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| "A Bit of Venice" by Peter Macara |
Peter
Macara looks again to antiquities for inspiration: traditional
motifs, border designs and repeating shapes that fall victim to the
forces of time—cracking, breaking and eroding. “My artworks
contrast predictable patterns against the seemingly random, broken
shapes of crumbling material. Our minds fill in the gaps. In an
effort to create memorable objects, the plywood support material is
shaped to mimic slabs of terra cotta, plaster or stone. The artworks
take on a presence that goes beyond pictorial, venturing into an area
similar to low-relief sculpture. Nonetheless, these constructions,
although irregular in shape, still provide reliably flat planes for
the application of paint and collage. This interplay of substance,
form, collage and traditional painting is the hallmark of my work."
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| "Red Dinghy" by Felice Newman |
Felice
Newman delights the eyes with her pier-scapes and dinghies that glide
toward you. The colors, patterns and textures create a glow that
calls to mind a seductive summertime with rolling swells irrespective
of whether you are on water or land. Newman
was inspired to begin painting in Provincetown during her stays on
Captain Jack's Wharf as she watched the horizon-sky, land and sea
trading their colors back and forth in an endless conversation.
"After a number of summers in Provincetown, the urge to grab a
pallet knife and push color along a canvas became visceral. I
discovered my fascination with mood and emotion in the movement of
colors and textures across the canvas."
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| "idealism vs reality" by Michael Page |
Michael Page's 2015 body of paintings is a conscience
attempt to work outside his comfort zone by using a broader, more
vibrant palette and wider range of compositional elements. With its
abstracted cross, rectangles, squares and other geometric elements
“idealism vs reality” brings to mind the nonobjective paintings
of the Suprematists. Page’s paintings are both simple and complex
in colors and composition with the added dimensions of textures.
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| Untitled by Kristen Gossler |
Kristen Gossler uses aqueous pigment and acrylic resin
to create paintings; she builds each composition “with a cacophony
of marks and layers of color and texture that ultimately are resolved
by my minimal aesthetic of symbolism”.
She paints in a large format.
