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 […]
Art
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 […]
COMICS
Georgie and Barnacle
ARTISTS
The Influence of Atmosphere
Linda Reedy’s inspirations include Edwin Dickinson’s grays and Provincetown’s dunes
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 […]
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 […]
