Lori Vrba

LensCulture • 17th February 2019

The Moth Wing Diaries: Photographs by Lori Vrba

Vrba describes "The Moth Wing Diaries" as a “visual diary"...what we find between its covers is a rich and revealing meditation on life being lived.

Daily Serving • 15th March 2026

The Raw and the Resplendent: Kathryn Parker Almanas at Yellow Peril Gallery

Kathryn Parker Almanas’s Pre-Existing Condition, currently on view at Yellow Peril Gallery, is a collision of sensory extremes and formal nuances.

Daily Serving • 15th March 2026

A Sense of Noir: Bill Armstrong at ClampArt

Standing before the photographs from Bill Armstrong’s Infinity series, resistance is futile. Intense washes of color and uncertain, alluring forms beckon yet elude one’s grasp, and the encounter between viewer and work becomes a question not of looking, but of experiencing.

Daily Serving • 15th March 2026

Best of 2013 – Jonathan Ehrenberg: "The Outskirts" at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery

Continuing our Best of 2013 series, Nandita Raghuram writes, “This thought-provoking article, rich with colorful images, provides a concise examination of the multi-faceted video by Jonathan Ehrenberg."

Daily Serving • 15th March 2026

Surveying the Terrain at the RISD Museum’s “American View: Landscape Photography 1865 to Now”

Showcasing works drawn primarily from RISD’s deep photography collection, "American View" shifts deftly among periods and styles and, in so doing, illuminates the ever-evolving relationship between landscape and photographic image.

A Companion to Jean‐Luc Godard • 15th March 2026

A Postmodern Consideration of Jean-Luc Godard’s "Le Mépris"

The film’s mirrored, self-reflexive dynamics insist on nothing save the fractured opacity of identity and the representational impossibility of experience.

Daily Serving • 15th March 2026

Mystery and Medium at Pictura Gallery: Recent Photographs by Adam Thorman and Laura Plageman

Displayed on opposite sides of the gallery space, each artist’s series—Thorman’s What Light Remains in the Absence and Laura Plageman’s Response—exudes an understated grandeur.

Daily Serving • 15th March 2026

Visionary Surreal: The Quay Brothers’ "Street of Crocodiles"

The MoMA show—billed as “the first presentation of the Quay Brothers’ work in all their fields of creative activity”—promises a comprehensive overview of this inimitable duo’s eclectic œuvre.

Elizabeth Skadden

Providence Monthly • 26th December 2012

Art in the Machine: Performance and Visual Art at Yellow Peril Gallery

Maralie Armstrong-Rial's multi-media practice interrogates our technology-mediated culture and challenges norms of gender and identity. Audacious in both conception and delivery, her videos and performances confront us with our unexamined assumptions and shake loose the contents of our collective unconscious.

Daily Serving • 15th March 2026

A Moment with “The Man”: Thoughts on Ragnar Kjartansson’s Recent Work

Through his refreshing lack of self-seriousness or sanctimony, Ragnar Kjartansson has cut a jagged, joyful figure on the contemporary art scene.

Daily Serving • 15th March 2026

Hao Ni: Ghost Hit Wall at Yellow Peril Gallery

To enter Hao Ni’s exhibition Ghost Hit Wall, currently on view at Yellow Peril Gallery in Providence, Rhode Island, is to step into a space where the familiar becomes strange and the strange becomes eerily familiar.

Daily Serving • 15th March 2026

Musing on Street Art vis-à-vis Icy and Sot

The other day, in a drowsy effort to shake my late-summer torpor, I decided to poke around online in search of some under-the-radar gallery shows. Rather quickly, I stumbled upon the just-concluded "Icy and Sot: Made in Iran," which ran August 23–25 at New York’s Openhouse Gallery.