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Exhibitions
2023 James Cain, Bradley Fesmire, Richard Levy, Green Space, TF Green Airport, Warwick, RI
2020 The Cookies, Bridge Gallery, Johnson & Wales University, Providence, RI
2018 Untitled (Still Not Titled Yet) (2 person), Grimshaw Gudewitz Gallery, Jackson Art Center, Bristol Community College, Fall River, MA
2017 Untitled (Not Titled Yet) ( 2 person), Jamestown Art Center, Jamestown, RI
2016 Parts and Labor (solo), Columbia, MD
Appetite for Destruction, Maxon Mill, Wassaic, NY
Idle Trades (curated by Elzabeth Murphy), New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA
2015 Writing on the Wall, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2014 We Don’t Make Mistakes, The Wheeler School Gallery, Providence, RI
Primary Urges, Honfleur Gallery, Washington, DC
2013 New Americana (curated by Justin Davis Anderson), Bird, Brooklyn, NY
Small Works II, Jeffrey Leder Gallery, Long Island City, NY
Working it Out, The Painting Center, New York, NY
Heavy Cover, (Homesteady), Providence & Worcester Depot, Woonsocket, RI
2012 Brad Fesmire, Josh Enck, Ed Osborn, Green Space, TF Green Airport, Warwick, RI
Return to Rattlesnake Mountain, Maxon Mills, Wassaic, NY
StateWide – RISD Alumni Show, Jamestown Art Center, Jamestown, RI
2011 Bradley Fesmire, Yuri Kobayahsi, David Richardson, Grimshaw Gudewicz Gallery, Jackson Art Center, Bristol Community College, Fall River, MA
Futures Passed, (curated by Ghost of a Dream), Christoffer Egelund Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Chartreuse (2 person), West Side Arts Gallery, Providence, RI
We Are Going To Make Some Big Decisions, Gallery at 1 Sims, Providence, RI
Ebb & Flow, (Curated by R.K. Projects and Neil Walsh), Eastern Butcher Block Mill, Providence, RI
2010 Parallel Lines on a Slow Decline (solo), The Providence & Worcester Depot, Woonsocket, RI
Juried Exhibition, Grimshaw Gudewicz Gallery, Fall River, MA
I Heart Art, WORK Gallery, Red Hook, NY
5 Paintings, Monkey Gallery, Narragansett, RI
2009 Home Steady, Machines with Magnets, Pawtucket, RI
The Wassaic Project, Maxon Mills, Wassaic, NY
Same River Twice, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY
FAM, Gallery at 232, Providence, RI
Art of the Northeast, Silvermine Artist Guild, New Canaan, CT
Broken down nostalgia (solo), Gallery at City Hall, Providence, RI
2008 Remember When… (solo), Hunter Gallery, St. George’s School, Middletown, RI
Welcome Home, Firehouse 13, Providence, RI
Small Works Show (juried by David Humphrey), 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Pawtucket Foundation Prize Exhibition, Narragansett Insurance, Pawtucket, RI
Surface & Beyond, Gail Cahalan Gallery, Providence, RI
Invitational, Pawtucket Arts Collaborative Gallery, Pawtucket, RI
2007 The Kor Project, Highline Ballroom, New York, NY
International Juried Exhibition, Kolok Gallery, North Adams, MA
Save Ocean, One Way Gallery, Narragansett, RI
Small Works 07, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
The Love Nest, Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
Winterlong, BankRI Galleries, Providence, RI
Awards
2015 Rhode Island State Council on the Arts – Painting Fellowship Award Panelist
2013 National Endowment for the Arts – Visual Arts Panelist for national grants
2012 Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, Project Grant Award with Homesteady
2011 National Endowment for the Arts, Arts Education – Visual Arts Panelist for national grants
2008 Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Education Roster Artist
2005 RISD Graduate 2005 Award of Excellence, Cash award for outstanding artistic achievement
2004 CMT USA Product Donation, Awarded free router bits for outstanding artistic achievement
2004 Georgia-Pacific Product Sponsorship and Commission, Awarded free plywood supply and commissioned for two paintings for the corporate headquarters in Atlanta, GA.
2003-2005 Rhode Island School of Design Painting Fellowship
2003-2005 Rhode Island School of Design Graduate Assistantship
Visiting Artist Lecturer
2015 Community College of Rhode Island
2007 Rhode Island School of Design
Curatorial Experience
2008 Woonsocket: Then & Again, Museum of Work & Culture, Woonsocket, RI
2006 Self Serve, Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
2006 To the Edge and Back, Gallery at City Hall, Providence, RI
Selected Press
2016 New England Architecture Plays Role…The Baltimore Sun, Sept, 1, 2016
2016 Making Labor Appear Effortless, South Coast Today, February 2016
2014 Assured Abstractions, The Providence Phoenix, March 2014
2013 PEEK Blog featured artist, September 2013
2011 Ahtcast Interview, September 2011
2011 Art Rogue Island Blog, Chartreuse, June 2011
2007 Regional Review, Art New England, April/May 2007
2006 Making the Timeless Now, NYArts Magazine, New York, NY, May/June, 2006
2004 Showcasing modern art from across the Northeast, Newsday, Long Island, NY, November 11, 2004
Education
2005 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, Master of Fine Arts, Painting, graduated with honors
2005 Brown University Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning, Collegiate Teaching Certificate I
A yearlong certificate program comprised of six lectures, six workshops, a microteaching session and a videotaped individualized teaching consultation.
2001 Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting and Drawing, Mentored by Robert Yarber and John Bowman
Artist Statement
I once made a piece called 40lb Roofing Felt on Routed Five Ply Plywood. The only people who might have understood this (and who I made the piece for) were people in the construction trades or who knew anything about working with their hands and fixing things themselves. It was a comment on the layperson and hopefully giving them an entry point to looking at contemporary art. Ten years later personal narrative, ideas of place, craft and work are notions that have added to driving the work. Specifically work ethic and what it means to work and labor are ideas constantly simmering. These notions are portrayed through a continued search for meaning in materials and imagery as they convey a sense of place, history and sentiment.