KINGSTON \u2014 July 20, 2022 \u2014 The 溏心vlog免费B站 Feinstein Providence Campus lobby gallery is hosting \u201cSynergy: Below the Surface II,\u201d an art exhibit running through July 28 that features works from artists across the country. The exhibit presents art that looks at life, conditions and research beneath the ocean\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSynergy: Below the Surface II” brings together original pieces from \u201cSynergy Project: Below the Surface,\u201d which was a collaboration between Art League RI and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and \u201cBelow the Surface II,\u201d a new juried exhibition comprised of works inspired by the original project. These projects are successors to \u201cSynergy,\u201d a program founded in 2012 that \u201ccreates partnerships between artists and research scientists,\u201d according to its website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Steven Pennell, the director of the University\u2019s Urban Arts & Culture Program, said the partners first presented \u201cSynergy: Below the Surface,\u201d in Falmouth, Massachusetts, in May 2021. \u201cThe artists and the scientists have continued to work on their projects,\u201d said Pennell, who is responsible for bringing exhibits to the Providence campus gallery. \u201cIn addition, the Art League put out a call for a national competition for artists to create work that had to do with the ocean and beneath the ocean.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
While not every artist whose work displayed in the lobby gallery was paired with a scientist, they all do their own research before diving into a new piece of work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhen they go about doing something that\u2019s topically based, they have to do their own research,\u201d Pennell said. \u201cArtists are not just like, \u2018oh, I feel like painting whatever,\u2019 there\u2019s actually a really strong educational component to it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Pennell, there are roughly 130 works in the exhibit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe have a 14-foot piece that\u2019s netting and ocean life, all made out of fabric, which had to be fire retardant,\u201d he said, \u201cwe have paintings, we have sculptures, we have a bronze piece that\u2019s cast in sort of a wave shape, photographic work, we have a metal fish that is more than 3 feet long and it\u2019s suspended in a way that looks like it\u2019s doing a dive. Just gorgeous, gorgeous works of art in all media.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The original \u201cSynergy\u201d project was funded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Woods Hole and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis project came to us, but it\u2019s from Massachusetts,\u201d said Ruth Clegg, the head of the board of Art League Rhode Island, \u201cand we thought well, we\u2019re Rhode Island. How do we get Rhode Island involved?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Clegg worked with Pennell, the artists and others from the Art League to bring the exhibit to 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Providence gallery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt was just natural, it needs to be part of 溏心vlog免费B站,\u201d Clegg said. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of connections. I went to 溏心vlog免费B站. Ellen Matesanz, who is a co-manager of the project on the Art League side, went to 溏心vlog免费B站 as well. It was very natural.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Clegg, in addition to helping bring the project to fruition, also has a piece in the exhibit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI have one piece in \u2018Synergy II,\u2019 a photograph I shot from my boat on the way to Block Island in Narragansett Bay,\u201d she said, \u201cand the title is \u2018Blue Sky and Brown Water.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The photo shows a beautiful, cloudy blue sky juxtaposed with a brown ocean after lots of rain caused soil runoffs to go into the bay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s still beautiful, but the water shouldn\u2019t be brown,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s brown because of the incredible rains we had and the runoff of soil into the bay, and also later in the season the bay heats up and there\u2019s more microorganisms in there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another artist whose work is featured in the exhibit is Kathy Hodge of Riverside<\/strong>. She has been a painter since she was a teenager and has been an artist-in-residence at 12 national parks and two national forests. Until recently, she held a full-time job, but around six months ago made the switch to become a full-time artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After being contacted by the Art League just before the pandemic about potentially working with scientists, she was paired with Chrissy Hernandez, Ph.D., who at the time was completing her thesis at Woods Hole studying larval (baby) fish, in particular larval tuna. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI hadn\u2019t done a collaboration before, but I\u2019ve always been interested in science,\u201d Hodge said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The two communicated largely over Zoom and weren\u2019t able to meet in-person until recently, but were able to collaborate nonetheless. After Hernandez sent her photos of some of the larval tuna, which at that stage are plankton, Hodge collected her own water samples to view the plankton under a microscope. She also visited a \u2018Bluefin Tuna Bonanza\u2019 in Maine to observe the tuna and the fishermen up close. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The finished work, a large three-panel painting called \u201cDrifters Triptych,\u201d took around two years to complete. In addition to the painting itself, she also installed magnifying lenses on it to show where Hernandez had discovered the larval tuna. Ultimately, she hopes to donate the piece to an educational or ocean science organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019m hoping that people will enjoy seeing it and get some information out of it as well,\u201d Hodge said, \u201cbecause I think it could be something that could spur people to start asking questions about what it means. It\u2019s nice to get it out into the public.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSynergy: Below the Surface II\u201d will be at the gallery until Thursday, July 28. The gallery is open Monday through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Providence Campus, located at 80 Washington St. in Providence. Admission is free and the gallery is open to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The free exhibit is sponsored by the Alan Shawn Feinstein College of Education & Professional Studies. Artists do not have to pay a fee for their work to be shown and they are not paid by the University. However, those interested in purchasing the works can contact Pennell and he will put them in touch with the individual artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mary Lind, a graduate student working for 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Department of Marketing and Communications, wrote this release. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KINGSTON \u2014 July 20, 2022 \u2014 The 溏心vlog免费B站 Feinstein Providence Campus lobby gallery is hosting \u201cSynergy: Below the Surface II,\u201d an art exhibit running through July 28 that features works from artists across the country. The exhibit presents art that looks at life, conditions and research beneath the ocean\u2019s surface. \u201cSynergy: Below […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":80276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80275"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80341,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80275\/revisions\/80341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}