Previous Exhibitions at PAAM - 2007 -2008
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Small Sculpture from the Permanent Collection
February 22 – April 13, 2008
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| Works by Varujan Boghosian, William Boogar, Paul Bowen, Doris Caesar, Mihran Chobanian, Pat De Gogorza, Edwin Reeves Euler, Joe Fiorello, Chaim Gross, Dimitri Hadzi, Elspeth Halvorsen, Harold Harris, Herbert Kallem, Lila Katzen, Jack Kearney, Yayoi Kusama, Irving Marantz, Richard Pepitone, Albin Polasek, James Rosati, Ellen Sidor, and Nancy Webb. |
PAAM's Youth Education Program: Tell Me What You See: An Exhibition Created by Veterans Memorial Elementary School Students Featuring the Art Work of Ross Moffett
March 14 – April 13, 2008
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Join us on Friday, March 14th, from 1-3pm, at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, as we celebrate the opening of Tell Me What You See: An Exhibition Created by Veterans Memorial Elementary School Students Featuring the Art Work of Ross Moffett. Twenty-seven first, second and third grade VMES students were invited to PAAM to participate in the Youth Education Program for Student Curating. Working collaboratively with PAAM’s Curator of Education Lynn Stanley, and VMES teachers Lisa Fox, Mary Beck, Martha Neal, and Valerie Valdez, the artwork of Ross Moffett was chosen as the focus of the exhibition. From the early 20th century through the 1960s, Ross Moffett played an integral role in Provincetown’s art community and the forming of the Provincetown Art Association. His vibrant studies of fishermen and figures working the land demonstrate his strong connection to his environment and offer insight into Provincetown’s past.
Students chose from a variety of Moffett’s painting and prints in PAAM’s permanent collection, and participated in writing exercises, in which they were asked to respond to and describe the work, along with the reasoning for their choice. This was followed by art making sessions facilitated by Visiting Artist Tracey Anderson; students worked with Anderson to create oil pastels drawings in response in their paintings and prints. Excerpts of writing, as well as the created artworks and collection pieces will be on display
Second grade teachers Martha Neal and Mary Beck emphasized that “the exposure to great art created in Provincetown raises each child’s awareness of local artists, and increases their appreciation for Provincetown’s rich art heritage and of PAAM offerings. As children have the opportunity to respond to works of art, we see development of language and writing skills as well as evolvement of both critical and creative thinking skills.”
The Provincetown Art Association and Museum’s Youth Education Program for Student Curating has worked for the past sixteen years with local schools across Cape Cod to create their own exhibitions utilizing works from PAAM’s permanent collection. PAAM gratefully acknowledges the Provincetown School System and teachers Lisa Fox, Mary Beck, Martha Neal, and Valerie Valdez for their support of this project.
There will be a special reception for students, educators, family and friends, held at 1pm on Friday, March 14th. A second reception will be held Friday evening, March 14th from 6-8pm, in conjunction with the opening of Patrick Webb: 25 Years. The public is warmly invited to attend both receptions. |
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Familiar Faces: Portraits at PAAM
featuring Nancy Ellen Craig, Philip Malicoat, Henry Hensche, Charles Hawthorne
February 29 – April 13, 2008
Curated by Breon Dunigan and Christine McCarthy
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The individuals who shaped the Provincetown art colony are featured in the commemorative exhibition. The selected works in the show unveil the exchange of inspiration and instruction that gave rise to Provincetown’s rich artistic heritage, extending through the decades to works by contemporary artists and teachers who keep that tradition alive.
Among the familiar individuals depicted are Hans Hofmann and Edwin Dickinson within paintings by Nancy Craig that appear in the company of comparable figurative works by Charles Hawthorne, Henry Hensche, Philip Malicoat, George Yater and others. Themes of student, teacher, mentor, and colleague are revealed in these works. An eighteen year old Salvatore Del Deo is captured in a portrait by his teacher, Henry Hensche. He in turn paints fellow artist Afon (Nicholas Afonchicov), a popular model for many of his friends. In 1930, Philip Malicoat was the subject of a study by his teacher, Charles Webster Hawthorne. |
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Mid Career Artists Bob Bailey and Timothy Woodman
January 11 – February 24, 2008
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| 0oh, 2004, 36 x 36 x 4", acrylic / panel.
