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Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Press Release
State Arts Council Announces New Show at T.F. Green Art Gallery 

GREEN SPACE Show called "The Printed Peculiarity of Place" on display through January 2014

Providence, RI - September 26, 2013 - 

The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA) announced today that a new art exhibition, entitled The Printed Peculiarity of Place, will be held from September 20, 2013 through January 4, 2014 at GREEN SPACE, an art gallery at T.F. Green Airport in Warwick that presents the work of contemporary Rhode Island artists.

 

GREEN SPACE, a partnership between the Rhode Island Council on the Arts and the Rhode Island Airport Corporation, promotes outstanding work by artists living and working in Rhode Island.  The gallery will present art to an ever-changing audience of local, national and international travelers.  GREEN SPACE is located in the airport terminal where the skywalk meets the main building.  Art is exhibited on both levels of the terminal.  

 

This exhibition presents printed works by three artists who offer particular worlds - both existing and imagined - for viewers to explore.  It features large and small-scale works by Allison Bianco, Maria DiFranco and Kim Salerno.  Their works merge a contemporary sensibility with traditional techniques, classical compositions and iconographic storytelling to evoke our overwhelming sense of occupying the places they depict.

About the Artists and How They Were Chosen

Work by Allison Bianco

Allison Bianco employs a range of printmaking techniques, including intaglio and screen printing, to explore nostalgia and its associated sense of longing.  Many of her images depict familiar New England locations - coastal Matunuck, The Old Man of the Mountain - and suggest the manufacturing of memories that blur past and present.

  

Work by Maria DiFranco

Maria DiFranco approaches printmaking with a sense of cultural conservation, capturing acontemporary sense of place by combining cultural symbols, folklore and mythology with current depictions of particular locales.  Her recent series of etchings entitled "Providence Through the Centuries" references the complexities of the city's cultural, economic, architectural and political history.

 

Work by Kim Salerno

Kim Salerno generates vivid interpretive landscapes using digital manipulation of found imagery.  Her painterly prints evoke natural landscapes in which pattern and repetition verge on chaos, suggesting nature's fragile equilibrium. 

  

 

The artists were selected for this exhibition by an accomplished panel:  Peter Crump, owner of design-build firm Site Specific; Rossana Martinez, artist and co-director of MINUS SPACE; and Sue McNally, artist.

 

About the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts

The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts is a state agency supported by appropriations from the Rhode Island General Assembly and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. RISCA provides grants, technical assistance and staff support to arts organizations and artists, schools, community centers, social service organizations and local governments to bring the arts into the lives of Rhode Islanders.

 

About the Rhode Island Airport Corporation

The Rhode Island Airport Corporation operates T.F. Green Airport and the five general aviation airports in Rhode Island. A long-time supporter of public art in Rhode Island, the Rhode Island Airport Corporation has worked with the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts on a number of public art commissions for T. F. Green Airport.