Reggie Cabral bought the first landscape painting Hilda Neily sold in Provincetown over 50 years ago with $100 worth of bar change. Cabral, who owned the Atlantic House from 1949 […]
Art
LAND MATTERS
An Artist Gets to the Truth of This Place
Pete Hocking turns experience into gesture
When Pete Hocking wanders in the dunes of Provincetown and Wellfleet, he stands quietly and listens to the ocean. He feels the cool air coming off the Atlantic, the heat […]
THE OUTSIDER
Father Figures
Behind the faces Cassandra Complex paints
The faces, all handsome, all angular, none smiling, stare right back at the viewer. The way the paintings combine glamour and danger, they might be models’ portraits or mug shots […]
RETROSPECTIVE
A Forgotten Artist Comes to Life
Hans Hofmann deemed Mary Rogers’s work ‘outstanding’
Provincetown, the 1950s: Billie Holiday and Barbra Streisand are booked at the Atlantic House. Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut are meeting for cocktails. And Abstract Expressionist Hans Hofmann, considered one […]
TAKING SHAPE
An Artist’s First Language Is a Colorful One
For Barbara Cohen, practice makes imperfect
In Provincetown, the tide’s comings and goings are always in view. But in a small fishing village on Paros Island in Greece, where Barbara Cohen had an artist residency this […]
RESIDENCY
Free to Frame a Boundless World
In the austerity of the dunes, Lili Chin finds a creative reset
Living for three weeks in a dune shack tucked in a hollow by the Atlantic, Lili Chin found the landscape both daunting and inspiring. “There’s a boundlessness that’s almost intimidating,” […]
PERFORMANCE ART
Creating the Future From Pieces of the Past
Lee and Tennessee spotlights two artists who reconfigured their Provincetown memories
In 1976, artist Lee Krasner took scissors to a pile of still-life charcoal and figure drawings from her late-1930s art classes with Provincetown’s Hans Hofmann. She turned the triangular shards […]
CUMULONIMBUS
It’s Cloud Illusions He Recalls
Layers of color shape Steve Bowersock’s imaginary skies
It’s never a clear day in a Bowersock painting. His clouds — rising over sparkling water or looming over farmland — suggest narratives, but ethereal ones. “My skies aren’t real,” […]
LAND AND WATER
The Disorienting Clarity of a Captured Moment
David Gonville’s paintings are like jam sessions, recorded
In David Gonville’s painting July at Davis Farm, the outline of a gable-roofed house, sketched onto a landscape of yellow, looks as though it might float away. Not only that […]
I WITNESS
The Viewer and the Viewed in the ‘Eye of the Storm’
Susan Bee’s work encompasses calm and turbulence, poetry and painting
Stare into Susan Bee’s Eye of the Storm, a painting prominently displayed at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and you’ll observe bundles of tightly knit red, white, and blue […]
VISUAL ART
Wayfinding in Paint and Pliable Planes
Liz Collins is making art that’s ‘quick and dirty’
Liz Collins takes some of her artwork off the wall of her studio at Provincetown’s Fine Arts Work Center. She lays it on the scuffed-up cement floor. The works are […]
PAINTING
The Haunted Memories of Larry Collins
The artist’s work looks back at the Vietnam War and the recognition of his sexuality
Provincetown artist Larry Collins stands over the kitchen sink in his apartment on Alden Street stirring an iced coffee. Every turn of the spoon is considered. Collins’s hair is neatly […]
THE STROLL
Wellfleet, Saturday Night
Seen and heard on the weekly gallery walk
AMZehnder Gallery (25 Bank St. No. 3) Kate McConnell, who splits her year between Provincetown and Washington D.C., picks out a piece from Lorrie La Pointe’s 21 “Emotional Landscapes.” Each […]
THE STROLL
Provincetown, Friday Night
Seen and heard on the weekly gallery walk
Cortile Gallery (230 Commercial St.) It’s been 24 hours since the Carnival parade ended, and Provincetown is still looking for a street party. Across from the Cortile Gallery, a Dixieland […]
POSSIBILITIES OF PAINT
The Slipperiness of Realism
A group exhibition of work by former FAWC fellows adds sparks of magic to the mundane
“Anything is possible” is written at the top of a painting by Sam Messer currently on view in “Edge Conditions,” a group exhibition of work by former visual arts fellows […]