Bailey sustains ideas of painting as color delivery systems that capture color with line and metaphor.
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Moby Dick Series, (detail). 2007
Woodman exhibits recent paintings and works on paper. Included are pieces from his Moby Dick series and from his current project, Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.
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The Structure Within:
An Exhibition Created by Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School Educators,
with Visiting Artist Vicky Tomayko
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Featuring Drypoint Etchings by CCLCS Educators and works from the PAAM Collection
January 18 – February 17, 2008
Opening: Jan. 18, 6 - 8 PM
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| Bill Behnken, Passing Lights, Lithograph |
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Karen Scichilone, Lead Me Home |
Chaim Gross |
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Selections from the Collection
featuring Chaim Gross
January 18 – March 9, 2008
Featuring works from PAAM’s permanent collection, as well as drawings and small sculpture by renowned artist Chaim Gross.
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| Chaim Gross is well known locally for three prominent sculptures along Commercial Street. A Provincetown icon, The Tourists graces the lawn of the Provincetown Public Library. Dancing Mother stands in the Berta Walker Sculpture Garden, and Dance Rhythm in the James and Frances Bakker Sculpture Garden, both at PAAM. Gross achieved international renown as one of the greatest 20th century figurative sculptors for his lively, naturalistic and often interlocking figures. This exhibition includes studies for major public art sculptures at PAAM; both works on paper and small bronze maquetes will be featured. Among these are several works gifted to PAAM by the Lawrence Richmond bequest in 1978, including Mother Love and a number of untitled studies. |
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Sponsored in part by the Provincetown Tourism Fund.
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2008 Fine Arts Work Center Fellows
January 11 – March 2, 2008
As part of PAAM’s century-long mission to promote and cultivate the practice and appreciation of the arts on Cape Cod, we partner with many regional institutions. The Fine Arts Work Center Fellows Exhibitions provide emerging artists an opportunity to exhibit their work within the museum during their residency in Provincetown, and their participation provides the public with access to outstanding contemporary works. FAWC Fellows in turn are participating in PAAM's Youth Education initiatives. As working artists, the Fellows will engage with local students from Harwich Middle School who take part in the Student Curating Program at PAAM. More information at www.fawc.org |
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Nathalie Miebach
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Pauline Palmer (1869 - 1938)
The Lumber Wharf, n.d.,oil on canvas, 28 x 32" Gift from the estate of the artist |
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Selections from the Town Collection
November 30 2007– January 13, 2008
Curated by Stephen Borkowski and Christine McCarthy
The Town of Provincetown Art Collection consists of artwork by local artists, as well as nationally prominent artists who have resided in town over the course of the last century, and includes paintings, sculpture and murals as well as prints and drawings. The Town's collection represents many fine examples from our own "art colony," an art community with the longest continuous history in the United States.
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The Selections Exhibition highlights works by PAAM’s founding member/artists – Charles W. Hawthorne, E. Ambrose Webster, and Edwin Dickinson; the Provincetown Printmakers - Blanche Lazzell, Agnes Weinrich, and Mary Bacon Jones; as well as some contemporary artists – Arthur Cohen, Ciro Cozzi, and Lois Griffel.
Information about Town Collection and The Art Commission's online catalog of the works in the collection can be found here.
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Ada Gilmore (1882 - 1955) The Heron
1934, oil on canvas, 36 x 30"
Gift of Helen Edel Buker, 1976
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Recent Gifts to the Collection
November 9 – January 13, 2008
An exhibition of newly gifted works to PAAM's expanding Permanent Collection, many originating from private donors and rarely exhibited publicly in the past.
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William L'Engle (1884 - 1957) Fish Composition, 1940
oil on canvas, 16 x20", Gift of Helen and Napi Van Dereck, 2007 |
Alvin Ross
September 28 – January 6, 2008
“In his writing, Ross mentioned the unity of opposites, and it is intriguing to see how he developed this concept. A vital part of his work uses an interplay of surfaces that are crumpled or smooth, objects that are opaque or transparent, substantial or insubstantial, small or large, hard or soft. The instability of one form is a foil for the stability of another,” -Tony Vevers
PAAM is grateful to Lenore Ross and Patricia Shultz for making this wonderful body of work available for exhibition in the Alvin Ross wing.
