Previous Exhibitions at PAAM - 2008 Cross Contemporary: Student and Educator Curating Program Nauset Regional High School Featuring Contemporary Artworks from the PAAM collection and new works in a variety of media by NRHS students The NRHS exhibition opened with a reception in the Moffett Gallery December 5, 6-8pm and runs through January 11. exhibition checklist The Provincetown Art Association and Museum welcomed twelve of teacher Ginny Ogden’s Advanced Portfolio students to collaborate with the Provincetown Art Association and Museum in the 2008-2009 cycle of the Student and Educators Curating Program. This group of students has worked with Visiting Artist Tracey Anderson, focusing on contemporary art featured in PAAM’s permanent collection. Over the past month they participated in a continuing seminar on contemporary art, chose works from PAAM’s collection, and responded to this work through writing and art-making, in the museum’s galleries and studio classrooms. “Just as it’s important to learn from the past, and to understand the work of our predecessors, it’s equally important to continually look at work being made now. The two disciplines—the study of the past and the present—when combined, result in artwork that is informed and vital,” Anderson said. “It’s been fantastic working with this group of students, who all have a very clear vision of their own work. I particularly appreciated their openness and the collaborative support they gave to each other.” -Tracy Anderson The Nauset Artists in the Exhibition: Tony Argo, Matthias Christensen, Charlie Crowell, Aneka Davidson, Mariah Fidalgo, Holly Hansen, Sara Jane Humphrey, Audrey Kender, Amber Ketler, Amanda Lynch, Cesi Marseglia, Marie Peters. This has been a deeply rewarding collaboration with students of the Nauset Regional High School. PAAM gratefully acknowledges Superintendent Michael Gradone, Principal Thomas Conrad, and Art Teacher Ginny Ogden for their ongoing support and commitment to educational collaborations and innovative programs in the arts. -Lynn Stanley, Curator of Education, Christine McCarthy, Executive Director Recent Gifts to the Collection II Curated by Christine McCarthy Selections from PAAM's Permanent Collection Featuring works by Edwin Dickinson, Marian Roth, Bert Yarborough, Jules Aarons, Maryalice Johnston, Lucy L'Engle, Joe Fiorello, Paul Resika, and others. In the Jalbert Gallery through January 11 Lucy L'Engle,Parker House, c.1925-30, oil/board, 24" x 29" Members Open- Small Works Works by PAAM's Artist/Members November 14 - January 11 exhibition checklist Festival of Trees Auction Exhibition December 5 - 21 exhibition of available works checklist Agnes Weinrich, Abstract, crayon, ink on paper, 6 x 8" Organized as an annual seasonal fundraiser to benefit PAAM exhibitions and education programs, the Festival of Trees includes a silent auction of three-foot table-top trees that will enliven your holidays year after year, and an exhibition and silent auction of affordable artworks. December 5, 6pm: silent auction begins, bidding continues Dec 5 -21, Thursday - Sunday , 12 - 5pm Dec 20, 1pm: reception & refreshments, holiday jazz concert begins @ 2pm. Dec 21, 2pm: final bids acceped Sculpture in the PAAM Collection November 14 - December 14 Curated by Joe Fiorello and Breon Dunigan Works by Bailey Bob Bailey, Paul Bowen, Deane Bloomberg, Fritz Bultman, Doris Caesar, Mihran Chobanian, Giglio Raphael Dante, Martha Dunigan, Gilbert Franklin, Chaim Gross, Dimitri Hadzi, Elspeth Halvorsen ,Joyce Johnson, Herbert Kalle, John (Jack) Kearney, Dee Wagner Kennedy, Irving Marantz, Ellen Sidor, Sidney Simon, Richard E. Smith, Nancy Webb, Mike Wright exhibition checklist Recent Gifts to the Collection Among the works featured are ten pieces by Sidney Simon, including The Schuykill Maiden, the cast marble fountain that stands in the sculpture garden, paintings by Robert Beauchamp, Patrick Webb, S. Edmund Oppenheim and Sheila Miles- a former director of PAAM. Several images by Maurine Sutter, Karin Rosenthal- and a portfolio by Jules Aarons which will add to our growing photography collection. Drawings from Ary Stillman’s Priscilla Alden series will appear in Provincetown for the first time since he worked and exhibited here in the 1940s. exhibition checklist In the Duffy Gallery through November 30 PAAM Collection Works Curated by Christine McCarthy Selections from PAAM's Permanent Collection Featuring works by Franz Kline, Adolph Gottlieb, Lucy L'Engle, Wolf Kahn, Blanch Lazzell, Charles Webster Hawthorne, Alex Katz, Paul Bowen, Gerrit Beneker, among others. October 24–November 23, 2008 exhibition checklist Ross Moffett (1888 - 1971) Landslide at Highland Light, 1953 oil on canvas, 36 x 24" Gift of Hudson Walker, 1976. Berta Walker - Gifts to the Collection September 26 - November 2, 2008 It is through the generosity of many individuals that PAAM’s Permanent Collection continues to grow, demonstrating both the historical and aesthetic significance of the artists, and the generosity of a supportive and enduring community. Over the past twenty years, Berta Walker and her family have gifted important and extraordinary works of art to the permanent collection at PAAM. As a small token, Berta Walker and the artist Paul Resika will be honored at this year’s PAAM Gala for their continued dedication and support of the arts in Provincetown.