RISD NY

We’re organizing a meet-up to celebrate the 23 RISD alumni (see the list here) included in the 2012 Brucennial. Join us April 15 from 3:30-5pm for a group viewing of the exhibition before it closes. After the show we’ll head over to happy hour at the Red Lion for $3 beers and $6 well drinks.

The Brucennial is at 159 Bleecker St and the Red Lion is at 151 Bleeker St.

See who's going on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/HEFa0X

See you there!

Polly Carpenter & Michael Neff
RISD NY

700 Spools of Thread (Keep it Together)

by L. Mylott Manning
April 3 - 8, 2012
at Chashama's Windows Space

266 West 37th Street
(between 7th and 8th Ave)

Gallery Hours 10 am - 8 pm daily
Performance Hours 3pm - 7 pm daily
Artist reception, Thursday, April 5, 2012, 6 pm - 8 pm

Over the course of 6 days, Manning will transform the window front gallery space into a jungle of thread and fabric. The work is a continual performance, centering on a woman entwined in hundreds of spools of thread. These spools are constantly being fed into a gradually increasing number of sewing machines, operated by women stitching seemingly endless lengths of fabric.

700 Spools of Thread (Keep it Together) connects with it’s immediate surroundings within the garment district offering a street view glimpse into the often forgotten and anonymous world of seamstresses. Additionally, it highlights the multiple sometimes conflicting roles women are expected to play in today’s society.

L. Mylott Manning received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally from Portland to Manhattan and British Columbia to New Zealand.

While the 2012 Whitney Biennial boasts a pair of RISD grads this year the Brucennial blows the Whiteney out of the water by including 23 RISD almuni!

Here's the list as best we could tell:

Korakit Arunanondchai
Francesca Capone
Dan Colen
Hilary Doyle
Jonathan Elliott
Joao Enxuto
Sarah Faux
John Gordon Gauld
Anthony Giannini
Alison Kizu-Blair
Snejina Latev
Rob Nadeau
Allie Pisarro-Grant
Allison Sloan Roberts
David Battle Roesing
Les Rogers
Clayton Schiff
Nathalie Shepherd
David Benjamin Sherry
Mariana Smith
Janos Stone
Jaclyn Tobia
Sterling Welss

View Stephen Talasnik’s (‘76) sculpture Floating World before it ships (3 trailer trucks) to Denver’s Botanical Garden. 30 sculptures to be installed upon a 1/4 acre pool from May 5 to November 4, 2012 in Denver.

March 3 & 4, this Saturday and Sunday, 12-5 PM  

Talasnik Studio Gowanus
93 19th Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11232

Subway:
Prospect Avenue, R train
4th Ave and 9th Street, F train

Take a look: http://talasnik-floating-world.blogspot.com

Photographer and RISD alumnus Steven Klein was featured in the New York Times' Thursday Styles section.

Mr. Klein has in fact been expressing that vision for decades. He first took up a camera at the Rhode Island School of Design, where as an art student in the mid 1970s, he began exploring his disturbingly violent, erotically charged and, some would say, unholy themes. His reputation rests in part on preternaturally polished images that owe a debt to Helmut Newton, whose models were often trussed in prostheses, as animated as blowup dolls. Mr. Klein’s celebrity portraits are sexier in a waxy sort of way.