Past
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Stella Ebner: The World Has Need of You
May 11 - August 31, 2024 We are pleased to present a solo exhibition of works by Stella Ebner. This marks the second solo presentation of prints by Ebner with the gallery. Known for her lush watercolor monotype and woodcut prints, Ebner's point of view presents an increasingly intimate take on life in the everyday. The... Read more -
How it Started, How it's Going
A Print and Proof Exhibition March 15 - April 27, 2024 ARTISTS: Andre Lee Bassuet Allison Bianco Donnamaria bruton Stella Ebner Michael Ezzell Nancy Friese Lois Harada Daniel Heyman Michael Krueger Julian MacMillan Yoonmi Nam Serena Perrone Andrew Raftery Nafis M. White How it Started, How it's Going, is a print and proof show that celebrates printmaking by presenting a dialogue... Read more -
Nafis M. White: Paint the Town Red
November 4, 2023 - February 10, 2024 Paint the Town Red binds multi-media works by way of a performance of creation. White dives into the depths of the Autumnal energy, bathing the gallery in red in honor and celebration of the Goddess Sekhmet, the Warrior, the Sensualist, the Destroyer, the Lover, the Healer. In Paint the Town... Read more -
Serena Perrone
Accept the Omen September 6 - October 21, 2023 In September, we will present our fifth solo exhibition of works by Serena Perrone entitled Accept the Omen. Perrone is known for work which spans the mediums of printmaking, including etching, screen print, and alternative photographic processes. Recently her work expanded to include cut paper, textiles and ceramics. The influence... Read more -
Bob Dilworth: Backyard
at Newport Art Museum July 15 - December 31, 2023 Read more -
Nancy Friese: Eloquent Landscapes
November 12, 2022 - April 29, 2023 We are pleased to present an exhibition of Nancy Friese's paintings spanning 40 years of her career. There is wide recognition of Friese as one of our country’s most influential interpreters of American landscape, as well as European and Asian landscapes. Locations for paintings have included Giverny and Brittany in... Read more -
Lois Harada: Wish You Were Here
August 11 - September 6, 2022 WISH YOU WERE HERE is a suite of screenprints inspired by WPA (Works Progress Administration) posters. Instead of highlighting National Parks or tourist destinations in the United States, these prints are based on Japanese American incarceration sites. The prints are accompanied by a run of letterpress postcards and a penny... Read more -
Bob Dilworth
Another Place May 7 - September 30, 2022 In Dilworth’s apt hand, painting is a way of creating the most precious remembrance of humankind. The migration of Black families from a rural town in southern Virginia to larger metropolises is woven into many of the narratives in the work. Self Portrait and Venus look both forward and backward... Read more -
Daniel Heyman
Summons October 30, 2021 - April 9, 2022 Daniel Heyman is an artist whose work in drawing, printmaking and painting directs the viewer's attention to contemporary social and political issues. Deeply interested in narrative, he uses images to tell stories that combine a love of history and myth in an effort to provoke discussion and empathy. In his... Read more -
Voyage
Summer Group Exhibition June 19 - August 28, 2021 We are pleased to present our summer Voyage exhibition which includes artists Mark Adams, Ana Guerra, Lois Harada, Buck Hastings, Kirstin Lamb, Kelsy Patnaude, Serena Perrone, Matt Tracy, and Ben Watkins. Particular points of view are represented by prints, paintings, and mixed media works. The idea of passage whether idyllic,... Read more -
Dean Richardson
April 19 - June 12, 2021 Cade Tompkins is pleased to present an exhibition of paintings that span the career of painter Dean Richardson. Cade Tompkins Projects invited two Native American artist/educators to write response reflections to the work dating from the mid 1990s to 2010. These voices add important comments and insightful understanding of the... Read more -
Paradise
Group Exhibition January 30 - March 31, 2021 The entire world, as of late, feels like a state of suspended animation due to the pandemic. The pause and warping of time is deeply felt and has affected every person on the planet earth. For many, nature has been critical to our very happiness and well being. During this... Read more -
