“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, […]
Art
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 […]
ART HISTORY
Vernon Smith Returns to Provincetown
Bakker Gallery shows the late artist’s batiks, metalwork, and woodwork
“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 […]
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 […]