Christine M. McCarthy
Executive Director
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Alvin Ross (1920 - 1975) Apples on Chair, 1973
oil on canvas, 20 x16", PAAM Collection |
| The Provincetown Art Association and Museum is pleased to present the work of Alvin Ross. A former President of PAAM, Ross was best known for his paintings of still-life, interiors and the figure. In his artist's statement Ross notes that "Ideas for my paintings may be taken from situations which I have seen, experienced, or drawn directly from my life. My paintings are conceived in a variety of ways: Drawing directly from upon nature of a subject seen or experienced; Recording through sketches and watercolors; Memorizing a situation or experience seen; Long stretches of drawing, practically doodling, to search from schemes or themes; By creating abstractions or abstract patterns for the possibility of determining construction of a composition." |
White Crock and Vegetables, 1975
oil on canvas, 14 x22", PAAM Collection |
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A&P, 1961
oil on canvas, 27 x34", PAAM Collection
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Lillian Orlowsky:
The Signature is in the Work
A Joint Retrospective Curated by Robert Henry
and Selina Trieff
AT THE CAPE COD MUSEUM OF ART:
oils and collages
September 1 – November 11, 2007 and the
PROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM
works on paper
September 28 - November 25, 2007
This retrospective marks a critical step in acknowledging Lillian Orlowsky’s stature and underlines the significant contribution of Hans Hofmann and his students to American mid-century art.
-Elizabeth Ives Hunter & Christine McCarthy, Executive Directors |
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Lillian Orlowsky, Untitled, on view at PAAM
through November 25, 2007
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This Exhibition has been Sponsored by The Renate, Hans & Maria Hofmann Trust.
an exhibition catalogue is available in the paam bookstore.
Lillian Orlowsky was a well-known member of Cape Cod artist’s community from the 1940’s until her death in Provincetown in 2004. We are grateful to the estate of William Freed and Lillian Orlowsky for their major support to make this important retrospective possible.
In the show’s catalogue, co-curator Robert Henry tells us “Lillian Orlowsky was a member of that special group of artists who experienced the excitement of the introduction of Abstract Art into America…struggling to adapt a new vision to their own world. There was little recognition for the male artists and still less for their female colleagues.”
The title of the show refers to the fact that Orlowsky rarely signed or dated her work. “She was remarkably self-effacing, but was a terror when she felt that artists and their cause were in any way threatened, dismissed, or endangered,” Henry tells us.
Orlowsky was born in New York in 1914. She grew up poor during the depression and her education as an artist in the 1930s and 40s took place in a time when artists were affected by social issues.
According to art historian April Kingsley, who wrote an essay for the show’s catalogue, Orlowsky considered this “the happiest time of my life.” The artist said this period was" one of the most important periods of art in this century” because the Works Progress Administration (WPA), supported artists financially to make their work and because she found her way to the classes of Hans Hofmann who “taught her to see.” Kingsley says that Lillian and her husband William Freed “grew to be among Hofmann’s closest friends. She never lost her connection with Hofmann’s aesthetic theories and with her fellow Hofmann students."
Lillian Orlowsky Abstraction, 1940, on view at the Cape Cod Museum of Art through November 11, 2007
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Members Juried Exhibition
September 28 – November 4, 2007 |
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PAAM welcomes James Hull to PAAM as the jurist for this Members Juried exhibition. Hull has organized exhibitions at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Fernbank Science Center exhibiting dinosaurs fossils from China, at the Arts Festival of Atlanta installing site specific sculptures for an audience of over one million viewers, at The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (Nexus) as Chief Installer and Facility Manager for three years and as curator and organizer of the Annual King Plow Sculpture Show from 1991 - 1994. Since moving to Boston he has worked at The RISD Museum, RISD, The DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, the List Visual Arts Center at MIT and The ICA, Boston. |
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21 in Truro:
Visions and Voices on the Outer Cape
September 28 – November 4, 2007
This exhibition presents resultant and reciprocal works from poets and artists enjoined in a regionally specific collaborative process. The words of writers and the works of visual artists from the lower Cape serve inspiration and source within the new works presented in this exhibition.
