GREEN SPACE / T.F. Green Airport
PAINT.
NOW.
GREEN SPACE / T. F. Green Airport, Warwick, RI, is a
newly created exhibition space located at T.F. Green Airport. Green Space
is a partnership between The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and
The Rhode Island Airport Corporation that 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.
PAINT. NOW. is the
inaugural exhibition at GREEN SPACE, a gallery at T. F. Green Airport
presenting contemporary art by artists working in Rhode Island. The
exhibition will be on view January 25 – April 30, 2012. It features large
and small-scale paintings by Ruth Dealy, Shawn Gilheeney and Sue McNally.
All three artists paint in a vibrant, contemporary language that pushes
forward our ideas of what painting can be. Each of the artists has a
distinct vocabulary and approach, emphasizing the broad and divergent
nature of painting at this moment.
Ruth Dealy paints
primarily landscapes and self-portraits, responding to never ending
changes in light, time and season. Her paintings convey what she sees
while the looseness of line and the vibrancy of color offer a world that
feels both familiar and magically distant.
Shawn Gilheeney
explores the diametric relationship between the built environment and the
nature world. His paintings depict structures in varying stages on ruin,
and the works themselves are made with ruinous elements including acid
and fire. These techniques, in combination with paint and ink, result in
pictures whose subject and medium are inherently joined.
Sue McNally paints
large-scale landscapes based on places she has visited or lives near. She
spends a lot of time in the locations she paints, exploring the terrain,
experiencing the weather and examining the natural beauty that is unique
to each location. Her paintings translate the chaos and systems inherent
in nature into a visceral language of forms, colors, and patterns.
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.
About RISCA: 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 RIAC:
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.
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