Wysteriasway
Ficus Interfaith, Tyler Steinbrenner, Luis Ludwig, Stephanie Kim
June 19, 2016
149 Canal Street, New York
Publications
High Fish Low Brow Consumption — Ficus Interfaith & Tyler Steinbrenner · PDF
babyicicles — Ficus Interfaith Research & Properties, Stephanie Kim, Luis Ludwig · web project
Harry Gould Harvey IV, Brittni Ann Harvey
May 11–June 15, 2015
270 Westminster Street, Providence
270 Westminster Street
Providence, Rhode Island
The Subject
Kyle Laidig, Aaron Graham, Luke Moore, Kate Stevenson
Organized by Kyle Laidig
Essays
Towards a Theory of Aesthetic Justice
Erin Schwartz
Excerpts from a Log, a living Google Doc
Aaron Graham
Preliminary Notes on Formedness
Luke Moore
Universal Locality: On the Importance of Bodies
Kyle Laidig
Aaron Graham
Wheat Past Grids
Click on image to download, print and install.
Interrupt 3: Maximum Sideline: Postscript
Anna-Sophie Berger, Francesca Capone, David Court, Ian Hatcher, Jesse Hlebo, Sophia Le Fraga, Alex Turgeon, Clement Valla
March 13 – April 7, 2015
270 Westminster Street, Providence, and the Cohen Gallery, Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Brown University
Organized by Francesca Capone and Tabitha Piseno
Interrupt is an annual academic conference hosted by the Digital Language Arts program in the Department of Literary Arts at Brown University. The event explores digital language-based works from a wide range of communities in art, literature, games, music, and computation. Interrupt aims to break through the conventions of self-selecting and self-referring academic conferences, to put researchers in conversation with working artists, poets with programmers, game designers with experimental performing artists. Maximum Sideline: Postscript was organized in tandem with the third edition of the conference.
Each artist produced a work for the exhibition and a component for print or screen. The publication components are listed below and gathered on the Publishing page.
Throws
Ian Hatcher
Primary Source
Francesca Capone
PDF
(Holy Bible (King James Version), War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning (Chris Hedges), The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (John Maynard Keynes), Philosophy of Right (Georg Hegel), Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire (Antonioni Negri/Michael Hardt), The Phenomenology of Mind (Georg Hegel), Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand), The Torah, The Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx), Capitalism and Freedom (Milton Friedman)), threaded rod, washer’s, nut’s, spray paint
Jesse Hlebo, All That Fits, Archival Pigment Prints
Surface Survey
Clement Valla
Achey Breaky
Alex Turgeon
Wind Sonatas (long distance)
Anna-Sophie Berger
like images, chiaroscuro, lookinggazing out/at/on the horizonborder
David Court
David Court, graphics (lookinggazing out/at/on the horizonborder),
Laser-etched raster patterns on heart-leaf philodendron leaves
Of Asphodel
Sophia Le Fraga
PDF
NOT SORRY, A view-master collaboration with Rin Johnson
Sophia Le Fraga
Cadence Exits
Dave Fischer, Jessie Stead, Trisha Baga, Larry Marshall, Matthew Underwood, Nick Lane, Maralie Armstrong, Africanus Okokon
February 12 – March 3, 2015
270 Westminster Street, Providence
Organized by Africanus Okokon
Cadence Exits explores the syntax used to glue the raw materials of time-based media together in a simulated time or space. The audiovisual alchemy of the medium becomes disrupted, rearranged, transformed, or exists seamlessly on its own. Effortlessly, the domain of the subject tip toes between dichotomies of ‘here – there’, ‘past – present’, ‘now – never’. Time, subjugated by the capabilities of the medium, alters itself to bring attention to, or from, specific characteristics within the frame. Common rhythms are less ubiquitous. — Africanus Okokon
Jessie Stead, Clearchannel Analogue Video Library
Matthew Underwood, Decoder
High Density, Oblique Function
Andy Cahill, Colin Oulighan, Lauren Pakradooni, Jason Rhoades, Tim Simonds, William Wegman
January 10 – February 2, 2015
270 Westminster Street, Providence
