“It’s the sensibility that people relate to — the design. It’s very clever,” says Jim Bakker, unfolding some of Vernon Smith’s famed batiks — fabrics dyed with a wax-resist method […]
Art
GALLERIES
Room 68 Sets Up Shop in Wellfleet
Works by Katrine Hildebrandt and Tim McCool are on view
Brent Refsland and Eric Portnoy, who own Room 68 in Provincetown, and now in Wellfleet, too, are, in some ways, spur-of-the-moment people. Their Provincetown gallery started as a pop up. […]
MUSEUMS
Walking Through — and on — History
A look at “cARTography” at the Cape Cod Museum of Art
What happens when you put maps in an art museum? First, one starts looking at them as art. A 1647 map depicting New England and New Netherland, for example, has […]
ARTISTS
Breon Dunigan Brings the Inanimate to Life
‘Trophy head’ sculptures that examine people’s attachment to objects
In her Truro home, the sculptor Breon Dunigan bends to calm her lively puppy while four of her majestic horned “trophy heads” observe the scene silently from above. “Much of […]
ARTISTS
Judy Pfaff Loves Surprises
Sculptures and works on paper that are beautifully unpredictable
Judy Pfaff is home after returning from Sweden two nights before. “I’m calling from Tivoli, N.Y., trying to get used to what time it is now,” she says brightly. If […]
GALLERIES
Robert Henry: Still Riffing After All These Years
In a pandemic’s isolation, he finds joy in art
In the fall of 2019, before the Covid lockdown, Robert Henry had a memorable solo show called “Ship of State” at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis. The […]
ARTISTS
James Balla Paints a Symphony of Color
A Provincetown gallerist circles back to his own art
In the text accompanying James Balla’s Into the blue again, the catalogue for his 2013 show at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, he wrote, “Good art is always elegant. […]
GALLERIES
The Indelible Life and Landscapes of Brenda Horowitz
At 89, she continues to interpret the Outer Cape in brilliant color
“I’m always working,” Brenda Horowitz says, sitting in her North Truro studio with her right wrist wrapped in a tight bandage, the result of a recent fall. “I don’t stop. […]
ARTISTS
Janice Redman Explores the Secret Life of Objects
Her sculptures make amends with the past
“My work is always somehow connected to the body, to something that feels intimate,” says Janice Redman. In her Truro studio, she works surrounded by sculptures in various stages of […]
ARTISTS
Dina Brodsky Finds Her Scale
Her tondo paintings are exquisite Cape glimpses
“There are internal painters, and there are external painters. I’m very definitely external,” says Dina Brodsky from Falmouth, where she’s on vacation from New York City. “I’m interested in the […]
ABSTRACTION
Rick Wrigley Has Entered Phase Three
In which the furniture maker and builder turns to sculpture
It has been said that if you let an artist work long enough, he’ll eventually start working abstractly. If true, this certainly applies to Rick Wrigley, who says his career […]
ARTISTS
René Romero Schuler Goes Beneath the Surface
Voguish paintings that are more than meets the eye
From a distance, René Romero Schuler’s paintings might be written off as decorative, fashionable, or pretty. And that wouldn’t be entirely wrong: they are pretty. But that’s only part of […]
ARTISTS
The Abstract, Atmospheric Art of Sarah Lutz
She uses joy in her toolbox
Sarah Lutz’s art elicits a rare response in the viewer, who not only enjoys looking at the paintings, but thinks that it might be enjoyable to meet the artist herself. […]
QUEER ART
David Wojnarowicz: From Downtown to Our Town
The late art provocateur makes his Cape debut
Walking by 445 Commercial St. in Provincetown when the shades are pulled down, you’d hardly know there’s a priceless link to queer history inside. Once home to the Kiley Court […]
STILL LIFE
Larry Collins Cures the Pandemic With a Pencil
A show of drawings reveals the art of isolation
When the Covid lockdown hit in March 2020, Provincetown artist Larry Collins was living alone in his small condo in the middle of town. “Here I was, in my 70s, […]