Max Van Pelt: Tendency
September 12 - November 30, 2020 We are pleased to present new works by Max Van Pelt in his first solo exhibition at Cade Tompkins Projects entitled Tendency. The new work focuses on linear abstraction of dynamic mark making on paper which extends into three dimensions in his sculptural works. In the paintings and drawings, the... Read more -
Allison Bianco: Forget About It
May 15 - September 8, 2020 Cade Tompkins Projects is pleased to present Forget About It, new works by Allison Bianco. The prints in this exhibition use a combination of intaglio and screen print to depict landscapes diminished by massive oceans and immense skies. Through the shifting coastal scenes, Bianco delves into nostalgia, humor, and the inconsistency of memory. Read more -
Aaron Pexa: Garden Party
March 5 - June 30, 2020 Cade Tompkins Projects is delighted to announce the presentation of new work by artist Aaron Pexa presented by ZAZ10TS AT 10 Times Square, New York, New York. Read more -
Stella Ebner: And & With
November 16 - December 21, 2019 Cade Tompkins Projects is pleased to present an exhibition of new and recent prints by Stella Ebner. And & With features screen prints, water-based woodblock prints, and watercolor monoprints, exploring the inherent qualities of printmaking to examine how imagery in our society is created and conveyed within the context of... Read more -
Ana Guerra: invisible forces
May 18 - June 23, 2019 Cade Tompkins Projects is pleased to present invisible forces, an exhibition of new paintings by Ana Guerra. Works include surface murmuration, tender season, and passing thru, which bring to mind visions of water currents or the piercing light of stars in inky skies. Guerra describes that the paintings form the... Read more -
Donnamaria Bruton: Part III, Sculptural Notions
February 17 - April 21, 2019 We are pleased to show the final installment of works celebrating the life of artist Donnamaria Bruton. The works in the third exhibition are counterpoints to Bruton's work in drawing, painting and printmaking. Three bodies of work comprise the exhibition including Bling, a series of 100 bracelets with cameo and... Read more -
Donnamaria Bruton Part II, The Later Years
November 3 - December 23, 2018 We are pleased to announce back-to-back exhibitions celebrating the life's work of painter, printmaker and sculptor Donnamaria Bruton. In this second installment, Part II, The Later Years, the large-scale works are mythic combinations of color, form and texture using materials such as paint, paper, stenciled lace, cotton, and glitter. Talisman-like... Read more -
Donnamaria Bruton: Part I, The Early Years
September 14 - October 27, 2018 We are pleased to announce back-to-back exhibitions celebrating the life's work of painter, printmaker and sculptor Donnamaria Bruton. In the first installment, floor to ceiling paintings engulf and enliven the gallery as they transform from the depths of Sepulcher 1991 to the intense bright of Day Words Dream Titles 1992-93.... Read more -
Thomas Sgouros: Remembered Landscapes 1992-2012
May 18 - June 30, 2018 Thomas Sgouros’ paintings in the Remembered Landscapes series began in the early 1990s out of a deep dedication to painting and a willingness to change in the midst of an illustrious career established in realism. With the swift onset of macular degeneration, Sgouros was no longer able to render scenes... Read more -
Contemporary Master Drawings
February 23 - April 28, 2018 Cade Tompkins is pleased to follow her participation in Master Drawing New York 2018 with an exhibition of drawings by gallery artists in her Providence gallery. Contemporary Master Drawings features new works on paper by artists including Allison Bianco, Nancy Friese, Julie Gearan, Daniel Heyman, Sophiya Khwaja, Mary Hutchins, Serena... Read more -
Serena Perrone: I even knew the legend of the moon and the bonfires
October 14 - November 25, 2017 Serena Perrone is a visual artist whose work over the past few years represents an increasing depth of innovation into the discipline of printmaking. She divides her time between New York and Italy, from where much of her artistic influence hails. The exhibition title I even knew the legend of... Read more -
Nancy Friese: Arbor Views
