Previous Exhibitions at PAAM - 2009 Generations Exhibition December 4 – February 14, 2010 exhibition checklist Works from Provincetown’s most prolific artistic families - drawn primarily from PAAM’s collection. Robert Motherwell, Red Grooms, Max Bohm, Nancy Webb, Chaim Gross, Anne Packard, Conrad Malicoat, Sacha Richter, among others. Provincetown has had a rich tradition of multigenerational creativity going as far back as the first days of the artist colony. Many families include painters, sculptors, printmakers, writers, composers and musicians. This show, drawn primarily from the PAAM Permanent Collection, spotlights the artworks of a few of these creative families. Among those represented will be members of the Whorf-Westcott-Kelly family, the Bohm- Packard family, the Vevers- Halvorsen family, the Del Deo family, the Poor family, the Schor family, the Richter family, the Brown- Malicoat-Lord- Dunigan family, the Henry- Treiff family and many, many more. As well as their artistic contributions, many of these artists were involved with the creation and are involved with the continuation of the Art Association over it's nearly 100 year history. This show serves as a survey of the last 100 years and highlights the importance of Provincetown in the history of American art. Curated by Breon Dunigan. Many thanks to Berta Walker of the Berta Walker Gallery for her assistance. Breon Dunigan - Curator of Generations:   Breon Dunigan is an artist and a member of the PAAM Exhibitions Committee. In addition to curating a number of shows at PAAM, she has exhibited nationally and shows locally at ArtStrand. Dunigan lives and works in Truro, MA.   See her recent work at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park.  Learn More: Dynasty in the Dunes: The Malicoat Family's Enduring Art by Sue Harrison in the Tauton Daily Gazette. Serenity in Solitude: Artist Anne Packard turned adversity into unexpected success and continues a line of successful family artists. Online article by Kevin Lo. mirror mirror January 15-February 7, 2010 Opening Reception: Friday, January 15, 6-8pm exhibition checklist An exhibition created by the participants of Art Reach, the after-school program at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. Featuring works from PAAM's permanent collection and original works of music, prose, poetry and art, this exhibition represents the latest installment of PAAM's award-winning Curating Program, which asks participants to engage with works of art from the museum's permanent collection in unique and creatively challenging ways.  Art Reach participants were encouraged to explore the media of their choice, and to write interpretive texts, including poetry and prose,  in response to works they'd chosen from the collection. Participants are students from Provincetown High School and Nauset Regional High School.   The results are rich and varied: a musical composition; a story populated with time-bending superheroes and an über villain; dry point etching; assemblages and figurative sculpture; a textual installation; drawings; and a narrative response to the loss and suffering resulting from the AIDS epidemic.  The members of the 2009-10 Art Reach Program are: T.K. Dahill, Hannah Jennings, Jared King, Raymond Le Duc, Arianna Martinez, Heidi McLellan, Alejandra Ortega, Megan Ritchie, and Kaitlyn "Kewi" Russell.   The title of the exhibition, Mirror Mirror, refers to the traditional method of studying works of art and creating original works in response. PAAM is grateful to this group of talented individuals, whose interests and gifts energize and enrich the organization.   In 1992 the Curating Program was established to introduce local children and youth to the rich artistic heritage of Outer Cape Cod. Since that time over seventy exhibitions have been created by first - through twelfth-grade students and educators from the outer Cape Cod.  PAAM is grateful to the educators and administrators who have supported the creation of Art Reach and innovative, collaborative arts and education programs year-round. In particular we thank Principal Kim Pike and Superintendent Beth Singer of the Provincetown School System, as well as Nancy Flasher and Lisa Fox; Marty Menangas of the Provincetown Police Department; Project ACCESS Director Greg White, Assistant Principal, Dr. Paul Markovich, Ginny Ogden, Principal Thomas Conrad and Superintendent, Dr. Richard J. Hoffmann of the Nauset School District.  Members' Juried Juror: George Creamer, Dean of Graduate Programs – Massachusetts College of Art and Design October 30, 2009 -January 18, 2010 exhibition checklist This exhibition is underwritten in part by generous gifts from: Joy McNulty; Michael Fernon and Ken Weiss; and Irma Ruckstuhl. Featuring works by: Douglas Bick, Chip Brock, Barbara Cantor, Ted Chapin, John Cira, Cathleen Daley, Alice Denison, Mary Doering, Tim Donovan, John Economos, Orfeo Fabbri, Joe Fiorello, Miriam Fried, Tighe Hanson, Mark Heitzman, Jerry Holmes, Don Krohn, Elizabeth Lazeren, Michelle Leier, Cherie Mittenthal, Todd Perry, David Polley, Gail Sharretts, Joe Trepiccione, Selina Trieff, Christine Vaillancourt, M. Villani, Rachel White, Tim Winn, Mike Wright, Joyce Zavorskas, James Zimmerman Members' Open Small Works November 20, 2009 -January 17, 2010 Opening November 20, 7-9 PM exhibition checklist Featuring works by established and emerging artists from within the PAAM membership. PAAM's open exhibitions represent contemporary artists, many who live and work on outer Cape Cod. While the work varies greatly in media and approach, each artist-member joins a long roster of distinguished artists who have studied, taught, and exhibited at PAAM over the past 95 years. Holiday Cards Exhibition December 4 – January 10, 2010 Vintage Holiday Cards by historic Provincetown artists. Celebrating the art of the handmade Christmas card, the vintage holiday cards in this exhibition are drawn primarily from the collection of Edwin and Pat Dickinson.  The couple saved nearly every handmade Christmas card they ever recieved. Many of the pieces featured were produced by some of the finest artists in Provincetown. The cards are a beautiful, decorative, spiritual, irreverent and humorous takes on the season, and through the years of cards, we see families grow and fortunes change. Many thanks go to Helen Dickinson Baldwin for so lovingly preserving this treasure from her parents, and to all of those whom have shared their treasures with us for this show.  Includes pieces by Martha Dunigan, Ferol Sibley Warthen, Dorothy Lake Gregory and Bruce McKain among others. Curated by Breon Dunigan. FESTIVAL OF TREES Exhibition and Silent Auction December 4 - December 19, 2010 Now in its second year, the Festival of Trees Silent Auction and Members’ Invitational Exhibition features sculptural works by contemporary artists from within the PAAM membership. Proceeds from the Festival of Trees benefit PAAM’s educational and cultural initiatives - and help to provide the funds necessary to keep this organization running at its best.The six artists featured in this show have generously donated 100% of the sale of their work to PAAM. To them, we are ever grateful. Ed Christie Home ”spun” Xmas New & vintage fabric , buttons , other materials. minimum bid: $200. represented by: Alden Gallery Richard Lacasse It's All Tied Up, 2009 cement, plastic, re-bar minimum bid: $200 Conny Hatch Wrapping Up Solstice, 2009 found metal and wood 39" x 14" diameter minimum bid: $250 represented by: Kobalt Gallery Joe Fiorello ECO Friendly salvaged 100w light bulbs, 14" x 14" diameter. minimum bid: $100. represented by: Schoolhouse Gallery Robert Rindler Nine Holiday Saplings, 2009 found objects 20"X20"X36" minimum bid: $300 Mike Wright Abstraction, 2009 found painted wood minimum bid: $200 represented by: Kobalt Gallery Recent Gifts to the Permanent Collection December 4 – January 10, 2010 Opening: December 4, 6 PM exhibition checklist Through the generosity of hundreds of donors, the PAAM collection of historical and contemporary American art continues to grow. This exhibition features recent acquisitions by some of the region's most celebrated artists. Like most of the artwork in the permanent collection, these exemplary pieces were donated by generous individuals. Throughout the years, these pieces will be cared for and exhibited on a rotating basis along with other works representing the enduring creative legacy of the Provincetown Art Colony. Join us in celebrating these extraoridinary artists, and the people who entrusted their works to this organization. This exhibition features artwork by Edwin Dickinson, Donald Beal (above), Romanos Rizk (below), Elspeth Halvorsen, Tony Vevers, Laurence Young and Arnold Newman, among others.    The Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) maintains more than 3,000 pieces of 20th century impressionist, abstract expressionist, modernist and contemporary American artwork created by more than 600 artists who studied, created, lived and played in this fishing village on the tip of Cape Cod. Pieces from the art association and museum's growing permanent collection have not only toured the U.S., but also serve as focal points for the on-site exhibitions that draw more than 45,000 visitors annually, making PAAM the most widely visited art museum on Cape Cod. PAAM actively seeks new additions to its collection, which has earned the organization praise among scholars and critics who consider the PAAM holdings an invaluable resource within the art community. A carefully selected exhibition schedule balances contemporary and historic works of art. Second Nature: Vico Fabbris, Susan Lyman, Michael Mazur, and Nathalie Miebach October 16-November 29, 2009 exhibition checklist There will be a Public Gallery Talk with artists from the Second Nature Exhibition and Exhibition Curator Christopher Busa, on Saturday, November 28, from 1-2 pm in the Hans Hofmann Gallery at PAAM. This event is free and open to the public. I proposed the idea for “Second Nature” to PAAM in late 2006. The intention was to present the work of four contemporary artists with strong ties to the Cape, whose work interprets the natural world in dynamic, imaginative ways using sources as diverse as direct observation, fantasy, and hard scientific data often invisible to the eye. What you see presented here in the Hofmann Gallery is unequivocally the result of a mutual, ongoing conversation among the artists and curator over that nearly three-year period. For this commitment I am grateful and inspired. We were very touched and honored when Michael Mazur agreed to join us in this project and are dedicating this exhibition to him. – Susan Lyman, Project Coordinator Special thanks to: Albert Merola and Jim Balla of Albert Merola Gallery, Gail Mazur, and Grace Consoli. Vico Fabbris makes botanical drawings of plants as accurately as Audubon drew birds, but Fabbris' flowers, emerging as an enlarged example of the landscape from which they spring, are entirely invented. They appear so real as to be surreal. Tree of indubitable beauty called the voice of the rocks. It grew between the rocks in the most unthinkable and most dangerous points. The Mocoxii Indians venerated it for its beauty and for its tenacity; they believed this plant talked to the rocks. During periods of drought it produced a sound like whispers amplified by the echo of the valleys. It was used by the Mocoxii for its fortifying properties, like a tonic, and to alleviate the pain of childbirth. It was given the name Muir Tenax after John Muir found this plant during one of his pilgrimages in these valleys, he fell so intensely in love with it that he decided he had to protect this jewel of nature. It was a lost battle. Unfortunately, it became extinct after his death in 1914. Muir Tenax watercolor and text, 22 x 15" Susan Lyman is a prominent sculptor who finds most of her materials in the local woods, where she is partial to snaking vines with their turbulent lines; these structures sometimes function as pedestals for a polished knob of knotted roots. What was tangled underground becomes visible in the light of day. Just Dessert, 2009 sugar pine, red oak, matches 11.5 x 7 x 8” Michael Mazur agreed to be in this show in July, shortly before he died, and his presence is an occasion to honor a career inspired by nature in its elemental aspects, from the "branching" of his veins that he saw on the hospital monitor while he was recovering from a heart attack to the exfoliation of leaves he saw each spring in his gardens in Cambridge and Provincetown. As his images began to become more essential, Mazur said in 2008, "You could understand how in a painting, when I was starting to deal with abstraction, that the painting was made of many pathways. That was how I began to read the abstract paintings that interested me: entrances and exits, and the pathways through, with events occurring here and there, as in a Chinese garden." Tropic, 2003 #18/30 woodcut, 23.75 x 23.75" Estate of Michael Mazur courtesy of Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown   Nathalie Miebach developed a body of work based on the systematic collection of scientific data from instruments set up at Herring Cove Beach during her residency as a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Weaving spiral-like baskets from reeds, Miebach "translated" her raw data into something of the "push and pull" activation of space Hofmann urged, situating colored push pins to indicate temperature patterns and planting small flags to show the direction of the wind. Temporal Warmth: Tango Between Air, Land and Sea 2008, reed, wood, data, 6 by 38 by 32 inches Collection of Joe Thompson “Nature - a place where birds fly around uncooked.” - Oscar Wilde “Second nature,” when we say the phrase to ourselves, means what comes naturally—and here we have the artist as an instance of nature. The four artists in this exhibition explore contemporary responses to nature, recognizing their identity as creatures that are part of nature, yet offering nature the homage that its impersonal forces cannot. Artists give a subjective and human consciousness to a world that does not care what we think. Barnet Newman put it pungently: “Aesthetics is for the artist what ornithology is for birds.” These artists approach nature’s unselfconsciousness from divergent origins and sources: Vico makes exact drawings of plants that once may have grown, but which we have never seen before; Lyman uses long, sinuous vines, and branches that become analagous to human limbs; Mazur’s printmaking process has its analogues with the layering, branching, and withering of trees, plants, and bushes; and Miebach has found a way to visually express the concepts of a scientist’s view of nature. Each artist, as well, is actively re-interpreting Hans Hofmann’s dictum, declared in 1950: “The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature—translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, thus vitalizing this medium.” - Excerption from catalogue essay by Christopher Busa, founder and editor of Provincetown Arts Press which publishes the annual journal Provincetown Arts and books of poetry, artists writings, and memoir. Museum School Exhibition Opening December 4, 2009, 6-8pm One night only! Works by students in Vicky Tomayko’s printmaking class, Margaret Shield’s painting class, and participants from PAAM’s open life drawing sessions People Working An Exhibition created by the Third & Fourth Grade Students of Veterans Memorial Elementary School October 30-November 29, 2009 exhibition brochure and student essays “You know what work is—if you’re old enough to read this you know what work is, although you may not do it,” begins the poem “What Work Is,” by Philip Levine. The poet goes on to address the deep need to be of use, the recognition that work worth doing often involves sacrifice, and the attendant suffering when one’s work is not valued or needed. Watch children playing and it’s clear that some of our earliest dreams and interests are centered on what we might do with our lives: