Jamie O’Neill first became fascinated by stories of the past while growing up on Nantucket. Now a father, he is still pulled by history as he turns his art to […]
Art
THE STROLL
Provincetown, Friday Night
Seen and heard on the weekly gallery walk
Berta Walker Gallery (208 Bradford St.) Last week there was a fishnet full of famous folk and local art lovers outside the East End galleries, but tonight it’s raining and […]
GALLERIES
A Group Exhibition That Sizzles With Summertime Energy
Four highlights from ‘Summer Escape,’ a season-long exhibition in two parts at Gaa
Gaa Gallery’s current exhibition presents the work of 17 contemporary artists, many of whom have never before been shown in Provincetown. Curated by Gavin Kennedy, the exhibition offers materially rich […]
ARTISTS
Monica Rozak Is Always Looking Up
The Eastham artist ponders her place in the world by painting the sky
Monica Rozak often walks along the bluff by Marconi Beach when the sun is coming up or going down. “I’m really drawn to the sky,” she says. Her landscape paintings, […]
ARTISTS
A Language of Dualities
Joe Diggs paints the many meanings of history
The painter Joe Diggs has had ancestors living on Cape Cod since the 1800s. His step-great-grandfather, Gideon Gomes, was a Cape Verdean free man of color who bought the large […]
WORKSHOP
‘Attention Is the Beginning of Devotion’
Experiencing ‘re-wilding’ in a Castle Hill workshop
TRURO — On a reed-covered stretch of sand jutting out into Pamet Harbor, five students and their instructor dip their natural brushes — a broken-in-half reed, a corner of a […]
THE STROLL
Wellfleet, Saturday Night
Seen and heard on the weekly gallery stroll
Jeff Soderbergh Gallery (11B West Main St.) Artist Lisa Barsumian of Jamestown, R.I. is showing some of her work in the Jeff Soderbergh Gallery. This Saturday-night stroll is great, she […]
ARTISTS
Bringing Miami to the Cape in Color and Coral
Nathalie Ferrier’s show at Farm Projects, “Mapping the Magic,” rejects two-dimensionality
For the French-born, Truro-based multimedia artist Nathalie Ferrier, artmaking is inextricable from place. She greeted me outside her home, barefoot, for a tour down the sandy path on which she […]
GOOD HABITS
PAAM Celebrates Mira Schor the Painter
‘The Summer Studio’ is a reflection of Schor’s decades of artmaking in Provincetown
Mira Schor’s life as an artist wasn’t predetermined, though her parents, Ilya and Resia Schor, were both artists. “You have to make the decision for yourself,” says Schor. As an […]
ARTISTS
Conjuring a World Without Horizons
Bruce Ackerson’s paintings tell stories of cinematic scale
There are no horizon lines in many of Bruce Ackerson’s oil paintings. The artist’s point of view in these works floats high above crowded scenes, capturing an action-filled landscape that […]
SCULPTURE
The Art of Wind and Water
Roy Staab’s ephemeral structures float in and out of view
Artist Roy Staab created two ephemeral land art installations in the wetlands of Provincetown and Truro this summer. He completed the first one — the wide swirl of interconnected curves […]
ARTISTS
A Painter Works From the Edge of Combustion
Dakota X turns muscle cars on rugged landscapes into objects of veneration
Dakota X ran a house painting business in Provincetown in the 1990s to support an artistic career. Back then, Dakota went by the name Deborah Martin, lived in town with […]
IN THE STUDIO
Joerg Dressler Mixes Things Up
Reflecting on Provincetown, personal narratives, and the natural world
On a summer morning in Provincetown, the door of Joerg Dressler’s Pleasant Street studio is wide open, easing the boundary between the controlled calm inside and the rhythms of pedestrians […]
PLAY DAY
Bob Staake Does It His Way
The prolific illustrator’s bountiful retrospective is ‘not even one percent’ of his work
“I can tell you right now as a fact,” says Bob Staake, “that a six-year-old child has never walked into a bookstore and laid down $18.99 for a children’s picture […]
ART REVIEW
Like a Love Letter, FAWC Exhibition Is Full of Feeling
Heidi Hahn curates a selection of work from former FAWC fellows
In the curatorial statement for “Everyone We Know Is Here,” an exhibition of work by past Fine Arts Work Center visual arts fellows, Heidi Hahn writes about frustration, inspiration, heartache, […]
