Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start of summer and, with it, the gallery season. Opening Friday, May 28 at AMP Gallery is “these past few years,” a show of […]
Art
SQUID INK
We Call It Ink, but What Is the Stuff Squid Squirt?
Pseudomorphs and other cephalopod strategies
“I already have plans.” I hear myself allow that particular evasive phrase to slip out more as the weather warms and the squidding season arrives. Especially when someone tries to […]
COMIC STRIP ART
Karl Stevens Turns His Penny Strip Into a Graphic Memoir
The book’s peerlessly inked pages are on view in Provincetown
Most anyone who spends time with a cat will ask what goes on behind the impenetrable stare of its almond-shaped eyes. The Boston-based comic artist and painter Karl Stevens posits […]
ARTISTS
The Enchanting Art of Bunny Pearlman
Her understated works hint at a vibrant and roving life
Just inside the front door of Bunny Pearlman’s Provincetown apartment are stacks of small square fresco panels that she has been assembling in preparation for “The Last Leopard — Avoiding […]
TRANSITIONS
Maxwell Keller Is New Indie Arts Editor
Saskia Maxwell Keller will succeed Howard Karren as arts editor of the Provincetown Independent, beginning with the issue of May 13, Publisher Teresa Parker announced this week. Karren is retiring […]
FRAMING THE NEWS
Mira Schor and the Art of Misrepresentation
In a FAWC talk, she explores the role of politics in artists’ work
“This is not political,” the painting proclaims. Its flowing script, on an orangey background, is surrounded by a rectangular black frame, anchored by a vertical post. At first glance, the […]
SKIN DEEP
To Tattoo Artist Ephy Kurucz, the Body Is a Canvas
Her adopted home of Provincetown is a ‘pirate hideaway’
At the end of Bob Gasoi Memorial Art Alley, at 290 Commercial St. in Provincetown, as you descend the stairs to Coastline Tattoo’s small, underground shop, you enter an otherworld […]
ARTISTS
Jane Lincoln Has Had ‘Enough’ of Gun Violence
Her paper creations are powerful and visceral
“Enough is enough, and it’s time for us to take action,” said U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse after the March 22 shooting at the King Soopers grocery in Boulder, Colo. At […]
ART EDUCATION
For Illustrator Neal Nichols Jr., Drawing Is Like Breathing
He travels the world, teaching people the secrets of his art
On an early spring day, Neal Nichols Jr. stands on Hamblen Island in Wellfleet, overlooking Duck Creek and Wellfleet Harbor. “I have a photographic memory,” he says, tracing the view […]
APPRECIATION
Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions
Happy 100th, Al Jaffee
On March 13, 2021, the irreverent Mad magazine artist , a part-time Provincetown resident, turned 100 years old. Jaffee is best known for his “fold-in” comic illustrations, which transformed one […]
ARTISTS
For John Choly, Art Has to Have Heart
With deceptively simple paintings, he sends a message of love
“I paint like a child,” says John Choly with a smile and a twinkle in his eye. “And I own that.” In his Provincetown studio, he is surrounded by shelves […]
EXHIBITS
Local Artists Respond to Pandemic With a Show Called ‘When’
Traci Harmon-Hay is joined by Megan Hinton and Susie Nielsen
By Susannah Elisabeth Fulcher “When will this end? When will we go back to normal? When will we see each other again? These are questions we’ve been asking ourselves since […]
PROVINCETOWN CLASSICS
The Bold, Fantastic Art of Dorothy Loeb
Reckoning with a woman artist’s local legacy
If you want to see Dorothy Loeb’s paintings, the best place to go is not a museum but the Residences at Seashore Point, at 100 Alden St. in Provincetown. Specifically, […]
PAINTING
Erna Partoll’s Art Distills the Brilliant Colors of Her Emotions
Provincetown has been her home and inspiration for 50 years
“I think of painting as capturing time,” says artist Erna Partoll. In the sunny kitchen of her Provincetown home, where she has been holed up during the pandemic, Partoll points […]
