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Tabitha Vevers

    Tabitha Vevers Ascends

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    In a show opening Friday, Aug. 20 and running through Sept. 8, Albert Merola Gallery, 424 Commercial St. in Provincetown, presents new works by Tabitha Vevers titled Ascension.

    Triggered by the Covid lockdown, Vevers takes a break from her usual figures to focus on still, contemplative paintings. “I found myself creating meditative, mandala-like images as a means of navigating the pandemic period,” she says. “I am an optimist at heart and while the work bears witness to our shared experience, I hope it also points the way to calmly rising above and beyond it.”

    Even with the figures absent, it still looks like Vevers — especially with the gold leaf and rubbery forms — though starker and emptier. It’s just as compelling as she continues to break new ground executed with thoughtful precision.

    ‘Round and Round’ at Albert Merola

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    The Albert Merola Gallery rings in the 2021 season with “In and Out and Round and Round,” a group show of 15 gallery artists. It features luminous work by Tabitha Vevers, powerful abstractions by Irene Lipton, sculptures by Paul Bowen, a gilded painting of a coiled snake by Karen Heagle, and pandemic-inspired work by Esteban del Valle, who is having a big year between a Provincetown Public Art Foundation mural and the cover of Provincetown Arts magazine. The exhibit opens Friday, June 4th and runs through June 30th.

     

    Spring Courses at Open University

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    The Open University of Wellfleet has announced its virtual spring courses, now available for registration at openuniversityofwellfleet.org. They include “Stephen Sondheim, Songwriter,” with Marc Strauss; “Great Printmakers in New England,” with Lewis Shepard; “Comparing Plays of Recollection by Eugene O’Neill and Brian Friel,” with Steve Reynolds; “Here Comes Dickens!” with Rhoda Flaxman; “Politics in Fiction and Film: Lost in Translation,” with Linda B. Miller; and “Studying the ArtStranders,” with Grace Hopkins.

    Hopkins’s course will take place Tuesdays beginning April 20, 10 a.m. to noon. “The artStrand gallery was a unique endeavor in Provincetown from 2005 to 2016,” writes Hopkins in the course description. “It was a gallery owned and operated by the artists, rather than a single owner, a director, or a collective.” There were six male and six female artists, all of them still active today: Breon Dunigan, Maryalice Johnston, Irene Lipton, Sarah Lutz, Anna Poor, Tabitha Vevers, Bailey Bob Bailey, Paul Bowen, Jay Critchley, Jim Peters, Daniel Ranalli, and Bert Yarborough.

    Boston Show Is ‘Figuratively Provincetown’

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    “Figuratively Provincetown,” an exhibition curated by Romolo Del Deo at LaMontagne Gallery, 460 Harrison Ave. in Boston, is on view through February 6th. It is also online at lamontagnegallery.com.

    “The history of Provincetown art is usually divided, fairly neatly, into two well understood historical groups, the ‘plein-air’ painters of light and nature who defined the first wave at the turn of the 20th century, and the abstract painters who dominated American art in the second half 20th century,” the gallery announcement states. “Rather we are presenting artists spanning the history of Provincetown art and stylistic approaches who defined their work through the use of the figure.”

    The featured artists are Jennifer Amadeo-Holl, Varujan Boghosian, Romolo Del Deo, Salvatore Del Deo, Esteban Del Valle, Joseph Diggs, John Dowd, Rob DuToit, Breon Dunigan, Vico Fabbris, Alan Feltus, Bob Henry, Penelope Jencks, Karen Ojala, Richard Pepitone, Jim Peters, Paul Resika, Steven Skollar, Tabitha Vevers, and Erika Wastrom.

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