- Christine McCarthy This exhibition includes artworks by Varujan Boghosian, Oliver Chaffee, Carmen Cicero, Robert Henry, Blanche Lazzell, Phillip Malicoat, Bruce McKain, Ross Moffett, Erna Partoll, Sky Power, Paul Resika, Selina Trieff, Andy Warhol, Nancy Whorf, Sol Wilson, William Zorach and others. Curated by Christine McCarthy, this exhibition continues through November 2. exhibition checklist below left to right: Carmen Cicero (1926 - ) Flower with Red Sunset, 1995 oil on canvas, 72 x 64" Gift of Berta Walker in memory of September 11 disaster Jim Peters (1945 - ) Rooftops, 1989 mixed media on board, 41 x 36.5 x 4" Gift of Berta Walker, 1994 Sam Messer (1955 - ) untitled, 1984 oil on canvas, 25 x 25" Gift of Berta Walker, 1991 Members’ Juried Exhibition- Works by PAAM's Artist Members. Juror: Robert Gambone , Executive Director and Curator of the The Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, Massachusetts In the Patrons Gallery and the Jalbert Gallery through November 16. exhibition checklist Featuring works by: Teresa Baksa Lynn Blake Chip Brock Joan W. Caefer Ted Chapin Georgia M. Coxe Gabriel D'Agostino M.J. Levy Dickson Mary Doering John H. Ferguson Jean Fogg-Brock Kristen Gossler Deborah Fowler Greenwood Brent Harold Jo Hay Megan Hinton Roger Carl Johanson Louis Lima Michael Moss Richard Neal Jane Paradise Edwina Rissland Julia Salinger Gail Sharretts Susan Spaniol Roberta Stone Bill Tarr Selina Trieff T.J. Walton Mike Ware Harold Washburn Julius Wasserstein Mike Wright Laurence Young Joyce Zavorskas The Printmaker of Cape Cod The Printmakers Trail 2008 Interpretive Images September 26 - November 9, 2008   This exhibition celebrates the work of Cape Cod’s contemporary printmakers.  Featuring a wide variety of original prints including white-line, monotypes, lithographs, and etchings. Reception and Awards Presentation: September 26th 8 - 10 pm The exhibition has been curated by Polly Cote', Alice Nicholson Galick and Kathleen Sidwell. Awards will be given by Sal DelDeo, a Provincetown painter and printmaker honored by the community and the museum for his widely known works. exhibition checklist The group, Printmakers of Cape Cod, were organized in 1976 to encourage, assist, and promote printmaking on Cape Cod, as well as to provide educational opportunities for new printmakers, collectors, and others interested in original prints. PCC sponsors workshops, exhibitions, and other events during the year. Recent workshops have included oil and water based monotype, woodcut, etching, and viscosity printmaking. Social events include exhibition openings, occasional potluck dinners, bus trips, and the Annual Meeting Picnic Lunch and Print Swap. The events provide informal opportunities for sharing information and developing unique friendships with other printmakers. Vicky Tomayko - Exquisite Futures A long-time member and teacher in the Museum School at PAAM, this mid-career artist will exhibit twenty-three new works in the Moffett Gallery. While maintaining the characteristic high color and charming creatures, this body of work embraces what seems an existential quandary in its choice of motifs and predicaments. This Director’s Choice exhibition, curated by Christine McCarthy, begins with an opening reception on Friday, September 5, 8-10pm and continues through October 19. Vicky Tomayko’s monotypes are multi-layered and colorful windows into imaginative organic worlds often populated by googly-eyed creatures having a multiplicity of body parts. Amid their familiar surroundings of forests and junk piles, these creatures’ expressions—also their backpacks, parachutes and floating teeth—evoke personal narratives of adventure or delight or loss. It was, no doubt, the singular charm of these creatures that moved a designer to purchase Tomayko’s entire exhibition last summer, and hang it in Macy’s flagship store in New York City’s Herald Square. Tomayko received an MFA in printmaking from Western Michigan University, and has been the recipient of two Ford Foundation Grants. She arrived in Provincetown as a 1985 Fellow of the Fine Arts Work Center, and now teaches printmaking at PAAM, FAWC and Castle Hill. A resident of Truro, she was the artist-in-residence at Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School for ten years. She exhibits at the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, and shown in New York, Boston, Miami, Los Angeles, Venice, Istanbul and Melbourne. Herman Maril: An Artist’s Two Worlds August 8 – October 12, 2008 Herman Maril was born in Baltimore, MD in 1908, thus marking 2008 as his centennial year. It is quite fitting for the Provincetown Art Association and Museum to celebrate this milestone with an exhibition honoring the work of such an extraordinary artist. While Maril began painting in 1928 after graduating from the Maryland Institute College of Art, his relationship with Provincetown began in 1934. During that first visit, he met the collector Duncan Phillips, who purchased several of Maril’s works that had been created in Provincetown. The landscape of Cape Cod – the dunes, flats, harbor, fishermen, weirs and boats - were some of the subjects that Herman Maril created in his paintings and works on paper for half a century. Comprising over fifty paintings and watercolors from the 1930s to the 1980s, Herman Maril: An Artist’s Two Worlds opened with a reception in the Patrons Gallery, Jalbert Gallery and Duffy Gallery on August 8, 8-10pm, and continues through October 12. An exhibition catalog accompanies the show. Christine McCarthy—the exhibition curator and PAAM’s executive director—conducted a gallery talk on Tuesday, August 12 at 7pm as part of the Fredi Schiff Levin Lecture Series, which is underwritten by Mildred & Herbert Lee and John & Toni Levin. The exhibition Herman Maril: An Artist’s Two Worlds is generously underwritten in part by Seamen’s Bank, the catalog by David Findlay Jr Fine Art. PAAM's 2008 Fall Consignment Auction Exhibition In the Hofmann