Grace Hopkins’s photographs are easily mistaken for abstract expressionist paintings, but she doesn’t use paint and brushes to create the splashes of color and gestural swirls in what she refers […]
Art
BIG PICTURE
Changing Seasons
For Grace Emmet, winter is for digging into her sketchbook and using her naturally sourced ink
Grace Emmet is both an artist and curator of community education at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. She’s a close observer of nature and maintains an ecologically sustainable art […]
WORKING ORDER
Space to Create
Four artists on how they keep their studios functional and inspiring
Minimalism has grown increasingly popular in recent years, while messiness has been declared an obstacle to productivity. But artists were never ones to submit to rules or trends, and they’re […]
EXHIBITIONS
Materials, Microbiomes, and Metaphors
A show of works by Fine Arts Work Center fellows is a snapshot of global contemporary art
When the visual arts fellows at the Fine Arts Work Cetner show their work at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, the community gets an exhilarating peek at what’s afoot […]
ARTISTS
In the Studio With a Phenomenologist
Adam Matthew Graham revisits realism and American values
Evening’s colors and rain figure in many of Adam Matthew Graham’s paintings, especially in his streetscapes, where the glow of lamplight or the shimmer of a puddle suggests that the […]
PATRIOTS
Jay Critchley Flies His Flag(s)
In a provocative and humorous exhibit, an artist takes aim at big oil
Visitors to Jay Critchley’s Provincetown studio never know what they’ll encounter. In the ground outside his door, there’s a cesspool that he renovated into a whitewashed space complete with a […]
BIG PICTURE
Storm Chasing in the Studio
Experiments in being sculptural
In a recent series of encaustic works, artist and Castle Hill director Cherie Mittenthal turns her attention to storms and boats. The pieces, she says, are influenced by her lifelong […]
GALLERIES
Simie Maryles Is on the Move
After 26 years, the Provincetown painter will have a new space
If you have strolled along Cemetery Road at night and looked up at the Pilgrim Monument, you may have noticed, just underneath it, a well-lit studio and a painter working […]
PEACEMAKERS
Art That Bridges Divides
An exhibition honors the legacy and vision of Martin Luther King Jr.
Walking into the current exhibition at Wellfleet Preservation Hall, one is greeted by Jo Hay’s oversize painting of the country’s youngest inaugural poet, Amanda Gorman. On the opposite wall is […]
IN THE STUDIO
The Ebb and Flow of a Life in Art
Helen Miranda Wilson’s journey of ‘digression and precision’
Helen Miranda Wilson’s studio sits at the center of her Wellfleet house, which was built in the 1850s. The studio seems set up for ideas to unravel and find form: […]
INSCRIPTIONS
Revelations in the Margins
An exhibition points out hints of histories written in the artists’ own hands
Madelein Larson has probably looked more closely at nearly every work at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum than anyone else has. Larson is the collections manager and registrar, and […]
Lost to Time
Provincetown Fishermen of the '30s & '40s
Greetings from Cape Cod
“Grape-Nuts”
MUSES
Painting With Ferocity and Freedom
In the summer of 1958, Bob Thompson found inspiration among his friends in Provincetown
Bob Thompson came to Provincetown in 1958 and met a group of peers who would influence his art and his life. “I Am Myself: Early Works by Bob Thompson and […]
