SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Work on Paper Bank RI Gallery Providence, RI 2022
Memory Krause Gallery Providence, RI 2015
Recent Works on Paper Bank RI Gallery Providence, RI 2015
Works on Paper Bank RI Gallery North Kingstown, RI 2010
Lightness and Gravity Hunt-Cavanagh Gallery Providence, RI 2007
Regarding The Source Atrium Gallery Danielson, CT 2005
Back Yard Bank RI Galleries Providence, RI 2003
Sticks and Stones CCRI Gallery Warwick, RI 1999
TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Mysterious Spaces Gallery 175 Pawtucket, RI 2016
Textures in the Details The Mill Gallery Pawtucket, RI 2011
Of 2 Natures City Hall Gallery Providence, RI 2009
Invitational Show Pawtucket Arts Collaborative Pawtucket, RI 2008
Rediscovering Nature Space at Alice Providence, RI 2007
Recent Work Krause Gallery Providence, RI 2004
Recent Work Lenore Gray Gallery Providence, RI 2004
Nearly Real Lenore Gray Gallery Providence, RI 2002
Double Vision Gallery One Providence, RI 1989
Wet Paint Central Congregational Church Gallery Providence, RI 1984
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
A Confluence of Place and Space Grimshaw Gudewicz Art Gallery Fall River, MA 2024
Remembrance|Memorial|Monument Grimshaw Gudewicz Art Gallery Fall River, MA 2020
Observation / Recollection Green Space at TF Green Warwick, RI 2017
19@25 Newport Art Museum Newport, RI 2013
Legacies of Paint/The Mentor Show Newport Art Museum Newport, RI 2013
The Mill Gallery Invitational The Mill Gallery Pawtucket, RI 2011
The Director’s Cut Grimshaw Gudewicz Art Gallery Fall River, MA 2010
19 on Paper Judith Klein Art Gallery New Bedford, MA 2010
Invitational Imago Gallery Warren, RI 2010
Multiplicity Cotuit Center for the Arts Cotuit MA 2009
On the Line AS220 Providence, RI 2009
Beyond the Surface Spring Bull Gallery Newport, RI 2009
Eclectic Abstraction Atrium Gallery Danielson, CT 2009
Memory & Transformation Krause Gallery Providence, RI 2008
Impression 2006 Grafisch Centrum HogeDRUKgebied Rotterdam, Netherland 2006
Tales of Remembrance Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery Fall River, MA 2005
Summer Show Lenore Gray Gallery Providence, RI 2001
Critical Support Atrium Gallery Providence RI 1999
Convergence Downtown Space Providence RI 1999
RI Artists Native Gallery Providence, RI 1997
Juried Group Show Providence Art Club Providence, RI 1997
Lovers and Lunatics Bromfield Gallery Boston, MA 1997
Still Life Now Erector Gallery New Haven, CT 1989
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“Here Thinking of There, Now Thinking of Then”
This work evolved from my ongoing curiosity about the phenomenon of remembering and forgetting. The imagery reflects the
confluence of memory and geography and of narratives both handed down or imagined.
I began this project in 2016 after spending time in coastal Normandy and Brittany, drawing a landscape that seems, to me, to
resonate with a deep sadness. The area is linked to recollections of three people who never knew one another; a new acquaintance,
a friend’s father, and my own father. During the Second World War, although they were separated by an ocean of geography,
psychology and time, parts of their personal histories are bound to this land.
Later, as I travelled through the villages of Brittany, I became aware of war memorials often inscribed with the phrase, "À tous les
enfants". The literal translation is, “To all the children”. In fact, this phrase refers to all citizens of a village who died as a result of war.
But the thought of the countless children who have been victims in countless wars remains with me and informs these recent pieces.
Shapes and marks in my work refer to a combination of landscapes of home and of France, of maps, military diagrams,
blockhouses/bunkers, cemeteries, flowers, and a French porcelain funerary wreath. Surfaces are built by layering, embedding,
scraping, and excavating color and line. The result is meant to provoke thought and act as a stimulus for further observations.
We carry memories in our hearts, in our minds, and in our bones, but long after we’ve forgotten the earth remembers.
Michele Provost 2024
“Here Thinking of There, Now Thinking of Then”
This work evolved from my ongoing curiosity about the phenomenon of remembering and forgetting. The imagery reflects the
confluence of memory and geography and of narratives both handed down or imagined.
I began this project in 2016 after spending time in coastal Normandy and Brittany, drawing a landscape that seems, to me, to
resonate with a deep sadness. The area is linked to recollections of three people who never knew one another; a new acquaintance,
a friend’s father, and my own father. During the Second World War, although they were separated by an ocean of geography,
psychology and time, parts of their personal histories are bound to this land.
Later, as I travelled through the villages of Brittany, I became aware of war memorials often inscribed with the phrase, "À tous les
enfants". The literal translation is, “To all the children”. In fact, this phrase refers to all citizens of a village who died as a result of war.
But the thought of the countless children who have been victims in countless wars remains with me and informs these recent pieces.
Shapes and marks in my work refer to a combination of landscapes of home and of France, of maps, military diagrams,
blockhouses/bunkers, cemeteries, flowers, and a French porcelain funerary wreath. Surfaces are built by layering, embedding,
scraping, and excavating color and line. The result is meant to provoke thought and act as a stimulus for further observations.
We carry memories in our hearts, in our minds, and in our bones, but long after we’ve forgotten the earth remembers.
Michele Provost 2024
PHOTOGRAPH BY JEFFREY SILVERTHORNE
Michele Provost lives and works in Rhode Island, USA.
https://www.instagram.com/micheleprovost12/