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EGELI GALLERY Provincetown
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Friday, November 16, 2012
Patty DeLuca Gallery - through November 16
Patty De Luca Gallery
300 BLOCK Gallery District
359 COMM. ST.
Provincetown MA 02657
917 855 4267
359 COMM. ST.
Provincetown MA 02657
917 855 4267
presents
ADRIAN CARROLL
“Jock”
Artist Openings - November 16th.
JOCK, an ambitious inaugural exhibition of recent & new work by Adrian Carroll, opens on October 26th At Patty DeLuca Gallery. In this new body of work Carroll expands his dialogue with the history of the male figure in fine art. Concepts such as athleticism, body worship & gender construction, find their way into new ideas in contemporary painting.
Carroll explores the idea of the “masculine” while investigating a distinction between the biological sex of the male being and the “dominant” gender distinction of the “feminine”. Carroll uses fictitious high school footballers, physically aggressive adolescent boys & highly sexualized & seductive Drag Queens & Tranny Hustler’s to create a phantasmagoric armature where the clastic construction of the “Heterosexual man” clashes with the QUEER superego.
Carroll’s works are not traditional paintings, as his materials consist of quixotic plastic polymers, reductionist resins & carefully produced alchemical mediums; confounding academic tradition while coexisting within classic art historical paint stuff. This new exhibition includes an interactive sculptural installation, where Carroll invites the public to become more than simply a “viewer” but rather an integral component in the binary of the installations political power suggesting the liberation of equal rights.
Carroll also introduces another uniquely contemporary experience in her new pictures: digital culture’s effect on painting and seeing. The somnambulist characters that inhabit Carroll’s work imitate a simulacrum between the artificiality of the cameras eye and the impurity between personal experience and the phenomenon of memories distortion.
Some of these pieces are infused with other more explicit references to the history of painting. In this body of work, one will sense a feeling of chiaroscuro inspired by the great masters of the Italian Baroque and High Renaissance, such as Titan and Caravaggio. A connection with the warm opacity, translucently & flourishing of vibrant color inspired by the styles of the French Impressionist painters, Claude Monet & Edgar Degas will surly be noticed. Wrenching the bolts together of these periods of influence with the pure debauchery and calculated “cool remove” of postmodernism, Carroll finds inspiration in artists such as Mike Kelly and Bjarne Melgaard. These conflicting master visions are cannibalized, regurgitated & amalgamated a new through a multi –layered pentimento of Carroll’s own creation. This conception provides the latticework toward a newly explored visual language.
Adrian Carroll graduated from The School Of The Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston, in cooperation with Tufts University & holds a Masters in Fine Art. Her work was presented in an exhibition entitled “ Traveling Scholars” at the Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston in 2003 & has shown in numerous exhibitions in New York City. Carroll lived and worked in Brooklyn New York for many years but now resides in Provincetown and continuously works in Massachusetts.
Friday, October 5, 2012
GALLERY EHVA OCTOBER 5 6-8pm
KATHRYN LEE SMITH
Whiteline Prints
opening reception Friday, October 5 reception 6-8pm
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
SEPTEMBER EVENTS
RICE POLAK GALLERY
THRU OCT. 7
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| "Studio XXV" 50x40 by Peri Schwartz |
Marla Rice, Director of
Rice Polak Gallery invites independent curator Meredyth Hyatt Moses to
design an exhibition at the gallery. from September 7 - October 7 with
an opening reception on Friday, September 7th at 7 pm.,"Meredyth Hyatt
Moses in Provincetown" will bring together a stunning blend of artists
known throughout the Northeast and beyond.
Sunday, September 2, 2012
PAAM BENEFIT GALA - OCT. 6
PAAM honors Carmen Cicero & Mary Ellen Abell
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| Painter Carmen Cicero |
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner at PAAM
7th annual benefit gala on Saturday, October 6th at 5:30pm
honors Carmen Cicero and Mary Ellen Abell
Provincetown, MA: Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) concludes a thrilling summer season with the 7th annual Guess Who's Coming to Dinner at PAAM benefit gala. On Saturday October 6th, PAAM will honor the visionary painter Carmen Cicero for Lifetime Achievement and art historian Mary Ellen Abell
for Extraordinary Support of Provincetown Art and Artists with an
elegant dinner and a silent auction of original paintings by PAAM
artists.
Individual tickets are $300 and selling quickly for this annual event. Several sponsorship options are available, including Take An Artist to Dinner and Partner in Art contributions. To order tickets, please visit www.paam.org, or call Sheila McGuinness at (508) 487-1750 to discuss sponsorship.
SEPTEMBER EVENTS
TAO WATER GALLERY
thru SEPTEMBER 15
Ming Jing - The Poetic Rhythm thru Sept 15, 2012
Tao Water Gallery 352 Commercial Street
This is our first time showing his work in Ptown. Ming Jing is one of the best painters in China; he had his solo exhibition in China's National Art Museum a few years ago. Now he is the Chairman of the Art Department and a professor at HeBei University. We are so proud to have his firt solo show in Ptown.
This is our first time showing his work in Ptown. Ming Jing is one of the best painters in China; he had his solo exhibition in China's National Art Museum a few years ago. Now he is the Chairman of the Art Department and a professor at HeBei University. We are so proud to have his firt solo show in Ptown.
Min Jing (b.1959), graduated from Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts with a B.A. in 1983. Now he lives and teaches in China, his paintings have both the charm of ink painting and oils. He creates rhythms through tension and looseness with sensitive fine lines while brushing bold and textured strokes with strong gestures. He manipulates bright and dark, black and white, thickness and thinness, emptiness and fullness in a masterly way that looks effortles. One can sense his drifting lightness and also romantic and poetic or even humorous natures in his art, and wonder how he retains his purity and detachment in the contemporary world.
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