The current work of Truro-based artist Robert Cardinal is a solid series of mature paintings, simple scenes of manmade objects in nature. His harmonious compositions blend complementary colors with definite, […]
Art
ARTISTS
Sky Power’s Abstract Dreamscapes: Emotions in Oil
A Provincetown artist retires and recharges
When we enter this world as newborns, we experience our surroundings visually as forms, shadows, and, gradually, shades of color. We recognize our mother’s face before all else, then become […]
Picturing Mom
Local artists and their mothers — a Mother’s Day album
On the Outer Cape, Mother’s Day, on the second Sunday of May, is typically the time when stores and restaurants reopen and the spring thaw starts in earnest. Snowbirds, both […]
Science Meets Art in Dan Ranalli’s Compositions
The Wellfleet photographer takes Broto into the future
In the course of an artist’s lifetime, a recurrent theme may emerge almost of its own accord, with an urgency that cannot be ignored. That has certainly been the case […]
ARTISANS
Amid a Crisis, Four Cape Artists Refine Their Craft
With prospects uncertain, they focus on creativity
Cape artisans who work in jewelry and stained glass rely heavily on craft shows and stores to sell their work. With things shut down during the coronavirus crisis, and the […]
INK
Kris Smith’s Art Gets Under Your Skin
A tattoo artist closes shop and pursues other projects during the pandemic
In 2009, Kris Smith launched two brave new ventures in Provincetown. One was Coastline Tattoo, his tattoo studio, at 290A Commercial St., at the end of the Bob Gasoi Memorial […]
APPRECIATION
Wolf Kahn’s Provincetown Stories
The painter, who died at 92 in March, found a lifelong love here
My father, the painter Wolf Kahn, died at home in New York City on March 15, 2020, on the eve of my birthday, and just days before the city was […]
SCULPTURE
Akiko Jackson Creates Art for a Time of Grief
The FAWC fellow finds a home in Provincetown
Akiko Jackson is a second-year visual arts fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Her first fellowship year was 2013-14; the day she returned, this past October, Jackson […]
ARTISTS AT WORK
In His Art, Hiroyuki Hamada Seeks to Perfect, Not Provoke
Returning to FAWC as an artist in residence, he rediscovers himself
Hiroyuki Hamada arrived in Provincetown on March 1 to spend the month as a mid-career artist-in-residence at the Fine Arts Work Center. Now, though FAWC is closed to the public […]
PROJECTS
Provincetown V.F.W. Awaits Transformation
Jay Critchley’s art installation evolves through crisis
PROVINCETOWN —Jay Critchley invited members of the community — artists, writers, veterans — to join him on Wednesday, March 11 for a walk-through of the Veterans of Foreign Wars building […]
CREATIVE ISOLATION
Spirit Animal Scavenger Hunt
An activity for newfound days with children home from school
Many of us — parents, grandparents, and others — are finding ourselves in isolation with children home from school, probably for an extended period. Play dates are out, and no […]
CERAMICS
Taking Clay Sculpture to Its Expressive Limits at Castle Hill
Two ceramics artists make the most of winter residencies
Editor’s note: As we went to press with this issue we learned that the opening of the sculpture show by the artists profiled in this article, which was scheduled for […]
PAINTING
Show and Tell With Jake Troyli
The FAWC fellow offers an intimate tour of his art in process
It’s unusual for an accomplished artist to want to share with the public not only completed, polished work but also works-in-progress and even notes, sketches, and inspirations, offering an intimate […]
PUBLIC ART
Compact to Turn P’town VFW Into Art Installation
Jay Critchley invites veterans and members of the community to participate
PROVINCETOWN — It’s a project Jay Critchley had been contemplating for a while: he knew that the town had bought the Veterans of Foreign Wars building at 3 Jerome Smith […]
PAINTING
The Unruly Language of Autumn Wallace’s Art
Every picture tells a story at a FAWC opening
When encountering Autumn Wallace, one is reminded of a young Frida Kahlo, with her elegant poise, fiercely intelligent eyes, gender-fluid beauty, and determination not to let herself or her art […]