pirate, artist, dancer, scientist, fisherman/woman or fashion designer, mother, father, teacher, auto mechanic or astronaut. This exhibition features paintings chosen by the third and fourth grade students of Veterans Memorial Elementary School from PAAM’s permanent collection and oil pastel drawings the students created in response to these. Each young artist was also asked to tell stories about what the people in these images might be doing. Many also expressed the joy of looking at a work of art and catalogued the components of their painting, including long lists of colors. Of her oil painting by Ross Moffett, entitled October Tapestry, third grade student Grace Caron wrote, “There are a lot of different colors in this magnificent painting! I chose this artwork because it inspires me very much, especially the sky…It is so intriguing. I love all of the animals…especially the horses and the dog.” Engaging the children and youth of our region in the cultural life and creative history of the outer Cape has been an ongoing component of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum's mission. In 1992 PAAM established the Award-winning Student Curating Program and over the past seventeen years PAAM has presented over sixty student and educator curated shows. The seventeen students who participated in the fall 2009 session of the Student and Educator Curating Program are: Mary Burns, Timothy Burns, Grace Caron, Sandra Coats, Hannah Colley, Kyle DiPinto, Mackinzie Edwards, Nathan King, Owen Kittler, Sage McCormick, Jesus Millan, Eli Patrick, Sofia Quiroz-Vargas, Dudley Salmon, Kasia Sapinska, Sebastian Serrano, and Zumm Serrano PAAM gratefully acknowledges Superintendent Beth Singer, Principal Kim Pike, and Teachers Val Valdez and Rebecca Yeaw for their support and commitment to educational collaborations and innovative programs in the arts. We also wish to thank Education Assistant Debbie Cohen for her help in facilitating the curating session and James Zimmerman for photographing the students’ work and installing the exhibition. Lynn Stanley, Curator of Education Christine McCarthy, Executive Director Jeanne and Fritz Bultman Collection In the Duffy Gallery through November 29 exhibition checklist Reared in New Orleans, Fritz Bultman studied in Munich and at the New Bauhaus in Chicago, before studying with Hans Hofmann. Bultman was among 18 Abstract Expressionists labeled “The Irascibles” for protesting the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s conservative juries. His Nebraskaborn wife, Jeanne—a former showgirl, artist’s model in Hofmann’s Provincetown studio, and longtime PAAM volunteer—lived in their home at the top of Miller Hill till her death in 2008. The artistic legacy of Jeanne and Fritz Bultman began in Provincetown during the summer of 1941. It was at the Miller Hill Road studio of Hans Hofmann that the twentyfour- year old Jeanne Lawson met the artist who Hofmann described as his most talented student, Fritz Bultman. The exhibition of their collection at PAAM re-creates a room of their secluded hilltop cottage and includes the works of those artists who both lived on the couple’s property and also were friends whom they mentored, befriended or supported. From 1941 until her death in 2008, Jeanne surrounded herself with the works which inspired her and her late husband (d.1985) including Hans Hofmann, Giorgio Cavallon, Myron Stout and Robert Motherwell, and the local friends who called the Bultman property their home at one time or another, including Rob Dutoit, Janice Redman, Pat de Groot, Cynthia Packard. Paula Horn Kotis: Photographs September 18 - November 15, 2009 exhibition checklist A survey exhibition of photographs by Paula Kotis, whose has traveled the world, capturing the human condition in images of artists, celebrities, refugees, and Holocaust survivors. Until a recent exhibition at the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, her exceptional work had rarely been publicly shown. Kotis will give a public presentation discussing her exhibition September 19 at 3pm. A native New Yorker who also lives in Wellfleet, Paula Horn Kotis studied psychology at Hunter College, graduating in 1943. She learned photographic skills from her father in his Upper East Side portrait studio. Engaging with his work and eventually taking charge of the studio, Kotis soon began to receive notice for her own pictures. She studied the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson, among others, and has produced a powerful body of photographs taken in New York and throughout Europe. In 1948 she made a remarkable series of images documenting the journey of Jewish Holocaust survivors from displaced persons camps near Famagusta, Cyprus to the port of Haifa in northern Israel. Kotis moved to Greenwich Village in the early 1950s to live among friends who were actors, musicians, artists and writers. She collaborated on projects with the novelist James Baldwin and the poet Frank O’Hara, and photographed jazz greats including Sarah Vaughan and Charlie Parker. Her work has appeared in Vogue, Ebony, Arts, Evergreen Review and U.S. Camera. This exhibition will feature approximately forty works from several portfolios including Cyprus to Haifa. Artist's Eye: Paul Resika Selects September 11 - October 25, 2009 Featuring works culled from PAAM's permanent collection curated by artist Paul Resika, a nationally recognized figure in contemporary American art. PAAM maintains a collection of more than 2,500 pieces of contemporary and historical American art representing 600 artists who studied, created, lived, and played in Provincetown, the nation's oldest active art colony. PAAM's collection holdings are exhibited on a rotating basis throughout the year, allowing public access to major pieces of influential American art. Ciro Cozzi September 18 - October 25, 2009 exhibition checklist Featuring works by Ciro Cozzi, a Provincetown painter and former student of Hans Hofmann and Henry Hensche. Someone once said that Ciro Cozzi could wield a spatula as well as a palette knife. Surely his cookbook and the famous Provincetown restaurant—which has borne his name for six decades—attest to his mastery of the kitchen arts. For years, the Kiley Court restaurant was a nexus of social activity for artists of every stripe, by turns feeding or employing such notables as Jim Forsberg, Harry Kemp, John Wayne, Philip Malicoat, Tony Vevers and Robert Motherwell. Curated by Breon Dunigan, Cozzi’s exhibition at PAAM delightfully demonstrates the painting abilities he has honed since before arriving in Provincetown in 1947. Originally from the Bronx, he studied at the Arts Students League, with Charlot in Colorado Springs, and with Hensche in Provincetown. As European masters used water-based pigment to ground their paintings, which they finished with oils, Cozzi starts with acrylics, which he goes over with oils. As he states, in this way he can “put in areas quickly, in an hour or two.” And he can more leisurely finish his paintings of subjects such as sails on Provincetown Harbor. Angles and abstractions abound in his work, as does a palette of blues and purples—like the air and water that have surrounded him for most of his life. Now approaching his nineties, this longtime president of PAAM was instrumental in developing the Art Association into a full-fledged museum; during his tenure, he oversaw a building project that added space to house the permanent collection. About this time he said, “My intent was to gather together people who could help the association to become an important art center.” (Provincetown Advocate) As part of his effort, he and his wife Patti hosted annual garden party fundraisers on Kiley Court. He has shown at the Contemporary Art Gallery in New York, and at PAAM, where his work resides in the permanent collection. MFA Gradute Thesis Exhibition: Class of 2009 September 25-October 11, 2009 SUSAN MARIE BRUNDAGE ELIZABETH FOSTER HEATHER HUDSON ZEHRA KHAN MICHELLE LEIER AMY BAXTER MACDONALD COLIN MCNAMEE SUSAN SPANIOL FELICIA VAN BORK Concurrent Exhibits at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Featuring contemporary artwork in a wide variety of media, representing a portion of the artwork completed during the program's duration. Now in its fifth year, MassArt's MFA program at the Fine Arts Work Center is MassArt's first only off-site MFA program and the only graduate fine arts program on Cape Cod. PAAM is pleased to support this program through the provision of its galleries for this event. at left: Zehra Khan, "Reject Rat", installation: acrylic on friend and paper, 72” x 108” x 96”, 2009. zehrakhan.com Heather Hudson, "The Things My Mother Gave Me", oil on panel, 20 x 18”, 2009.  