Katrine Hildebrandt-Hussey’s Quiet Dimensions
With an M.F.A. in sculpture, Boston-based artist Katrine Hildebrandt-Hussey brings a three-dimensional sensibility to her two-dimensional pieces currently on view at Room 68 (377 Commercial St., Provincetown). Although her works initially appear as flat drawings, the artist subtly integrates dimensional materials including hand-dyed fabric, reed, and wire into her compositions. The results introduce a degree of physicality to her otherwise delicate and airy images.
Hildebrandt-Hussey describes her work as inspired by sacred geometry and metaphysical mappings of space and time. Her use of thin interlocking lines conjures a feeling of meditative control. In Light Reveal, the composition is centered on five yellow sun-like orbs atop a flowing cascade of linework. It’s an image that feels both cosmic and calming. The works in the show don’t clamor for attention but rather require the viewer to slow down and savor their quietude.
The exhibition is on view Fridays through Sundays from noon to 5 p.m. until Jan. 31. See room68online.com for information.
Moving ‘Forward’ With FAWC
The new First Friday series at the Fine Arts Work Center (24 Pearl St., Provincetown), which opened to the public last month, continues with a January program featuring women’s voices in conversation with each other and members of the community.
Entitled “Forward,” the evening’s program on Friday, Jan. 6 will kick off with music by jazz vocalist Mozelle Andrulot and food by the Orleans-based Dancing Spoons Food Truck at 5 p.m. At 6 p.m., visual artist Golnar Adili and writer Asako Serizawa will discuss their work in the Stanley Kunitz Common Room. Adili is an Iranian American who writes that she amplifies the experience of separation and uprooting “through material deconstruction and reconstruction.” Serizawa was born in Japan and raised in Singapore, Jakarta, and Tokyo; her debut novel Inheritors was published in 2021 and won the PEN/Open Book Award.
At 7 p.m., FAWC visual arts fellowship coordinator S. Emsaki will present “Migrant Language,” a multimedia happening in solidarity with the current “Woman Life Freedom” revolution in Iran. A collaborative silkscreen printing workshop with Vicky Tomayko and Tinja Ruusuvuori will round out the evening’s programming.
While FAWC’s First Friday evenings are free, registration is requested. See fawc.org for information.
Chamber Singers’ Songs of the Season
The Chatham Chorale Chamber Singers will kick off the “Music & More” winter series at the Cape Cod Museum of Art (60 Hope Lane, Dennis) with “Songs of the Season” on Sunday, Jan. 8, 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
The Chamber Singers, a chorus of approximately 25 voices drawn from the larger ensemble, was created in 1976 for the purpose of performing music for smaller groups in more intimate spaces. On Sunday, the group will perform “Sunrise, Sunset”: a program of songs about light intended to brighten the dark days of winter. The ensemble is conducted by music director T. Joseph Marchio, and Donald Enos will accompany on the piano.
Tickets are $18 for museum members and $24 for nonmembers. See ccmoa.org for more information.
Agnes Collis Explores the Ethereal
An exhibition of oil paintings by Agnes Collis is on view at the Wellfleet Adult Community Center (715 Old King’s Hwy.) through Feb. 3.
A native of New Jersey, Collis has lived in Wellfleet since 2000. In addition to previous shows at the Wellfleet Adult Community Center, her work has been exhibited at Wellfleet Preservation Hall and in juried shows at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum and Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill. Her landscape views of the Outer Cape are characterized by wide expanses of sky with a particularly sensitive attention to subtle gradations in the quality of the light, from midwinter darkness to golden summer sunsets. Occasional buildings appear in her compositions with a geometric presence that recalls the work of Edward Hopper in their stark reflections of sunlight.
There will be a reception for the artist on Saturday, Jan. 7 from 3 to 5 p.m., and the center is open daily from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. See wellfleet-ma.gov/wellfleet-adult-community-center and agnescollis.com for more information.
