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AS220 Galleries AS220 Galleries is an unjuried and uncensored exhibition space open to all Rhode Island artist to exhibit their art works.

RELICS OF LIOTA | Lyric Marie Johnson OPENING TODAY 5-7 pm Aborn Gallery 95 empire st. After a sustained archaeological ...
09/05/2026

RELICS OF LIOTA | Lyric Marie Johnson

OPENING TODAY 5-7 pm
Aborn Gallery
95 empire st.

After a sustained archaeological voyage in the United States Southern region, scientist Lyric Marie Johnson reports evidence of a newly discovered ancestral species that they’ve named Liota. These artifacts are presented in Relics of Liota from September 5 to September 26.
As part of this project, Johnson found and restored a collection of relics, with mediums spanning ceramics, metals, printmaking, painting, and mixed media sculpture. These relics come together to craft a story of love, pain, separation, and community, with Black American and q***r folklore at the center.

Iterations | Sophia Blanchard-Camporeale AS220 Main Gallery September 2026OPENING TODAY 5-7pm 115 empire st Artist State...
09/05/2026

Iterations | Sophia Blanchard-Camporeale
AS220 Main Gallery September 2026
OPENING TODAY 5-7pm
115 empire st
Artist Statement/Bio

Sophia B. Camporeale (she/they), based in Stamford, CT, is a multidisciplinary Fine Artist, working in a variety of mediums, including painting, printmaking, collage, and multi-media. Camporeale’s work primarily discusses a variety of themes, including politics, religion & spirituality, sexuality and gender, mental health, and the cyclical body.

In conversation with the viewer and amidst the growing divide of nations and peoples, Sophia’s work is a reflection of her lived experiences as a Woman, a sexual assault survivor, a staunch advocate of mental health care and accessibility, a member of the Q***r community, a Witch, and a deeply connected human of the world. Her prayer and meditation manifests through her work, inserting ideas and questions into the walls and foundations of our greater institutions and communities that we have all come to know and feel connected to; whether positively or negatively by association. Their work seeks to spark an internal dialogue surrounding beliefs and identities that have solidified within each person that engages with her work.

To move through the world open to ideas, change, perspective, belief, and wisdom, is to be fluid– understanding that we do not know anything until we know that we know nothing.

The Visions of Zab: From the Inner-Verse to the Cosmic Horizon | Ryan Clark OPENING TODAY 5-7pm main gallery 115 empire ...
09/05/2026

The Visions of Zab: From the Inner-Verse to the Cosmic Horizon | Ryan Clark

OPENING TODAY 5-7pm main gallery 115 empire st.
artist statement:

There is humor buried in tragedy, there is beauty within pain, and light at the end of the darkness.
Art is the freedom I have to manipulate reality, and what I create is a reflection of my conflict with existence. I go out and seek beauty every day, and this provides me with a sense of meaning. I use bright colors and concentrated line work to force the eyes open so you may witness the intensity of existence. There’s a lot of narrative storytelling left up to the viewer. My purpose is to spark a conversation with yourself.
I gravitate towards aliens, bacteria, animals and complex systems as subjects of my work. Everything is inherently fractal, which is to say that each piece of the universe is a microcosmic iteration of the whole. How these pieces interact fascinates me. In the way that atoms bind together to make molecules, I am reminded of the bond a mother has with her child. I am exploring affinity; Love is the Divine Intention of the Universe.
Most of my pieces start out with letting my pencil glide across a surface. From there I focus on making it beautiful. I rarely start with a vision in mind. Instead, I attack the surface with whatever medium I have within reach. I use ink and acrylic to create the majority of work, however I don’t feel bound to any one medium. I will experiment with office supplies, rubbing alcohol, and any object that looks like it will make an interesting mark. This process of play is essential to maintaining creative flow. The meaning is often revealed through the process. I use Adobe Illustrator to digitize my drawings when I want to make something practical for multiple applications.
The nature of the world is unrelentingly brutal. Watching my Mother, an amazing artist, lose her physical autonomy is my greatest creative motivation. In spite of this random, often grotesque and squalid life, I will always aim to add something beautiful.
-Zabulus

Absurd Ecologies | Alex GonzalezCommunity Gallery 131 Washington St. OPENING TODAY 5-7pm I am an artist and designer wit...
09/05/2026

Absurd Ecologies | Alex Gonzalez
Community Gallery
131 Washington St.

OPENING TODAY 5-7pm

I am an artist and designer with a formal education in landscape architecture, drawn to the artistic and philosophical dimensions of landscape. I believe everything is a landscape, including our mind and body, and I encourage my work to be viewed through that lens.

At the core, what I am interested in is space itself and existing in space. Space being the substance that binds us to every living and non-living thing. My body of work is an investigation into space, what it is made up of, the things that occupy it, and the way those things interact with their environment.

My art is informed largely by my education in ecological and anthropological systems across scales. I am driven by a deep desire to understand how reality operates, and through my work, I explore where logic falls apart. I dissect the world without breaking it, reconstituting it into something familiar yet novel, with the aim of having the viewer question their own perception and relationship to the natural and built environment.