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The Twenty-One in Truro are: LaVerne Christopher, Michele Dangelo, Jane Eccles, Sarah Fielding-Gunn, Ruth Hogan, Susan A. Hollis, Joan Ledwith, Jane Lincoln, Jerre Moriarty, Rosie Nadeau, Kate Nelson, Julie Olander, Suzanne M. Packer, JoAnn Ritter, M’Lou Sorrin, Grace Stergis, Lorraine Trenholm, Christie Velesig, Barbara Wylan, Linda S. Young, Joyce Zavorskas |
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| Edwin Dickinson in Provincetown, 1912-1937
July 20 - September 23, 2007
The exhibition Edwin Dickinson: The Provincetown Years, 1912-1937 curated around the paintings, prints, and drawings done during the 25 years that American modernist painter Edwin Dickinson (1891-1978) resided and worked in Provincetown, Massachusetts from 1912-1938. He is considered a "painter's painter" due to his ambitious, multifigured compositions of ambiguous and fanciful content within complex spacial compositions. The show is curated from many unknown works from private collections as well as drawing on many of his better-known pieces, and includes numerous graphic works of Provincetown locales.
Dickinson was honored with three earlier single-artists shows at the Provincetown Art Association (of which he was a founding member) held in 1948 and 1967 with a retrospective in 1976. This is the first exhibition devoted to Dickinson to be held at PAAM since the artist’s death in 1978. His history within the community is conveyed through the subjects within his work. Contemporary audiences are provided with an opportunity to examine the life and career of an artist within the context of the town that was central to his art and life.
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Interior, 1916, 72 x 60 ", oil on composition board
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| Provincetown was one of the major centers for the development of 20th century modernism in this country, and Dickinson was a friend and colleague of many well-known artists who helped establish Provincetown as central within the concerns of contemporary art in the early years of the last century. His practice was infuential to and informed by the New York School of Abstract Expressionists, whom he was associated with in Provincetown and New York. His work is in the collections of numerous museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Hirschorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Pennslyvania Acadamy of the Fine Arts, MOMA, The Metropolitan Museum, and The Chrysler Museum, among others. |
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View from 46 Pearl Street, 1923
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Elizabeth Finney, 1915
Oil on canvas, 26 x 24”, Private Collection
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PAAM's Fall Auction Preview
September 7 – 22, 2007
The live auction of early Provincetown art was held Saturday, September 22, 2007 at 7 PM. The proceeds from this auction directly benefit the exhibitions and educational initiatives of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum.
Auctioneer: James R. Bakker
MA License #154
view the auction page for complete lot listings.
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Lot 32 Ross Moffett
Portuguese Woman in the Dunes, 1935
oil on illustration board, 12 x 16"
slr, Study for mural at Barnstable High School, Est. 4000/6000 |
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MASS Art/Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown
Low Residency Thesis Exhibition
September 14 – 23, 2007
Works by students in FAWC/Massachusetts College of Art MFA program in the arts. In concurrence with the Hudson D. Walker Gallery Exhibition at FAWC, 24 Pearl Street in Provincetown. www.fawc.org
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Selina Trieff : MASTER OF THE LOOK
A 30 Year Overview
July 27 - September 9, 2007
Selina Trieff has pursued figurative subject matter throughout her nearly 60 year career. Called “an American original” by New York Times critic John Russell, Trieff generates allusively gripping figurative compositions that are richly pensive, introspective, and strangely self-like.
In concurrence with this exhibition, The Fredi Schiff Levin Lecture Series presented: Selina Trieff- An Artist's Gallery Talk on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 at 7PM
This exhibition and accompanying catalogue are made possible by a generous grant from the Hans, Renate and Maria Hofmann Trust.
The Travellers (diptych, left panel)
1991, 72 x 60 inches, oil on canvas
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| The splendor of the ensemble and the distinction of the individual works testify to the strength of Trieff’s contemplative sensibility and the quality of her workmanship. Knowledgeable painting is not hard to find. Less common, and more compelling, is painting that bears witness to something worth knowing. Trieff’s uncommon wisdom has created a universe in which the painter herself stands revealed as an emblem of the folly and the vanity of each mortal one of us. Hers is a painterly cosmos that dares to move and to disturb at the same time that it delights the eye.
