The term legend can be bandied about a little too casually in the music world, but let’s just say it: Bob Mould, the legendary punk singer and guitarist, is coming […]
VISUAL ARTIST
Taking Time and Trusting the Process
Austin Ballard weaves art and craft together
Austin Ballard creates undulating forms of rattan and clay that writhe and roll like kelp. The sculptures, which take weeks, and sometimes months, to complete, feel almost figurative; whether they […]
ARTISTS
Meditating on Clouds and Cave Paintings
Tom Pappas’s art is intuitive and elemental
Tom Pappas is what some call a “painter’s painter” — one immersed in paint’s possibilities, letting process determine the result. For Pappas, the results are modest-size abstractions with earthy colors […]
MUSICIANS
In the Pocket With Liam Hogg
Cape drummer is seemingly everywhere at once
Drummers get no love, hunkered down behind the kit while the guitar and vocal frontline gets the glory. That’s just fine with Liam Hogg, who’s been pounding the skins for […]
ARTISTS
Cataloguing the Permanent and the Ephemeral
S. Emsaki considers ‘what’s art and what’s not’
The title of S. Emsaki’s show at the Fine Arts Work Center’s Hudson D. Walker Gallery, “Some Things Last a Long Time,” refers to the plastics that she collects and […]
ARTISTS
Nick Fagan’s Southern Comfort
Finding the ‘sincerity in banal objects’
Fine Arts Work Center visual fellow Nick Fagan knows the power of a good, weighty blanket. The bright colors and soft textures are a balm for troubled minds in turbulent […]
EXHIBITIONS
Portrait of an Artist on Fire
Richard Neal unleashes his experimental side in small works
Richard Neal’s show at Wellfleet Preservation Hall, running through March 29, takes its title from an English colloquialism and album by The Who. “Odds and Sods” are 20 small works […]
ARTISTS
From Black Resin Disco Balls to Cryptic Sky-Blue Paintings
Kevin Brisco Jr. considers his art a ‘container for concepts’
Kevin Brisco Jr. paints too slowly, he says, for that to be his focus as a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center. Instead, he is working mostly on conceptual […]
EXHIBITIONS
Joel Meyerowitz Comes Home
A show of faces and places from a past Provincetown
When Joel Meyerowitz started taking photographs of the Outer Cape in 1976, it was a break from the 35mm point-and-shoot work he was doing on the streets of New York. […]
IN THE STUDIO
A Painter’s Workspace, Perfectly Preserved
David Maril honors his father’s legacy
David Maril lives year-round in the house on Bradford Street in Provincetown where his father, Herman Maril, painted every summer from 1958 until his death in 1986. David winterized the […]
EXHIBITIONS
Three Months In, FAWC Fellows Have Been Prolific
Painting, drawing, sculpture, and installations at PAAM
Each year, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum welcomes the Fine Arts Work Center’s visual arts fellows with an introductory exhibition that gives a glimpse into their creative world three […]
ALBUM REVIEW
Taking a Walk With Sensible Shoes
A band with Outer Cape ties releases its debut album
The Vermont- and Cape Cod-based band Sensible Shoes spent last summer gigging on the Outer Cape before quietly releasing its debut album, See It My Way, in August. Billed as […]
IN THE STUDIO
Grace Hopkins’s Pristine Workspace
It complements the modernist house inherited from her father
Grace Hopkins doesn’t maintain an artist studio in the traditional sense. It is more of a processing center where she uploads digital photographs before printing them on squares of canvas […]
IN THE STUDIO
Hiding in Plain Sight
The artists who work in the oasis over the Post Office
Built in 1930, Provincetown’s U.S. Post Office is a bustling place, but not many know that the second floor is rented out by artists. A plaque at the top of […]
IN THE STUDIO
Rob DuToit’s Off-Kilter, Modernist Workspace
Painting in the shadow of Fritz Bultman
Obscured by trees, Rob DuToit’s Provincetown studio is easy to miss. Approached from the side, it appears as an innocuous whitewashed structure with a single door. But the odd angle […]