ilaneheatherhudson.com Michelle Leier, "Files", oil on canvas, 24 x 36”, 2009. michelleleier.com Felicia van Bork, "My Next Body", 9 monotypes, 66 x 90” overall, 2008. feliciavanbork.com Search for the Real: Drawings by Hans Hofmann and His Students, August 7 - October 11, 2009, Opening: August 7, 8 PM Lillian Orlowsky, untitled figure drawing, c. late 1930's, charcoal on paper, 25 x 19" courtesy of Acme Fine Art Blanche Lazzell, untitled drawing with Hofmann annotations,1937, charcoal on paper, 25 x 19", courtesy of West Virginia University Art Collection Myrna Harrison, Hofmann Class Nude II, c.1953-54, charcoal on paper, 25 x 19", courtesy of Acme Fine Art Search For the Real: Drawings by Hans Hofmann and His Students brings together more than thirty drawings by several of Provincetown's most celebrated contemporary artists. This exhibition features fifteen drawings by renowned Abstract Expressionist Hans Hofmann, loaned to PAAM by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Twenty prefatory drawings by notable Hofmann students Fritz Bultman, Giorgio Cavallon, William Freed, Lee Krasner, Myrna Harrison, Robert DeNiro, Sr., Robert Henry, Selina Trieff, Haynes Ownby and Robert Fisher, among others will also be on view.  Hans Hofmann was a German-born American abstract expressionist painter who immigrated to the United States in 1932. Through his own artwork and his instruction of emerging artists, Hofmann became a primary influence on the Abstract Expressionist movement in America. He famously stated that, "the ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak." Hofmann's school of art played a major role in solidifying the abstract expressionist movement in the Provincetown Art Colony, having a significant impact on PAAM and its growing collection of American art.   A selection of student drawings included in the exhibition feature annotations by Hofmann - revealing elements of his classroom guidance and the rigorous concern for pictorial structure and his push/pull spatial theory that characterize his school. Search For the Real: Hans Hofmann and His Students is organized by Christine McCarthy, Executive Director of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and by Donald Beal, PAAM artist, member, and Museum School at PAAM instructor. Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) was an influential figure in the abstract expressionist movement. Born in Bavaria in 1880, Hofmann began his studies in Munich. By 1904, he moved to Paris where he was influenced by the likes of Kandinsky. In 1915, Hofmann founded his own art school in Munich; taught summer sessions in Bavaria, Yugoslavia, Italy and France; and later founded schools in New York and Provincetown where he influenced students such as Helen Frankenthaler, Red Grooms, Alfred Jensen, Wolf Kahn, Lee Krasner, Louise Nevelson and Frank Stella. Hofmann was also a prominent writer on modern art, authoring the iinfluential Search for the Real, in which he discusses his philosophy of art, the spiritual value of creative production, and the relationships of line, color and composition. Hans Hofmann's works are in the permanent collections of major national and international museums, including the University of California Berkeley Art Museum, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Seattle Art Museum, the Dayton Art Institute, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus (Munich), the Museu d'Art Contemporani, (Barcelona), and the Tate Gallery (London). He has also designed a mural located outside the entrance of the High School of Graphic Communication Arts located in the Hells Kitchen neighborhood, NYC. exhibition checklist This exhibition is sponsored by the Inn at the Moors, and underwritten by Partners in Art The exhibition is accompanied by a 38-page full-color catalog. PARTNERS IN ART make significant contributions to help underwrite curatorial projects resulting in museum exhibitions organized by PAAM. The Museum recognizes the following PARTNERS IN ART who helped to fund Search for the Real: Hans Hofmann and His Students: Anonymous Neal Balkowitsch Cheryl and Rick Bready Dr. Donald Butterfield Paul Carey and Barry Pike Jeff Coakley (Bay Windows) Doug Dolezal and Greg Welch Yvette Drury Dubinsky and John Dubinsky Carleton and Mona Dukess Joe Fiorello Stephen Fletcher and Michael Walden Franny Golden Kit and Don Harbison Robert Henry and Selina Trieff Judyth and Dan Katz Brian Koll and David Altarac Robert Littleton and Wendy Kozma Joy McNulty Kelly Monnahan and Keith LeBlanc Renate Ponsold Motherwell Dan Mullin David Murphy and John Simpson Ralph Oliva and Jeffrey Carlson Anne Peretz Marla and Bertram Perkel Alix Ritchie and Marty Davis Irma Ruckstuhl Michel Wallerstein Michael Wasserman Gail P. Williams and Dawn L. McCall Burt and Brunetta Wolfman PAAM's Fall Annual Consignment Auction Preview September 4 - 19, 2009 Opening: Friday, September 4, 8 PM Auction: Saturday, September 19, 7 PM John Whorf, Rose of Sharon n.d. oil/board Featuring rare and vintage artwork included in PAAM's Fall Consignment Auction, scheduled for September 19, 7PM. This preview will also be made available online. Telephone and absentee bids accepted. PAAM presents regular live consignment auctions and preview exhibitions twice yearly. These events present works of art that may not otherwise be seen by the general public. The proceeds from these auctions directly benefit the exhibitions and educational initiatives of PAAM. A complete catalogue of this auctionis published online. View lot listings and descriptions. Robert Motherwell Hermitage 1975, color lithograph Peter Busa untitled c.1960's, oil/canvas ARTISTS FEATURED IN THIS EXHIBITION AND AUCTION: Mary Cecil Allen, Various Artists, Walter F. Bartsch, Leonard Baskin, Gifford Beal, Gerrit A. Beneker, Sandor Bernath, Mary (Mrs. Leon)Biagi, William H.W. Bicknell, Maurice Bilton, Max Bohm, William Boogar, Henry Botkin, Anne Brigadier, Gandy Brodie, Byron Browne, George Elmer Browne, Peter Busa, James Carlin, Frank Carson, Emilio Cruz, Morris Davidson, Nanno de Groot, Morgan Dennis, Gay Dickerson, Arthur Diehl, Nathaniel Dirk, Albert Edel, Ray Euffa, Remo Farruggio, Jim Forsberg, Karl Fortess, William Freed, Olympia Galligan, Eliza Draper Gardner, Adelaide Lawson Gaylor, Oscar Gieberich, Dorothy Lake Gregory, John W. Gregory, Lena Gurr, Mary Hackett (attributed to), John Hare, Abraham Harrito, Charles W. Hawthorne, Charles Heinz, Marston Hodgin, Gerrit Hondius, Victor Hugo, Peter Hunt, Bethuel Jamieson, Joseph Kaplan, Ray Keyton, Thom Klika (The Rainbow Man), Karl Knaths, Miriam Laufer, Sigmund Laufer, James Lechay, William L’Engle, Josef Lenhardt, William H. Littlefield, Dorothy Loeb, Bertha Lea Low, Leo Manso, Boris Margo, Ora Inge Maxim, James Kirk Merrick, Ross Moffett, Robert Eric Moore, Robert Motherwell, Minnie Lois Murphy, Al E. Newrill, Edith Oliver, Vivien Oswell, Ernest E. Perry, Vollian Burr Rann, Lionel Reiss, Henry W. Rice, Romanos Rizk, Alvin Ross, Martha Ryther, Helen Sawyer, Olga Sears, Dorothy Gees Seckler, Madeleine Sharrer, Harry Shokler, Jules Andre Smith, Paul Smith, Raphael Soyer, Marie Louise Stahl, Robert Steed, Beulah Stevenson, Jack Tworkov, John Von Wicht, Harold Walker, Elisabeth B. Warren, Bonnie Whittingham, John Whorf, Nancy Whorf, Donald F. Witherstine, Dorothy C. Wyman and Taro Yamamoto. Director's Choice: Anne Peretz, Cape Cod Paintings July 17 - September 13, 2009 