CCRI students display artwork in ‘Visual Stimulation’

April 18, 2019

The artwork of several local Community College of Rhode Island students is on display in “Visual Stimulation,” a Fine Art Seminar show at the Knight Campus Art Gallery through April 29.

 Artists exhibiting their work include: 

• Luke Blais of Coventry – character design and cartoons in lead on paper and digital media
• Marissa Chapkounian of Johnston – acrylic paint on canvas, film photography
• Esther Alvarez Gondres of Providence – installation art based on strings, where the selection of the cotton crochet color is visualized as a galaxy
• Bethany Haskell of Exeter – ink, charcoal and digital media
• Amanda Hurteau of Cumberland – digital media
• Victoria Jones of West Greenwich – ceramics
• Manuel R. Lopes of Rumford – representational colored pencil drawing on paper, abstract expressionism with ebony pencil on paper and photographs from a series titled “Life in the Wild”
• Julia Medeiros of North Kingstown – acrylic and oil painting and colored pencil
• Gervin Pineda of North Providence – graphic design
• Maggie Polk of Coventry – digital art
• Helene Ratanak of Cranston – installation art using 500-plus wood sticks to create a relief form of a temple

An artist reception will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 25. 

The gallery is located in Room 3500 at the Warwick campus, 400 East Ave. Enter through the library on the fourth floor. Gallery hours are noon to 7 p.m. Monday; 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday; 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday; and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday. For more information, email [email protected].