For all the opulence of her work – the stained-glass radiance of the color, the theater of gold leaf, and the bravura application of the paint – the power of the work is not in its will to please but in its ability to provoke. It takes up the challenge of Goya’s caustic aquatint “No Man Judges Himself as Others Judge Him,” defying us to look at ourselves as ruthlessly as the artist looks at herself. No sentimentalist, she turns a hard eye on herself and her own mortality. No mawkish naturalist, she uses anatomy metaphorically, as an emblem of certain of the great mythic themes that repeat themselves in our fantasies, longings, and fears.…The magic in Trieff’s works is that, in viewing them, we realize how lonely we are for such intimations of something wholly other than the rational world we have come to accept as real. These eloquent works speak for that buried part of us that would resist forever the action of sun, wind and weather, gravity and time.
-Maureen Mullarkey
Arts Magazine, New York.
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Triad, 1983 ,72 x 60 inches, charcoal |
Bob and Me, 1975, 72 x 72 inches, oil on canvas |
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12 X 12 ARTISTS PANELS
AN EXHIBITION AND SILENT AUCTION
August 3 - September 2, 2007
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12 x 12 inch panels were made available to the membership for use in this exhibition and silent auction.
This annual event offers an opportunity to bid on a variety of works from our membership - to support the artists and the Association, and to enjoy the high level of achievement and variety of subjects expressed within these works. View and place your bid on a unique work of art from our membership.
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Victor and Charles DeCarlo:
BROTHERS IN ART
June 8 - July 29
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| Victor DeCarlo attended art school at the Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC in 1946 and later that year began working under the well known muralist and fresco painter, Jean Charlot. In 1948 he continued studying at the Arts Student League, NY and went on to Europe. In 1954 he returned to the US and continued to teach and paint. He exhibited widely in galleries and museums nationally and internationally. DeCarlo eventually ended up in Provincetown in 1969 until his death in 1973. This exhibition highlights the work of Victor and his brother Charles. |
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| Charles DeCarlo, four years older than Victor, had also established an artistic direction as a WPA artist. In addition to studying with Jerry Farnsworth in Truro, he eventually taught art as a means of supporting his family. They both were completely and wholeheartedly devoted to the pursuit of an artist's life, and the brothers set up a studio together in New Haven, CT which they shared from 1954-68. Often in total disagreement about approach, Charles tending to objective, Victor to the non-objective. In 1972 Charles and his family moved to Wellfleet, where he died in 2003. |
Victor De Carlo, People on the Beach, c.1970
oil/canvas, 30 x 36" |
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Charles Di Carlo, North Truro, Red Pump , c.1946
watercolor, 15 3/8 x 22"
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Looking back on the life and the art of these two brothers, one is struck by their special camaraderie. This fraternity in art, let alone “en famille,” is certainly rare. One is reminded of the unusual closeness of the brothers Maurice and Charles Pendergast, but very few other such instances come to mind. From their earliest days as young artists in New Haven, Victor and Charles led separate artistic lives together, each contributing to, but not overwhelming, the other’s individual vision. That they managed so beautifully in this special rapprochement is a testament to their mutual respect and understanding. Often in disagreement about approach, they yet agreed to disagree. Today, as we are privileged to enjoy this double retrospective of their work, we also pay tribute to their singular achievement–”Brothers in Art” and in life.
- Josephine Breen Del Deo
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Untitled, c. 1990's, mixed media, 24 x 22"
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Jim Hansen
Curated by Pasquale Natale and John Donovan
June 15 - July 22
As a painter and sculptor working in bronze, gouache, mixed media, and oil, James Hansen's art employs various levels of abstraction and representation within metaphorically rich compositions. Hansen’s relationship with Cape Cod began in the late 70s. Hansen maintained a studio in the Day's Lumberyard at the Fine Arts Work Center, and his first Provincetown exhibition was held in August of 1981 at the Julie Heller Gallery. A catalogue of this exhibition, with an essay by scholar and historian Christine Temin is available at the Museum.
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Hansen’s early work was comprised of wood found along the beach – a neo-expressionist style, somewhat rustic and totemic. He concentrated on sculpture, watercolor, painting, printmaking – it was deeply felt work that continued to grow. Hansen’s creativity was boundless – he worked in virtually every visual medium and moved beyond the confines of even that broad spectrum. Hansen’s work was deeply connected to the AIDS epidemic which eventually took his life.
