May Babcock

May Babcock is an interdisciplinary artist based in Providence, Rhode Island. Her studio techniques combine hand papermaking, printmaking, sculpture, historical photography process, and book-arts techniques, creating artwork that addresses place. She gathers sketches, materials, histories, and environmental information from sites to create works of paper, installations, public art, and community-based art.

Babcock exhibits nationally and internationally, has taught courses in all forms of printmaking, papermaking, drawing, and two-dimensional design, and has been the recipient a range of grants, fellowships and artist residencies.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Landscapes are complex, full of botanical life, waterways, historical memory, built environments and more, all of which can offer clues to a culture.

I begin with specific sites, where I collect plant fibers, materials, and drawings to gain psychological impressions and witness poignant evidence of human activity. I am a curious artist, who researches and is fascinated by local hydrologies, plant ecologies, geological history, and human-created structures and histories.

As a hand papermaker informed by print processes, technical experimentation in the studio invigorates my...

M.F.A. Printmaking, Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA

B.F.A. Painting and Printmaking, Summa Cum Laude, University of Connecticut Storrs, CT

SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
ReSeeding: Ethnobotany in the Urban, RI State House, Providence RI
Invasive Beauty: New Works by May Babcock and Rebecca Volynsky, The Gallery at City Hall, Providence RI
Blackstone Watershed, Machines with Magnets, Pawtucket RI
Ebb and Flow VI, unLOCK, Illinois State Museum, Lockport, IL
Ebb and Flow II, Brown Arts Initiative, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts at Brown University, Providence, RI
Ebb and Flow: An Exhibition of Hand Papermaking and Installation Work, Springfield Art Association, Springfield, IL
Exhibition by May Babcock, Block Island Airport Gallery, New Shoreham, RI
Land Studies: New Work by May Babcock, AS220 Project Space Gallery, Providence, RI
The Latent Landscape, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Glassell Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
Passing Notes, Gya Gallery, St. Louis, MO

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
GREEN SPACE Gallery at T.F. Green Airport Warwick RI
Pulp + Process, Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA
Paper Possibilities, Chandler Gallery, Montpelier, VT
Hot House, Worlds Fair Gallery, Providence RI
RISD Faculty Exhibition 2018, RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI
Pathways, Baum Gallery Art Museum, Conway, AR
Paper Rock Scissors, Five Points Gallery, Torringto...