Go, Figure!
WaterFire Art Center
475 Valley Street, Providence, RI 02908
Open Valley is pleased to welcome WaterFire Art Center as one of our newest participating venues! During Open Valley, guests can check out an exhibition curated by Judith Tolnick Champa.
The show wraps Sunday November 8, 2026, so don’t miss ! WaterFire is open at 10:00 AM; feel free to pop in before Open Valley officially starts at noon.
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Go, Figure! brings together six contemporary artists—Gabrielle Barzaghi, Leslie Fry, Claudia Olds Goldie, Zhexing Huang, Jazzmen Lee-Johnson, and Entang Wiharso—who share a fascination with the human figure as a way of thinking through identity, memory, and unease. Working across pastel, stoneware, ceramic, mixed media, and layered silkscreen, each artist treats the body less as a subject to depict than as a question to investigate.
Together, the six artists don’t offer a single conclusion about what it means to be embodied right now — they’d rather contemplate uncanny tensions and, as the curator puts it, provoke you to debate, wonder, ponder and ultimately to “go figure.”