RICE POLAK GALLERY  

  

OLGA ANTONOVA, WILLIAM CICCARIELLO 

&

SUZANNE HOWES-STEVENS 

JULY 18 - JULY 31, 2013 

Opening Reception Friday, July 19th, 7:00pm

   OLGA ANTONOVA

Olga Antonova has built an international reputation with major exhibitions in Europe as well as the States. The Russian-born painter, trained at the prestigious University of Leningrad, has enchanted art collectors with her finely-rendered yet whimsically romantic still lifes and self portraits. Like the great European painters of the early 18th century, Antonova has the gift of taking ordinary subjects from everyday life and elevating them to the level of high art. Using simple compositions and monumental scale, she presents her subjects with loving care and romantic vision. 

  WILLIAM CICCARIELLO

 Structure is everything to this contemplative artist whose sharp eye and superb technique bring order out of a chaotic world. His intricate compositions combine elements of nature with  ingeniously positioned and balanced objects, an apt reflection on the precariousness of our carefully-juggled, modern lives. Ciccariello's work is less about the application of paint on surface than about how paint can be used to create form and capture light. His surfaces are purposefully flat and his color harmonies close so that nothing detracts from the compositions he so carefully constructs.

   SUZANNE HOWES-STEVENS

 Suzanne Howes-Stevens continues to build her national reputation as a painter. A widely-travelled and extremely literate artist, Howes-Stevens draws upon her extensive experience to create highly intelligent works of remarkable sensitivity. She quite literally grounds her work in the real world via her trademark of painting over maps mounted on canvas or panel. The geography of the underlying map relates to the subject of her painting for which it forms the support. The artist works in a delicate, romantic style, her landscapes literally running over their borders. Her skillful and sensitive renderings thus become feasts for the mind as well the eye.

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KOBALT GALLERY presents NARROW LANDS- DEBORAH MARTIN 7/19-30

 OPENING RECEPTION 

JULY 19TH 7-10PM

At the intersection of memory and disintegration lie the homes and built structures of the "Narrow Lands" - an architectural geography of history and time along the Outer Cape.

Along this thin spiral of land and water, the shifting sand and silt and spray create inexorable change in natural terrain - a relentless force of transformation that likewise erodes, reclaims, and reconstitutes the people and structures of Provincetown.

In the series titled "Narrow Lands", Martin explores the decomposition and erosion of built structures on the Outer Cape - homes that have been historically maintained, as well as those abandoned for reclamation or by sale of the land.  These poignant and often haunting images are the premise for Martin's oil paintings.

Martin's work dwells within a compositional formality - a visitor's sidewalk stance that captures the essentially public vista of driveway, yard, front porch - yet her portraitist's eye conjures an emotional complexity nearly operatic in scope: within the silent, vacant architecture, human drama seems to exist more powerfully in an allusion.

366 Commercial Street  Provincetown, MA  508.487.1132

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TAO WATER ART GALLERY - DUO LING HUANG July 5

Tao Water Art Gallery presents

 Duo ling Huang - Cultural Landscape 

opening Reception at
July 5, 7-9 pm
352 Commercial Street

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KOBALT GALLERY DAVE LARO "WHAT'S INSIDE" July 5-16

KOBALT GALLERY presents "WHAT'S INSIDE"  NEW WORK BY DAVE LARO

                       

July 5 - 16  opening reception July 5 7-10pm

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DAVE LARO has spent the better part of the past two decades quietly, almost covertly creating a story book whose pages take form as super realistic oversized hand carved objects, or repetitious iconic imagery purposely arranged out of context, and even the most familiar paragons of pop culture contrasted with contemporary ideology.  As story teller, Laro unsuspectingly lures the viewer into his work, first with an immediate response to the visual impact of color, composition, and craftsmanship, and then with a blindsided hook that makes it impossible to walk away without trying to get inside of the artist's head.  At times, Laro's "unwritten stories" run as deep as the viewer dares to go, while others reveal with the simplicity of a nursery rhyme.  Much of Laro's materials are retrieved from long forgotten relics that find their way to an attic corner, basement shelf, or if lucky, to a flea market where Dave may opt to give them a second chance.  Laro's work breathes new life into the abandoned in a way that can be uncharacteristically provocative, politically suggestive, and unquestionably deliberate. 

"What's Inside" presents in a somewhat more introspective manner than Laro's 2012 debut at Kobalt Gallery, but is keenly charged with the wit and wisdom of the native Vermonter's perspective on everything from war to childhood nightmares to sex appeal.  Each of Laro's new constructions are born of his ability to see things beneath the surface, and consummated at the hands of a master craftsman.

RICE POLAK GALLERY 7/4-17 MICHELE HARVEY, ANNE LILLY & STEVEN SKOLLAR

RICE POLAK GALLERY presents 

  MICHELE HARVEY, ANNE LILLY & STEVEN SKOLLAR

JULY 4 - JULY 17, 2013

Opening Reception Friday, July 5th, 7:00pm

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Michelle Harvey

Anne Lilly

Steven Skollar