exhibition checklist Exhibition of works by Anne Peretz, a painter whose emotive  landscapes capture the monumental, enveloping, and lonely nature of outer Cape Cod. Peretz develops her paintings through the use of direct observation and concentrated studio time allows her to imbue within her work a distinctively poetic interpretation of place and time. at left: Provincetown Pier 2000, oil on canvas, 34 x 44 Private Collection below: Falling Dune, 2005 oil on canvas, 72 x 120" Anne Peretz: Director's Choice, A Lecture with Curator Chris McCarthy Tuesday, July 28, 7pm Join us as Curator and PAAM Executive Director Chris McCarthy discusses Peretz's exhibition of land and seascape paintings (July 17 - September 13). This exhibition features work created on Cape Cod, in which Peretz captures the changeable dunes, shore, and sky, all filtered through the artist’s unique sensibility. Read more about the continuing FSL Lecture Series here. PAAM's Annual 12x12 Exhibition and Silent Auction - an exciting event that draws artists and collectors together in support of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. Through Sepember 12  The 12 x 12 is a perfect opportunity for collectors to view a broad range of local talent, and an exceptional venue for emerging artists seeking visibility.  Final bids: Sept 12 at 5pm. (Bids close alphabetically in 15 minute intervals beginning at 5pm) Bidding starts at $125, climbing by demand throughout the one-month exhibition until the final hour of the silent auction. Participating artists agree to a 50% commission, with an option to donate their own percentage of the final sale to PAAM*. These commissions and donations provide funding for year-round art exhibitions and educational programming. Members can pick up a free masonite panel compliments of PAAM at the front desk from March 15th ‘till supplies run out. Members are also welcome to create their own 12x12. exhibition checklist * This year, we will give special recognition to artists generously donating their own percentage of sales to PAAM. Their pieces will hang together on a separate gallery wall. Works from the Collection July 24 - September 6, 2009 exhibition checklist August 2009 marks the Provincetown Art Association and Museum’s 95th year and to celebrate this illustrious milestone, PAAM is proud to present works from the permanent collection by several of the founding artist members - Charles W. Hawthorne, Gerrit Beneker, Edwin Dickinson, Oscar Gieberich, William Halsall, and E. Ambrose Webster. Charles W. Hawthorne (1872 - 1930) His First Voyage, 1915, oil on board, 48 x 60" Gift of Joseph Hawthorne Gerrit Benneker (1822-1934) The Provincetown Plumber, 1921 The collection has been the basis for many exhibitions and has served scholars, researchers and other museums. Including close to 3,000 objects from artists who have lived or worked on Outer Cape Cod, the collection is a burgeoning historical record of the art colony. PAAM continues to increase the number and range of works by early and contemporary artists and is committed to rotating the permanent collection on an ongoing annual basis. Varujan Boghosian, July 24 - August 30, 2009 Exhibition of works by contemporary artist Varujan Boghosian, who has earned international acclaim for his assemblage pieces inspired largely by myth, history, and a love of lasting iconography. A sculptor, builder, scavenger, printmaker, and historian, Boghosian has been active in the art world since the 1950's. He continues to challenge the viewer with the fundamental riddle of object and meaning inherent in assemblage. By transforming collections of everyday objects into meaningful works of art, Boghosian explores the nature of identity. Children's building blocks, antique tools, weathered hinges, locks, toys, and wood are given a new role in Boghosian's work, their utilitarian purpose discarded in favor of symbolism, allegory, and visual expression. He gathers the relics of our common experience, and transformed by imagination, they become poetic tributes, to the universal limitless creative spirit. Robert M. Doty, curator of Boghosian's 1989 retrospective exhibition at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College explains that the artist "uses visual elements of light and dark, color and mass, line and form to expose new possibilities in the relationship between continuity and change, fact and fiction, reality and fantasy," Through his assemblages, material evidence of life and time are endowed with a new significance. Boghosian began his artistic career at the Vesper George School of Art in Boston. In 1953 he received a Fullbright Grant to study in Italy. When he returned, he became a student of Joseph Albers at Yale School of Art and Architecture. The artist has held teaching positions at the University of Florida, Cooper Union, Pratt Institute, Yale, Brown, and since 1968, at Dartmouth, where he recently retired from teaching after 40 years. He has received awards from the American Academy in Rome and the Guggenheim Foundation, and has been elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.   Boghosian's work has been exhibited internationally, and is in the public collections of Brooklyn Museum; University Art Museum of the University of California Berkeley; Indianapolis Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art; New York Public Library; Whitney Museum of American Art; and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, among many others. exhibition checklist   Varujan Boghosian is currently represented by the Berta Walker Gallery in Provincetown, and by Lori Bookstein Fine Art in New York. Pat de Groot, Window to the Sea: Birds, Light and Water June 19 - August 2, 2009 exhibition checklist Red Moon in June, 2007 oil on board, 12 x 11" Private Collection cormorants at Provincetown breakwater, 1988-93, above selections from 65 x 156" grid of 27 drawings, assembled in 2009 permanent marker on rag paper, each measuring 18 x 12" A survey exhibition of works by Provincetown artist Pat de Groot, whose small-scale paintings offer unique perspectives on familiar coastal imagery. de Groot creates intimate pieces that explore the relationships of elements from the natural world; particularly the effects of light on water. This exhibition will include paintings and a sampling of de Groot's calligraphic drawings of shorebirds. The artist will present a public lecture on Tuesday, June 23 at 7pm. artist’s statement For the past twenty years I have involved myself exclusively with the visual goings on outside my window facing Provincetown Harbor. In the seventies and early eighties I made thousands of calligraphic drawings of seagulls using a hollow bamboo stick and India ink. Later I moved on to black ducks and water, and in September and October into November every year, to cormorants drawn from life with a permanent marker in a kayak at the breakwater. In the late eighties I started to draw on paper with oil paint using the tube as an implement, and black ducks, light and water as an image. Recently I have been making small oil paintings with a palette knive on treated paper and on canvas. My present involvement is with the sky as it meets the water, in how, painting with the sky and the water as a guide, I may come up with a surface that in some ways conveys what it feels like to be in that space where water stretches to the horizon and the sky continues up overhead. -Pat de Groot Pat de Groot is represented in Provincetown by Albert Merola Gallery, and in NY by Tibor De Nagy Gallery. SHELL SERIES (Rapture), 2005, oil and gold leaf on sea clam shell, Collection of Lise Motherwell and Bob Steinberg Tabitha Vevers: Narrative Bodies June 5 - July 19, 2009 exhibition checklist NARRATIVE BODIES is a mid-career survey exhibition of the work of painter Tabitha Vevers that highlights the artist’s feminist engagement with tradition and myth. Vevers uses personal narratives that explore the female body and sexuality and old master techniques to address issues that include war, AIDS, environmental degradation, the relationship of the sexes, and women’s historical positions in society. This combination of time-honored representational strategies with contemporary subject matter makes Vevers work both pressing and timeless. The artist was initially compelled to paint the figure in the 1980s by a “desire to take the female nude back from art history and portray her with the complexity of an individual woman’s perspective.” Vevers’ paintings are also characterized by recurring references to the sea. This pervasive metaphor underscores the content of her paintings, and also reflects her personal experience – Vevers grew up in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and continues to paint on Cape Cod and in Cambridge. Ms. Vevers received her B.A. in painting from Yale University and studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.  