Kiley Court Gallery presents JOAN COBB MARSH- RECENT WORK August 7th-16th, reception Friday, August 7th, 7-9 pm

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A Gallery presents SIAN ROBERTSON- HIDDEN TRUTHS / JULY 29 - AUGUST 4 REC. FRIDAY . JULY 31 . 7PM -10PM

Robertson is a self-taught artist. She was born and raised in Wales, in the UK, and moved to America in her late 20s, living in California for 7 years before settling on Cape Cod in 1999.  She is drawn especially to maps for many reasons: "they are beautiful to look at, they represent areas lived in and places still to visit, and I have incredibly fond memories of learning to map read as a very small child."

 I make art from items that were created for some other purpose, now isolated from their original function and given a new, more unique role and a life beyond what was initially intended. It's not about repurposing or recycling, but about seeing everyday things in a different way; using two or more elements and making them better for being together.  And by using different items from different sources I combine their individual histories, and in doing so create a new collective history.

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Berta Walker Gallery presents JOSEPHINE and SALVATORE DEL DEO Opening Reception Friday, August 14, 6 - 8 pm

Berta Walker Gallery is proud to help premiere Josephine Del Deo's recent book "The Watch at Peaked Hill, Outer Cape Cod Dune Shack Life, 1953-2003" along with new and older paintings by master artist Salvatore Del Deo focusing on the Outer Cape's environment of land, sea, dunes, fishermen. Additionally, the gallery's artists will show a variety of paintings related to these subjects, honoring Josephine Del Deo and her unique work on behalf of our community and artistic history.

"The Watch at Peaked Hill, Outer Cape Cod Dune Shack Life, 1953-2003" just released by Schiffer publishers, chronicles the ongoing relationship between members of the Provincetown arts community and the dune dwellers and dune shacks on the outer shore and the influence of that life on the entire community of artists and writers. It reveals the ongoing trials and tribulations of preserving the dunes while still allowing artists and writers to live amongst them. 

 

Salvatore Del Deo is always having a dialogue in his paintings with the world he lives in and especially with the nature of the Outer Cape. Through the over sixty years of his painting career, coinciding with time he & Josephine spent in the dunes, he has created an immense and diverse body of work. His is a style that seems to traverse the continuum from the   realistic to the abstract, with a natural fluidity available only to one who is thoroughly centered. His visual vocabulary was built up over years of study and looking and seeing.  His view of the world is both engaging and compassionate, achieved by a rich palette and a soulful perspective.

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Rice Polak Gallery presents work by Blair Bradshaw, Larry Calkins, Adam Graham, Suzanne Howes Stevens, Willie Little and Matthew Schofield rec. 7/31 7pm thru 8/19

Blair Bradshaw's paintings and constructions tend to focus on the graphic simplifications of larger, more complicated systems.

 Larry Calkins began by making his mark in outsider art circles but quickly moved into the mainstream of the art world.

Adam Graham began studying impressionist painting under the guidance of his father, painter Bob Graham who was a longtime pupil of Henry Hensche. Adam 's interest is in using the principles learned painting en plein air for the last 11 years and applying them to new and original motifs.

Suzanne Howes Stevens 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.

 

 

 

 Willie Little draws upon his background of growing up black in the rural South as inspiration for his art. His works range from abstract paintings to mixed media assemblages, incorporating family history and photographs to full-scale installations recreating memories from the artist's childhood. 

 

 

 

 

 Matthew Schofield's current painting series explores snapshots painted with unsentimental observation. He is interested in observing the idiosyncratic nature of the photographer and their subjects.

 

 

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FINE ARTS WORK CENTER presents MICHAEL MAZUR: Selected Works rec. 7/31 6-8pm thru Aug. 16

Hutson Gallery Highlights: Kristen Gossler, Peter Macara, Felice Newman and Michael Page 8/7-20 rec. 8/7 7-9pm

 

"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." 

 

"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."

 

"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.

 

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.

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Kobalt Gallery presents ROSE MASTERPOL "Dogmata" 7/31-8/11 rec. 7/31 7- 10 pm

Watermark, 2015, Acrylic on Canvas, 60"x60"

KOBALT GALLERY is pleased to announce “Dogmata”, a solo exhibition featuring new work by Abstract Expressionist painter Rose Masterpol. Based in Santa Fe, NM, Masterpol, a new addition to the 2015 Kobalt Gallery roster, brings her demanding, emphatically expressive approach to the Provincetown art arena.

Art critic and curator Peter Frank cites “Masterpol recapitulates the influence of Mitchell, De Kooning, Motherwell, Gorky, and Kline with remarkable intelligence and sensitivity: her paintings are genuine, unabashed Abstract Expressionist works right down to their Surrealist reliance on the impulsive mark and their Cubist articulation of space.”

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