Moths recently invaded Helen Grimm’s Truro studio. They flutter across a group of small canvases lying on a table and cover her large-scale paintings lining the walls. On some canvases, […]
Art
THE STROLL
Wellfleet, Saturday Night
Seen and heard on the weekly gallery walk
AMZehnder Gallery (25 Bank St.) “I may be a little biased,” says Peter Ormsby, visiting from New York City. “My mom’s the artist.” When challenged to pick his favorite canvas […]
MUSEUMS
Jane Kogan’s Wide-Ranging Retrospective
In her current show at PAAM, the artist shows us how to change, in style
When viewers enter the two rooms at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum that comprise Jane Kogan’s retrospective show, they step into a staring match. At one end of the […]
ARTISTS
Kelly Knight Preserves Mystery in Her Art
Encouraging viewers to take comfort in the unknown
In artist Kelly Knight’s basement studio in Providence, R.I., her “studio buddy” Claude, a snow-white domestic dove, coos insistently. He’s calling for a mate, says Knight. Domestic doves are family […]
ARTISTS
MiYoung Sohn Makes Things — Whatever the Circumstance
An adaptable artist reimagines common materials
When MiYoung Sohn moved to Provincetown, it was the flowers that struck her. She arrived from New York in September 2021 to work as the visual arts coordinator at the […]
THE STROLL
Provincetown, Friday Night
Seen and heard on the weekly gallery walk
Packard Gallery II (372 Commercial St.) Koryna Boudinot is from San Francisco but now lives in Wellfleet. She likes the Packard Gallery because of the space — there’s plenty of […]
ARTISTS
A Life Lived for Art and Love
A film and exhibition shed light on the late Truro artist Nancy Ellen Craig
Christine and Michael Jones first encountered Truro artist Nancy Ellen Craig in 2010, five years before she died. After meeting them at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, Craig invited […]
IN THE STUDIO
Donald Beal’s Search for Beauty and Dynamism
The Provincetown artist doesn’t take shortcuts in pursuit of making a painting work
In Donald Beal’s Provincetown studio, in the rear of his Alden Street home, a large painting of two women leaving the water hangs on a central wall. After working on […]
ARTISTS
Heads of Strength and Autonomy
Alicia Henry’s portraits suggest experiences both unique to her community and universal in scope
The Fine Arts Work Center hosted a lush and virtuosic exhibition last summer titled “Glitch Aesthetics.” In it were two heads by Alicia Henry, crudely cut from stained fabric, their […]
WOMEN’S WEEKEND
In Perpetual Pursuit of a Creative Life
Natalia Zukerman will lead a workshop on unlocking difficult stories for Women’s Weekend in Provincetown
Natalia Zukerman has taken a “long and winding road,” to where she is now, she says on the phone. Primarily known as a piercing singer-songwriter and stalwart touring musician, Zukerman […]
ART AND ACCESS
The Art of Buying and Selling Artists’ Work
A passion for art and a dedication to artists are often more important than profit
“I wanted this room to be quiet,” says Gail Bell, sitting in her Wellfleet living room. Outside the windows, traffic and pedestrians flow along Main Street, but she has created […]
MUSEUMS
Sky Power Paints With Abandon
The artist’s vibrant pictures reveal a lifelong pursuit of new horizons
Sky Power points to a loosely defined shape in her painting Interior of a Landscape. It could be a boat floating in water: an orange rectangle rising from a half-moon […]
MOTHER’S DAY
An Artist’s Maternal Legacy
For Breon Dunigan, it’s not just about the art, ‘but how you artfully do things’
Sculptor Breon Dunigan comes from a long line of local artists. Her great-grandparents were the first in her family to move to the Outer Cape, drawn by Charles Hawthorne’s Cape […]
IN THE STUDIO
Julia Felsenthal Finds No Place to Hide in Her Paintings
The artist and writer explores ‘the ever-changing present’ in her watercolor seascapes and portraits
Julia Felsenthal likes to paint the same thing over and over again. In her Orleans studio — a small room in her house overlooking Pleasant Bay — stacks of watercolors […]
MUSEUMS
Will Barnet’s Search for Meaning
An artist and teacher used form to evoke deep feeling in works inspired by the natural world
Far from the heroic scale and subject matter of works by many of his contemporaries, Will Barnet’s flat, crisp compositions often depicted women (and their cats) in domestic spaces. Born […]
