Meet the Artists

Sage Barton

Stoneware Artist

I am an artist from Ohio who values the rocks and the grass. I love repetition and the mundane. I want to live until 120. In the meantime I will make artwork.

John Buron

Visual Artist

I am a visual artist currently based in Rhode Island, raised in the small town of Oakham, Massachusetts. I received my Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Studio Art at the University of Texas at Austin, with concentrations in painting, lithography, and photography. After college I moved back to New England where I continue to create artwork. I have exhibited at several museums and galleries including New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT, the Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA and the 4Heads Portal: Governors Island exhibition NYC among others. My work can be seen at: johnburon.com

Susan Clausen

Mixed Media Artist, Sculptor, Performance Artist, Musician

Susan Clausen is a multidisciplinary and mixed media artist. Her artwork has typically involved things that move, works that invite interaction and play. She feels that touching an artwork engages people on a whole other level by inviting interplay. Her work has included stop motion animation, shrine like cabinets, linoleum block prints and found object sculpture and most recently a series of “bobble heads”. She maintains a live/work studio in what was once the Abruzzi Molise Civic Association in the North End of Providence with her husband, Umberto Crenca.

This current body of work is entitled “Endangered Species”. It is a series of fantastical animal “bobble Heads”, representing rare creatures unknown to most people and at the risk of extinction. In representing these rarely seen spirit animals, Susan hopes to bring awareness to their existence and to the critical role they play in guiding us through this passage.

Umberto Crenca

Mixed Media Artist, Sculptor, Performance Artist, Musician

Umberto (Bert) Crenca is a multidisciplinary artist with a long exhibition and performance history. His work appears in the permanent collections of the Rhode Island School of Design and Newport Art Museums, and in numerous private collections in the US and abroad.

Well known for being co-founder and longtime artistic director of AS220, a nonprofit center for the arts in downtown Providence, Bert is a passionate advocate of the conviction that all people should have access to the means to cultivate and express their creativity. He has received numerous honors and awards for his community work and holds honorary doctorates from Roger Williams and Brown Universities. See more of Bert’s work at umbertocrenca.com

Richard Goulis

Mixed Media Artist, Sculptor, Performance Artist

My artistic output runs the gamut from performance art, improvisational comedy and sculpture, to painting, installation and video. A vein of risk and unpredictability runs through much of what I do: not knowing what’s going to happen is disconcerting to people to varying degrees, and I’ve always felt compelled to explore and play with that, especially in my performance works. So too have I been interested in drawing attention to the minuscule, unfamiliar and ordinary things in life that commonly go unnoticed or unappreciated. There is frequently an interactive element in my work, and people respond to it with a myriad of emotions including curiosity, fear, puzzlement, delight and concern. Ultimately though, it is my hope that people ﬁnd time to explore the subtleties of my works and travel within them, peer through the upper layers to those beneath. In a larger sense I feel this is what we need to do with things around us from time to time. So, this act of viewing becomes a reminder to always be on the lookout for what else may be out there for us to ﬁnd.

Chris Kilduff

Mixed Media Artist, Sculptor, Performance Artist

A Cranston resident originally from Scituate, Chris Kilduff received a BFA in Art from Syracuse University in 1991, exhibiting at the Mission Providence Art Show in 1997 before serving as the Gallery Director at AS220 in 1998-1999, where he later exhibited in 2010. Subsequent showings include a solo exhibition at the Drawing Room Gallery in 2017. Kilduff's pre-pandemic work focused on collage and multi-dimensional assemblages featuring vintage product labels and magazine images or messaging, discarded childhood detritus, original sculptural formations in various materials, and semiotically-dense commentaries on the vagaries of contemporary commercial life - many featuring his signature preference for the a since-discontinued shade of orange once used on Tide detergent bottles. Kilduff has since 2020 developed entirely new bodies of work, loosely united aesthetically and thematically under the banner of "Goro's World."

The characters and single-panel narrative predicaments driving Goro's World, as well as the accompanying panels focused on archetypes and countenances within it depend to a large extent on Kilduff's day-job history as a journeyman carpenter since 1990. He began and continued with Kilduff Bros. Builders in the home sector until 2012, followed by enlistment as a 723 Union carpenter until 2020, where he worked on and managed large scale urban building projects with companies such as Suffolk Construction Company.

Welcome to Goro's World, where perspectives too often ignored, parodied, or mocked in patronizing ignorance find authentic channels of (mis) communication, humor, and love through Kilduff's efforts.

Erminio Pinque

Mixed Media Artist

Erminio Pinque, educator, Illustrator and creature fabricator, is director of the BIG NAZO Space Transformation Station and Editor of the Comics Page in the free, widely distributed Motif Magazine, a project for which he recruits artists who work in multiple mediums to create monthly comic panels for old-school print media. Pinque, also known as “MinioMindWarp”, is illustrator of the award winning 120 page graphic novel “CHAZAN! Unfiltered” and has filled several hundred sketchbooks with portraits, landscapes, costume designs, surreal doodles, imagined creatures and observational renderings.

The creature anthromorphism that appears in his work is partly due to the artist’s exploration of creature concepts as a way of assigning abstract concepts a corporeal form, a “body” to inhabit that isn’t particularly human but still somewhat familiar.

Lindsay Quayle

RISD 2004, Jewelry Metalsmithing

I create art that combines my painting, design, and metalsmithing talents. I started creating this body of work back in 2016. My most common subjects are flowers, fish, birds, stars, trees, and landscapes. I find joy in creating paintings that are also objects that have an antique or found object quality to them. When creating my work, the initial conception comes through my love of International historical folk art, tile motifs, modern art, graphic design, and nature. There is a brief session when I will roughly sketch my ideas. I build each ‘panel’ myself starting with a found or bought piece of pine wood. When ‘building’ the panels, I carefully lay out the wood tiles to create the tiled look making sure to leave imperfections in spacing and unique arrangements for a more authentic worn aesthetic. Once the tiles are set, I start with a series of acrylic paint layers. The first layer is a transparent wash of white acrylic, I then carefully and lightly pencil draw the image and broad pattern work on the piece and paint over the pencil lines with opaque white acrylic paint. Next I do a wash with acrylic paint over the entire piece as an under color and I am left with beautiful white lines on a transparent colored background. This is the basic foundation of each composition. From there I will start to meticulously layer opaque colors with acrylic paint, various sheet metal, metal leaf, assortment of metal hardware, and flashing tape using screws, furniture tacks, and other various nails to create the final composition, using brass, aluminum, copper, gold, and silver. See more of my work here: https://lqarts.weebly.com/#/