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The Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Foundation Grantees, 2011
Provincetown Art Association and Museum is proud to announce the recipients of the Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Foundation Grant.
Applications for the 2012 grant cycle are currently being updated and will be available on November 1, 2011.
Congratulations to Joan Ryan of East Boston, MA; Karen Cappotto of Provincetown, MA; and Deborah Martin of Twentynine Palms, CA.
This year’s jurors were Patricia Hickson, Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art; Milena Kalinovska, Director of Public Programs, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; and William Stover, Independent Curator and former Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
The recipients were each awarded $10,000 and a three person exhibition at PAAM in fall 2012. There were more than 250 applicants, hailing from 32 states and two countries. Applicants ranged in age from 45 to 84, and were 59% female and 41% male.
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Deborah Martin
Deborah Martin is a Los Angeles and Southern Mojave based contemporary realist painter, fine art photographer and curator. A site-specific artist, her work eulogizes the abandoned habitats and domestic landscapes of small town America. Much of her practice emerges in collaborative conversation with writers and video artists, and takes form through exhibitions, installations and publications. She is recognized for several pivotal bodies of work: Narrow Lands (Provincetown, MA), Home on the Strange: In Search of the Salton Sea (Salton Sea, CA), and America (US). Martin received her BFA and BS Masters of Arts in Teaching, Art Education from The Museum School of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University.
Recipient Martin writes "although trained as a painter in college, after graduating I turned to abstract works on paper and later to fine art photography. I returned to painting to establish myself as an American realist painter... As an under-recognized mid-career artist many opportunities come with a great deal of work advocating for oneself... A grant would essentially be a significant vote of confidence increasing my capacity to continue on my road to a higher level in my professional career."
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Green Trailer |
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Groom |
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Karen Cappotto
Karen Cappotto studied at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA; Boston College; and Oxford University. Her work is in various public and private collections and she has received multiple awards and prizes for her mixed media constructions. Recently she was awarded joint first prize in the 2010 international Picture Works Competition in Ireland. In March 2011 she was included in a three-person exhibition at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum titled Beyond Surface.
"The Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed grant brings the most desired element to studio work, that of the gift of uninterrupted studio time," according to Cappotto. "It will impact the development of the conceptual as well as technical level of my work."
Of her work, Cappotto writes, "these paintings are about place. I feel native to these landscapes. In a way these are meditations about connecting."
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Bayside |
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Night Stables |
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Joan Ryan
Joan Ryan is a Boston based artist and is a Professor of Drawing at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. She received her MFA from Boston University in 1982 studying with James Weeks and John Wilson. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Most recently she was Artist in Residence at DADA Post, Berlin Germany where she exhibited he work. She is affiliated with Soho 20 Gallery in NY, The Drawing Center NY, NY, and The Drawing Project in Boston, MA. Her project O King was included in the Women's Caucus for Art National Conference panel on Public Memory. This project was also exhibited in a solo exhibition at The Cambridge Multi Cultural Center in Cambridge, MA and in 2010 at Smith College, Oreseman Gallery.
Ryan writes, "in this body of work I explore imagined interiors of the past that play with appropriated images and children's drawings. Memories of innocence interact with the paraphernalia of the commodification of childhood. This commodification is addressed through images of toys and play, recognizing the role of gender specific toys of the formation of identity".
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Not So Holy
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F U Superman
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