At AS220 in June, Ben Fino-Radin of Providence exhibited a plastic-canvas needlepoint sculpture of an old Mac, plus a wall arrangement of needlepoint versions of desktop icons like hourglasses and pointing hands. The French artist Space Invader has covered walls around the world with tiles arranged to look like aliens from the namesake 1978 video game...

...At AS220 (115 Empire Street, Providence, through January 24), Paul Roustan of East Providence presents photos of naked models (almost all women) that he's painted with stripes and patterns and various virtuoso effects. A woman's pregnant belly is painted to resemble the earth, eclipsing a spotlight in the background that doubles as the sun. A real tarantula crawls up the breast of a woman painted with a white spider web that glows against her black-painted skin. Roustan's body paintings have flashy airbrush or spray-can style and exude a sexy fetishistic vibe.

Full Story: Enter the matrix Source: The Phoenix, January 13th, 2009 Author: Greg Cook Added on January 15th, 2009 at 10:24 am, by Matt Mikula