Gallery through 5pm September 20. Information, Results, and online lot listings here. On Saturday, September 20, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum offered a Consignment Auction of Early Provincetown Art. Auctioneer James R. Bakker presented these artworks in a live auction. Xavier Gonzalez, Provincetown with Car, n.d., watercolor on paper, 18 x 24", slr, Est. 2000/4000 The proceeds from this auction directly benefit the exhibitions and educational initiatives of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. MFA Thesis Exhibit of the Class of 2008 Concurrent Exhibits at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown September 12 - 21, 2008 Graduate Thesis Exhibition showing concurrently at the Fine Arts Work Center and the Provincetown Art Association & Museum is the culmination of the MFA program MassArt at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. The artwork on exhibit is a selection of work completed by the 12 members of the class of 2008, the second class to complete this program and meet the requirements for a Master of Fine Arts. FAWC             Open: Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat &Sun 12-5 PAAM              Open: Mon-Thurs 11am-8pm, Fri, 11am-10pm, Sat & Sun 11-5pm Exhibiting Graduates: REBECCA TESHA ARNOLDI HANNAH BUREAU WYLIE SOFIA GARCIA KATIE JURKIEWICZ KATE LEDOGAR ADAM SCOTT MILLER NANCY WINSHIP MILLIKEN LOUIS THEODORE OLLIER SAL STROM SAGE TUCKER-KETCHAM JULIUS WASSERSTEIN JOYCE ZAVORSKAS The exhibits includes large and small scale paintings and drawings, installation pieces, sculptures and multi-media works and presents a portion of the artwork completed during the program’s duration. This work also provides a transition from the academic world to a wider audience. This unique collaboration between MassArt and the Fine Arts Work Center is MassArt’s first only off-site MFA program and the only graduate fine arts program on Cape Cod.  Participating MFA candidates come to Provincetown from across the country and graduate with a degree from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.  In its fourth year, this is the program’s second graduating class.  MassArt at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown is in its fourth year and is graduating its second class, the Class of 2008.  Eleven MFA Candidates will receive degrees from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.  Commencement will be held on Friday morning, at 11am, in the Stanley Kunitz Common Room of the Fine Arts Work Center.  Artist Michael Mazur is keynote speaker and diplomas will be awarded by Kay Sloan, President of Massachusetts College of Art and Design. The program originated 4 years ago in September of 2005.   MFA candidates travel to Provincetown and are in residence in the historic studios of the Fine Arts Work Center for four 3 and 4 week residencies over two years.  Graduating students return for a third September to present their Thesis Exhibit. Students spend non-residency months in their home areas, working with individual mentors and enrolling in on-line courses.  Curriculum and staffing are coordinated by the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.   Through the reviews of the resident faculty, Joel Janowitz, Jim Peters and Helen Miranda Wilson, along with critiques from visiting artists, students receive feedback and are given an optimum environment to pursue their studio work. Visiting Artists have included Gregory Amenoff, Susanna Coffee, Angela DuFresne, Louise Fishman, Mary Heilmann, Sharon Horvath, Julie Heffernan, Brian Kim, Michael Mazur, Thomas Nozkowski, Sheila Pepe, Marjorie Portnow, and Joan Snyder.   To fully develop their work, students are encouraged to experiment with a wide range of practice using assorted materials both in and outside their studios.  The program is focused on studio production and is designed for artists working in two- dimensional practices including painting, drawing, printing and mixed media.    Massachusetts College of Art and Design, founded in 1873, is one of the premier colleges of art and design in the United States. Its campus is located in Boston where students can enroll in BFA, MFA, MSAE, and assorted certificate programs. The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown was founded in 1968, by prominent artists and writers, to provide emerging visual artists and writers with time and space to pursue independent work in a community of peers. Both institutions are significant forces within their respective communities, as well as national leaders in their respective fields. PAAM is pleased to support these institutions and programming through the provision of it's galleries for this event. The Annual 12x12 Exhibition and Silent Auction is an exciting event that draws artists and collectors together in support of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum.  Works by emerging and established artists hang side by side in this Members’ Open Exhibition, expressing a high level of achievement and a wide variety of subjects and styles.  Results of this Event are here . Thank you for your participation and contributions! This is a perfect opportunity for collectors to view a broad range of local talent, and an exceptional venue for emerging artists seeking visibility.  Bidding starts at $100, climbing by demand throughout the one-month exhibition until the final hour of the silent auction.  By participating in this fundraiser, artists generously agree to donate fifty percent or more of their final sale to PAAM – an outstanding contribution that funds year-round exhibitions and educational programming.   