April 28 - August 31, 2017 Nancy Friese is a long-time practitioner of painting en plein air. Friese presents an immersive experience heightened by harmonic color, dense space and meandering passages. Many of the most recent works stretch in a horizontal fashion bearing a widening view, a broader embrace of the lush land and sky. Working... Read more -
Victoria Crayhon: It Says We're Not Real
February 10 - April 8, 2017 Cade Tompkins Projects is pleased to present Victoria Crayhon's exhibition It Says We’re Not Real, an ongoing body of photographs and video entitled Thoughts on Romance from the Road 2001-2017. The images are a series of text interactions with historic and abandoned movie marquee and motel signs conceived while the... Read more -
Nick Hollibaugh: Between You and Me
November 11, 2016 - January 28, 2017 Cade Tompkins Projects is pleased to announce a new exhibition of sculptures by Nick Hollibaugh. Between You and Me is Nick Hollibaugh’s second solo exhibition of new work at Cade Tompkins Projects. Earlier work, shown in his first exhibition at the gallery in 2010, embraces the simplicity of Shaker furniture... Read more -
Daniel Heyman: Dartmouth Collection and Native Impressions
September 10 - November 5, 2016 Cade Tompkins Projects is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings and prints. The show features two distinct bodies of work: the Dartmouth Collection, works completed during Daniel Heyman 's prestigious artist residency at Dartmouth College and In Our Own Words: Native Impressions, a collaborative portfolio with Lucy Ganje,... Read more -
Sophiya Khwaja: Machinations
April 30 - June 30, 2016 Cade Tompkins Projects presents and exhibiton of new work by Sophiya Khwaja. Khwaja’s recent pieces use her familiar iconography, this time encased in embroidery hoops not only for their obvious association with women’s work, but also for their shape. The hoops trap the figure in a never ending bind, where... Read more -
Contemporary Mokuhanga
February 13 - April 23, 2016 Cade Tompkins Projects is pleased to announce a printmaking exhibition by a group of artists whose work expands the boundaries of mokuhanga, the traditional Japanese woodcut process. Mokuhanga is achieved with use of water-based inks, hand-printing techniques and Japanese-style printing papers. The prints selected for this show present contemporary imagery... Read more -
Dan Talbot: Chop Suey or Tennis Anyone?
November 7, 2015 - January 9, 2016 Cade Tompkins Projects is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Dan Talbot. In his paintings, dense spaces keenly combine abstraction with a sensibility of realism akin to the works of Fairfield Porter and Pierre Bonnard. Talbot’s compositions rely less on traditional modes of pictorial structure and more... Read more -
Aaron Pexa: The Lucent Parlor
September 1 - October 31, 2015 Cade Tompkins is pleased to announce Aaron Pexa, The Lucent Parlor. A multi-disciplinary artist, Pexa’s new work uses video to document the creation and deterioration of his magnificent glass works and appropriated antique objects. The work captures and manipulates a series of fleeting moments, framing a fantastical narrative while documenting... Read more -
Allison Bianco: A Curious Tide
May 2 - July 31, 2015 Allison Bianco’s work explores the strange way nostalgia subtly rewrites memory so that recollections of the past become only partly true. Referencing Rhode Island iconography in many of the pieces, Bianco expresses a personal connection to her home state and its industrial, maritime, and coastal heritages. To add both humor... Read more -
Human Moments
March 31 - April 25, 2015 Cade Tompkins Projects is pleased to announce Human Moments, a group exhibition of work created by eight artists: Ann Agee, Sana Musasama, Annabeth Rosen, Sally Saul, A & A (a unique collaboration between Arlene Shechet and Andrew Molleur), Kevin Snipes, and Arnie Zimmerman. The exhibition brings together ceramic sculptures that... Read more -
Daniel Stupar: beyond looking back
January 31 - March 7, 2015 Daniel Stupar’s recent work is inspired by the metaphysical concepts associated with axis mundi or cosmic center. In this construct an axis mundi is both a physical and spiritual marker of sorts, designating a point as geographic center of earth as well as a kind of column suggesting transcendence. While... Read more -
William Allen: Here Today...
