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Contour: Selections from the Collection

September 4, 2024–
March 1, 2025

Contour: Selections from the Collection

September 4, 2024–
March 1, 2025

Hunt-Cavanagh Gallery

About the Exhibition

Providence College Galleries is pleased to present Contour: Selections from the Collection in Hunt-Cavanagh Gallery. Linguistically, the word ‘contour’ serves multiple functions–as a noun, adjective, and verb. Similarly, the prints, photographs, drawings, paintings, and sculptures selected for the exhibition offer distinct and contrasting formal and conceptual aesthetic processes to activate the notion of “form” in physical, geographical, and social dimensions.

Drawing primarily from the permanent collections, the exhibition includes work by German artist Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945), American artist Mark Tobey (1890-1976), along with contemporary living artists Elizabeth Atterbury, Vivian Greven, Susan Giles, Will Hutnick, Graham MacDougal, Miller & Shellabarger, Joiri Minaya, and Robert Wilson, among others.

Organized by PCG Director and Chief Curator Carol Stakenas.

Supporters

Funding for this exhibition is provided by the Providence College’s Division of Academic Affairs. In-kind support provided by Providence College’s Department of Art & Art History.

Installation Images

  • Three drawings by Robert Wilson completed during a performance at Providence College in May 2005. Collection of Providence College Galleries. Photo: Scott Alario.
  • Will Hutnick, Low Rising, Up Up Up, 2016. Acrylic, colored pencil, paint marker and screen print on paper, 30 x 22 inches. Collection of Providence College Galleries. Photo: Scott Alario.
  • Two works by Baseera Khan. I’m As Good As You Are, 2020. Six-color screenprint, 24 x 18. ACT UP, 2020. Five-color screenprint, 24 x 18 in. (Left to right). Collection of Providence College Galleries. Photo: Scott Alario.
  • Miller & Shellabarger, Untitled, 2018. Pressure Print, 23.25 x 19 in. Collection of Providence College Galleries. Photo: Scott Alario.
  • Susan Giles, Petronas Towers/buttress, 2015. Concrete and paper, 2.5 x 5 x 3.5 in. Collection of Providence College Galleries. Photo: Scott Alario.
  • Joiri Minaya, Container #4, 2020. Archival pigment print, 40 x 60. Collection of Providence College Galleries. Photo: Scott Alario.
  • Installation view of Contour: Selections from the Collection in PCG’s Hunt-Cavanagh Gallery, 2024. Photo: Scott Alario
  • Miller & Shellabarger, Untitled, 2018. Pressure Print, 23.25 x 19 in. Collection of Providence College Galleries. Photo: Scott Alario
  • Two works by Elizabeth Atterbury. Center Before Outside (24), 2019, 2019. Chine collé and embossing with plates hand cut by the artist, 30 x 22.5 in. River Poems (9), 2018. Chine collé and embossing with plates hand cut by the artist, 30 x 22.5 in. (Left to right). Collection of Providence College Galleries. Photo: Scott Alario.
  • Vivian Greven, <3, 2018. Oil on wood panel. Collection of Providence College Galleries. Photo: Scott Alario.