She has received numerous awards and honors including a George & Helen Segal Foundation Grant, residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA ‘86, ‘91, ‘93 and The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH. Tabitha Vevers is represented in Provincetown by DNA Gallery. This exhibition sponsored in part by Snug Cottage. A catalogue of this exhibition is available at the PAAM store ($9.95 + s/h) or by calling PAAM @ 508.487.1750) EDEN (Eveandadam) 2007, oil and gold leaf on ivorine 9 3/8 x 10" FLYING DREAM (Flying Lesson), 2000, oil and gold leaf on steel, Collection of Edwin Sherin and Jane Alexander FLYING DREAM (Mary), 2003, oil on galvanized steel, Lent by the Artist FLYING DREAM (Marja), 2003 oil on galvanized steel Private Collection "I am floating by the ceiling, flying back and forth; I feel as if I were suffocating, I don't want to be noticed. Suddenly a procession of solemn, old men appear carrying a coffin on their shoulders. My father lies in the coffin submerged in a soup full of fruit which splashes back and forth following the movement of the men's steps as if pushed by the waves on a pond." Members' Juried June 19-July 19, 2009 Featuring works by established and emerging artists from within the PAAM membership. PAAM's juried exhibitions represent contemporary artists, many who live and work on outer Cape Cod. While the work varies greatly in media and approach, each artist-member joins a long roster of distinguished artists who have studied, taught, and exhibited at PAAM over the past 95 years. Featuring works by Astrid, Nancy Hall Brooks, Chip Brock, Ted Chapin, Mimi Coxson, Georgia M. Coxe, Ed Crane, Jerome Crepeau, Shareen Davis, Joerg Dressler, Bob Enos, Michael Fennelly, Erik Fettig, F. Ronald Fowler, Anne Garton, Iris Goldfarb, Tighe Hanson, Brent Harold, Robert Henry, Jenny Humphreys, Mary Ince, Roger Carl Johanson, Paul Kelly, Elizabeth Lazeren, Toni Levin, Douglas Lissick, Mason Morfit, Michael Moss, Lisa-Marie Nowakowski, Carol Odell, Brendan O'Hara, Orfeo Fabbri, Jane Paradise, Todd Perry, James Reardon, Philip Redo, Edwina Rissland, John B. Rogers, Andrea Rosenthal, Dick Singer, Gail Sharretts, Joe Trepiccione, Selina Trieff, Mike Ware, Tim Winn, Mike Wright, Laurence Young, James Zimmerman, and Martha Zinn. Fabio Fabio Fernandez, the juror, has given special designation to 5 artworks in this exhibition: Juror’s Choice Sculpture: Mike Wright, Monument #1 (maquette), 2009, Juror’s Choice Photography: Roger Carl Johanson, Parade for Hope, 2009, silver gelatin selenium toned photograph, Juror’s Choice Painting: Michael Moss, Sole I, 2008, oil on panel, Juror’s Choice Work on Paper: Douglas Lissick, Portuguese Fishermen Mending Nets, aquatint, Juror’s Choice: Mason Morfit, Lemons, 2008, oil on Masonite. exhibition checklist Mason Morfit, Lemons, 2008 oil on Masonite, 12 x 12" Juror's Choice Fabio J. Fernández is an artist and curator based in Boston where he is Exhibitions Director at The Society of Arts and Crafts. He holds an M.F.A. in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan and a B.S. in Business from Seton Hall University in New Jersey. Fernández has exhibited his work in the United States and abroad and has been a visiting critic at various universities around the country as well as an invited juror for a number of arts-related organizations. I believe in PAAM’s important mission and so it was a privilege to be asked to jury the 2009 Members Juried exhibition. Choosing from 175 art objects was a challenge, but a worthwhile one - my selections reflect the subjective qualitative filter that I have developed over time. This filter assists me in choosing work that is in-line with my formal and conceptual concerns. For the installation, I chose to divide the room according to four loosely defined categories: landscapes/seascapes, figurative, still lifes and abstractions. My hope is that this imposed order makes it easier for the eye and mind to contemplate the work as gallery visitors walk through the space. - Fabio J. Fernández, June 18, 2009 Art of the Garden May 8 - July 12, 2009 Featuring exceptional floral works culled from PAAM's permanent collection by curator Polly Burnell. This exhibition occurs in conjunction with PAAM's Annual Secret Garden Tour, a popular walking tour of stunning private gardens in Provincetown's west end. Garden tour guests enjoy free admission to this exhibition. Proceeds benefit the cultural initiatives of PAAM. exhibition checklist Suzanne Sinaiko (1918 - 1998) The Provincetown Bay watercolor on paper, 24 x 18" PAAM Collection, gift of Napi Van Dereck, 2000 Marion Campbell Hawthorne (1870-1945) Delphinium, 1934 watercolor on paper, 19.5 x 13.5" PAAM Collection, anonymous donor Blanche Lazzell (1878 - 1956) Marigolds, 1938 color white-line wood block print, 15 x 13" PAAM Collection, extended loan from Hilary and Sidney Bamford, 2003 Richard Meier Architecture May 29-June 14, 2009 Featuring drawings, sketches, collages, and scale models by one of the world's leading architects, Richard Meier. Exemplary works offer viewers an intimate perspective on the creation of Meier's acclaimed projects including the Getty Center in Los Angeles, The High Museum of Art, and the proposed World Trade Center. richardmeier.com In 1984, at the age of 49, Mr. Meier was the youngest architect to be awarded architecture's highest measure of excellence, The Pritzker Prize.  Soon after, he designed one of the twentieth century's most important structures, the one-billion dollar art complex known as the Getty Center in Los Angeles.  Internationally renowned, Mr. Meier has been awarded several citations and medals for his designs of private homes, apartment buildings and institutions.  In 1995 he became a Fellow to the American Academy of the Arts and in 1997 the American Institute of Architects awarded him the Gold Medal.   The exhibit at PAAM features selections from Mr. Meier's drawings, sketches, collages and scale models of his building designs, such as the Getty Center in Los Angeles; the Jubilee Church; The High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the proposed World Trade Center in New York, to name but a few of his achievements. PAAM's Spring Consignment Auction Preview May 29 - June 13, 2009 Ross Moffett The Red Dory, n.d. lithograph, 8.5 x 13.75 lot 21 Featuring rare and vintage artwork included in PAAM's Spring Consignment Auction, scheduled for June 13, 7PM. This preview will also be made available online. Telephone and absentee bids accepted. PAAM presents regular live consignment auctions and preview exhibitions twice yearly. These events present works of art that may not otherwise be seen by the general public. The proceeds from these auctions directly benefit the exhibitions and educational initiatives of PAAM. Illustrated online catalogue is here. Peter Busa untitled (abstract), c.1960s oil on canvas, 40 x 50" lot 36 Minnie Lois Murphy In New England (Provincetown), 1928 oil on canvas, 28 x 36" lot 91 The Tide Has Turned: The 2008-09 Art Reach Program Exhibition Reception: Friday May 29, 2009 7–9pm Exhibition May 22 - 31, 2009 Featuring works by participants of ArtReach, a free after-school immersion program offered to local youth at