Erin Eberle's rich, layered photographs provoke questions about mysterious and open-ended stories of habitation and re-construction in abandoned buildings. A major influ-ence has been her extensive travel in Europe and South America. Eberle grew up in upstate New York and earned her BS in psychology with a minor in art history at Santa Clara University. She has worked in different media including painting, drawing, and both film and digital photography.

Avi, 23, recieved his BA in philosophy from Brown University. His work focuses on howmaterials live. He considers architecture philosophy in three dimensions and sculpture programless architecture. His furniture has been exhibited in the International Furniture fair in Cologne Germany. Other sculpture has been exhibited in NYU's 80 Washington Square East Gallery and is pending publishing. He begins his MArch at RISD in the fall.

Graham Heffernan is a painter based in Providence, RI. His architectural constructions have a pristine look devoid of human presence. Using low relief and translucent materi-als he creates little worlds of 3 dimensions at the edges of large wide plains. Heffernan attained his BFA in Painting from Rhode Island College, where in 2006, he won the Senior Special Talent Award. He currently shows in RI and CT and is a co-founder of the Prolific Arts Association, a group designed to support emerging artists.

Jon Laustsen's sculpture has ranged from monstrous, unwieldy concrete objects, decrepit and desperate like deposits from an archeological dig, to small-scale architec-tural environments using actual construction materials and techniques. His work is usually designed organically as it is built, and the current body of work emerges as sites under construction that support themselves and grow into little worlds of their own.Lausten, originally from Schenectady, New York, earned a B.A. in both philosophy and studio art from Bethel College, Saint Paul, Minnesota and his M.F.A. in sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design in 2002. He has received awards from the Minnesota State Arts Board and most recently from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. He has recently been showing in group shows in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

Olga Mesa received her bachelor of Fine Arts and Architecture from Rhode Island School of Design in 2000; where she was the recipient of the Henry Adams AIA Gold Medal Award for Excellence. She worked in California with Gensler Architecture and Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects for a number of years designing specially multifamily housing projects. She achieved her accreditation in Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design in 2002. She is a part-time faculty of Rhode Island School of Design in the Department of Architecture and works for 3six0 Architects. Her work reflects her sensitivity for materials and her fascination with geometry and space.

Allison Paschke uses light and translucent materials such as porcelain, resin, and treated tissue paper to create ethereal installations and sculpture. Her pieces act as containers that are physical and architectural as well as psychological and spiritual. Her minimalis-tic, material-rich work often involves an intimate, interactive experience which is both visual and tactile. Paschke received a BFA in studio art from the University of Califor-nia at Santa Cruz, a second BFA in ceramics from Kansas City Art Institute, and her MFA in ceramics from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Locally she has shown at Brown's Bell Gallery and the Wheeler Gallery, among others. Paschke's work has also been in numerous featured exhibitions nationally and she has also executed many private commissions. Her website is at allisonpaschke.com.

Working with a wide range of materials and methods, Lisa Perez's work questions the boundaries and definitions of sculpture, drawing, and installation. From architectural intervention to sculptural drawings, her work invites a shift in expectations and often engages a recognition of that which often slips into the margins of perception within a culture that is fast and furious. It is here in a space or place that requires heightenedperspective may be expanded. Her works attempt to engage this possibility and potential.attention, that Perez received her MFA from the University of California at Berkeley and currently lives and works in Providence, RI. Recent exhibitions of her work were installed at the Drawing Center - NYC, RISD - Woods Gerry Gallery, and at SUNY Albany. Her website is http://www.lisa-perez.blogspot.com/.

Magaly Ponce is a video and installation artist from Chile. Ponce¹s inspiration comes from a variety of sources ranging from repression, anxiety, anger, love, admiration and contemplation. She uses metaphoric language to convey the complexity of the subject matter, something explicitness cannot convey. Her work gravitates from the poetic to the political while maintaining a love for audio and crafted imagery. Ponce studied Graphic Design at Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile. She received a Creative Video Grant in Latin America from the Rockefeller, Mac Arthur and Lampadia Foundations. Ponce also received a Creative Video Grant awarded by Fundación Andes, in Chile. She graduated with an M.F.A. degree thanks to a two-year Fulbright grant and a Syracuse University fellowship. Ponce currently teaches New Media at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts. Her work has been exhibited widely in her home country, Denmark, Korea and in the US. Ponce's website is at www.resextensa.net

Antonio Rocha's installation paintings focus on the history of Africans at sea and inquire about the human condition in space and time. Working with a variety of black paints and their reflections, Rocha's current work is presented in a darkened, cave-like space which evokes a mysterious and uneasy underwater atmosphere. About his work Rocha writes: "What may lie inside the cove like habitations of the deep Atlantic; in the sculptured lava rocks of its Abyssal planes? Maybe perished and forgotten transmogrified souls of a continually muted history. What of their voices, their unrest, their search, of their constant arches? What of their deformed souls and infinite abnormalities which shift endlessly towards aquatic exclamations. Are they not my ancestors?" Born in Lisbon, Portugal and a descendant of Cape Verdean parents, Rocha received a BFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Goldsmiths College in London. He now works out of London and Providence. He has exhibited in Europe, Africa and North America.

Erin Eberle, reflections:an industrial past, 2007, digital print

Graham Heffernan, Clipboard 01, 2007 oil paint, wax, mixed media

Avi Forman, Walkaway Chaise

Jon Laustsen,"Woogie-Boogie Rising (detail)", 2006

Olga Mesa, Eco, 2007

Lisa Perez, How Strange It Is To Be Anything, 2007 (install detail)

Allison Paschke, sanaa, 2007, 5x5x5", translucent porcelain

Magaly Ponce, Remains, 2005Digital print on Japanese paper

Antonio Rocha, Lord Sex Fin & His Morphs, 2006Enamel, oil, canvas on canvas (collage)

The exhibition title “de/construct” refers both to the show's theme of art and architecture and to a particular way of looking. It also evokes the show's unusual setting: the 4000 sq. ft. loft at 150 Chestnut St. is slated for interior demoli-tion following the show, so that the artists were free to literally deconstruct and reconstruct their environment. The work ranges from photographs and paintings to sculpture and installation, all presented in interesting and unusual relationships to the specific site. All eight artists live and work in the Providence area: Erin Eberle, Avi Forman, Graham Heffernan, Jon Laustsen, Olga Mesa, Allison Paschke, Lisa Perez, Magaly Ponce, and Antonio Rocha. The show was curated by Allison Paschke in conjunction with the other artists.

150 chestnut st, 7th floor, providence, RI 02903, jewelry district