Hansen was a recipient of a 1987 National Endowment for the Arts grant in Painting, and was a Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities Fellow in 1986. His work is in numerous public and private collections, including The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, and PAAM's permanent collection.
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untitled, c.1995, oil/canvas, 48 x 40"
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Hyman Shrand (1921-1999)
June 8 - July 15
Physician and Painter Hyman Shrand was born in South Africa in 1921. Shrand said of himself, “I now realize that for almost 50 years I was a painter locked up in the body of a Pediatrician. "Some paint to live – I, fortunately, live to paint.” |
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Circus for the Animals, c.1993, oil/canvas, 30 x 40"
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Dandy Sailor, c.1976
oil/canvas, 36 x 24" |
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Shrand's artistic practice was self-learned and was highly influenced by visits to countless galleries and museums worldwide; art books and manuals; critical discussions with artists, classes and encouragement from PAAM. Shrand cited the work of the German Expressionists as a key influence and the subject matter of all his paintings was taken from his life, highlighted with great flourish.
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The Art of the Garden
Curated by James R. Bakker and Christine McCarthy
To complement the 10th Anniversary Secret Garden Tour. This exhibition features works from the historic to the contemporary including art by Kathi Smith, Connie Black, Michael Walden and others. Opening Friday, May 25 7-9pm, in the Hofmann Gallery, and continues through July 15
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thanks to all who made the 2007 secret garden tour a day to remember! |
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The Provincetown Portuguese Festival
Members' Open Exhibition
June 1 - July 8, 2007
Provincetown's artistic and cultural heritage has continued to be supported and informed by the Portuguese Community. The museum presents an exhibition of works from the membership honoring and joining with the Annual Provincetown Portugeuse Festival. Visit the Festival's Page
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Go Figure: Members' Open Exhibition
May 5 through June 10, 2007
An exhibition of figurative works from the Membership.
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Ross Moffett
Curated by Christine McCarthy
April 20 - June 3, 2007
Moffett protrayed a world of bleak strength, fateful mood and stark poetry. The sheer power of the forms and color Moffett used in these paintings seems to have been his most forceful statement about man and his fate. It is, moreover, expressed as only a painter can express it without loss to rhetoric. Few American painters so successfully incorporated the figure in a landscape as Ross Moffett.
- Josephine del Deo
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Keep It a Secret
May 11- 27, 2007
On Wednesday, May 16 from 6-8:30 PM
The Provincetown Art Association and Museum and PAAM's Youth Education Program will present the Annual Provincetown High School Academy of Art Science and Technology Exhibition with an Opening Reception. |
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Spring is here and with it PAAM will celebrate the 8th year of our partnership with Provincetown High School's Academy of Art, Science and Technology. The AAST is a collaborative mentoring program in which students in grades 9-12 work one on one with mentors and members of participating organizations on individually designed projects over the school year. Sixteen students participated in this year's program, exploring a diverse range of interests, including videography, veterinary science, T-shirt design, black and white photography, computer networking, screenplay writing, and fashion design.
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 George Elmer Brown
Untitled (sorting fish)
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Selections from the Napi and Helen Van Dereck Collection
Curated by James R. Bakker and Christine McCarthy
A collection of early Provincetown art representing a vital pursuit. The artwork Napi Van Dereck displays in his Freeman Street restaurant is a small part of a collection concentrated mainly on painting and print media, and dates back to 1871. This exhibition- and the collection from which it is drawn- present a window into the past. The formal means of the artists, and the subjects rendered, speak directly to the concerns of art and our unique regional history. In the Hofmann Gallery , opening March 2, 6-8 pm, and continuing through April 29.
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Members' Juried Exhibition
March 30 through May 6, 2007
Juried by Nora Donnelly, Senior Registrar and former Assistant Curator of the ICA, Boston
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Oranizing an exhibition is very similar to assembling a large and complex puzzle. Each piece needs to seamlessly fit with its neighboring pieces and can not be jarring or forced. Instead many individual images must come together to form a cohesive group and ideally become a series of small conversations between works. It is what makes the act of curating an exhibition a thrilling and a challenging exercise. When I began this process, 162 artist’s submissions of varying size, shape, medium and subject matter awaited me. The works were stacked three deep against the walls of the gallery and there were many hidden gems. It was a wonderful process of discovery.