Organized by Tabitha Piseno
Jason Rhoades
Meccatuna
Neon lights mounted on orange translucent Plexiglass with wire, lace, transformer
William Wegman
Spit Sandwich
Video; 15:10 min, b&w, sound
1970
Tim Simonds, For- , Carpet, metal
Lauren Pakradooni, Obstacle/Stance, Monotype and silkscreen on paper and fabric
Lauren Pakradooni, Note, Silkscreen on paper
Andy Cahill, The Forest, Acrylic on canvas
Colin Oughligan, Roundwork with Worm,
Acrylic, volcanic stone, hickory dowel, glass marble, waxed linen thread on panel
Tim Simonds, Iff, Metal, FDA rubber
Colin Oulighan
Composition with Gowanus Expressway
Acrylic, brass spheres, glass, marbles, hickory dowel, paper,
soy ink on aluminum, hickory frame
Colin Oulighan, Impression Piece,
Hydrostone, sand, glass marbles, organic jasmine rice, fiberglass, steel hardware
Colin Oulighan, Marble Relief, Glass marbles in drywall
Lauren Pakradooni, Sconce, Silkscreen on paper
William Wegman
Spit Sandwich
Video; 15:10 min, b&w, sound
1970
Andy Cahill, “For heaven’s sake, can’t you do anything right?”, Acrylic and crayon on linen
Lauren Pakradooni, Visitation and Effects
Aquatint Etching, Drypoint, Monotype, and Silkscreen on paper
Soft Industries
Ficus Interfaith, Lotuff Leather, Rform, Crook
2015
270 Westminster Street, Providence
An exhibition of handmade, locally produced goods alongside an installation by Ficus Interfaith. Lotuff Leather, a multi-generational family-run manufacturer in New England, showcases bags, accessories, and three full hides; Chloe Wessner of Rform shows Mimema, a jewellery line in powder-coated brass, sterling silver, and rabbit fur.
Ficus Interfaith, Nature’s Able, a floor covering of fallen leaves, seeded eucalyptus, and pennies; concrete birdbath with water scented with rose and cedar.
Publication
Brazil SS15 — Lindy McDonough · photographs; PDF
Lotuff is a multi-generational, family-run company based in New England that manufactures leather goods. Selected pieces featured for exhibition are a variety of their classic Totes, Briefcases, Accessories, and Handbags. In addition, Lotuff loaned three full hides of leather to display, as well as three one-of-a-kind bags. One is their Electric Blue Tripp bag, a new color for Lotuff, available in SS15. The second is a Women’s Small Tote w/ Strap in Nude/Natural, also released in SS15, and lastly is a one-of-a-kind Leather Lock Briefcase. Supplementing their leather goods are a series of photographs by Lindy McDonough from a trip to Brazil where their leather is processed and prepared for their unique vegetable-tanning process utilizing eucalyptus oil.
Lotuff Leather
Brazil SS15
PDF
Jjewelry line titled Mimema by Chloe Wessner of Rform Studio.
Earrings, Rings, Neck Cuffs, a Bracelet, a Face Cuff.
Each piece utilizes a fabrication process involving either powder coated brass, shaped sterling silver, or puffs of rabbit fur incorporated into the jewelry.
Myst
Bayne Peterson
October 2014
270 Westminster Street, Providence
Blues Away
Raphael Cohen
July 2014
88 East Broadway, New York
With an installation by Ficus Interfaith
Figurines, Lamps, Obelisks
Richard Keller
May 12–June 26, 2014
39 Bridge Street, New York
Nick Carter
85 1⁄2 Congress Ave, Providence
Wendy Hyatt
Safe Campus Championships
April 20, 2014
222 Harrison Street, Providence
Sense-Data
Alex DeCarli, Sarah Faux, Kricket Lane, Sophie Stone
November 2013
Shoot the Lobster, 540 West 29th Street, New York
Organized by Tabitha Piseno
Four White Walls and a Sermon
Rubens Ghenov, Duane Slick, Martin Smick
June 2013
379 Broome Street, New York
Publication
Four White Walls and a Sermon · booklet; PDF · design by Everett Williams
Mark Cetilia, Kelly Egan, Nestor Armando Gil, Andrew Lloyd Goodman, Graham Heffernan, Emma Hogarth, Paul Myoda, Allison Paschke, Stefanie Pender, Keith Allyn Spencer, Naho Taruishi, Matthew Underwood
2012
461 Main Street, Pawtucket
Organized with Allison Paschke and Lynne Harlow
An exhibition of immersive and interactive multimedia installations in a 10,000-square-foot vacant industrial building, formerly the oldest nuts-and-bolts plant in the United States.
