The trap sheds at MacMillan Pier are bright with eight newly installed murals. They’re a Provincetown Public Arts Foundation project that Executive Director Samuel Tager hopes will happen every year. […]
Art
THROUGHLINES
Woven Objects
A love of weaving and texture runs through Janet Beattie’s art
As a child growing up in Des Moines, Iowa, Janet Beattie learned to sew from her grandmother. By fifth grade, she was making her own clothes. That experience gave her […]
THE STROLL
Wellfleet, Saturday Night
Seen and heard on the weekly gallery wander
AMZehnder Gallery (25 Bank St. #3) At the AMZehnder Gallery, Mia Cross’s exhibition “Patchwork” is up. Her large-scale oil on canvas works are done in celestial blues and burnt […]
COMICS
Georgie and Barnacle: Out of the Box
TRANSFORMATION
John O’Connor Makes His Own Rules
Playful and off-kilter drawings that examine the slipperiness of meaning
John O’Connor’s exhibition at Farm Projects in Wellfleet takes its title from a phrase his grandfather used to say: “Wind up the cat and put the clock out.” It had […]
MONSTROUS
Hannah Barrett Paints Pertinent Portraits
An artist’s imaginary creatures have stories to tell
The characters in “Word Processor,” Hannah Barrett’s series of oil paintings, are secretaries, record keepers, and writers. They work in spaces filled with familiar objects: fruit, flowers, patterned rugs, telephones, […]
ARTISTE
Jacques Fromage: Art School
ARTISTS
Paintings of Observation and Experience
In ‘Heirloom,’ Liz Carney demonstrates a dance between body and brush
In early April, Liz Carney visited Italy for the first time on a trip organized by Provincetown yoga teacher Beth Goldstein. Her plan was to combine travel, yoga, and plein […]
GEORGIE AND BARNACLE
The Calming Counting of Carrots
MYSTICISM
Altered States
Donald Saaf travels to Mexico to paint worlds both real and imagined
The paintings by Donald Saaf now on view at Rice Polak Gallery in Provincetown depict a man watering a garden, a couple seated at a kitchen table, a woman selling […]
ELEMENTAL ART
An Ode to Nature
Ginny Zanger’s botanical monotype paintings yield beauty and mystery
In a bright, high-ceilinged studio at the end of a dirt road in Truro, artist Ginny Zanger stands at a bench, working on her latest print. She’s surrounded by fresh-picked […]
THE STROLL
Provincetown, Friday Night
Seen and heard on the weekly gallery stroll
Rice Polak Gallery (430 Commercial St.) Greg Durio and Fred Klinker, from The Woodlands, Texas, are making their way down Commercial Street on Friday evening for the weekly gallery stroll. […]
PATHWAYS
Carmen Cicero Tells Tales
In his drawings and watercolors, the subconscious rises to the surface
Drawing is a personal art. There’s often not much more than a line of ink or graphite dividing an artist’s idea from the artwork. It is both direct and exploratory. […]
ARTISTS
A Rebel Reinvented
An exhibition at PAAM examines the early works of Shirley Gorelick
Walking into the Shirley Gorelick exhibition at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, one is “knocked out with color,” as exhibition curator and PAAM CEO Christine McCarthy puts it. Many […]
