The Jeannie Motherwell paintings now on view at the Schoolhouse Gallery through Aug. 31 are a dramatic exploration of three-dimensional space in two dimensions. Experiencing them is like weighing anchor […]
BITS AND PIECES
Animal Sculptures From a Cabinet of Curiosity
Gin Stone’s greatest fear: boredom
The artist Gin Stone defies labeling, which is what makes her and her work so intriguing. One might say it is multidisciplinary, perhaps sculptural; but those terms only skim the […]
THE DOG CATCHER
John Waters Starts His 58th Provincetown Summer
There is no confusing his work with anyone else’s
Filmmaker, writer, visual artist, actor, and art collector. John Waters’s oeuvre may not be deep, but it certainly is wide. There is no confusing his artwork with anyone else’s, and […]
PHOTOGRAPHY
Rowland Scherman Focused on Hope, Not Darkness
Talking his way into a job as the first Peace Corps photographer
Ukraine, Covid, the GOP, the radical right’s takedown of the Supreme Court — take your pick, or feel free to add your own favorite bogeyman that keeps you up nights. […]
ARTISTS
For Christine Niles, Bigger Isn’t Better
Capturing Provincetown’s light in small paintings
Christine Niles’s narrative challenges the myth, mostly believed by nonartists, that artists are born and not made. “I always enjoyed the arts, but I didn’t feel myself drawn to them […]
ARTISTS
Why Lavaughan Jenkins Is Not a Sculptor
His work honors the women who shaped him
Fine Arts Work Center fellow Lavaughan Jenkins insists that his work is not sculpture. Even though it inhabits space in three dimensions, even though you can walk around it, he […]
ARTISTS
Horror Movie Imagery Meets Indigenous Identity
Jeremy Dennis’s Rise series says, ‘We’re still here’
“Noam Chomsky made the comparison that zombies are a reflection of fear and desperation, and that we in the United States try to make something that we’re oppressing into something […]
ARTISTS
What Julian Cardinal Wants to Paint
Avoiding labels, and the color green
Painter Julian Cardinal will tell you straight up that he doesn’t like green. “It’s a difficult color to work with,” he says, without a hint of self-consciousness, as if expressing […]
ARTISTS
Laurence Young Paints His Truth
Exploring the intersection of graphics, line, and painting
For Laurence Young, each painting is a journey into the unknown. “What I put down first on the canvas has nothing to do with what I’m going to do later,” […]
ARTISTS
Han Feng’s Sculptural, Intimate Photographs
The pandemic gave her The Gift of time
Stories abound of artists hunkering down in their studios during the pandemic, creating uninterrupted, as they did when art wasn’t a business — before they knew about galleries, commissions, or […]
ABSTRACTION
Rick Wrigley Has Entered Phase Three
In which the furniture maker and builder turns to sculpture
It has been said that if you let an artist work long enough, he’ll eventually start working abstractly. If true, this certainly applies to Rick Wrigley, who says his career […]
ARTISTS
The Abstract, Atmospheric Art of Sarah Lutz
She uses joy in her toolbox
Sarah Lutz’s art elicits a rare response in the viewer, who not only enjoys looking at the paintings, but thinks that it might be enjoyable to meet the artist herself. […]
PUBLIC ART
A New Foundation Takes Art to the Streets
One of its first commissions is a mural by Esteban del Valle
Romolo Del Deo had an idea. In a town rich in art and art history, he thought that what Provincetown needed was even more art. Public art, to be exact. […]
PAINTING
Chet Jones Looks Beyond the Material World
With his canvases, he seeks to understand a deeper landscape
The painter Chet Jones normally doesn’t talk to journalists about his art. “I’m very unpromoting,” he says. “I know that’s a sacrilege to say, because so much art is built […]
galleries
Christopher Sousa Paints Male Figures His Way
The Provincetown artist has carefully cultivated an idiosyncratic style
Painter Christopher Sousa, whose exhibit, “All the Time in the World,” will be at William Scott Gallery from Friday, Aug. 7, through Aug. 19, does not paint what he considers […]
