A red sky is bisected by a darker red column, shadowed in black. Affixed are three paper fragments. The one at left is sheet music from Arthur Berger’s Trio for […]
Art
LOCAL COLOR
The Paintings of Felipe Ortiz Explode With Life
He’s driven by memories of his native Colombia and an older brother
Felipe Ortiz stands on the deck of Wellfleet’s Lechay House, the modernist former home of the late painter James Lechay. The view stretches across the pine forest all the way […]
What’s Past Is Prologue
A special art & photography edition for the New Year
We are grateful to the artists and photographers included here who have helped us create a New Year’s greeting card to the Independent’s readers.
ARTISTS
Cameron Barker Reveals Sweetness in Anonymous Sex
Depicting places thought to be dirty as tender and loving
“There are far more similarities to human touch than there are differences, regardless of who you love,” says artist Cameron Barker. “Because of the need many people feel to reject […]
ARTISTS
You Can’t Take the Wellfleet Out of Paul Suggs
His realist acrylic paintings reflect a community he has made his own
The first light of dawn casts shadows on the white walls of an Outer Cape home. At low tide on Wellfleet Bay, shimmering mudflats mirror the image of a moored […]
SEASCAPES
With an Eye on the Surf, Colin McGuire Paints Provincetown
A local artist contemplates the Outer Cape’s past and present
“The ocean is both beautiful and terrifying to me,” says Colin McGuire. An emerging local artist, he finds “limitless inspiration” in the seascapes of the Outer Cape and their “variety […]
SCULPTURE
Timothy Horn Turns a Passion for Jewelry Into Monumental Art
His natural forms evoke environmental awareness and fairy tales
Imagine traveling in a Cinderella carriage made of crystalized rock sugar. Or dancing under a translucent silicone chandelier, nine feet wide, in the shape of an enormous glowing jellyfish. These […]
PUBLISHING
Provincetown Arts Regroups and Moves Forward
A gala and auction celebrate its founder’s legacy
When Christopher Busa died suddenly at age 73 on June 20, of a congenital heart defect that had gone undetected, it was two days before the scheduled printing of the […]
INTO THE WOODS
Rich Blundell Connects the Cosmos to Art on Cape Cod
The Castle Hill resident explores the natural history of surfboards
“Everything I do, I do because I love nature, because I want to be connected to nature. That guides every decision in my life,” says Rich Blundell. He has come […]
MIXED MEDIA
Eco-inspired Artist Jamie Levine Was Hit Hard by Covid
Now a resident at Castle Hill in Truro, she’s reconnecting with nature
“I came to Truro to create cremation urns,” says sculptor Jamie Lehrhoff Levine, one of five resident artists who recently arrived at Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill. […]
POTPOURRI
‘Art From the Heart,’ Fund-raiser for HOW
Cigar-box challenge produces dazzling array
Provincetown’s Jim Broussard had the idea of getting artists to paint cigar boxes as a fund-raising effort, which he’s dubbed “Art From the Heart.” He hopes to make it an […]
GALLERIES
An Exhibit Makes Waves in Provincetown
Protest art gets a showcase at a time of crisis
Political protest art is not new, as anyone who has seen Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People, about an 1830 anti-royalist uprising in France, or Picasso’s Guernica, depicting the merciless bombing […]
CERAMICS
How Truro’s Isabel Souza Cultivates a Life in Art
Her pottery grows out of her personal story
“The Cape is where I want to be as an artist,” says ceramicist Isabel Souza. “The direction of my art is very influenced by my roots and my family history […]
AN APPRECIATION
Assemblage Artist Varujan Boghosian, 94, Was a Magician and Poet
He inspired peers and art lovers with ‘wisdom through humor’
PROVINCETOWN — In his poem “Chariot,” Stanley Kunitz, a founder of the Fine Arts Work Center, wrote of Varujan Boghosian, “In my friend’s studio, where curiosity runs the shop, and […]
EXHIBITIONS
Mimi Gross Reframes the Mayflower Story
Her PAAM installation depicts the Pilgrims’ arrival from the Wampanoags’ point of view
“It’s historical; it’s interactive; you walk through it,” Mimi Gross says. She is describing how museum-goers will experience The Arrival, 1620, her site-specific installation that is opening on Friday, Oct. […]
