December 2018 Art Preview

Ten shows to check out this December, arranged by opening date.

pictured: Kim Silva, The Clouds of Summer (2018) on view at Coastal Contemporary Gallery

OPENING (arranged by opening date)

In the Mood for Love
Gelman Student Exhibitions Gallery
20 North Main Street, Providence
November 29 – January 27, 2019
opening reception Thursday November 29 (6-8pm)

21+19=40
November 30 – January 13
Bristol Art Museum
10 Wardwell Street, Bristol
Opening reception Friday, November 30 (6-8pm)

Jane McNally Wright: Excavations
AS220 Project Space
93 Mathewson Street, Providence
December 1 – December 29
Opening reception Saturday, December 1 (5-7pm)

Many Cities, One Providence— Operation 24 paper sheets: Subversive Public Art in 1970s Urban Italy
PC–Galleries
Hunt-Cavanagh Gallery at Hunt-Cavanagh Hall
63 Eaton Street, Providence
December 5 – March 3, 2019
Opening reception & curator talk: Wednesday, December 5 (6pm)
pictured: Ugo Nespolo, “Lavorare, Lavorare, Lavorare” (1973)

W-Intermission
Coastal Contemporary Gallery
491 Thames Street, Newport
December 6 – January 20, 2019
Opening reception Saturday, December 8 (2-5pm)
pictured: Bill Porter, Mysteries of Creation [detail]

ONGOING (arranged by closing date)

Ourselves: an exhibition of transgender and non-binary artists making work about the trans experience
curated by Caleb Cole
URI Feinstein Providence
80 Washington Street, Providence
now – December 6

On Protest, Art and Activism: Part 2
Hermine Freed, Suzanne Lacy, Martha Rosler, Howardina Pindell, Guerrilla Girls
Cohen Gallery at Granoff Center for the Arts
154 Angell Street, Providence
now – December 15
pictured: Suzanne Lacy, Learn Where the Meat Comes From (1976)

Occipital: Kinaesthetics
OneWay Gallery
140 Boon Street, Narragansett
now – January 30

Lalla Essaydi: From “Converging Territories” to “Harem Revisited”
Newport Art Museum
76 Bellevue Avenue, Newport
now – February 17, 2019

Bona Drag
RISD Museum
20 North Main Street, Providence
now – March 3, 2019
pictured: Charles Atlas, Mrs. Peanut visits New York (1999)