Although most art galleries in Provincetown will stay open through December, this Friday, Oct. 6, marks the last official gallery stroll of the season. The Independent asked a few gallery […]
Art
THE PORTRAITIST
Putting the Creative Community on Canvas in Big, Bold Strokes
Amy Kandall wants to paint ‘what everybody has to say’
During the summer of 2021, Truro artist Amy Kandall painted more than 50 life-size portraits of artists, gallerists, restaurant owners, and other creative people who live on the Outer Cape. […]
ARTISTS
DNA Residents Gain a Space to Show Their Work
Nick Lawrence’s Readymade Gallery brings artists from the Cape, New York, and beyond
PROVINCETOWN — The DNA residency, situated in a cavernous, barnlike space above the Provincetown Tennis Club, has hosted artists on the Outer Cape since 2012. In previous years it was […]
SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
Sofia Cabanas Is in Hyper Focus
Mastering the intricate fonts found on labels is ‘like solving a puzzle, only with shapes’
Sofia Cabanas was cooking for friends one night a couple of years ago when she pulled out a tin of nutmeg from 1987. Just before she tossed it in the […]
LARGE SCALE
Murals That Expand Beyond the Walls
An exhibition at the Cape Cod Museum of Art features paintings both indoors and out
DENNIS — When Samuel Tager was asked to curate a show at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, he had been thinking a lot about mural projects in Boston, Lynn, […]
ARTISTS
When Winter Comes, the Artist Returns to His Studio
After three decades, Robert Adamcik still pursues his passion
Robert Adamcik has become a Provincetown local. With dry humor, he’ll give you his opinions on everything in town, from the best galleries, shows, and lobster rolls to the worst […]
PUBLIC ART
Andrew Mowbray Pursues the Unpredictable
The Provincetown Public Art Foundation’s most recent project is a collaboration with the wind
Every Wednesday, Andrew Mowbray travels from Boston to Provincetown, where he finds a drawing produced in collaboration with the wind and his sculpture Tempest Prognosticator. “I get to open this […]
POSTCARDS
Painting a Somber Summer Vacationland
Jamie O’Neill finds something modern in nostalgic scenes
Jamie O’Neill first became fascinated by stories of the past while growing up on Nantucket. Now a father, he is still pulled by history as he turns his art to […]
THE STROLL
Provincetown, Friday Night
Seen and heard on the weekly gallery walk
Berta Walker Gallery (208 Bradford St.) Last week there was a fishnet full of famous folk and local art lovers outside the East End galleries, but tonight it’s raining and […]
GALLERIES
A Group Exhibition That Sizzles With Summertime Energy
Four highlights from ‘Summer Escape,’ a season-long exhibition in two parts at Gaa
Gaa Gallery’s current exhibition presents the work of 17 contemporary artists, many of whom have never before been shown in Provincetown. Curated by Gavin Kennedy, the exhibition offers materially rich […]
ARTISTS
Monica Rozak Is Always Looking Up
The Eastham artist ponders her place in the world by painting the sky
Monica Rozak often walks along the bluff by Marconi Beach when the sun is coming up or going down. “I’m really drawn to the sky,” she says. Her landscape paintings, […]
ARTISTS
A Language of Dualities
Joe Diggs paints the many meanings of history
The painter Joe Diggs has had ancestors living on Cape Cod since the 1800s. His step-great-grandfather, Gideon Gomes, was a Cape Verdean free man of color who bought the large […]
WORKSHOP
‘Attention Is the Beginning of Devotion’
Experiencing ‘re-wilding’ in a Castle Hill workshop
TRURO — On a reed-covered stretch of sand jutting out into Pamet Harbor, five students and their instructor dip their natural brushes — a broken-in-half reed, a corner of a […]
THE STROLL
Wellfleet, Saturday Night
Seen and heard on the weekly gallery stroll
Jeff Soderbergh Gallery (11B West Main St.) Artist Lisa Barsumian of Jamestown, R.I. is showing some of her work in the Jeff Soderbergh Gallery. This Saturday-night stroll is great, she […]
ARTISTS
Bringing Miami to the Cape in Color and Coral
Nathalie Ferrier’s show at Farm Projects, “Mapping the Magic,” rejects two-dimensionality
For the French-born, Truro-based multimedia artist Nathalie Ferrier, artmaking is inextricable from place. She greeted me outside her home, barefoot, for a tour down the sandy path on which she […]