November 8, 2014 - January 3, 2015 Cade Tompkins Projects is pleased to announce an exhibition of exquisite poem-paintings by William Allen on view November 8, 2014 - January 3, 2015. Painter, printmaker and poet, William Allen has been working in the world of words and images for three decades. A child of Fluxus art, concrete and... Read more -
Ana Guerra: New Paintings
September 12 - October 25, 2014 Ana Guerra's exhibition will present new works in painting. The complex harmonies of glazed color and layered surfaces on panel embody Ana Guerra’s Latin American background and heritage. Surface and saturation are the predominant first impressions of Guerra’s recent paintings that consider opposing complexities of perception. The illusion of contradiction... Read more -
Dean Snyder
April 16 - July 31, 2014 Organic, sexy and slick, Dean Snyder’s work employs high tech mediums including metal flake paint over epoxy composite and carbon fiber, and flo-jet cut steel. This body of work is a departure from other extremely innovative materials that Snyder has employed, such as tattooed and sewn rawhide. The bold colors... Read more -
Selfies & Friends: Contemporary Portraiture
February 14 - March 19, 2014 Selfies & Friends: Contemporary Portraiture presents a counterbalance to the sharing of photo images on social media. The show features paintings and drawings by a generation of artists born in the late 1960s-1980s and highlights their focus on producing self-portraits and portraits of important people in their circle. Artists in... Read more -
Andrew Nixon: The Attitudes of Animals in Motion
November 8, 2013 - January 11, 2014 Cade Tompkins Projects is pleased to present new paintings by Andrew Nixon, recipient of the 2012 Pollock-Krasner Grant, in the exhibition The Attitudes of Animals in Motion. In his recent explorations, Nixon finds inspiration from the photographs of Eadweard Muybridge (British, 1830-1904). Nixon explains that the seminal ‘animal locomotion’ work,... Read more -
Estate of Donnamaria Bruton
September 10 - October 26, 2013 Cade Tompkins Projects is pleased to announce an exhibition of work by Donnamaria Bruton (1954-2012) created between 1995 and 2012. Bruton's career spanned over 35 years, as a renowned painter and educator at the Rhode Island School of Design. Donnamaria Bruton's monumental paintings from 2008-2010 are unique landscapes with layers... Read more -
John Udvardy: Iron and Wood 2012-2013
May 10 - July 26, 2013 Cade Tompkins Projects is pleased to announce an exciting exhibition of work by John Udvardy. Udvardy is a prolific modernist sculptor whose assembled structures are based in Cubist sensibilities surrounding painting and collage. Iron sculptures in the exhibition include Drawing for an Unwritten Sonata. Dynamic object pairings highlight the artist’s... Read more -
Coral Bourgeois
March 2 - April 27, 2013 Cade Tompkins Projects is pleased to present work by artist Coral Bourgeois. A dramatic new piece entitled Life Series: Focus on Hands 2013 is featured in the gallery with an additional installation of 1400 black and white and decorative tiles surrounding the works. The images in Life Series depict multiple... Read more -
Double Legacy: RISD Masters • RISD Alumni
January 19 - February 28, 2013 Cade Tompkins Projects is pleased to exhibit an extraordinary collection of work created by RISD Faculty and Alumni whose symbiotic relationships have informed their respective careers. The exhibit debuts a curated selection of drawings, prints, sculpture and painting. Nancy Friese has spent much of her artistic life painting en plein... Read more -
Melinda Hackett
November 17 - December 29, 2012 Melinda Hackett’s, Places: Real and Imagined, presents engulfing images that often share their names with places that the artist has either passed through on her travels or encountered in literature that she listens to during her studio sessions. The mint greens and baby blues of vinegar hill 2012 conjure a... Read more -
Daniel Heyman: Summer Fall Winter Spring
September 8 - October 27, 2012 Cade Tompkins Projects is pleased to present a new body of work by artist Daniel Heyman. The solo exhibition entitled DANIEL HEYMAN: Summer Fall Winter Spring opens on Saturday, September 8th and runs through Saturday, October 27, 2012. The primary medium for the work in the exhibition is printmaking. Featured... Read more -
Walter Addison: Wild Things
June 8 - July 28, 2012 Cade Tompkins Projects is pleased to present a group of rediscovered original paintings and sculpture by mid-century animal artist Walter Addison (1914-1982). Addison's affinity for animals is evident in his lively and inventive depictions of them in a variety of media, ranging from drawings and watercolors to oils and sculpture.... Read more -
Lynne Harlow: rhythm..distance