exhibition checklist Robert Henry July 18 – August 31, 2008 Opening: July 18, 8 - 10 A comprehensive overview of the work of painter Robert Henry. Curated by Peter Watts this exhibition will feature oil paintings and works on paper. Over the past year, Henry has been working to create a series of tryptichs, never before exhibited in a museum setting. The exhibition marks a critical step in acknowledging Robert Henry's stature and underlines the significant contribution of Hans Hofmann and his students to American mid-century art. Born in Brooklyn in 1933, Henry received his BA at Brooklyn College, studying with Ad Reinhardt and Kurt Seligman. In the early 50's, he spent three years studying with Hans Hofmann in New York and Provincetown. Since then he has been presented in many one-person exhibitions, including Provincetown's original East End Gallery and The Group Gallery, as well as in numerous museums across the country and internationally. He has had many reviews appear in The New York Times, Village Voice, Art News, Soho News and other publications, lectured and taught widely. Henry holds an enormous amount of history that he willingly shares through lectures, classes, and his artwork. This exhibition and the documentation of Henry's history supports the significant contribution that Hofmann and his students, both past and present, carry on to preserve a very important legacy. A Century of Creativity Works from PAAM's Permanent Collection. Highlighting Karl Knaths, Adolph Gottlieb, and Robert Motherwell, and Provincetown prints. Curated by Christine McCarthy On view in the Moffett Gallery through Aug 31. exhibition checklist This exhibition of works from PAAM’s permanent collection recently traveled to the Massachusetts College of Art’s Patricia Doran Graduate Gallery. Featuring over 40 works created by American artists from 1900 to the present, this exhibition provides an overview of the century of creativity preserved by the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. This important legacy features works from the major twentieth-century American art historical movements including American Impressionism and Abstract Impressionism and highlights works by Karl Knaths, Adolph Gottlieb, and Robert Motherwell, as well as the white-line method of wood block printmaking which was perfected in Provincetown during the early 1900s. Through Mass Art’s partnership with the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, PAAM has been hosting the Low Residency MFA Thesis exhibition for the past two years since its inception in 2006. To further the partnership, PAAM showcased these important collection works, which continue to inspire artists in the oldest living arts colony, at Mass Art’s gallery last month. Edna Boies Hopkins is generally included with the group of artists collectively known as the Provincetown Printmakers, yet not a great deal is known about her life and art. Much of this lack of information is due to her early death in 1937 (with no direct heirs) and to her many homes (New York City, Paris, Provincetown, Cincinnati, Columbus, and Maine). During her lifetime, Hopkins was a highly successful artist with strong ties to Provincetown who in two brief decades produced at least seventy-four known woodblock prints. The rarity of her work and the lack of large amounts of biographical information on her make her a mysterious and compelling artist. Copies of the corresponding catalogue- the first publication specifically focused on her career and artistic production- are available for purchase at PAAM. Organized by The Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio; Springfield Museum of Art, Ohio Edna Boies Hopkins Woodblock Prints: Strong in Character,Colorful in Expression June 13 – August 3, 2008 Opening: June 13, 8 - 10 Interior of Robert Motherwell Studio Studio Show June 13 – August 3, 2008 Opening: June 13, 8 – 1 Curated by Michael Mazur Studios are full of ghosts — ghosts of artists long gone, but not forgotten by relatives who hold on to their workspaces as memorials. When I visit them, I’m disconcerted by the sweet sorrow of their emptiness, their cleanliness and order. Yet the artist’s presence, nearly palpable, persists in the silent air. The studio is the laboratory, the workshop, the sanctuary and temple, the home and the retreat. It is the spiritual and physical core of the artist’s life. - M. Mazur Three prominent cultural venues are sponsoring The Studio Show, a large collaborative exhibit that will present the history and fate of artist studios in Provincetown. The exhibit illustrates the architectural and historic significance of these structures through paintings, photographs, models, objects and architectural plans. Visit Greater Boston with Emily Rooney Online: Raising awareness for Provincetown's artists Locations: The Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum, 1 High Pole Hill; Provincetown Art Association and Museum 460 Commercial Street, and the Fine Arts Work Center, 24 Pearl Street. Charles Hawthorne Studio (image link) Hawthorne Studio Interior Painter Phillip Malicoat and Family Studio Show – Artists at Locations PAAM: Charles Hawthorne- 1872-1930 In Provincetown between 1915-1930 29 Miller Hill Road - Barn and House –Cape Cod School of Art, 46 Pearl Street E. Ambrose Webster-1869-1935 In Provincetown-1900-1935 180 Bradford Street 463 Bradford Street Gerrit Hondius- 1891-1970 In Provincetown 1951-1970 Hondius House – 516 Commercial Street Blanche Lazzell-1878-1956 In Provincetown -1916-1956 351A Commercial (non-existent) Hans Hofmann-1880-1966 In Provincetown 1932-1966 76 Commercial Street at Nickerson St. Ext. Bruce McKain - 1900-1990 In Provincetown-1928-1990 House-Pearl