I was struck by the impressive quality of the overall submissions and was left holding many more works I would have liked to include. In the end, this selection represented what I saw as a dynamic conversation between artworks. Individually the works show a high level of talent and achievement, and together form a fantastic portrait of a vibrant artist community.
Nora Donnelly
Senior Registrar
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
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Recent Gifts ll
Works by Peter Busa, William Hicks, Fred McDarrah, Frances Manacher, Penelope Jencks, Milton Wright, Ferol Sibley Warthen, and others that have been contributed to the permanent collection.
In the Duffy Gallery through April 29.
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Milton Wright (1920-2005, The Sea Fox, 1952, oil/canvas, 30 x 24"
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Polly Burnell
Leaving
1996,oil/panel, 15 X 12" |
Polly Burnell - Irene Lipton
March 2 – April 15, 2007
Curated by Donald Beal
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Irene Lipton
Untitled
2007, oil/canvas, 36 x 48"
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Sincerity and feeling mark the work of Polly Burnell and Irene Lipton. They are artists of very different personalities. Perhaps Cezanne’s mysterious word temperament is better, for temperament, not style, novelty or subject matter count in art. The quick silver fantasy and delicacy of Polly Burnell’s work; the powerful, rhythmic movement of Irene Lipton’s painting, continue the great Modern tradition of Provincetown Art. - Paul Resika, January 2007
I am very happy to bring the work of Polly Burnell and Irene Lipton together in this exhibit. It’s an opportunity to view a body of work by two artists who have been a very important part of the Outer Cape arts community for many years, and whose work has found its full stride. I’ve admired Polly and Irene’s work since first seeing it years ago. Their paintings do what I think good painting always does, that is to convey some vital feeling that transcends the material and literal stuff that paintings are made of, and speak of things that can’t be expressed in any other way. Irene’s paintings contain a strange and exuberant life, and Polly’s are like peering into a mysterious, intimate dream. Both find a visual poetry that is born from a deeply sensitive and intuitive nature and expressed through an equally deep understanding of painting. - Donald Beal
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Norman Barr, Low Tide
1980, oil/board, 6.75 x 9"
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Small Works from the Collection
Curated by Dick Caouette, David Foley, Peter Macara, Lynn Stanley, Carl Wallace, Mike Wright, and James Zimmerman
March 2 - April 15, 2007
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Learning To See:
The Legacy of Charles W. Hawthorne
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Exhibition created by Kindergarten through
Sixth Grade Students of Veterans Memorial
Elementary School Student Curating Program:
The VMES exhibits student art and writing
in response to works chosen from PAAM’s
collection.
Fourth and Fifth grade students created
sculptures with Visiting Artist Tracey
Anderson producing clay busts of family
members, friends and admired individuals
and drew inspiration from a portrait bust
of Hawthorne that is part of the permanent
collection.
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Second
and third grade students worked with artist
Mike Wright to compose collages inspired
by “His First Voyage,” in which
they imagined places they’d like
to travel; students included photos of
themselves in their collages, taken by
photographer and PAAM preparator James
Zimmerman, and the Sixth Grade worked
with Visiting Artist Vicky Tomayko to
create a 9 foot high mural of “His
First Voyage.” Through March 25 in
the Hawthorne Gallery.
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Vicky Tomayko
Debatable Blanket, 2007
fabric and thread, 80 x 80" |
The Museum School Faculty
Works by the Museum School's Teaching Artists:
Bob
Bailey, Meg Sheilds, Franny Golden, Anne Flash,
Vicky Tomayko, Doug Ritter, Susan Lyman, and
Jim Peters.
January
12 – March 4, 2007
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Fine
Arts Work Center in Provincetown
2006/07 Visual Fellows:
Phil
Whitman, Justin Richel, Nathalie Miebach, Steve
McClure, Luke Lamborn, Ezra Johnson, Jeannine
Harkleroad, Kate Clark
January 12 – February
25, 2007
Opening: January 12, 6 PM
We
are glad to welcome the 2006-07 Visual Arts
Fellows of the Fine Arts Work Center to participate
in what has become a winter tradition at PAAM:
the presentation of recent and new artwork,
created during FAWC fellowships. As in years
past, FAWC’s current Fellows have created
an eclectic and engaging exhibition, which explores
a range of media and interests. We at PAAM celebrate
our more than 30-year partnership with the Fine
Arts Work Center, as we continue to present
innovative and challenging work created by emerging
artists on the Outer Cape.
