Linda Reedy grew up in Connecticut and Boston and first came to Provincetown when she was seven. For her parents, it was the nearest far-away place. The briny breezes, scrub-pine […]
Art
ARTIFICE
Hovering Between Nature and Culture
The artists in FAWC’s group exhibition have an elusive grasp on the natural world
Nature isn’t always natural, suggests the Fine Arts Work Center’s summer exhibition, “To Move a Mountain.” Coady Brown, an artist who curated the work by nine former FAWC fellows, writes […]
THE STROLL
Provincetown, Friday Night
Seen and heard on the weekly gallery stroll
On Center Gallery (352 Commercial St.) Nathaniel Meyer grew up in Maine near the Schoodic Peninsula of Acadia National Park. That’s where, as a child toting a French easel, he […]
DOG DAYS
Alexis Trice Paints Risk and Reward
In her art, coyotes cry and bivalves glimmer
Alexis Trice lives in New York City, where she was born and raised, but it’s the natural world that has captured her imagination. Her jewel-like, unsettling paintings of dogs (often […]
BOW AND BRUSH
A New Music Series Aims to Bridge Mediums
The Outer Cape Chamber Music Festival begins as a conversation between classical music and visual art
The Outer Cape, weathered and romanced by the Atlantic and bathed in a certain extraordinary light, has long inspired visual artists. Their work is all around us. What would happen, […]
COLOR AND FORM
Laurie Skantzos Teases and Intrigues
Her seemingly simple artworks complicate notions of how a painting occupies space
Canadian artist Laurie Skantzos makes thick plywood constructions with vibrant, painted edges that blur the line between painting and sculpture. She thinks of them as “wall sculptures.” Approaching a piece […]
BODY HORROR
On the ‘Monstrosity’ of the Human Form
Carmen Maria Machado and Ilana Savdie are drawn to the uncanny
Just before Carmen Maria Machado left for graduate school, she came down with swine flu. The year was 2009: Barack Obama had just started his first term as president, Bitcoin […]
FIELD WORK
Painting Out in the Open
Three artists on finding inspiration in the woods or on a coffeeshop patio
It is not uncommon in Provincetown to come across artists with their easels and paints set up along Commercial Street or out in the dunes. Painting en plein air — […]
ARTISTS
André van der Wende at the Crossroads
His recent work shows the artist arriving at new solutions
“Crossroads,” the name of André van der Wende’s current exhibition at Wellfleet Preservation Hall, alludes to a creative journey that offers resolution but also a continuous sense of possibility. The […]
PAINTING FROM LIFE
Maritime Portraits That Capture the Cape’s Spirit
Paul Schulenburg paints an optimistic picture for this year’s Portuguese Festival
When Paul Schulenburg was growing up in Schenectady, N.Y. his family came to Dennis Port in the summers, and that included an annual day trip to Provincetown. “I was always […]
NATURE STUDIES
The Very Fabric of the Landscape
Alexa Elam is not making plaids today
The dirt road to Alexa Elam’s Truro studio is bumpy and surrounded by brush, with a few pullouts for oncoming cars to pass, and marked only by a hand-painted sign […]
BIG PICTURE
Electric Purple
Diana Horowitz on Brenda Horowitz’s color vocabulary
Diana Horowitz grew up watching her mother, Brenda Horowitz, paint. Their family spent summers in Provincetown, where Brenda had studied with Hans Hofmann and Wolf Kahn. During the year, they […]
ENLIGHTENED
An Artist Trades Illustration for Emotion
Rob DuToit’s recent work soars with energetic abandon
Last fall, Rob DuToit was walking in the Audubon sanctuary in Wellfleet when he approached a platform with a sweeping view of the marsh and Cape Cod Bay. The scene […]
BIG PICTURE
Out of the Blue
Mike Wright makes a painting, but really, she doesn’t
Mike Wright, who has lived in Provincetown since 1984, makes abstract sculptures out of found wood. She has requirements for her materials: the wood must be from Provincetown, and it […]
SURFACES
On the Line Between Accident and Intention
Anthony Fisher embodies the unexpected in his intensely physical paintings
Anthony Fisher remembers seeing an exhibition at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum of Alvin Ross’s realist paintings. Fisher was 14 years old. “It was really an inspiration,” he says, […]
