We will leave at 6:30 pm from the WaterFire Arts Center at 475 Valley Street, and return to the WaterFire Arts Center around 8:30 pm.
This tour will be led by Gallery Night Guide Emily Gray with Guest Guide Tapia. We will visit the following locations and exhibits:
AS220 Main Gallery with three exhibits this month. “New Works” by Daniel Moran Sullivan. Using a combination of life drawings and digital editing, the artist explores the infinite possibilities of imagination, illustrating loved ones through as many lenses as possible. The next exhibit is “The Superposition of Bill Murray” by Piotr Butiewicz. In this series of digital collages, Butiewicz uncovers the mysteries of Bill Murray manifestations from years of dedicated research and presents a convention of Bill Murray entities from numerous multiverse dimensions. The third exhibit is “The Thing We Call Home” by Antoine Soued. Through a slow and detailed process of inking, hatching, dotting, and masking, Soued takes original photographs from major world cities and strips them down to atemporal negatives to reveal what is essential in its most naked form.
AS220 Aborn Gallery. Artists Asma Kazmi and Anabel Vasquez Rodriguez are revisiting their 2004 performance of “Ecolgias Solidaris” to explore new understandings on politics, colonial heritage and collective memory. Featuring heterogeneous images, objects and gestures, “Ecologias Solidarias” creates a vital space for dialogue and reflection.
AS220 Project Space, showing “You Caught Me Dreaming” by Renée Elizabeth Neely-Tanner. Reflected in a lyricism of materials and textures, this collection of abstract paintings honors spiritual presences and historical practices of making. This exhibit challenges boundaries placed on Black female creatives including the luxury to dream.
The Gallery at Sprout CoWorking presents “Strangers of Strangers” and the works of the following artists: Ana Popescu, Grace Weidner, Jaewon Hwang, Joohee Park, Kahee Bae, Katharine Frank, Keana Walters, Seongjoo Moon, Seungwon Baek.
WaterFire Arts Center. WaterFire Arts Center welcomes the work of over 100 artists in its new exhibit, NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection: A Half-Century of RI Artistic Patronage. Celebrating the artistic community of RI & their champion, Dr. Joseph A. Chazan, this exhibit brings together a previous portrait project by Dr Chazan, works from his collection, & new submissions by RI Artists. Also enjoy sips, snacks, and live music as part of the weekly Thursday Night TroopTop celebration!
REGISTER IN ADVANCE OR SHOW UP THE NIGHT OF!
Half of the seats on the trolley or mini coach will always be available (first-come, first-served), completely free, to anyone who shows up on Gallery Night! The other half of the seats are available to reserve in advance via Eventbrite. We ask that you donate $1 when you check out, for the convenience of guaranteeing your spot on the tour of your choice ahead of time.
Accessibility notes:
Many of the Gallery Night art spaces are wheelchair accessible. However, the trolleys we hire for Gallery Night cannot accommodate wheelchairs.
All tours involve some walking and some stops may include stairs.
We invite wheelchair users to enjoy self-guided tours on Gallery Night, and have created some suggestions (Make Your Own Tour tab page) where we note which galleries are wheelchair accessible.
Some notes to help you out the night of the event!
We recommend arriving to the Graduate 5 to 10 minutes before your tour time. One of our volunteers will be at a podium with a Gallery Night banner, near the main entrance, and will check you in and answer any questions!
If your plans change, please remember to cancel your Eventbrite reservation so that someone else can enjoy the tour.
Tours occasionally run late. We recommend allowing buffer time if you're planning on attending another event after ours.