Matthew Underwood
Micro-Utopia
Muffy Brandt, Eamon Brown, Joseph Buzzell, Brian Chippendale, Lyndon Cordero Lopez, Craig Smith Dermody, Jim Drain and Ara Peterson, Christopher Forgues, Sam Keller, Annabeth Marks, Arley Marks, Lauren Pakradooni, Tabitha Piseno, Clayton Schiff, Keith Allyn Spencer, Jay Zehngebot
August 2013
204 Westminster Street, Floor 2, Providence
Arley Marks, Window, Fuji Trans Digital Print, Sony 42″ Flatscreen Monitor, Glass
Sam Keller
Craig Smith Dermody, purespaascension__pacific_overture (apple), CD’s,Jewel Cases, Aluminum,
Apple Tree, Garden Tape, Gesso, Flower Pot, Jpegs
Annabeth Marks
Sam Keller, Grommets, Spikes, Canvas
Sam Keller, Latex Paint, Fabric Dye
Craig Smith Dermody, affogato [5], acrylic, acetate, packing tape, dirt, on canvas
Craig Smith Dermody, purespaascension__pacific_overture (pear), CD’s, Jewel Cases, Aluminum,
Pear Tree, Garden Tape, Gesso, Flower Pot, Jpegs
C.F., Another Green World, Mixed Media on Board
C.F., Slave Table
C.F., Bail, Mixed Media on Board
Craig Smith Dermody, purespaascension__pacific_overture (holly), CD’s, jewel cases, aluminum,
holly bush, garden tape, gesso, flower pot, jpegs, 2012
Lauren Pakradooni, Mirage Series, Etching
Ara Peterson + Jim Drain, Stocks, Wood, Polyurethane, Aluminum, 2005-2012
Lauren Pakradooni, Passage, Etching
Don’t Let Me Down
Nick Carter, Fraser Evans, Kelly Zutrau
July 2012
204 Westminster Street, Floor 2, Providence
Publication
Don’t Let Me Down · zine; PDF
Crush
Christine Jones, Taylor Baldwin, JD Fontanella
June 2012
204 Westminster Street, Floor 2, Providence
Closing Perfomances: Profligate, Pak, Body Glove, Dorothy Haze, Apricot Restraints
Remote Living, Fearless Viewing
Quinn Taylor, Hannah Abelow, Michael Dotson, Martin Smick
May 2012
204 Westminster Street, Floor 2, Providence
Performances:
Brown Recluse Alpha + Young Male; S.H.V.; Pleasurezine; Daniella Ben Bassat
Per Infinity
Jeff Hale, Stefan Gunn, Lila Jarzombeck
April 2012
204 Westminster Street, Floor 2, Providence
Publication
CURVILINEAR DECLINATION MIND SWEEP
Enter/Re-Enter
Lauren Davis Fisher, Lu Heintz
February 2012
1 Sims Avenue, Providence
Performances:
Lazy Magnet, Lyn Goeringer
Atlas
X.V.
November 1–28, 2011
The Cohen Gallery, Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, 154 Angell Street, Providence
One of the first exhibitions in the Cohen Gallery, opening in Brown University’s new interdisciplinary arts building designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro.
Publication
Atlas — printed publication; PDF
Closing event
November 28, 2011
Arc, Kokomo, Mark Lord
Palimpsest
Annabeth Marks, Emily Martin, Matthew Underwood, Daryl Seaver
2011
891 North Main Street, Providence
Performances
Work/Death, Geoff Mullen, Mark Cetilia, Beeman Glow, Timeghost, Valise
October 15, 2011 · →
Matthew Underwood, Swimmers
Matthew Underwood, Untitled (Postcard)
Matthew Underwood, Red Field
Matthew Underwood, Optics (for Anthony McCall)
Matthew Underwood, IMG_012.JPG
Matthew Underwood, Optics (for Anthony McCall)
Matthew Underwood, Rain House (Stereoscopic)
Corner Projection Series No. 6
Naho Taruishi, Laura Cetilia
September 9–31, 2011
60 Orange Street, Providence
Sonic Afterimage, three live performances by Laura Cetilia, Mark Cetilia, Caroline Park
Ospreys #16: “Obscure Finale”
Tom Bubul
2011
876 Westminster Street, Providence
Release event and exhibition for the sixteenth issue of Tom Bubul’s drawing zine; sixteen india ink drawings reproduced as offset prints, glyphs, daily life photographs, wall drawings, and a painting.
Performances
Mark Lord; Lauren Pakradooni and Sakiko Mori; Chris Mulligan (DJ); Valise; Clear Leader
Publication
Ospreys #16
sixteen two-color offset prints, 11 × 17 in.
