Lapham’s Perfectly Preserved Seashore 3 is a crusty glued-together nest of sticks, plastic bottles, feathers, a syringe, a hat, and a horseshoe crab shell. Hung on the wall, it toggles between abstract assemblage and realist beach portrait.
And then there’s Deininger’s Angelina Jolie, which is the most astonishing, perverse, horrifying, weird piece of art on view in the region right now. I mean that as a compliment. I think. A shaggy dog lays on the floor, apparently resting. It seems uncannily real, and it is an actual dog body, but a gaping hole in its flank reveals that it’s dead. That’s creepy enough, but nearby lays a damaged baby doll, which next to the dog seems like an eviscerated child. Behind is a card table covered with a seemingly random arrangement of plastic toys and flowers and other junk. But look into the broken mirror on the wall and, abracadabra, all that stuff becomes a portrait of Angelina Jolie. And not a bad likeness. It’s the stuff of amazement, and nightmares.
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Liz Collins's Doll Cave at AS220's Project Space (93 Mathewson Street, Providence, through May 23) drapes the gallery with loosely-knit walls that look like spider webs or giant white granny shawls.
- Stop the presses
Meg Turner steals the show in 5 Traverse gallery's new exhibit with her installation Santa's Worst Nightmare . Climb up a few stairs, step into a closet-sized box wallpapered with etchings of bricks, and close the old weathered door behind you.
- Magnificent machines
A machine that can make everything. It's been the stuff of science fiction for decades. But now, it's a reality. In fact, there's one in Providence.
- It's still summer
From the Low Anthem to Mastamindz
- The Empire strikes back
The Empire Revue is a monthly event at AS220, happening every first Sunday at 8 pm, as predictably as political malfeasance and as reliably funny, only without the urge to strangle the perpetrators. It's only eight bucks, which is still cheaper than a movie, they like to remind us, and way cheaper than a trip to the Borscht Belt, they might add.
- Are progressives winning on the Web?
Action Speaks!, the panel discussion series at Providence art space AS220, continues its fall run with a chat about the state of community organizing.
- Hootenanny!!
It's not quite right to call "Do It! Show It! Sing It! Work It!" the AS220 biennial.
- Can we fix our broken suburbs?
Action Speaks!, the panel discussion series at Providence art space AS220, wraps up its fall run with a look at the American adventure in suburbia.
- Live through this
Sustainable living has, of course, long been a concern, but worries about global warming have pushed it to the forefront. And increasingly made it the subject of art.
- The shovel-ready lessons of the New Deal
Action Speaks!, AS220's always-engaging panel discussion series, is back. "So soon?" you ask. Why, yes.
- Springing ahead
When I asked Chris Daltry just where exactly his acclaimed quintet the 'mericans had been hiding out, the founding father of the rootsy rockers was quick to deflect any insinuation that the Providence group had been slacking.
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