PAAM. ArtReach provides substantive out-of-school arts, humanities, and interpretive science opportunities. This exhibition marks the culmination of the inaugural year of Art Reach, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum’s twenty-eight week after school program. Nine Provincetown High School students participated—T.K. Dahill, Jared King, Chris Martinez, Angela Martinez, Jacob Nichols, Nicholas Paire, Eric “Rocky” Rego, Chelsea Roderick, and Kaitlyn “Kewi” Russell—working with Artist-Educators Mark Adams, Tracey Anderson, and Liz Carney. Participants met three afternoons each week over seven months to realize a variety of projects, including portrait painting, web and graphic design, live and digital music composition, map making, the study of the natural environment, and the use of global positioning systems technology. Their work is featured in this multi-media exhibition. The realization of this program has been an extraordinary community effort. PAAM gratefully acknowledges the support of the Provincetown School System, the Provincetown Police Department and Resource Office Marty Menangas, the Provincetown Police Association, the Provincetown Cultural Council, Raphael Richter and Cape Cab, the Rogers Family and Conwell Ace Hardware and Lumber, Ted Jones and Peter Petas, the Cape Cod National Seashore, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, as well as the numerous local, regional and national funders listed below. What participants of the program have said: Art Reach is the bomb—it’s what I wait for at the end of each day. Jared King I believe reaching through art brings people closer together. Rocky Rego I think Art Reach helps people realize the true definitions of art in all its forms. Chris Martinez I’m glad I started this program, it really helped me figure out that I knew how to do a lot of this stuff - and I found myself more. Kaitlyn “Kewi” Russell About the Projects on Exhibit: Cartographer and artist Mark Adams facilitated a Cultural and Environmental Mapping Project with participants. Youth worked in the field, visiting important sites in and around Provincetown, creating sketch book journals, taking photos and exploring the environment. More than once participants stated that they had never been to a particular area, or not since early childhood—the break water, the dunes at Snail Road, the frozen ponds of Beech Forest. Images of participants at various locations and an aerial view of Cape Cod, all created on what T.K. describes as Mark’s “Big Ass” printer at the Truro offices of the Cape Cod National Seashore (over 3 feet wide!) are displayed in the gallery. Participants also utilized global positioning systems technology on various projects, on loan from the National Park Service. The focus of painter Liz Carney’s project has been the joy of painting and the exploration of creating portraiture. Participants created self-portraits, studied the human figure during life drawing sessions with a model, and painted portraits of artists from the community. Some of the visiting artists chose to create sketches of AR participants in return (see Larry Collin’s portrait of Eric Rego). As an introduction to the visiting artists and extended community of local artists, AR participants viewed a variety of work digitally and in PAAM’s galleries. Our thanks to artists Jo Hay, Doug Ritter, Larry Collins, Polly Burnell, Vicky Tomayko, Meg Shields and Tracey Anderson, for their encouragement and service as models for this project. Multi-media artist Tracey Anderson worked with youth to develop a program-driven website, which reflects participants’ individual interests, including their works of art, photography, music composition and video. As the program progressed, participants developed individualized projects which can be viewed in the gallery and at the computer stations. T.K. Dahill furthered his development of cartoon characters and corresponding narratives; Kewi Russell created a series of tattoo graphics (see her book); Angela Martinez developed her skills as a photographer and evocative writer (see her book as well as photos on the back wall); Jared King and Chris Martinez worked independently and collaboratively on the composition of digital and live music; Eric Rego displayed his gifts on a variety of string instruments—including the dobra, banjo and acoustic guitar—and wrote about his experience as a fisherman. Nick Paire focused on honing his skills as a D.J. and developing his website pages; and Jake Nichols developed ways of studying and critiquing on-line gaming via his web pages and creating lyrical digital music, including a composition that reflects how he felt about his time in Art Reach. The Art Reach program is a FREE after school immersion program at PAAM, providing substantive out-of-school arts, humanities, and interpretive science opportunities, in partnership with the Provincetown School System and the Provincetown Police Department. Art Reach is supported in part by the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod, the Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation, the Provincetown Police Association, Peter Petas and Ted Jones, Bank of America, The Aeroflex Foundation, TD Banknorth, Conwell Ace Hardware & Lumber Co. Inc, Cape Cab—giving back to the community year-round—the Provincetown Cultural Council, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council Youth Reach Grant Program. Sculptures in Love with Architecture March 6 - May 31, 2009 reception on Friday, April 24, 6-8pm Sculptures in Love with Architecture (SiLwA) presents the current collaborative work of artists Fabio J. Fernandez of Cambridge, MA and Thomas Lauerman of Chicago, IL. The exhibition title references the book Architectures in Love by John Hejduk, a work of enigmatic drawings and musings on the potential of architecture that has been a sustained influence on both artists. These 74 small-scale ceramic SiLwA explore architecture from the perspective of two artists, keen on observing and abstracting the sculptural aspects of architecture and its details as well as the architectural aspects of sculpture and its details. Members' Open Exhibition YELLOW April 24- May 24. 2009 Featuring more than 200 unique works by established and emerging artists from within the PAAM membership.  exhibition checklist PAAM's open exhibitions represent contemporary local artists. While the work varies greatly in style and approach, each artist-member joins a long roster of distinguished artists who have studied, taught, and exhibited at PAAM over the past 95 years. Pick-up works: Tuesday, May 26 (noon-4pm) Museum School at PAAM Faculty Exhibition In the Duffy Gallery April 24- May 24 Curated by David Foley Featuring the work of the Museum School at PAAMs core year-round faculty: ten teaching artists who serve in the fall and spring accredited programs, the Art Reach and Art on the Edge programs for middle and high school students, the Students and Educators Curating Program, and the Summer Workshop program. Kathryn Smith, Margaret Shields, Vicky Tomayko, Doug Ritter, Rob Dutoit, Nathalie Ferrier, Mark Adams, Anne Flash, Liz Carney, Tracey Anderson. Nathalie Ferrier, Calendar Blanket, tea bags, cotton thread, 46 x 42" Doug Ritter, Articulated Shore, oil on canvas, 62 x 54" Nathalie Ferrier is a graduate of the Ecole de Haute-Couture de Paris, and holds a MFA from MASSART. She She has worked as a designer and a modeliste for Christian Lacroix and Thierry Mugler, among others. Ferrier is a sculptor whose work in installations and time-based media have been exhibited at the Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet MA, as well as in numerous group exhibitions locally and in New York. She offers courses in textiles and fiber arts within the Museum School. Margaret Shields, Disasters of War, oil on panel, 7 x 13.5" Doug Ritter, MFA University of Maryland, BFA Philadelphia College of Art, with studies at Temple University in Rome, Italy, first came to the Cape with a 1987 juried fellowship in painting