TWENTY SUMMERS ANNOUNCES NEW SCHEDULE OF EVENTS at HISTORIC HAWTHORNE BARN

Twenty Summers is a new nonprofit arts center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, founded to foster public engagement with art and artists, and to honor the legacy of art in Provincetown. It restored the historic Hawthorne Barn where that legacy began and where its programs take place from May 15 to June 15 annually. To visit the Barn, please see our calendar of events to purchase tickets.
The name Twenty Summers is a phrase in a poem by Stanley Kunitz connoting both the pull of Provincetown and its legacy of art.

Learn more https://www.20summers.org/events/calendar/

ALDEN GALLERY - Joerg Dressler & Ed Christie- 8/8-21

Alden Gallery presents

Joerg Dressler + Ed Christie
Opening on Friday, August 8, 2014, 7 – 9pm

 

Joerg Dressler’s work is driven by nature and how we perceive it. When he is in the studio, he paints solely from memory. As a result, disjointed experiences of the seen and learned are re-assembled, creating a reality of their own. Joerg’s evocative, vigorous paintings derive from a sincere dialogue between the representational and the abstract, the conceptual consciousness and pure spontaneity. Though his vocabulary is drawn from a cross-section of history—Renaissance, Mannerism, Impressionism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Postmodernism, graphic design, and photography—his work emerges as his own distinctive visual communication. With his new series, “Entropy,” Joerg is exploring the extreme ends of the spectrum: high entropy (clouds) and low entropy (ice). “The higher the entropy/disorder,” Joerg says, “the greater the challenge to not resolve into repetitive patterns and static forms, but instead to paint shapes that remain fluid and seemingly fleeting.” Joerg’s new paintings convey a sumptuousness that inspires a prolonged consideration of our own relationship with nature.

Ed Christie is a veteran puppet designer and builder who has worked for more than 30 years on Jim Henson’s Muppets in movies, television, and theater, and in particular on Sesame Street, where the characters he designed are seen in productions around the world. In 2008, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum presented a solo exhibit of Ed’s puppets, and his fine-art sculpture has been part of the Alden Gallery since its inception in 2007. For his new show, Ed chose to create new variations on “Ricky,” a head sculpt he designed in 2009 that was inspired by iconic characters from mid-century advertising and entertainment. “All of the Ricky heads come from the same mold, based on my sculpt,” Ed says. “But by the time I’m finished embellishing the surface with different media, each takes on a completely unique character, usually with an ironic twist on childhood innocence.”


The exhibit runs August 8 – 21, 2014. For more info: http://www.aldengallery.com/artist/

KOBALT GALLERY- 8/1-8/12- HELEN SHULMAN- FIELD OF VISION

HELEN SHULMAN | FIELD OF VISION

AUGUST 1-12, 2014

RECEPTION AUGUST 1, 7-9PM

Kobalt Gallery is pleased to announce "FIELD OF VISION", Helen Shulman's 3rd solo exhibition at the gallery. Shulman, known for her richly layered abstract panels, abandons the suggestion of a horizon line, a dominant visual anchor in earlier work, in favor of immersion

 Channels, 2014, Oil and cold wax on panel, 16"x16"

 

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BERTA WALKER GALLERY - 8/1-17 PAUL RESIKA, SKY POWER, MURRAY ZIMILES

BERTA WALKER GALLERY presents

August 1 - August 17

Three Exhibitions

Opening Reception, Friday, August 1, 7 - 9 pm

PAUL RESIKA  

Colors and Forms of Provincetown 1947-Present 

paintings & pastels

Red Sky, 1990, oil on canvas, 19 1/2 x 23 1/2"

SKY POWER 

Mysteries in Color

recent paintings

Summer's Exodus, 2014, oil on canvas, 18 x 24"

MURRAY ZIMILES

 Color Mysteries 

recent paintings

Infinite Landscape Study, 2013, oil and mm/canvas, 16 x 24"

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RICE POLAK GALLERY- Ellen Le Bow, Julie Levesque and Michael Snodgrass 7/17-30

The Rice Polak Gallery is pleased to announce our second exhibition of the 2014 season, featuring the work of Ellen Le Bow, Julie Levesque and Michael Snodgrass.   

M. Snodgrass

E. Le Bow

J. Levesque

Exhibition Details:
July 17th - July 30th

Opening Reception Friday, July 18th, 7:00pm

Preview Thursday, July 17th

 

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The Rice Polak Gallery is pleased to announce our first exhibition of the 2014 season, featuring the work of BEN MATTHEWS, NICK PATTEN and DAVID PRIFTI.  As a friend of the gallery, we'd like to offer you an exclusive online preview of their work.

NICK PATTEN

"Recent Interiors"

DAVID PRIFTI

"Passage of Time"

 BEN MATTHEWS

"High Hopes"

 

Exhibition Details:
July 3rd - July 16th

Opening Reception Friday, July 4th, *6:00pm

Preview Thursday, July 3rd

KOBALT GALLERY- DEBORAH MARTIN Narrow Lands 7/4-15

KOBALT GALLERY presents

 DEBORAH MARTIN

NARROW LANDS
With Poems by Nicky Sa-eun Schildkraut

JULY 4-15, 2014

RECEPTION JULY 4, 7-9PM

 

574, 2014 Oil on canvas, 36x36, N.Truro, MA

Kobalt Gallery is pleased to present NARROW LANDS new work by Deborah Martin with poems by Nicky Sa-eun Schildkraut.  The Artist will present new paintings as part of the ongoing series "Narrow Lands."  Los Angeles poet Nicky Sa-eun Schildkraut will present accompanying poems inspired by Martin's paintings.

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 of 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 by nature or by sale of the land. 

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 allusion. 

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