St. George Yater-1910-1992 In Provincetown 1931-1992 House/Studio – 48 Pearl Street; 4 Brewster Street Philip Malicoat – 1908 - 1981 In Provincetown 1930 - 1981 Mary Hackett - 1906-1989 In Provincetown-1931-89 5 Nickerson St. Peter Busa- 1914-1970 In Provincetown-1936-1970 FAWC Barn (school) House and studio – 600 Commercial Street Leo Manso - 1914-1993 In Provincetown-1947-1993 House/studio – 594 Commercial Street Collage Franz Kline-1910-1962 Provincetown-1950’s-1962 Bradford/Mechanic Chaim Gross-1904-1991 In Provincetown ’24’38’39’43-‘91 Fritz Bultman-1919-1985 In Provincetown ’38-85 8 Miller Hill Rd. Jack Tworkov-1900-1982 In Provincetown ’23-35 1954-1982, 30 Commercial Street Jim Forsberg - 1919-1991 In Provincetown 1953-91 Studio (near Beach- combers) Robert Motherwell - 1915- 1991 In Provincetown-1959-91 Sea Barn, 633 Commercial Street Kenneth Stubbs – 1907 – 1967 In Provincetown – 1930 – 1967 Nanno DeGroot – 1913 - 1963 In Provincetown – 1956-63 507 Commercial Street Richard Miller (1875 – 1943) and Irving Marantz (1912 – 1972) In Provincetown – 1918 - ?/? 200 Bradford Street Tony Vevers (1926 – 2008) In Provincetown – 1950s – 2008 250 Bradford Street Ilya/Resia Schor (1904-1961/1910 – 2006) In Provincetown Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum : Edwin Dickinson-1891-1978 Provincetown (Truro)-1912-1978 Oliver Chaffee - 1881-1944 Ada Gilmore (Chaffee) - 1883-1955 Provincetown 1913-1955 3 Central Street Tod Lindenmuth - 1885-1976 EB Warren Provincetown 1915-1940 159 Commercial Street Ross Moffett-1888-1971 In Provincetown 1913-1971 Shirt factory building – 50 Court Street Karl Knaths - 1891-1971 In Provincetown-1919-1971 Agnes Weinrich-1873-1946 In Provincetown 1915-1937 8 Commercial Street Henry Hensche -1899-1992 In Provincetown 1922-92 Cape Cod School of Art - 46 Pearl Street Herman Maril - 1908-1986 In Provincetown-1946-86 256 Bradford Street Peter Hunt-1898-1969 In Provincetown-1930-1960 445 Commercial Street Ellen Ravenscraft Heinrich Pfeiffer Ferol Sibley Warthen Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown : The exhibition highlights studio self-portraits of the 2007-2008 FAWC Visual Arts Fellows: Xin Song, Kambui Olujimi,Minako Shirakura, Nathalie Miebach, Roberta Fleming Jeffries, Janelle Iglesias, Steve McClure, Robert Gutierrez, Meghan Gordon, Christy Georg Art of the Garden Members' Exhibition June 27 – July 27, 2008 Opening: June 27, 8 - 10 Nineteen artist-members have been invited to participate in PAAM’s 2008 Art of the Garden Exhibition.  Selected artists were asked to interpret works from the permanent collection, applying their own style and personal aesthetic to collection favorites.  The exhibition coincides with the 11th Annual Secret Garden Tour, a fundraising event that supports the educational and cultural initiatives of PAAM and provides funding for public programs throughout the year. Artists represented the Art of the Garden Exhibition include: Ramon Alcolea, Sally Brophy, Barbara Cantor, Polly Cote, Gail Fields, Joe Fiorello, John Gilbride, Mary Ince, Andrew Kooistra, Lorraine Kujawa, Joan Cobb Marsh, Peter McDonough, Nancy Nicol, Suzanne Packer, Lynn Stanley, Michael Waldon, Rachel White, Mike Wright, James Zimmerman PAAM's 11th Annual Secret Garden Tour was held Sunday, July 13th with a double header garden experience. The day began with a walking tour of Provincetown's Secret Gardens and concluded at the Museum with a reception at the Art of the Garden Exhibition. Ferol Sibley Warthen Romanos Rizk May 16 – July 13, 2008 Counted among Provincetown’s prominent contemporary artists, Romanos Rizk was born of Lebanese parents in Providence, Rhode Island. Trained as a classical painter, he arrived in Provincetown to study with Henry Hensche in 1948. exhibition checklist Joyce Johnson May 16 – July 13, 2008 Joyce Johnson is known for her figurative and biomorphic sculptures inspired by the natural environment. Working in clay, wood, and bronze, her idiom is small abstract sculptures whose angles and curves cast intriguing shadows. Her reliefs are inspired by the natural world - plants and flowers - creating a metaphor of tranquility. Johnson spent most of her early childhood in Concord, MA, and inspired by the many literary figures that lived there during the nineteenth century, she developed a passion for literature and writing. Twenty-six and still uncertain about her future, she traveled and lived in Madrid for two years. She began her serious study of sculpture with one of Spain's most respected sculptors, Don Ramon Mateu, who encouraged her to return to America to continue her studies. Upon graduating with honors from Boston's School of the Museum of Fine Arts in 1962, she completed a graduate teaching fellowship there the following year. Johnson has had a number of one-person shows and the New York Review, The Boston Globe, Cape Cod Times and Cape Arts have reviewed her work. She has received commissions for public sculptures in Cornwall and High Head. She founded the Nauset School of Sculpture in North Eastham in 1968 which evolved into Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill. She also co-founded the Outer Cape Artists Residency Consortium and is on the board for the Highland Center Inc. and Campus Provincetown. In 1997, Cape Women Creating named her a "Living Treasure." exhibition checklist Johnson's exhibition at PAAM features works from her nearly fifty-year career on Cape Cod. The artist lead a guided walk-through of the exhibition and discussion of her artwork on Tuesday May 27, 2008. Harvey Dodd May 23 – June 22, 2008 This anniversary exhibition celebrates artist Harvey Dodd’s fifty years in Provincetown and features watercolors