Nineteen writing and visual arts fellows arrived last month at the Fine Arts Work Center for seven-month residencies in Provincetown. One more fellow, Ellen Akimoto, is in Germany dealing with […]
Art
IN THE STUDIO
The Complete Works of Bert Yarborough
A look inside his overflowing, colorful Truro workspace
From the outside, Bert Yarborough’s Truro studio, located in an industrial complex, doesn’t look like much. It is housed in a row of identical rented units, each with a windowless […]
GALLERIES
Chris Firger Gives Cape Landscapes an Early Modern Flair
Inspired by Canadian masters, he makes paintings that ‘jump off the wall’
“The root of a lot of what I do is the Group of Seven,” Chris Firger says, speaking by phone from his Salem studio after a long day’s work preparing […]
ARTISTS
Frank Milby: Friend and Mentor
He and Katrina Walker share a retrospective at the Commons
Katrina Walker first met Frank Milby in 1983 at Provincetown’s Café Edwige, now closed, where Milby’s wife, Karen, worked. “Frank came up to our table,” recalls Walker. “He looked at […]
SCULPTORS
For Susan Lyman, Art Doesn’t Just Grow on Trees
Her new show is a surreal reflection of the natural world in distress
“I’m not a city person,” says the artist Susan Lyman, chatting in the far East End Provincetown home she designed and built in 1987 with her late husband, Doug Trumbo, […]
ART AS CELEBRATION
The Quirky and Quotable Ellen Anthony
The artist has spent the ‘second half’ of her life listening to dreams
“I’m interested in weird,” says Truro artist Ellen Anthony. “So much of our culture is about ‘getting it right’ and ‘doing it well,’ and I’m just not into that. Take […]
PUSH AND PULL
Rejecting ‘Pretty Pictures,’ an Artist Cuts a New Direction
Daniel Wagner slices up and reassembles his own paintings
“I think it grew out of my frustration as a painter,” Daniel Wagner says, looking around at the many canvases lying about his cluttered Provincetown Commons studio. “What do I […]
RENEWED
A First Peek Into FAWC’s New Heart
In the renovated Walker Gallery, an exhibition that unites past and future
PROVINCETOWN — After more than five years, the renovation of the Fine Arts Work Center campus is nearly complete. “This is the beginning of our shakedown, to see what it’s […]
IN THE STUDIO
Salvatore Del Deo: Routine and Ritual
A student of Hensche and Dickinson embodies their practices
Salvatore Del Deo first came to Provincetown in 1946 to study painting with Henry Hensche. “When I drove to the Cape the first time, it took six hours from Providence,” […]
NATIVE ART
Hawk and Sierra Henries Create Beauty out of Wood
Father and daughter are Weidlinger house residents this week
Hawk Henries has been making hand-carved wooden flutes since as long as his daughter Sierra, 34, can remember. “He’s one of a very small handful of people doing the work […]
ZINES
A Different Kind of ‘Free Press’
Cape zines offer opportunities for art and satire
“An overarching thesis of mine is that stodgy old P’town takes itself a bit too seriously and that the people who live there have gotten rather boring,” writes Sue Edge, […]
ARTISTS
Nancy Bowen Makes Intergenerational Amends
Through her installation, the Salem witch trials reverberate
Walking through Spectral Evidence, Nancy Bowen’s installation at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, is humorously odd and gravely unsettling in equal measure. Twenty squat grave markers with wings and […]
ARTISTS
Donna Pomponio Paints the Human Experience
The artist of ‘Free to Be’ finds the person underneath the portrait
“I’m not a portrait painter,” says Donna Pomponio. “What I am trying to do is get under the forehead and into the psychology of the person — to peel back, […]
ARTISTS
Finding Inspiration in Negative Space
Damion Silver’s show in Eastham is bold, bright, and graphic
Around the start of the pandemic, Damion Silver was working on a sculpture in his studio when he noticed that the shadows cast on the floor made interesting patterns. That […]
ARTISTS
Karen Cappotto Brings Back Some Souvenirs
‘Why do people save tokens?’ the Provincetown painter and collagist asks
“My artwork is about telling stories,” says the artist Karen Cappotto. “I always thought that I would become a writer, but I discovered that telling my story visually works better […]