I consider my paintings self-contained ecosystems, and color plays an important role in my work, not just as surface treatment, but as a subject in itself. The way different forms come to life and interact in the field of the painting is dictated by the color, its meaning, vibrancy, and relationship to the other primaries in my palette. My paintings come to be through an intuitive process driven by my philosophical curiosities, ecological insights, artistic capabilities, and playful attitude towards life

Searching for the Sunlight | Sam Glevick AS220 Project Space OPENING TODAY 5-7 pm 93 Mathewson StSam Glevick is a Rhode ...
09/05/2026

Searching for the Sunlight | Sam Glevick
AS220 Project Space

OPENING TODAY 5-7 pm
93 Mathewson St

Sam Glevick is a Rhode Island based painter, holding a BFA from PrattMWP/Syracuse University. Working primarily in acrylic gouache, their work explores the subtle intersections between place and memory. Glevick often reimagines familiar landscapes into visual narratives, evoking a sense of déjà vu, nostalgia, and emotional resonance of the spaces we move through and stories within them.

About the show:

Searching for Sunlight is a collection of paintings inspired by our natural attraction to light, both physically and emotionally.
We pull over to photograph a sunset. We notice when the sun hits the side of a building just right. We linger outside a little longer when summer fireflies start to appear. Even our pets seem to know exactly where the warm patch of sunlight is.
This body of work grew out of those moments. Some paintings capture the flow of dusk, others the first light of morning. Some are expansive landscapes, while others are small snapshots of passing experiences. Together, these paintings are an attempt to hold onto those episodes that often come and go with the sun. The search that never truly ends.

STILL HERE | Lizzy Sour Lizzy $OUR OPEING RECEPTION TODAY 5-7pm AS220 Resident Gallery131 Washington St.
08/01/2026

STILL HERE | Lizzy Sour Lizzy $OUR

OPEING RECEPTION TODAY 5-7pm
AS220 Resident Gallery
131 Washington St.

07/31/2026

Step into a new month of exhibitions at the AS220 Galleries. Join us for our August Opening Reception on Saturday, August 1, from 5–7 PM, and celebrate a fresh lineup of artists across our downtown gallery spaces.

✨ Aborn Gallery (95 Empire St.)
Necronomicon featuring Allison Hill, Gage Prentis, Jason McKittrick, and Muhammad Aslam

✨ Main Gallery (115 Empire St.)
TwoThangs and Keri Marion

✨ Project Space Gallery (93 Mathewson St.)
Zoe Grinfield

✨ Resident Gallery (131 Washington St.)
Lizzy Sour

All exhibitions are on view throughout the month of August.

Regular Gallery Hours:
Thursday & Friday: 1–6 PM
Saturday: 12–5 PM

We hope you’ll join us in celebrating these incredible artists and exploring this month’s exhibitions. See you at the opening!

OPENING SATURDYS JULY 11, 2026, 5-7pm at the AS220 Aborn Gallery 95 Empire St Providence Whose Truths?: America at 250 |...
07/10/2026

OPENING SATURDYS JULY 11, 2026, 5-7pm at the AS220 Aborn Gallery 95 Empire St Providence

Whose Truths?: America at 250 | Kannetha Brown-Ngeth 🇰🇭 Rafael Medina 🇩🇴 Ruby Tiara♥️ Jennybert Polanco Savonnara Alexander Sok Jacque's Offset Bidon Jared Winslow http.toeknee

This summer will see America celebrate its 250th anniversary while the US government conducts extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean, conducts a fuel blockade of Cuba in violation of international law, fights a questionable war in Iran, all while ICE agents assault migrants and citizens in the streets, at work, and at home. The very pillars of truths laid forth in the Declaration of Independence and the founding principles of the new nation, for political equality, universal rights, and sovereignty of the people, feels unstable. America, the grand experiment was always flawed with its base built in white supremacy, but still through the work of dedicated individuals and communities fought to realize a nation where all are equal and have the right and means to pursue life, liberty, and happiness .

What can we glean from our American experience? What memories, experiences, artifacts, knowledge can we carry with us, to build a new foundation for an America that understands its past, acknowledges its failures, celebrates diversity, stewards the earth, and builds a just and equitable society into a sustainable future for all?

Through personal and imaginative perspectives this exhibition welcomes visions of America rooted in resilience, beauty, community, and collective resistance both now and 250 years into the future

What’s your favorite color? | Raquel and Michel Davis Artist/show statement: I first picked up a camera when I was 10, h...
06/06/2026

What’s your favorite color? | Raquel and Michel Davis

Artist/show statement: I first picked up a camera when I was 10, hiking in Yellowstone National Park with my Dad and I’ve had one somewhere nearby ever since. There is something deeply comforting in the constancy of a camera and the photographs it takes. From California to Rhode Island, from middle school to medical school my camera is always there to capture a discreet moment in time. From those first photos in Yellowstone, nature has always been my inspiration. No matter what is happening in the world, nature is always there full of life, joy, and every color of the rainbow.

Opening today!! Main Gallery on 115 Empire St.

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93 Mathewson Street
Providence, RI
02903

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Wednesday 1pm - 6pm
Thursday 1pm - 6pm
Friday 1pm - 6pm
Saturday 12pm - 5pm

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