Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

Range of Motion, Landscapes by Charles Goolsby

Painting of industrial park with reflections in shallow water
Charles Goolsby, Industrial Park, 2020, oil on canvas
  • February 22-March 22, 2024
  • Artist Talk - Thursday, February 22nd, 4-5 PM, Alex and Ani Hall 138
  • Opening Reception - Thursday, February 22nd, 5-7 PM, in the gallery

Charles Goolsby’s oil paintings of landscapes reside between complete stillness and sweeping gestural chaos, specific place and fiction, rendered realism and ambiguous abstraction, and physical object and illusionary pictorial space. Within these dichotomies, his images result in visual expressions of beauty, familiarity, liminal transitions, and anxiety. His landscape imagery builds on 19th century American landscape painting traditions and implies a sense of contemporary issues including climate change, landscape transformation as a commodity to be consumed, and an effort to raise awareness that we, as humans, are often finding ourselves in isolation interacting with our locations. This exhibition was curated by Professor Richard Whitten.

Paper Trails: Selections from the RIC Print Trade

Black and white print of a wall with scaffolding
Michael Baribault, Death of a Printshop, 2014
  • April 1-19, 2024
  • Opening Reception - Thursday, April 4th, 4-7 PM, in the gallery

Since 2005, students and faculty of the Rhode Island College Printmaking Department have taken part in a print exchange, in which each artist creates an edition of prints to trade with the other artists involved. Unthemed and with only a set paper size as a guide, exchange participants create innovative and unique prints that add to or start their classmates’ own art collections. Curated by RIC Alumnus Sam Nehila '19, this exhibition digs into the past and traces common trends in subject matter as well as the range of technical experimentation of RIC printmakers throughout the years.

2024 Graduating Art Students' Exhibition

  • May 2-17, 2024
  • Opening Reception - Thursday, May 2nd, 4-7 PM, in the gallery

The Bannister Gallery is pleased to present its annual exhibition of work by graduating seniors in the Art Department. Various studio concentrations represented include ceramics, metalsmithing, painting, printmaking, digital media, graphic design, photography and sculpture. Degrees earned through the Art Department include a B.S. in Art Education, a B.F.A. in Art Education, a B.A. in Art History, a B.A. in Art Studio, and a B.F.A. in Art Studio, the latter of which requires students to develop a stylistically accomplished and conceptually focused body of work.