PAUL CLANCY
CITY UNCONVENTIONAL: Providence’s photo-archeologist continues his search for the soul of a building.
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By Meredith Cutler (for Artscope Magazine)
Article Excerpt:
When I first arrived in “Downcity” Providence one Saturday in July, 2007, Paul Clancy was the first person that I encountered. I remember this clearly, because the sunlit movie set of this hauntingly beautiful, yet so often underserved urban streetscape was utterly deserted.
With the art-deco “Superman Building” towering overhead, there was something disquietingly post-apocalyptic about the summer scene. I ducked into the then brand new AS220 Project Space to reorient myself. On display in the group show “Describing the Dreyfus,” were Paul Clancy’s haunting photomontages: a highly interpretive archive documenting the renovation of the Dreyfus Hotel, now housing, among other things, artists’ studios, the Local 121 restaurant and the gallery I was taking refuge in. Manning the space was the soft-spoken artist himself, interpretive archivist to the past and future of Providence’s skyline.
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Image: Paul Clancy, "Dreyfus Lathing Altar No 1", 2006, UltraChrome archival print (from film), diptych.