April 13 - May 25, 2012 Cade Tompkins Projects is pleased to present an exhibition of recent work created by Lynne Harlow. The exhibit introduces work that bridges the gap between printmaking, painting, installation and sculpture at Cade Tompkins Projects, April 13 - May 25, 2012. The new body of work debuting in rhythm..distance incorporates an... Read more -
Hunters and Gatherers
February 29 - March 31, 2012 Hunters and Gatherers celebrates the art of the found object and the art of assemblage. Each artist has gathered material from various sources such as urban settings or their own studios, finding and collecting large amounts of disparate parts made of wood, iron, ceramics, paper and then bringing them together... Read more -
Beth Lipman: Yours Always
November 19, 2011 - January 14, 2012 This exhibit debuted new work at Cade Tompkins Projects, November 18, 2011 - January 14, 2012. New work consists of transfer prints, free-standing glass sculpture, and a permanent site-specific installation of glass wallpaper. On view at the gallery will be the sculptural glass works and the transfer prints. The site-specific... Read more -
Serena Perrone: Volcanoes and Voyages
September 10 - October 29, 2011 Serena Perrone uses various mediums to create her large-scale prints and drawings and her smaller intimate works. Uniquely combining techniques such as large woodcuts printed with hand-mixed metallic inks, juxtaposed with delicate drawings in silverpoint and goldpoint, Perrone is a master of her highly refined use of the materials. This... Read more -
Nancy Friese: Monumental Watercolors
June 9 - August 8, 2011 Monumental Watercolor Paintings is a one-person exhibition of work by Nancy Friese. Working consistently as a plein-air artist for the past thirty years, Friese’s work captures the natural spontaneity and intertwining of clusters of trees and foliage beneath lively skies. Friese’s work departs from traditional plein-air painting with heightened color... Read more -
Tayo Heuser
April 15 - May 28, 2011 Tayo Heuser’s biomorphic movement, color, form and shape alter our ideas about what constitutes a drawing. Large and small scale shaped handmade and tinted abaca paper is formed over the artist’s molds and then drawn on with rare natural inks. New two-dimensional drawings move towards the celestial with circles and... Read more -
Printed in Providence
February 4 - April 2, 2011 Printed in Providence is a group exhibition of printed works created in Providence. Artists in the exhibition include William Anastasi, Brian Chippendale, Ian Cozzens, Victoria Crayhon, Jo Dery, Nancy Friese, Carl Fudge, Lynne Harlow, Tayo Heuser, Jungil Hong, Michael Kreuger, Jürgen Partenheimer, Jane Masters, Serena Perrone, Andrew Raftery, Will Schaff,... Read more -
Thomas Sgouros: Remembered Landscapes
December 3, 2010 - January 15, 2011 Two distinct bodies of work define Sgouros’ oeuvre: early Morandi-esque still life paintings of studio objects including glass, ceramics and his son’s bicycle horn, and work depicting “Remembered Landscapes,” expressive and painterly scenes full of energy, motion and color. Read more -
Nick Hollibaugh: Witness
September 24 - November 14, 2010 The quiet and modest simplicity of paint and ash wood combined with a large presence that eludes to grandeur, in the most modest of vernaculars, creates a dynamic tension in this new body of work. Meticulously built with hand-cut strips of ash wood, Hollibaugh's sculpture combines architecture and color to... Read more -
Elements of Nature: Penny Ashford and Anne Patterson
June 9 - August 28, 2010 Elements of Nature features work of two artists responding to nature and to each other’s work. Seeing and understanding is important to all artists and viewers. The dialogue and conversation between the work is fascinating. Each painting or photograph is unique in its ability to help us see nature anew. Read more -
Susan Hardy: After Africa
April 16 - May 29, 2010 The exhibition of new drawings at Cade Tompkins Projects After Africa (February 16-May 29, 2010) features work in response to the artist’s 10 years spent living in various locations in West Africa. Linear and abstract landscapes evoke past memories of the land in Africa and combine with influences drawn from... Read more -
Monumental
February 19 - April 3, 2010 Monumental features new work by five represented gallery artists. Read more -
Pink is the New Black
December 11, 2009 - January 30, 2010 New work by represented and flat file artists. Read more -
Kirsten Hassenfeld: New Work Sculpture and Drawings
September 25 - November 14, 2009 New Work by Kirsten Hassenfeld (RISD ’94) opened September 25, 2009 at Cade Tompkins Projects, Providence, Rhode Island. Featured in the exhibition are new ink on vellum drawings based on re-imagined “Blueware” designs together with paper and mixed media sculpture. Read more
