AS220 Galleries

Spire Of Interludes | Kendel

Spire of Interludes is meant to share a window into the artist’s self-teaching practices, through intense sessions of speed painting in freehand. These pieces are meant to channel, awaken, and evolve both the soul and vision of the artist.

Opening Reception: June 6 5-7pm at Resident Gallery at As220 131 Washington St.

Monsters from the Closet: a decade of diy filmmaking |

Monsters from the Closet is a retrospective celebration of our unorthodox, grassroots, community-centered approach to filmmaking, as well as our unwavering and honest depiction of q***r existence through the heightened lens of the horror genre.

Working with my hands: A Retrospective | Steve Emma

I’ve executed sculptures in wood, stone, terra cotta, wax, bronze, and cut and folded copper sheeting. Most sculptures are executed from ideas from drawings. A few are direct carvings. Most of the wood I have scavenged from downed trees, dumps, and roadside waste places. People give me wood too.
All wood carvings are from native woods.

Most of the stone sculptures are made from industrial grade stone taken from torn down buildings. I also have carved some from quality marble I purchased from a Vermont quarry early in my artist career. Most were executed from preliminary drawings. A few were directly carved

Opening Reception June 6th 2026 5-7pm at AS220 Project Space Gallery 93 Mathewson St.

Inferna | Adam Kelley

Adam Kelley was born and raised in Providence RI. While pursuing his BFA at University of Massachusetts Amherst, Kelley kept a focus in manual print disciplines, particularly silkscreen and woodblock printing. Kelley’s print media work continued following graduation at the AS220 printshop, where he was a volunteer and instructor for several years. Kelley has always maintained a steady art and design practice and has been commissioned to make original works for local organizations and businesses such as Bolt Coffee, PVD Fest, The Avenue Concept, and Figidini to name a few.

About the Show
Inferna is a series of paintings based on iPad drawings. Digital drawing allows for a particularly carefree mindset when creating. It requires the least precious material and removes the constraints of physical scale. Each drawing in this series was made quickly and intuitively.
Kelley plucked a collection of drawings from this digital garden and brought them to life in paint. Despite approaching each painting with a distinct plan, they all inevitably yield the fruit of unexpected discovery upon completion.
Inferna means below or underneath. In making this work, Kelley strove to leverage nonrepresentational images to reveal what may be hiding in his subconscious through color and shape. In sharing these paintings, we invite you to be open to what curiosities or feelings you might access just under the surface of your awareness.

Clay and blood both dry brown
Juliette Bechard

Artist statement:
Juliette Bechard is a ceramic and mixed media artist interested in earth materials and exploring creative expression as a means of energy transformation. This body of work considers the metaphysical relationship between objects and humans, communicated through stoneware sculptures that serve as ritual items, power objects, and vessels. An object manifests an active presence when taking on the character of its subject, revealing the distinct atomic nature of its materials, and embodying the intention the creator imparts on it. In our interactions, we have an opportunity to connect with the entity that it becomes and open ourselves to the wisdom it offers.

Easter | Emily Falkowski

In this exhibit I present paintings and garments depicting scenes from the crucifixion story, supplemented with bodies and experiences specific to my world and upbringing. I blend contemporary themes and personal narrative with traditional religious iconography, to piece together a visual language that is specific to how I have understood God. I wanted to portray the suffering, transformation, and ecstacy of the crucifixion using bodies and stories that are familiar to me, because I wanted to show those people and experiences reverence.
I’ve painted clothing, and masks to present relics and objects that could be worn and lived in. The body of Christ is crucial to the story of his death. Similarly our bodies are crucial to our stories of suffering, transformation, and ecstacy, and I wanted to create work for our bodies as well.
Some of this work ends up feeling humorous and irreverent, while other pieces are challenging and dark, but I think that’s the nature of our humanity. Divinity is indiscriminate, unconditional, and everywhere.

