Woodman/Shimko Gallery, 346 Commercial St. Erin Long is an artist from Sharon. She gazes at a wall of paintings by Danielle Coenen. All are close-up portraits of faces. Long feels […]
Art
GALLERIES
Jack Pierson Celebrates an Artist’s Life
A new show in Provincetown features words as images
A plumber’s son who grew up in Plymouth and made his way to extraordinary success in a variety of media, Jack Pierson always feels a bit defensive about the bona […]
ABSTRACT EXPRESSION
In Jeannie Motherwell’s Work, the Paint Is Moving
Her influences include Cape Cod Bay and the Hubble telescope
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 […]
INNER VISION
Liz Dexheimer Embraces ‘Atmospheric Conditions’
At Rice Polak, an artist’s abstract paintings create a meditative space
It isn’t easy finding Liz Dexheimer’s studio if you haven’t been there before. Cellphone reception is spotty in this remote area of Connecticut, and even with detailed directions its gray […]
ASYLUM
Two Afghan Women Flee the Taliban and Land in Wellfleet
The sisters are safe but hoping to rescue the rest of their family
WELLFLEET — Maryam and Shabnam have been enjoying a typical Outer Cape summer — going to Newcomb Hollow Beach and the Fox and Crow Café and on whale watch excursions […]
PRINTMAKING
Replacing Narrative With Feeling
Robert Shreefter’s layered prints grow lighter
Robert Shreefter is learning to lose the storyline in his printmaking. Until recently, he says, he didn’t allow himself that. “If I don’t have something to motivate me, like a […]
FLUCTUATION
Betty Carroll Fuller’s Wobbling, Quivering Grid
Mining memory, music, and poetry to create a new body of abstract drawings
During the pandemic lockdown, Betty Carroll Fuller spent a lot of time alone in her Falmouth home and studio. It coincided with her recovery from a rare form of cancer, […]
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 […]
LOST ART
Rediscovering a Forgotten Provincetown Artist
Edith Wilkinson’s great-niece worked for years to uncover the artist’s story
What is known about Edith Lake Wilkinson: she was a woman, a visual artist, a painter, printer, and draftsman; she was a pioneer of white-line printing; she lived in New […]
THE STROLL
Wellfleet, Saturday Night
Seen and heard on the weekly gallery ramble
Front Porch Gallery, 210 Baker Ave. At the Front Porch Gallery, on the screened-in, cozy front porch of Susan Siegel’s house, Siegel points to her own piece, Bird in Flight, […]
ART OUTSIDERS
Where Plein Air Is for Painting and Selling
On the lawn and in the Seashore, a guild gathers artists and their work
EASTHAM — The white tents are up, a summer ritual that fills the lawn of the 1869 Schoolhouse Museum. Under their shade, browsers rub elbows with painters, collect, and gossip. […]
DESIGN
Creating Works That ‘Take the Place of Things’
How two Outer Cape logos have settled into our visual vocabularies
The Nike swoosh; McDonald’s golden arches; the Macintosh apple. These designs are deeply ingrained in our visual vocabularies, recognized in a space where image and commerce mingle. “Logos take the […]
HELPING HANDS
Lauren Ewing Explores the Possibilities of the Human Hand
The artist shows two suites of works finger-painted with carbon black soot
Lauren Ewing is wearing a narrow pin that she designed and fabricated. In lower case, it reads “everything speaks.” “My art is all about the world that we live in, […]
NO HIDING
Amy Ford’s Paintings of the Open Road
An artist finds her identity after a long journey
Amy Ford has titled her solo show at the Provincetown Commons “The Open Road” after Walt Whitman’s poem “Song of the Open Road” because it so well describes her own […]
BACK DOOR ART
A Funny, Subversive Show Opens at PAAM
Zehra Khan reimagines art history with bedsheets, glue guns, and Sharpies
To reach Zehra Khan’s zany show at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, one must walk through Philip Malicoat’s impressive exhibition of somber, formally astute paintings, rendered in a narrow […]
