from the collection that depict commonplace objects and imagery, utilize everyday elements in their construction (teabags, fluorescent lights, metal pipes, a bowling ball), or serve as functional artist-made objects, including benches, chairs, and light fixtures. With roots in Pop Art, Photorealism, and design, artists in the exhibition use non-traditional materials and subject matter to transform, repurpose, and represent aspects of...
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02/24/12- 07/29/12 |
Painting Air: Spencer Finch
RISD Museum
Presented by RISD Museum
at RISD Museum
February 24-July 29, 2012
Internationally acclaimed artist Spencer Finch “tests the limits of visual perception” (New York Times) and is known for his investigations of light and color. Combining science with poetic observation, he brings new awareness to the natural and built worlds in which we live.
In this major two-part show, Finch creates an expansive, site-specific new installation—also titled Painting Air— that recalls his recent visit to Monet’s water garden in Giverny,...
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02/07/12- 05/24/12 |
RISD Museum: Tours For Tots
RISD Museum
Presented by RISD Museum
at RISD Museum
February 7-May 24, 2012
Start them young! These interactive tours with read-aloud story time and gallery activities for children ages 3–5, and their parents or caregivers, explore a different theme each week. Free with Museum admission; space is limited. Meet at Farago Entrance.
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02/05/12- 05/27/12 |
RISD Museum: Open Studios
RISD Museum
Presented by RISD Museum
at RISD Museum
February 5-May 27, 2012
After visiting the galleries, are you inspired to make art of your own? Express yourself with drop-in artmaking for all ages. All materials provided.Saturdays, 1–3 pm; Sundays, 11 am – 1 pm | Meet in Fain Education Classroom
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01/28/12- 06/02/12 |
RISD Museum: Art + Design Lab for Families
RISD Museum
Presented by RISD Museum
at RISD Museum
January 28-June 2, 2012
Children ages 6–9, and their adult companions, explore art in the galleries and then experiment and create in the studio. The spring labs, Artistic Experimentation I +II, address a variety of artistic mediums — from traditional techniques to experimental tools. $125 per series of 5 sessions; space is limited.
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09/01/10- Ongoing |
Pendleton House
RISD Museum
Presented by RISD Museum
at RISD Museum
September 1, 2010 - Ongoing
Pendleton House was built in 1906 to display Charles L. Pendleton's (1846-1904) remarkable collection of 18th- and 19th-century furniture and related decorative arts. Pendleton House also showcases the Museum's outstanding collection of American painting and sculpture, Gorham silver, English ceramics, Chinese export porcelain and French wallpaper.
Recognized as the earliest example of an American "wing" in any museum, the historic building has been beautifully refurbished...
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09/01/10- Ongoing |
Subject to Change: Art and Design in the Twentieth Century
RISD Museum
Presented by RISD Museum
at RISD Museum
September 1, 2010 - Ongoing
The new Paula and Leonard Granoff Galleries in the 1926 Radeke Building display masterworks of painting, sculpture, furniture, ceramics, drawings, photographs, costume, textiles and industrial design from 1900 to 2000, all drawn from the Museum's permanent collection. From the work of Henri Matisse and Frank Lloyd Wright to that of Andy Warhol, Lynda Benglis and Ettore Sottsass, the objects convey the last century's revolutionary changes in art and design, as well as the tremendous impact of...
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08/17/10- Ongoing |
A Grand Gallery: European Paintings from the Permanent Collection
RISD Museum
Presented by RISD Museum
at RISD Museum
August 17, 2010 - Ongoing
The Museum's soaring Main Gallery has been returned to its original splendor. This beautifully proportioned space has reopened as a picture gallery displaying the Museum's distinguished collection of European paintings in an installation that recalls the deeply stacked galleries of French and British salon exhibitions. Masterpieces from the Renaissance through the early 19th century - including many that have not been on view for some time - fill the walls.
This restoration was...
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08/17/10- Ongoing |
American Art from the Permanent Collection
RISD Museum
Presented by RISD Museum
at RISD Museum
August 17, 2010 - Ongoing
In the early decades of the 20th century, the Museum’s distinguished collection of American art was presented to visitors in elegantly proportioned galleries made possible by a gift from Jesse Metcalf in memory of his wife, Helen. Inaugurated in 1897, the Beaux Arts–style Waterman Galleries now link visitors to the Daphne Farago Wing, to Pendleton House by way of the Porcelain Gallery, and to the 1926 Radeke Building. The rooms also offer a direct sightline through the...
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08/17/10- Ongoing |
Exine by Paul Morrison
RISD Museum
Presented by RISD Museum
at RISD Museum
August 17, 2010 - Ongoing
The RISD Museum of Art has commissioned a new work, Exine by British artist Paul Morrison, for the walls of the Norman and Rosalie Fain Family Education Program Gallery. The artist's bold black-and-white wall paintings often depict botanical themes; the exine is the outer layer of the wall of a pollen grain. This breathtaking composition features dramatic shifts in scale, with outsized plant life juxtaposed with a distant landscape. Born in 1966 in Liverpool, Morrison received a BFA from...
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08/17/10- Ongoing |
Impressionist Galleries
RISD Museum
Presented by RISD Museum
at RISD Museum
August 17, 2010 - Ongoing
The Museum’s renowned collection of 19th- and early 20th-century French painting and sculpture centers around Edouard Manet’s magnificent portrait of Berthe Morisot, Le Repos. Important works by Monet, Degas, Cézanne, Pissarro, Gauguin, Picasso, Matisse, and Rodin are exhibited in intimate galleries that overlook the internal garden of the Museum’s stately 1920s Radeke Building.
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08/16/10- Ongoing |
Jonathan Bonner
RISD Museum
Presented by RISD Museum
at RISD Museum
August 16, 2010 - Ongoing
A new site-specific sculpture by RISD alumnus and faculty member Jonathan Bonner has been installed near the Farago Entrance along Benefit Street. Bonner earned a BFA from Philadelphia College of Art in 1971, his MFA from RISD in 1973 and has taught in Foundation Studies here since 2000. In addition to the numerous site-specific commissions created by Bonner at such places as AS220 and Rhode Island College in Providence and Fidelity Management in Smithfield, his work has been acquired for...
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05/14/10- Ongoing |
Watercolors in the Porcelain Gallery: Flower and Still Life Painters
RISD Museum
Presented by RISD Museum
at RISD Museum
May 14, 2010 - Ongoing
Due to the remarkable generosity of an anonymous donor, The RISD Museum has one of the finest collections of 18th- and 19th-century British watercolors in this country. Rotating exhibitions of watercolors from this rarely-seen collection are on view in the Museum’s Porcelain Gallery, home to an outstanding group of 18th-century figural ceramics donated by Miss Lucy Truman Aldrich in 1937. Now on view are works by British artists who specialized in painting flowers, fruits, birds and...
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