AS220 GALLERIES — APRIL OPENINGS

Opening Reception
Saturday, April 4 (Tomorrow!)
5–7 PM

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MAIN GALLERY
115 Empire St.
Creature Comforts
Sydney Bienstock

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ABORN GALLERY
95 Empire St. (2nd Fl — same building as Main Gallery)
Please Do Not Touch
Curated by Sihan (Tara) Chen & Ankita Bhat

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PROJECT SPACE
93 Mathewson St.
Easter
Emily Falkowski

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READING ROOM
93 Mathewson St. (inside Project Space)
Suffering Ones
Obasi Osborne

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Exhibition Dates:
April 4 – 25

The Suffering Ones | Obasi Osborne

All of my pieces are constructed from thrifted or second-hand materials. This is both a commentary on consumption and a way to give new life to discarded objects—the stones that the builders refused.

The Suffering Ones series repurposes images of Jesus from discarded crucifixes. Removed from the cross, these idols take on new meaning, describing suffering as a fundamental cosmic principle inherent in all things: Duhkha.

AS220 GALLERIES — APRIL OPENINGS

Opening Reception
Saturday, April 4 (Tomorrow!)
5–7 PM

⸻

MAIN GALLERY
115 Empire St.
Creature Comforts
Sydney Bienstock

⸻

ABORN GALLERY
95 Empire St. (2nd Fl — same building as Main Gallery)
Please Do Not Touch
Curated by Sihan (Tara) Chen & Ankita Bhat

⸻

PROJECT SPACE
93 Mathewson St.
Easter
Emily Falkowski

⸻

READING ROOM
93 Mathewson St. (inside Project Space)
Suffering Ones
Obasi Osbourne

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Exhibition Dates:
April 4 – 25

Please Do Not Touch | curated by Sihan (Tara) Chen and Ankita Bhat
Chen and Bhat present a room populated entirely with pedestals, structures typically relegated to the background as passive supports. With no objects to display, the pedestals themselves emerge as central figures. Stripped of their conventional function, they are reimagined as active subjects, drawing attention to the architecture of display itself.
Each pedestal is subtly altered through the integration of domestic materials and references: crown molding trims their bases, lace curtains cascade down their sides. These interventions reintroduce ornament and texture, evoking sensations tied to memory, place, and bodily presence. The pedestal, traditionally a symbol of sterile exhibition, becomes a site of warmth, tactility, and recognition.
Please Do Not Touch interrogates how our ways of seeing, feeling, and living have been shaped by the aesthetics of the white cube. What does it mean to re-domesticate the gallery? To bring ornament, memory, and touch back into a space that has for so long demanded sanitization? ……………………………………………………………………………………………….

AS220 GALLERIES — APRIL OPENINGS

Opening Reception
Saturday, April 4 (Tomorrow!)
5–7 PM

⸻

MAIN GALLERY
115 Empire St.
Creature Comforts
Sydney Bienstock

⸻

ABORN GALLERY
95 Empire St. (2nd Fl — same building as Main Gallery)
Please Do Not Touch
Curated by Sihan (Tara) Chen & Ankita Bhat

⸻

PROJECT SPACE
93 Mathewson St.
Easter
Emily Falkowski

⸻

READING ROOM
93 Mathewson St. (inside Project Space)
Suffering Ones
Obasi Osbourne

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Exhibition Dates:
April 4 – 25

Creature Comforts | Sydney Bienstock
These works mark Sydney’s return to visual art in adulthood and her way of reconnecting with her younger self. Collaging allows her to create freely while honoring the comfort she has always found in animals and handmade objects. Through Creature Comforts, she invites viewers into a whimsical world that feels both nostalgic and surreal. AS220 GALLERIES — APRIL OPENINGS

Opening Reception
Saturday, April 4 (Tomorrow!)
5–7 PM

⸻

MAIN GALLERY
115 Empire St.
Creature Comforts
Sydney Bienstock

⸻

ABORN GALLERY
95 Empire St. (2nd Fl — same building as Main Gallery)
Please Do Not Touch
Curated by Sihan (Tara) Chen & Ankita Bhat

⸻

PROJECT SPACE
93 Mathewson St.
Easter
Emily Falkowski

⸻

READING ROOM
93 Mathewson St. (inside Project Space)
Suffering Ones
Obasi Osbourne

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Exhibition Dates:
April 4 – 25

Free posters and badges available for today’s no kings March at the as220 project space.