Chloe Wessner, Mengli Qi
May 5–28 2011
186 Carpenter Street, Providence
Organized by Craig Smith Dermody
Butcher Block Mill
Eamon Brown, Lauren Davis Fisher, Brad Fesmire, Lyn Goeringer, Lynne Harlow, Buck Hastings, Megan and Murray McMillan, Mike Stoltz, Matthew Underwood, Humanbeast
March 2011
25 Eagle Street, Providence
Butcher Block Mill
Exhibition and opening ceremony.
20,000 sq ft (four buildings, mid-renovation).
Development site.
Access through Partnership for Creative Industrial Space.
Ribbon-cutting and public preview of the renovation.
Site-specific installations, multimedia exhibition.
Former Joseph Banigan Rubber Co., 1896.
United States Rubber Co., 1910–1975.
Eastern Butcher Block furniture works, most recently.
Buildings 11, 14, 15, 18.
Salvaged material from the Fort Thunder neighboring site.
Preservationists, city officials, and artists preview the renovation of the former Eastern Butcher Block in Providence through a 20,000 sq. ft. multimedia exhibition organized with Tabitha Piseno, Sam Keller, Neal Walsh, Rhode Island Citizens for the Arts, and the Providence Preservation Society.
A project of Butcher Block Mill, LLC and managed by Partnership for Creative Industrial Space, the historic preservation of the Joseph Banigan Rubber Co. (1896 to 1910) along the Woonasquatucket River signals a reuse of the industrial property into affordable space.
Installations: Eamon Brown, Lauren Davis Fisher, Brad Fesmire, Lyn Goeringer, Lynne Harlow, Buck Hastings, Megan and Murray McMillan, Mike Stoltz, Matthew Underwood.
Organized by Tabitha Piseno and Sam Keller with Neal Walsh (AS220), Erik Bright (Partnership for Creative Industrial Space), Rachel Rafaelian (Butcher Block, LLC / Alex and Ani), Rhode Island Citizens for the Arts, and the Providence Preservation Society.
Opening with Angel Taveras, Mayor of Providence (2011–2015), and Allan Fung, Mayor of Cranston (2009–2021).
Site
The buildings stand at the western end of a 23-acre complex north of the Woonasquatucket River, where the Joseph Banigan Rubber Company began making rubber goods in 1896. Building 14 survives from that first ownership; Buildings 11, 15, and 18 followed the plant’s 1910 acquisition by Revere Rubber, a division of United States Rubber. The company expanded eastward for six decades, absorbing the former Rhode Island Locomotive Works along the way, until Uniroyal moved production out of state in 1975. The four buildings were last occupied by Eastern Butcher Block, a furniture manufacturer, and are among 37 structures inventoried in the complex’s National Register nomination.
Site history adapted from the National Register of Historic Places nomination for the United States Rubber Company Mill Complex (Edward Connors, 2005; NRHP 05000917) and historic tax-credit documentation prepared by the Providence Revolving Fund.
Megan and Murray McMillan
Lyn Goeringer
Buck Hastings
Mike Stoltz
Matthew Underwood, Absolute Thresholds, Installation
Eamon Brown
Lauren Davis Fisher
Our Sentry
Jay Zehngebot
2011
65 Eddy Street, Providence
Craig Smith Dermody, Patrick Egger, Karen Lederer, Ryan McIntosh, Danielle Lange, Chris Sherron, Paul Osimo, Mark Rice, Jamison Sellers, David Thonis, Sam Keller
December 2010
204 Westminster Street, Providence
A group exhibition in a vacant downtown storefront, formerly a massage parlor.
Courtesy of Paolino Properties.
Chris Sherron
Craig Smith Dermody
Ryan McIntosh
Paul Osimo
Sam Keller
David Thonis
Colin Bliss, Joseph Buzzell, Alex Griffith
November 2010
200 Allens Avenue, Providence
An exhibition of paintings and sculpture staged in the loading dock garage of the former Providence Gas Company Purifier House at Conley’s Wharf.
Courtesy of Partnership for Creative Industrial Space and Conley’s Wharf
Nostalgia for Simpler Times
Sam Keller
October 2010
200 Allens Avenue, Providence
The first exhibition of R.K. Projects, staged in a construction trailer on the grounds of the former Providence Gas Company Purifier House at Conley’s Wharf.
Courtesy of Partnership for Creative Industrial Space and Conley’s Wharf