Projekt722 is pleased to host an exhibition of work by the 2013 RISD Graduate Painters.

Exhibition Dates:

July 6th-28th 2013

Opening Reception:

Saturday, July 13th, 2013, 6:00pm-9:00pm

Location: Projekt722, 722 Metropolitan Ave, Second Floor, Brooklyn, New York 11211

https://projekt722.com/exhibitions/risd/

 Well / RISD MFA PAINTING 2013

July 6 – 28 / Opening Reception Sat. July 13 6-9pm

The Deepening Well

Imagine a ripe nectarine softened by the summer solstice’s warm embrace. You pluck and squeeze it, leaving riven what was hitherto pure and sweet. That is my heart. Then there is my shattered ego. Its restoration, even partially and imperfectly, is nigh impossible. How could you not love me forever after two years of commitment, of mutual nurture, of vibrant dialogue? I weep for that which was and that which could have been. And after tear ducts dry, I extract one after the other my desiccated eyeballs, smack them open on a stainless top slop sink, and grind the uneven shards into forearms bared. We had it perfect in Providence. How could you leave? Now, I bleed for you as if I bled for you always, and will continue bleeding.

A deep bell—a death knell?
(At least Jonathan Frioux won’t go to hell.)
From Claudia Bitran,
a ditty from Adele;

And from Zach Seegar, aka Guy Gilbert,
an article in a resuscitated Tel Quel.

Citadels from a perverted Dwell
build J. Bochynski, but can he spell?
Taniya Vaidya and Wally Dion:
Dresses in toile swell; controlled pell-mell.

A logo from Intel, spreadsheets from Excel?—
Lauren Comito, do tell.
Rebel yell! yells Douglas Burns,
and from Rachel Grobstein,
tableaux in the scale of mushrooms, morels.

All is well.

–Christopher K. Ho

Dear Friends and Family,

Hope you all are well and are having a good year!

This spring I am receiving my Master’s Degree from Rhode Island School of Design.  As part of my Graduate Thesis I am participating in a group exhibition at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence.  The exhibition itself is a pretty amazing feat, featuring the work of 194 graduate students in both the Fine Arts and Design disciplines.  I know this will be a spectacular show!

RISD Grad Show 2013
The opening reception is May 16th from 6-8pm.  The exhibition will be up through June 1st and will be open daily from 12:00-5:00pm.  The Rhode Island Convention Center is located at 1 Sabin Street, Providence, RI.  For further information visit the link above.

To get a closer look at some of the work I have made over the last two years visit my online portfolio.

Also, check out this website that myself and my peers in the Painting Department put together to showcase our work.  I feel very lucky to work along side of these terrific artists.

If you find yourself in New England stop by and check out the exhibition.  Also, stay tuned for two more exhibitions that I am participating in this summer in New York City.

July 15 – August 5

Opening Reception: Sunday, July 15, 6-9 pm

An Opening Reception for Two Become One will be held July 15th from 6pm-9pm, and the work will be on display until August 5th.

Two Become One is a group exhibition from the RISD MFA program in Painting being exhibited at Wayfarers, Brooklyn. Nine artists have been gathered to present the textured landscape that snakes up and down the 2nd and 3rd floor stairwells of 62 Prospect Street in Providence.

The show opens with a wall-sized video projection of a landscape folding in upon itself by Lauren Comito. The immediate sensation is similar to what one imagines it would have been like to sit in the front row during the famous “stargate sequence” that ends Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. As the collision fades, five clones of artist and celebrity impersonator Claudia Bitran emerge, and without backing music, provide a hypnotic serenade drawing you further into the dark.

Much of the work feels site-specific like that of Rachel Grobstein, Zach Seeger and Joe Bochynski. Bochynski has cut a hole in the whispering wall and embedded a digital parasite that draws its power from the gallery wiring. Grobstein lights a delicate mirage of paper tricycles that have been swept into a corner like a tumbleweed. Seeger’s richly decorated canvases are broken and bound together making figures that remind one of the battered scarecrows of the original Planet of the Apes, which stand just at the edge of the Forbidden Zone.

The painting of Taniya Vaidya is being dissected alongside the mechanically liquid surfaces of Wally Dion. Both artists listen intently as their mediums and surfaces react to each other. Vaidaya’s ink patterns bleed into fabric an organic logic of its own. A fact which she credits to the fabric graciously, with a smile. Meanwhile, Dion is interested abstracting his own direct contribution so much that he’s recently begun experimenting with simple machines, which he hopes, one day, produce their own signature forms.

All of the artists in the show push their subjects through an array of displays to produce entire systems of image making. They document these systems and display them in their studios to visually quantify and further prove their methods. The paintings and video of J.J. Frioux, illustrate how subjects such as landscape and identity can be mutated by such a process. As you exit, the wooden space created for Doug Burns displays the byproducts of experiments. Burns practices spontaneous collage and improvisation while restricting himself to a very limited palette of materials. He is waiting for a mythology to emerge.

What does emerge from Two become One are distinct patterns of process and material. “In an emergent system complexity can arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions.”

Two becomes One was curated by Wayfarers’ board members Joshua R. Edwards and Jesse James Arnold. Special thanks to Zach Seeger, whose breakfast burritos changed our lives.