and pastels from all stages of his career. Dodd moved to Cape Cod in the late 1950’s, spending his summers sketching portraits in Provincetown. He has since studied at the Art Students League, the Boston Museum School, and with Richard Diebenkorn and Elmer Bischoff at the San Francisco Institute. His eponymous gallery on Commercial Street has attracted private and corporate collectors for nearly forty years. exhibition checklist Margery Ryerson and Ellen Carroll April 18 – June 8, 2008. exhibition checklist In the art colony at Provincetown, Charles Hawthorne introduced his plein air painting methods to numerous students, among them Margery Ryerson and Ellen Whyel Carroll whose work is presented in this exhibition. Margery Ryerson Ellen Carroll A native of New Jersey, Ryerson spent nearly thirty summers on Cape Cod; she attended Hawthorne’s courses from 1911 to 1920. She also studied with Robert Henri at the Art Students League during those years, through 1918. In the winters, she worked mornings at a childcare facility tending babies and preschoolers. Children naturally became source material and inspiration for her paintings. Following two consecutive exhibitions of her etchings with the Paris Salon, she exhibited prints and paintings at esteemed institutions throughout the U.S. As her intimate portraits of children from infancy to adolescence became widely known, her work was favorably compared to the impressionist Mary Cassatt. Ryerson lived to age 102 – long enough to witness nine decades of her work included in a centennial exhibition in New York. Ellen Whyel Carroll, a native of Pennsylvania, also studied in the art colony with Hawthorne. Her training began at the Carnegie Institute and the Art Students League. Besides working in oils and watercolors, Carroll created marionettes. Her prints and drawings reside in the collection of Penn State University, some of them depicting the tipples, coal works, and coke sites that were so much a part of her early life as the daughter of a captain of the coal industry. Margery Ryerson Ellen Carroll view online auction catalogue and results 2008 Spring Consignment Auction Preview Through June 7, 2008 The 2008 spring consignment auction featuring vintage artwork by Cape Cod artists. Represented artists include Alvin Ross, James Hansen, Ross Moffet, James Lechay, Serena Rothstein, Chaim Gross, and other favorites. Online catalogue pending. The auction was held at PAAM June 7, 2008 at 7pm. The Annual Provincetown High School Academy of Art Science and Technology Exhibition May 16 –25, 2008 PAAM's 9th year of partnership with Provincetown High School's Academy of Art, Science and Technology (ASST).  The AAST is a collaborative mentoring program in which students in grades 11-12 work one on one with mentors and members of participating organizations on individually designed projects over the school year. Fourteen students participated in this year’s program, exploring a diverse range of interests, including ichthyology, veterinary science, graphic design, culinary arts, and the creation of graphic novels. This years Academy Students are: Andrea Abraham, Kellie Blome, Tina Brown, Sydney Cummings, T.K. Dahill, Joey Donnamario, Dillon Michalski, Jasmine Hadley, Candice McGaugh, Margarita Millan, Jacob Nichols, Holly Rose, Jade Silva, and Kelsey Trovato. Spring is here and with it PAAM is celebrating the 9th year of our partnership with Provincetown High School's Academy of Art, Science and Technology (ASST).  The AAST is a collaborative mentoring program in which students in grades 11-12 work one on one with mentors and members of participating organizations on individually designed projects over the school year. Fourteen students participated in this year’s program, exploring a diverse range of interests, including ichthyology, veterinary science, graphic design, culinary arts, and the creation of graphic novels. PHS Academy Coordinator Nancy Flasher has said: “Academy students engage with community adults who share with students their journeys of actualizing personal dreams and abilities, and in turn, these young men and women immerse themselves in the same process.” This year’s exhibition will include a large, constructed “aquarium,” created by Academy student and ichthyologist Candice McGaugh and her mentors Jody Melander and Dennis Minksy, a weight lifting demonstration conducted by Jacob Nichols and unique T-shirts created by WZKD Dillon Michalski (wiz kid for you over 40-year-olds). Refreshments will be served and the public is invited to attend. Patrick Webb: 25 Years of Work Opens March 14th 6-8pm through May 18th 2008 As a painter living in Provincetown and New York, Patrick Webb’s work is largely figurative with an obvious reverence for the power of space, “I want a painting to be active, spatially active” Webb explains.  