“Summer Adjunct Faculty Exhibition” at RIC

From my review of “Summer Adjunct Faculty Exhibition: Two Sculptors and a Painter” at Rhode Island College’s Bannister Gallery in Providence, which features Jamey Morrill of Providence, Earnest Jolicoeur of Scituate and Michael Cochran of Norton, Massachusetts:

It seems like a simple exercise you might give students: Get a bunch of plastic bottles, lots of thread, and make some art from it. It's the kind of assignment teachers give to get students thinking about sculptural form and structure. And usually the results feel like a dumb exercise.

But in "Summer Adjunct Faculty Exhibition: Two Sculptors and a Painter" at Rhode Island College's Bannister Gallery, Jamey Morrill of Providence makes it work. His sculpture Larvae features green plastic bottles screwed together and then bound by webs of red thread to form recycled-junk crystals set right on the gallery floor. Gallery director James Montford places a mat on the ground to encourage you to get down at their level and study their forms.

Read the rest here.

“Summer Adjunct Faculty Exhibition: Two Sculptors and a Painter” at Rhode Island College’s Bannister Gallery (600 Mount Pleasant Ave., Providence, June 4 to July 3, 2009.

Pictured from top to bottom: Jamey Morrill “Larvae”; Earnest Jolicoeur “Vikalpa”;and Michael Cochran “Oil Between Us.”