Though often overshadowed by her famous father, Ben Shahn, Judith Shahn, who died in 2009, was the star at Wellfleet’s Cove Gallery, which has promoted her artwork since she first […]
Art
THE STROLL
Wellfleet, Saturday Night
Seen and heard on the weekly gallery walk
AMZehnder Gallery (25 Bank St. #3) At AMZehnder Gallery, Provincetown-based artist Pete Hocking, whose work is also currently hanging on the walls, takes a long moment to consider Patte Ormsby’s […]
PAINTING
Paul Kelly’s Cubist Constructions of a Town Gone Wild
The artist paints from his imagination, where elaborate patterns take hold
Provincetown artist Paul Kelly begins to work on a new painting by creating architectural graphite sketches. There is a certainty to Kelly’s sketches — a commitment to contrast and shape. […]
ARTISTS
The Unfurling of a Creative Vision
Sam Feinstein’s development from a Hofmann student to a painter of sublime abstractions
The Sam Feinstein exhibition at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum charts his lifelong commitment to abstraction and color. The paintings span his early years in Provincetown as a student […]
PHOTOGRAPHY
Greater Than Their Parts
In Jefferson Hayman’s ‘pairings,’ framing is as integral as the image itself
Ten apricots, a bunch of grapes, three blueberries, a skull tipped over, a half-empty glass: these subjects would be just as at home on the walls of the Rijksmuseum in […]
COLORSCAPES
The Abstract Journeys of Malu Tan
The artist explores a constantly shifting world of raw emotion
A spiral staircase leads to artist Malu Tan’s second-floor studio in North Tryon, an industrial district in uptown Charlotte, N.C. Her building is a converted bomb shelter. The studio is […]
LESS IS MORE
Polly Burnell’s Interior Vision Unearths Complex Worlds
Her paintings are small, but they are inspired by profound experiences
One of Polly Burnell’s most recent paintings, The Whale Dream (5 years before I came here), is of a whale that seems to be ascending from the water toward a […]
AUCTIONS
The Quirky Works That Filled the White Horse Inn
Jackson Lambert’s funky art is impossible to pin down
Even if you are not the kind to frequent galleries, you’ve seen Jackson Lambert’s art. He worked with Anton “Napi” Van Dereck Haunstrup, making the paintings, sculptures, and signs that […]
THE STROLL
Provincetown, Friday Night
Seen and heard on the weekly gallery walk
On Center Gallery (352 Commercial St.) Katie Faria from Middleborough looks thoughtfully at Lorraine DeProspo’s Kiss the Day. Mounted on the wall at On Center Gallery between two other paintings […]
PORTRAITS
Kathryn Engberg Forsakes the Male Gaze
The painter pairs technical mastery with cultural commentary
Madonna is depressed. Not because — as in her appearances as the Virgin Mary since the Renaissance — she knows that her kid, the baby Jesus, is going to be […]
HAT TRICK
Three Provincetown Painters Display Whimsy, Masculinity, and Identity
Recent works by Towle, Wilmoth, and Mikula will fill the walls of the Commons
Three Provincetown painters — Trevor Mikula, Josh Wilmoth, and Andy Towle — will be showing new works at the Provincetown Commons starting next week. The concurrent shows open Tuesday, June […]
ON JEANS
Extraordinary Stories Stitched in Relatable Cloth
Myra Kooy assembles a show that reflects queer Black women being themselves
When you walk into the Urvashi Vaid and Kate Clinton Community Room at the Provincetown Commons, you see a collection of jackets and shirts hanging on the walls. The 25 […]
MAXIMALIST
The Totality of Julia Salinger
A multidisciplinary artist who doesn’t hold back
A maximalist by nature, Julia Salinger indulges in all that she finds curious and delightful. She’s a voracious collector of paper ephemera and a compulsive creator. “I basically live inside […]
PRIDE
The Fantastical Spaces of Phil Jimenez
A comics artist pencils and inks a way out
Comics artist and writer Phil Jimenez was alone a lot when he was growing up in Long Beach, Calif. “Drawing was a way to entertain myself,” he says. Known for […]
PAINTING
Arthur V. Diehl’s Restless Imagination
The early 20th-century artist found himself most settled working in Provincetown
Born in 1870, Arthur V. Diehl emigrated from England to the United States in his early 20s and hustled throughout his life to earn a living as a painter. In […]
