PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island School of Design Museum has announced the exhibits that will be displayed in its galleries for the spring 2017 season. They include:
DiMoDA 2.0: Morphḗ Presence (through May 14): DiMoDA, or the Digital Museum of Digital Art, is an ongoing interactive collection, exhibition and conservation project founded and directed by artists William Robertson and Alfredo Salazar-Caro. This exhibition was organized by invited curators Eileen Isagon Skyers and Helena Acosta. “DiMoDA 2.0: Morphḗ Presence” presents recent works by Miyö Van Stenis, Theoklitos Triantafyllidis, Brenna Murphy and Rosa Menkman – four young artists exploring the emergent form of virtual reality. This exhibit is supported in part by Seth Stolbun and the Seth Stolbun Collection and through an R.I. State Council on the Arts grant, which was made possible by an appropriation approved by the R.I. General Assembly and a National Endowment for the Arts grant.
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Inventing Impressionism (through June 11): When the artists who became know as the Impressionists first presented their work in 1874, contemporaries perceived their innovative working methods and unconventional subject matter as a radical departure from accepted ways of art-making. This selection of paintings and drawings by artists, including Paul Cézanne, Camille Pissarro, Berthe Morisot, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Mary Cassatt, highlights the Impressionists’ creative use of process and materials to represent contemporary subjects in a way that had never been done before.
Intermission (through June 30): This informal presentation of paintings and objects from the museum’s early 12th- to late 19th-century European collection offers opportunities for chance encounters and unintentional juxtapositions as it renovates its main European Galleries. When the European Galleries reopen in fall 2017, the collection will be displayed to reflect the RISD Museum’s unique position as a center of activity for artists, designers and makers of all kinds. This continues the RISD Museum’s reinterpretation project initiated in 2009, which has included new galleries for ancient Greek and Roman, ancient Egyptian, and Asian art, as well as costumes and textiles.
Luminous Lace (through July 30): Lacemaking is one of fashion’s most time-consuming embellishment enterprises. When lace is made using gold, silver and other metals, that investment in craft and value is compounded, signaling wealth and luxury. Dating from the 16th to the 21st century, these metallic-lace fashions and accessories attest to the impulse in Western fashion history to capture the fire of the sun and bring that spotlight, prestige and implied spiritual power to the wearer.
The RISD Museum is located at 20 North Main St. in Providence and is open Tuesday through Sunday.
Emily Gowdey-Backus is a PBN staff writer.