He juxtaposes city life and the semi-sanctuary of Provincetown, investigating the psychological effects of crowded streets, private rooms, and ethereal landscapes. The accessibility of Webb’s painting is due in large part to his protagonist Punchinello, a well-known clown from Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo’s frescoes at Palazzo Rezzonico in Venice. Webb first encountered this complex character during a visit to Italy in 1989 and saw in Tiepolo’s creation a kind of everyman that could effectively be adapted to modern times. The tragic-comic Punchinello appeared in Webb’s compositions in the early 1990’s, becoming not just a motif but the central character through which recollections and dramatizations of the artist’s personal experiences could be translated onto canvas. “He was particular, but also general. He could be repeated. In Punchinello, I found an Everyman who, in my paintings, is Everygay man,” he explains, “My version of Punchinello is distinctly different from that found in the Commedia dell’Arte – slimmer, without hump, driven by his sexual appetite and search for self […] The humor and pathos of the stories and figure allow me access to the joys and terrors of human experience.” Webb’s body of work appeals to viewers in its cohesive storytelling, flawless representation of mood, and refined co-mingling of sobriety and humor. exhibition checklist Little Mysteries: An Exhibition Created by the Fifth Grade Students of Wellfleet Elementary School Opens April 18th, continuing through May 18, 2008. exhibition checklist PAAM Celebrates the First Student Curating Collaboration with Wellfleet Elementary School- In March, PAAM welcomed eighteen fifth grade students and Wellfleet Elementary School art teacher Alexander Roberts to our galleries to participate in the spring Student Curating Program. The students, who had been focusing in the classroom on the work of Wayne Thiebaud, were introduced to the paintings of Alvin Ross, an artist whose haunting still lifes and figurative works provided a contemplative counterpoint to the vibrant paintings of the west coast artist. During their curating session at PAAM, students participated in a Visual Thinking Strategies discussion, in which they were asked to respond collectively to Ross’s work. Many of Ross’s paintings are on extended loan to PAAM, providing a unique opportunity to study and create from an extensive body of the artist’s work. After choosing paintings for their exhibition, students participated in interpretive art-making and creative writing sessions. Visiting Artist Tracey Anderson led the students in responding to their Ross painting with oil pastels, and provided creative context and background on the artist. Ross began drawing and painting in elementary school; as a mature painter, he worked representationally—and against the stylistic grain—during a time when abstract expressionism was at its height. His small, carefully rendered works articulate the beauty found in commonplace objects: a bin overflowing with crumpled paper, or a glossy, white cake. His figures are often turned away from the viewer or only partially in view. Of Ross’s Heather and Chrysanthemums, fifth grader Mackenzie Foley wrote, “Since the artist doesn’t show her face, you have to rely on body language. You wonder what kind of mood she is in. This picture is very mysterious.” Members’ Juried Exhibition. Juror Edsel Williams. April 18th through May 11, 2008. exhibition checklist Works by Gabriel T. D’Agostino, Lee Brock, Sue Butler, Barbara Cantor, Mary Cassel, Larry Collins, Polly Cote, Vivian Dickson, Sarah Dineen, Orfeo Fabbri, Miriam Fried, Tristan Govignon, William P. Hamlin, Anne Ierardi, Laurie Israel, Megan Karlen, Louise LaMontagne, Michael Moss, Mike Wright, Carol Odell, Victor Powell, and Shirl Roccapriore. Carol Odell Miriam Fried Edsel Williams is an American (born 1962, Virginia) contemporary art dealer and gallerist based in New York City, East Hampton, New York, and Miami, Florida. Williams is well known for finding artists early on, and nurturing their careers in joint projects such as exhibitions, collection placements, and original artist book projects. Williams focuses primarily on the work of young artists, and established contemporary artists such as Ross Bleckner, David Salle, Jack Pierson, Damien Hirst, Gilbert & George, and Cindy Sherman. Williams is known to work very closely with private collectors based in New York, London, and the West Coast. He also curates several public collections throughout the United States. This exhibition has been generously sponsored in part by Irma Ruckstuhl. BLUE: Member's Open Exhibition  March 7 – May 11, 2008 Museum School Student Exhibition Friday, May 9th from 7-9PM. Join the students and faculty of the Museum School at PAAM at an exhibition of new work in a variety of media and genres, including printmaking, painting, and drawing, created with 2008 Museum School Faculty Vicky Tomayko, Doug Ritter, Margaret Shields, Anne Flash and Rob Dutoit.  Small Sculpture from the Permanent Collection February 22 – April 13, 2008 exhibition checklist 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 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. 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 exhibition checklist 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. Mid Career Artists Bob Bailey and Timothy Woodman January 11 – February 24, 2008 Bob Bailey exhibits large scale shaped canvases and 3D text drawings in which he uses fonts and text as integral compositional elements. They are constructed from both traditional materials and found wire and styrofoam detritus, which provide a unique palette of color, shape and abstracted line. Bailey sustains an idea of artworks as color delivery systems, capturing color within line and language, and metaphorically fuses discordant elements within these carefully carpentered dimensional works. A graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University with an MFA in sculpture, Bailey also spent time at Skowhegan and at Wendell Castle School in woodworking and furniture design. A former fellow of FAWC, he and his wife- sculptor Breon Dunigan- have lived in Truro for many years. He has shown solo at UFO Gallery, DNA Gallery, and most recently, artSTRAND; he has also exhibited his work on several occasions at PAAM, in New York, San Francisco, Miami and Melbourne, Australia. ENTRY , 2007, 26 x 36 x 4" , acrylic and foam on panel 0oh, 2004, 36 x 36 x 4", acrylic / panel. Timothy