Sasha de Koninck: Witness
June 2026
With Witness, Providence-based artist Sasha de Koninck considers the natural histories of worn garments, investigating the intimate, often invisible traces of the bodies and environments that shape them.
Sasha de Koninck is a visual artist, designer, and educator. While studying textiles in undergrad, she was introduced to the field of electronic textiles and wearable technology. She went straight to graduate school after completing her BFA, in order to further continue the expansion of her research. She recently completed her Ph.D. in Intermedia Art, Writing, and Performance at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she worked with Laura Devendorf and the Unstable Design Lab. Currently, she is a postdoctoral research fellow at Northeastern University in Boston, where she works with Laura Forlano in the Critical Futures Lab.
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FringePVD & Sims Ave Fest
July 2026
OPEN is proud to be one of many local venues supporting FringePVD for their summer 2026 run. For the most up-to-date info, visit The Wilbury Theater Group. In addition, OPEN’s Ben Sisto, on behalf of our lovely landlords at 50 Sims, will be setting up shop in the hallway on Saturday July 18 to support Sims Ave Fest 2026. We will be providing low key space to beat the heat with fun activities for youth.
Since 2014, The Providence Fringe Festival®, a.k.a FRINGEPVD, has nurtured emerging and established performing artists by presenting fun, fearless and affordable theater to the community. FRINGEPVD creates ties between artists, audiences, businesses and local organizations, amplifying the vibrancy of Providence as a renowned cultural destination and an unparalleled place to live, work, and visit. Photo: Motion State Arts
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Dan & Annaliese Neff
Under Construction for September 2026
Dicks, we’re told. Workin’ on it. Stay tuned!
When Would You Like to Turn Into a Pumpkin?
Under Construction for October 2026
In When Would You Like to Turn Into a Pumpkin?, you are a pumpkin unmoored in space and time. You are in Aotearoa, East Anglia, Napa Valley, and Oaxaca. It is 7153 B.C., 1277, 2116, and 2005. You are a seed, a scent, a blossom, a prizewinner, a Jack O’Lantern, and rot. In this interactive work of speculative plant studies, the wife-and-wife artist team of Cara and Lilia invite you to follow the journey of a plant that has shaped and been shaped by humans.
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Lisa Perez
December 2026
Lisa Perez’s practice includes sculptural painting and works on paper—taking a malleable approach to form and embodying color as form over substance. Her work ebbs and flows between abstraction and landscape, bridging her practice and experiences of the wider, wilder, more-than-human world. Focusing on the importance of attentive observation and a slowing down, works offer glimpses into sensate experiences, and strive to evoke a heightened awareness of our interconnected nature.
Lisa received her MFA from the U.C., Berkeley. She has received fellowships from RISCA, Vermont Studio Center, and Headlands Center for the Arts. Her work is in the permanent collections of the RISD Museum and Newport Art Museum, and Lisa has exhibited at Chazan Gallery, Marquee Projects, Bellport, NY, the RISD Museum, David Winton Bell Gallery, Bristol Art Museum, The Drawing Center in NYC, Dorsch Gallery, and SCOPE, Miami.
Leah Beeferman
January 2027
Leah Beeferman makes digital images, prints, objects, and videos, records sound, and writes texts. She wants to understand the atmosphere and its movements, calculations, and shapes: the ways it makes weather forms, forms landscapes, and alters them. She flattens the weather, frames it, gives it edges. Though of course it is not possible to truly flatten the weather, to compress its four dimensions of dynamics into two. Only in images — two-dimensional, or perhaps completely dimensionless — does the weather slow to a stop, collapse to a plane. Recent solo exhibitions include Penumbra Foundation Project Space, NYC, and the Peeler Art Gallery, DePauw University, Indiana. Currently, she teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University, and was the recipient of a 2016 Fulbright Scholar Grant to Finland.
Heather McPherson
February 2027
Heather McPherson's practice includes painting, drawing, and resin-based work. Emphasizing durational processes and themes of sacrality, she explores how materials record accumulation and absorption. Her recent work looks at how surfaces can carry traces of memory and affect, creating the conditions for thought to unfold while delaying resolution. An Associate Professor of studio art at Providence College, she holds a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis and an MFA from RISD. Recent shows include Giorgio at Distillery Gallery in Boston, What Would Artist Do at an abandoned storefront in Providence, Below the Thin at Take it Easy in Atlanta, and group shows at Below Grand, Kristen Lorello, and 315 Gallery in New York. She has presented previous projects with the RISD Museum, Vox Populi in Philadelphia, and the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, MA. McPherson lives in Providence, RI.