AS220 Galleries

Spire Of Interludes | Kendel

Spire of Interludes is meant to share a window into the artist’s self-teaching practices, through intense sessions of speed painting in freehand. These pieces are meant to channel, awaken, and evolve both the soul and vision of the artist.

Opening Reception: June 6 5-7pm at Resident Gallery at As220 131 Washington St.

Inferna | Adam Kelley

Adam Kelley was born and raised in Providence RI. While pursuing his BFA at University of Massachusetts Amherst, Kelley kept a focus in manual print disciplines, particularly silkscreen and woodblock printing. Kelley’s print media work continued following graduation at the AS220 printshop, where he was a volunteer and instructor for several years. Kelley has always maintained a steady art and design practice and has been commissioned to make original works for local organizations and businesses such as Bolt Coffee, PVD Fest, The Avenue Concept, and Figidini to name a few.

About the Show
Inferna is a series of paintings based on iPad drawings. Digital drawing allows for a particularly carefree mindset when creating. It requires the least precious material and removes the constraints of physical scale. Each drawing in this series was made quickly and intuitively.
Kelley plucked a collection of drawings from this digital garden and brought them to life in paint. Despite approaching each painting with a distinct plan, they all inevitably yield the fruit of unexpected discovery upon completion.
Inferna means below or underneath. In making this work, Kelley strove to leverage nonrepresentational images to reveal what may be hiding in his subconscious through color and shape. In sharing these paintings, we invite you to be open to what curiosities or feelings you might access just under the surface of your awareness.

Please Do Not Touch | curated by Sihan (Tara) Chen and Ankita Bhat
Chen and Bhat present a room populated entirely with pedestals, structures typically relegated to the background as passive supports. With no objects to display, the pedestals themselves emerge as central figures. Stripped of their conventional function, they are reimagined as active subjects, drawing attention to the architecture of display itself.
Each pedestal is subtly altered through the integration of domestic materials and references: crown molding trims their bases, lace curtains cascade down their sides. These interventions reintroduce ornament and texture, evoking sensations tied to memory, place, and bodily presence. The pedestal, traditionally a symbol of sterile exhibition, becomes a site of warmth, tactility, and recognition.
Please Do Not Touch interrogates how our ways of seeing, feeling, and living have been shaped by the aesthetics of the white cube. What does it mean to re-domesticate the gallery? To bring ornament, memory, and touch back into a space that has for so long demanded sanitization? ……………………………………………………………………………………………….

AS220 GALLERIES — APRIL OPENINGS

Opening Reception
Saturday, April 4 (Tomorrow!)
5–7 PM

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MAIN GALLERY
115 Empire St.
Creature Comforts
Sydney Bienstock

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ABORN GALLERY
95 Empire St. (2nd Fl — same building as Main Gallery)
Please Do Not Touch
Curated by Sihan (Tara) Chen & Ankita Bhat

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PROJECT SPACE
93 Mathewson St.
Easter
Emily Falkowski

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READING ROOM
93 Mathewson St. (inside Project Space)
Suffering Ones
Obasi Osbourne

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Exhibition Dates:
April 4 – 25

Free posters and badges available for today’s no kings March at the as220 project space.