Agnes Walden is a teacher, but her paintings won’t teach you a thing. She speaks lucidly about painting with the off-the-cuff exactitude of an expert, but her paintings are inscrutable. […]
Art
WHALE WATCH
Mark Adams Goes Big to Visualize Ocean Science
The scientist-artist is working on a dance floor at the Crown
The centerpiece of Mark Adams’s newest exhibition was born from the gift of a sail. Adams says the artist Jimmy Lee Curtis often gathers materials to repurpose from thrift stores […]
FREQUENCIES
Tinja Ruusuvuori Practices Giving Up Control
In her radio station, the FAWC fellow taps into a collective imagination
In Tinja Ruusuvuori’s studio at the Fine Arts Work Center, some of her recent artwork is in piles on the floor. One piece that she recently showed at the Provincetown […]
COLLAGE
Astonishing Propositions of Momentary Liberation
LaRissa Rogers reveals the threats that lurk in what looks like beauty
The kids are at play. They’re on swings and trampolines. These contraptions allow them to fly, even if only for split seconds. They’re resisting gravity, getting out from under its […]
SHADOW NOTES
Pushing Color at the North Light Studio
Lauren Byrne and students paint their way through the winter at the Cape School of Art
“You remember how to start?” Lauren Byrne asks a student. Byrne is giving a quick painting tutorial. “Start with the color note you see the best, and everything after that […]
ARTISTS
In Dialogue With the Past
The cerebral meets the emotional in Micha Patiniott’s work
Micha Patiniott can find the sensuality in a contorted body just as easily as he finds it in the movement of planets. His dreamlike minimalist paintings are united by “this […]
SEEING DOUBLE
Zeinab Shahidi Marnani’s Tricks of the Light
At FAWC, art that makes us question what we see
Zeinab Shahidi Marnani’s studio on Pearl Street in Provincetown is dimly lit. In one corner sits a lounge chair with yellow pillows on it. A desk in the middle of […]
WINTER SCENES
Jim Broussard, Before the Light Changes
Painting Provincetown plein-air in winter
It’s 36 degrees on a February afternoon, and Provincetown painter Jim Broussard is standing with his easel on Tremont Street next to a melting pile of snow. “I got my […]
COVER UP
Bye Bye, Brown Paper
This winter on Commercial Street, some empty storefronts glow with color
“Anything is better than brown paper,” says Marc Guerrette, the brains and the brawn behind “Winter Windows,” a project that aims to remedy a problem that has been bothering Guerrette […]
THE STROLL
In the Wellfleet Winter, Some Summer Sun
A strong showing of landscapes and figures with a healthy dose of abstraction
There was something quite unexpected in Wellfleet on Friday evening, Feb. 9: a full parking lot. People chatted, keys in hands, heading to their cars outside the public library. This […]
TEXTURES
The Intimacy of the Everyday
Oscar Morel’s collages escape the constraints of canvases
From a young age, Oscar Morel exhibited an interest in feeling, touch, and texture. “My mom used to call me Toca Mano — her nickname for ‘touchy’ — because whenever […]
IMPOSSIBLE ART
Beauty, Brokenness, and Moral Complexity
Galería Cubana’s annual art tour in Cuba is a revelation
Luis Rodríguez Noa, a young Cuban painter and graphic artist, won first prize in his country’s National Contest of Posters in 2005 for a witty entry commemorating the 400th anniversary […]
PORTALS
In Poland With Abraham Storer
In a solo show, the painter finds flashes of recognition in the unfamiliar
Abraham Storer was standing in a cemetery in Gliwice, Poland in the fall of 2020. He wasn’t there to mourn but to paint — positioned with easel, canvas, and palette […]
ARTISTS
Joan Hopkins Coughlin Works From Memory
Her landscapes and still lifes reflect on her times in Wellfleet and Jamaica
Joan Hopkins Coughlin’s Wellfleet home is perched on a hill overlooking Duck Creek, a subject she’s continually returned to in her paintings. By the door in her kitchen hangs a […]
INTER-MEDIATE
Jeff Gibbons’s Root Balls, Tiny Chairs, and Talking Rocks
An artist conjures surreal worlds that evoke whimsy and worry
Inside his studio off Pearl Street, Jeff Gibbons is mulling over his latest work, Orion’s Belty Button. The earthen sculpture, a helmet-size hornbeam root ball, rests on a wooden pedestal, […]
