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Archived Gallery Exhibit
Kristin S. Street: Constructs Line and Form
April 1 – 30 with a Gallery Night Reception April 17, 5:00-9:00 pm
Chris Cleave Reading & Book Signing from "Little Bee"
April 17 7:00 pm
Rhode
Island-based artist and art educator Kristin S. Street.
has created a mixed media installation of new and innovative
abstract works in two and three dimension, exploring
light and shadow, line and form, creating space within
the space for the URI Providence Campus Gallery.
Kristin was born and raised in Providence, graduated Hope High School and then earned a BFA in textile design from RISD. She has been teaching art at Moses Brown School from that time, where Ms. Street has also served as Department Chair, Visual Arts Coordinator and founder of the Krause Gallery. Kristin also teaches at RISD and the Maryland Institute College of the Arts where she earned an MFA in Studio Art. An active and prolific creative artist, Kristin continues to produce vibrant and innovate works in a variety of media including photography, textiles, sculpture, printmaking, and mixed media rethinking and exploring the elements of line, form, space and texture, exhibiting in museums and galleries across the country, including her involvement in Rhode Island based art collective 19 ON PAPER.
About this body of work, Street says, ”There
is a moment between the beginnings of an initial idea
and the creation of an object that mirrors the relationship
drawn between reality and illusion. Subtle shifts in
value and scale transform simple paper structures into
abstractions that reference monumental forms. This
collection includes digital images and a series of
drawings both on paper and in space that create patterns
and structures which build and combine to dev
elop
complex larger forms. Subtlety and suggestion
connect these two bodies of work both through the interplay
of contrasts, the delicate shifts in perception wrought
with grace and fluidity of line and shape, and the
juxtaposition of subtle forms and textures derived
from constructed systems.”
“Line becomes the vehicle of choice in the works, moving between surfaces and planes to suggest mass and weight delineated by the willowy lines of wire drawn through the air within defined spaces, shifting between what is real and what is inferred. The interplay of light and darkness takes on a more dynamic role, highlighting and revealing the delicate shifts in structure so softly rendered in the drawn forms. These surfaces develop into interlocking components that co-join, building the illusion of space.”
Chris Cleave Reading and Book Signing
Renowned and revolutionary British writer and journalist Chris Cleave will have a book signing following his reading from his forthcoming book Little Bee, a novel about a young Nigerian girl seeking asylum in Britain. Cleave suggests that, “A bomb is an ear-splitting statement, but for readers books are louder. Books make death a bullhorn through which life yells triumphant.” Oxford educated, Cleave’s first novel Incendiary is about a terrorist bombing in London that claims a thousand lives. The novel's powerful and painful debut came with its release on July 7th, 2005, the very day a series of terrorist bombings hit the London Underground taking the lives of fifty people. Cleave is presenting workshops and talks at both the URI Kingston and Providence Campus through the Honors Colloquium, the Office of the President, the College of Arts and Sciences and the Center for the Humanities.
URI Feinstein Providence Campus Gallery is located
in the 1st and 2nd floor lobby
80 Washington Street, Providence RI 02903
| Hours: | M-TH 9:00 am - 9:00 pm |
| F&S 9:00 am - 4:00 pm (closed Sunday and Holidays), |
For information call Steven Pennell at 401-277-5206