Woodman spent time at Rhode Island School of Design and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture before completing an MFA at Yale University School of Art in 1976. It wasn’t long before his work was exhibited at galleries in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York—Zabriskie Gallery and Tibor de Nagy Gallery among them. His work has received critical attention from the likes of Hilton Kramer, The New York Times, and Art in America. He is most noted for figurative wall sculptures- gestures of everyday life- crafted from aluminum sheeting and finished with oil paint. Before settling year-round in Wellfleet, Woodman and his partner, the painter Helen Miranda Wilson, split their time for many years between New York and outer Cape Cod. He is represented by the Cherrystone Gallery in Wellfleet, and the Albert Merola Gallery in Provincetown. Works from his Moby Dick series—135 graphic paintings (one for each chapter) are included in this exhibition, as well as works from his Proust’s In Search of Lost Time that include fifty-two 5x7” high-color and high-contrast graphic oil paintings on panel. Moby Dick Series, (detail)., 2006 The Structure Within: An Exhibition Created by Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School Educators with Visiting Artist Vicky Tomayko   Featuring works from the PAAM Collection and Drypoint Etchings by CCLCS Educators   January 18 – February 17, 2008 Deborah Greenwood PAAM’s Curating Program for Educators guides local teachers to create and mount their own exhibition in the Museum’s galleries. Participants choose works of art from PAAM’s permanent collection, then engage in creative writing sessions and a studio art project that dialogues with their selected paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures.  This year PAAM collaborated with ten educators from the Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School. Visiting Artist Vicky Tomayko worked with each teacher to create dry-point monotype prints,  inspired by work spanning a century of art-making on Outer Cape Cod.   PAAM encourages teachers across school curricula to participate and the CCLCS group will bring a wealth of varied experience to their exhibition. The 2007-2008 CCLCS Curators are: Susanna Graham-Pye,  Special Education;  Deborah Greenwood, Art; Sandra Hemeon-Mcmahon, Spanish; Pia Mackenzie, French;  Carrie Quenneville, Art; Elizabeth Moore, Math; Paul Niles, Science;  Rosalind Pace, Poetry;  Karen Scichilone, Math; and John Stewart,  Social Studies. Bill Behnken, Passing Lights, Lithograph Karen Scichilone, Lead Me Home Chaim Gross 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. 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. Sponsored in part by the Provincetown Tourism Fund. Serena Rothstein Curated by Rob Dutoit January 18 – March 9, 2008 exhibition checklist One of the few women working among the early abstract expressionists, Serena Rothstein received exceptional critical notice even for her early exhibitions.  She first presented paintings in a group show in December 1951, alongside John Grillo, Jan Muller, Felix Pasilis and Willard Golovin.  The New Yorker critic Robert M. Coates wrote of this show, “The only ones I really admired, however, were Serena Rothstein…   The works included in this exhibition will be seen publicly for the first time since they were first shown almost fifty years ago. Their existence necessitates critical adjustment to the male-centered history of early abstract expressionism. An accompanying catalogue published by LongNookBooks with essay by Mary Maxwell SERENA ROTHSTEIN: DISCOURSE IN PAINT is available for purchase at the PAAM bookstore. Nathalie Miebach 2008 Fine Arts Work Center Fellows January 11 – March 2, 2008 The Fine Arts Work Center provides seven-month fellowships, October through May 1, to twenty emerging artists and writers of exceptional talent. The fellowships provide living/work space and a modest monthly stipend. While the Fellows are not directed or supervised during their term, they are offered the opportunity to pursue their work independently while living within a diverse and supportive community. The Fellows are selected from a pool of 500 to 600 applicants from around the world.  Selection is based on the quality of work and an “emerging artist” criteria. The Visual Arts Committee, comprised of 35 working artists, initiates the selection process by narrowing the field of applicants to in a pre-jury screening process. Those finalists are then invited to send original work to the Fine Arts Work Center for a second and final round. Included in this group of finalists are 10 to 15 Former Fellows applying for a second-year fellowship.   Each year three professional visual artists are chosen by the Visual Arts Committee to serve as an outside jury. This jury is varied in discipline, gender and ethnicity. The jurors convene at the Work Center in April to select the fellowship recipients. FAWC's jurying process is unique in that the outside jurors review original work rather than slides to inform their discernment in awarding fellowships. The outside jury which selected the 2007-2008 Fellows included: Simone Leigh, Clarence Morgan, and Gregory Sholette.   THE FIRST-YEAR VISUAL ARTS FELLOWS ARE: Christy George, Meghan Gordon, Robert Gutierrez, Janelle Iglesia, Roberta Flemming Jefferies, Kambui Olujimi, Minako Shirakura and Xin Song   THE SECOND YEAR VISUAL ARTS FELLOWS ARE: Nathalie Jacqueline Miebach and Steve McClure More information about the fellows can be found at www.fawc.org 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.

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