Kathryn Parker Almanas

Photographer

Kathryn Parker Almanas earned a BFA in Photography from MassArt in 2003 and a MFA in Photography from Yale University in 2007. While at Yale, she was awarded the Schickle-Collingwood Prize, and upon receiving her MFA, was the recipient of the Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship to conduct research on the history of anatomical dissection in Italy. Her work has been published in Artforum, Gastronomica, Hyperallergic, to name a few. She has created art on commission basis for New York Magazine, Time Magazine, Details magazine, Culture+Travel magazine, among others. Almanas has taught courses at Brown University, Princeton University, The International Center of Photography, Hamilton College, and RISD. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in New York, Providence, Boston, Chicago, Miami, Philadelphia, Russia, Venice, Barcelona, and Paris. Almanas's photographs and sewn works investigate destruction and healing within the body and the terrors and pleasures of embodiment, often drawing ideas from the medical world.

www.kathrynparkeralmanas.com

S.W. Dinge

Painter

Born in northern New York State, S. W. Dinge now resides in Providence, Rhode Island, where his painting studio has been for the last 20 years. After earning his Bachelor’s in studio art at Oneonta University, Dinge has had his work shown, and has collectors throughout the United States.

@swdinge

Vienna Mercedes Gambol

Printmaker, Photographer

Vienna Mercedes Gambol is an emerging artist and designer based in Providence, Rhode Island. She was born and raised in San Diego California, 8,000 feet from the border between Mexico and the United States. She pursued a degree in Illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she developed her love of printmaking, photography, and writing. Her work investigates the shared distress felt by those affected by economic and social afflictions as a means of personal, and hopefully communal catharsis.

During her time at R.I.S.D., Vienna was nominated for the Steven Mendelson Community Service Award, R.I.S.D. Campus Pride Award, S.O.A. Zankel Scholarship, and won the HallMark Cards Scholarship. She has had her work displayed at the San Diego Athenaeum Music and Art Library, and at various student lead exhibitions.

She currently works as a book designer.

Marjorie Hellman

Painter

In 2019, I began making irregularly shaped paintings on ACM (aluminum composite material). My current work is concerned with testing the dichotomous relationship between the painting as flat object and its depiction of the interaction of dimensional forms. To accomplish this, I rely only on the simplicity of line, and the complexity of color usage.

In my intention to feature color rather than paint action or texture, I create a smooth flat surface on a hard substrate by applying multiple coats of acrylic colors, achieving an opaque, yet luminous skin. My aim is to make the viewer question how the painting was made, to consider that so much work, creative and other, involves labor of mind and/or body that we don’t necessarily see in the finished product.

https://marjoriehellman.com

Rebecca Jenness

Mixed Media Artist

After a West coast family move, studying art in Boston and a residency at the Cape Cod School of Art, as well working as a teaching artist at RISD / CE, my work as a Providence-based RI artist, reflects changes in the unpredictable stage of the Urban Landscape. Everyday experiences for me connect vibrant color, urban legends, humor and imagined environments for the human condition. The constant shifting of urban change allows inspiration for recent recording and recycling discarded materials.

https://rjenness.com/

Kendel Joseph

Mural Artist

Kendel Joseph is a self taught, large scale mural artist, working entirely in freehand. He specializes in a highly stylized version of expressionist realism he calls “Post graffiti abstract realism” inspired by renaissance style portraiture, and expressionism found in contemporary arts such as street art and graffiti of today. His work is characterized by his effort to capture the soul of his subject, and his deep understanding of how light elaborately explains form. Offering a vivid viewpoint into his world, in each work of art, he exemplifies the meaning of “self taught” by building his portraits up over several layers, masterfully creating the illusion of 3D depth and light, on two dimensional surfaces.

https://www.kendelart.com/

James Powers

Mixed Media Artist

Using technologies developed and designed in his studio, Powers navigates between computer rendering, printmaking and CNC fabrication practices. The work takes inspiration from the intrigue of diagrams, instruction design, and the closed environments of computer simulation. Powers received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011 and an AB in Government from Harvard College in 2008. Among others, Powers has exhibited with the Brooklyn Rail at the Venice Biennale, at LaMama Galleria in NY, and at Julius Caeser in Chicago. In 2015, Powers retrofitted a shipping container to work as a gallery project space. After several years of exhibitions and projects, the container (‘Fastnet’) evolved into an outdoor classroom to teach plein-air landscaping at Freshkills Park in Staten Island, with funding from the NY City Department of Cultural Affairs and ConEdison. Drawings from Fastnet were exhibited at the Central Park Armory in 2019.

https://www.jamespowers.us/

John Trainor

Mixed Media Artist

I grew up during the 70’s, in rural Connecticut, as part of the last free range generation. After an unremarkable childhood, I continued into a dull adulthood. After reading a loaned book about Joseph Cornell, I finally knew what to do with all the interesting bits and pieces I had collected over the years. I started making art. Eventually I fulfilled my long held desire to attend art school, earning an associate in fine art from the Community College of Rhode Island. I also attended both Lesley University and UMass Dartmouth.

@coffeeinpawtucket