Christine McCarthy
Executive Director
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Justin Richel
From the Big Wig Series,(detail)
gauche/paper
Find out more about the visual fellows and programs at FAWC by visiting their website
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Charles Hawthorne
His First Voyage,1912
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A
Community of Artists Revisited:
the Collection of the Provincetown
Art Association and Museum
Selected
Works from the Permanent Collection
Curated by Christine McCarthy
December 22 – February 25, 2007
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MUSEUM
HOURS :
October–May:
Noon to 5 pm, Thursday through Sunday,
and by appointment
Memorial Day–September:
11 am to 8 pm, Monday through Thursday
11 am to 10 pm, Friday
11 am to 5 pm, Saturday and Sunday
OFFICE
HOURS :
9 am to 5 pm, Tuesday through Saturday
9 am to 4 pm, Tues.–Sat., November through March
PAAM
is located on the corners of Commercial and Bangs Streets in Provincetown's
East End.
Take Route 6 to the Provincetown Center exit. Turn left at light
onto Conwell Street, then left at stop sign onto Bradford Street,
1/2 mile on right is Bang Street, right one block to Commercial.
Parking
is available in many private and municipal lots in Provincetown,
and depending on the season, parking may be available on Commercial
Street.
APRIL 2008 at PAAM:
6 Memorial Service, 3pm
Celebrating the life of Frank Schaeffer.
10 filmArt@PAAM, 7pm
Days of Heaven (1978) 94 min.,
admission $5/$3 members.
15 Drop-off, noon-4pm Members’ Juried: juror Edsel Williams. No size limit. For accepted works, go to paam.org Thursday afternoon, April 17. Pick up works not included by Fri, April 18. Works accepted available for
pick-up 5/13.
18 Three Openings, 7-9pm:
Members’ Juried. Juror Edsel
Williams. In the Hawthorne Gallery
through May 11.
Margery Ryerson and Ellen Carroll.
In the Patrons Gallery and the Jalbert
Gallery through June 8.
Student Curating Program: Wellfleet
Elementary School. In the Moffett
Gallery through May 18.
24 filmArt@PAAM, 7pm
Bus 174 (2002) 150 min., $5/$3 members.
21- 25 Family Week
Free art classes for children.
MAY 2008 at PAAM:
3 Blue Door, 8pm, $10
Arthur Cook, cello and Deborah
Gilwood, piano. Works by Faure,
Beethoven, Franck.
13 Pick-up, noon-4pm
From the Members’ Juried and
Members’ Open: Blue.
15 filmArt@PAAM, 7pm
Matador (1986) 110 min., $5/$3
members.
22 Opening Reception, 7-9pm
PHS Academy of Art, Science & Technology.
In the Hawthorne Gallery through
May 25.
23 Three Openings, 7-9pm:
Spring Consignment Auction Preview.
Vintage Provincetown
Art. In the Duffy Gallery through June
7, 5pm. NB: Date change: Live auction
June 7, 7pm
Joyce Johnson. NB: This exhibition
opens for viewing on May 16. In the
Hofmann Gallery through July13.
Harvey Dodd. In the Moffett Gallery
through June 22.
27 Fredi Schiff Levin Lecture, 7pm
Joyce Johnson gallery talk.
29 filmArt@PAAM, 7pm
Morocco(1930) 122 min., $5/$3 members.
Follow this link for information on PAAM's upcoming exhibitions.
The Provincetown Art Association and Museum supports the creation and exhibition of contemporary art, and maintains, preserves, and exhibits works held in the Museum Collection. The organization has anchored the art community in Provincetown for nearly a century, and its mission is continued to be supported through the recent renovation and expansion, and through the activities of its membership, patrons, supporters and friends.
The contemporary wing’s two galleries and four studio classrooms support PAAM’s commitment to education and provide resources for current practices. The
three galleries in our historic wing, along with the collection
preservation areas, facilitate our mission to assemble, maintain,
and exhibit the museum's significant collection of American art.
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