from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He has taught painting, design, drawing and color theory within the BFA Programs of the Corcoran School of Art and RISD. Awards and grants include a Maryland State Arts Council grant in 2-Dimensional Media, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Painting, and a Fellowship from the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art. His work is in the permanent Collection of the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts, and in numerous private collections Margaret Shields graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art with a BFA in Painting and has been the recipient of a Pollack-Krasner grant. She is represented by the Fischbach Gallery in New York. She lives in Wellfleet, and has taught at Castle Hill, the Cape Cod Museum of Fine Arts, and within the Chatham and Nauset Public Schools. Tracey Anderson, Satie No. 1, grahite/paper,55 x 70" Liz Carney, Orange Stripe, oil on canvas, 24 x 24" Tracey Anderson graduated in Drawing & Painting from Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland and completed Post Graduate Studies at The Royal College of Art in London. She has participated in group and solo exhibitions in the UK as well as in New York and Provincetown. Anderson was featured in the 2004 Emerging Artists exhibition at the Provincetown Art Association & Museum and has exhibited work locally for the last six years; she is currently represented by the Julie Heller Gallery in Provincetown. She lectures on the history of Provincetown art and teaches classes in a variety of media at the Museum School at PAAM; Castle Hill Center for the Arts, Truro, MA; and the Great River Arts Institute of Bellows Falls, VT. Liz Carney is a painter who received a B.A. in Studio Art from Smith College and has been teaching art to children for 16 years. She has created community driven public art projects in Boston, New York and Spain. Her work within the fine arts is an involvement with the intersection of education, public art, community development as well as her professional studio practice in painting. She is a member of the Boston Cultural Council and her works are exhibited locally at the School House Gallery in Provincetown. Anne Flash, untitled, mixed media on book, 17.5 x 25" Kathryn Smith, Moondrops & Tile, white-line wood block print, 23 x 30" Anne Flash has been living on Cape Cod for 10 years. Before that, she taught studio art at Trinity College in Hartford, Ct. She has been the recipient of residencies at Yaddo and The Millay Colony for the Arts. She has shown her work in New York, Boston, Connecticut, and Provincetown. Her work is in private and corporate collections throughout New England. Her BFA is from MassArt and her MFA is from Hunter College in New York. Kathryn Smith studied painting and printmaking at the University of Maryland, receiving a BA in Fine Arts, with further studies at Maryland Institute of Art, University of Northern Colorado, Colorado State University, and University of Colorado, Boulder. Ms. Smith studied closely in Provincetown with her grandmother, Ferol Sibley Warthen, the renowned artist and a practitioner of the single block, multicolor print developed in Provincetown in 1916. Since 1981, Smith has continued to produce traditional white-line prints professionally. She has lectured extensively on the history of the Provincetown print, teaching workshops in the U.S. and Japan. Ms. Smith's work is represented in museum and private collections nationally and internationally. Rob Dutoit received his MFA from Parsons School of Design and studied for extended periods in France and Italy. An active Cape artist since the 1980s, he has been involved in numerous solo and group shows in Boston, New York and Provincetown, most recently at Maurice Arlos Gallery, NYC and at The Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown. At left: Spring Trees, oil on canvas, 60 x 40" exhibition checklist Mark Adams, Swimmer, acrylic, graphite, wood, 16 x 48" Mark Adams has worked as a scientific illustrator and cartographer, with training in watercolor, printmaking and life drawing. He holds degrees in landscape architecture and ecology from the University of California, Berkeley and has exhibited his paintings and drawings on the Cape and Islands since the 1980s, currently at the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown. Other galleries have included DNA Gallery, Provincetown MA; On the Vineyard Gallery, Tisbury, Martha's Vineyard, and the Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA. Adams currently resides in Truro, MA. He has been keeping travel sketchbooks for over 30 years. Vicky Tomayko, 365 Days, 9 monoprints, 70 x 94", Courtesy of The Schoolhouse Gallery Vicky Tomayko is an artist/printmaker living in Truro. She was a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and has an MFA in printmaking from Western Michigan University. She has taught printmaking at Connecticut College, Castle Hill Center for the Arts in Truro; she is currently an artist-in-residence at the Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School in Orleans. She has also taught monoprint workshops in Truro and at the Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in Vermont. Provincetown High School Academy May 8-May 17, 2009 Opening Reception: May 13, 6:30-8:30PM Featuring projects by seniors in Provincetown High School's Academy of Art, Science, and Technology (ASST). AAST is a mentoring program in which students in grades 11-12 work professional adults and members of participating organizations to complete a diverse range of individually designed projects over the school year. 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." Water Water Everywhere An Exhibition of Art and Writing Created by Educators from the Nauset Regional Middle School with Visiting Artist Vicky Tomayko Curated by David Foley Pat de Groot, Black Duck, Light and Water, 1990, Oil on paper, PAAM Permanent Collection Featuring works from the PAAM Collection and Monoprints by NRMS Educators Opening Reception Friday, April 24, 6–8pm Exhibition: April 10 - May 3, 2009 program information and exhibition brochure The theme of water was decided on by NRMS to encompass a broad range of interests and to dialogue with the Cape’s natural environment. Participants were also able to focus on the rich visual tradition of maritime art created by both contemporary and 20th century artists. Master printmaker Vicky Tomayko served as the Visiting Artist, guiding each teacher to create monotypes, inspired by works from the collection. Vicky took the opportunity to curate and respond to a collection work as well. PAAM encourages teachers across school curricula to participate in the Curating Program, and the NRMS group brings a wealth of varied experience to their exhibition. The 2009 Nauset Regional Middle School Curators are: Ryan Birchall: Art Deb Keavy: French John Krenik: Art Patrice Michael: Reading Abigail Reid: Social Studies Audrey Smith: Math Bert Yarborough Curated by Breon Dunigan and Bob Bailey opens with a reception Friday, March 13, 6-8pm and continues through May 3 in the Patrons Gallery and Jalbert Gallery Birdman, 2008, oil and acrylic on canvas, 48 by 72 inches exhibition checklist Exhibition Catalogue available @ PAAM An associate professor of art at Colby-Sawyer College in New London, NH, Bert Yarborough has exhibited in Provincetown over the course of thirty years—at PAAM, the Group Gallery, UFO Gallery, FAWC, and most recently, artSTRAND. His current work represents an extension and distillation of an engagement with the figure that began in earnest in 1996. It incorporates abstractions and iconographic images recalled from experiences working in Provincetown, and while studying traditional Yoruban carving during a Fulbright Fellowship in Nigeria. “I began to work with the figure in order to give voice to a level of expression I felt I could not reach through abstraction. “Drawing was, and continues to be, the key component to my investigation and exploration with the human form.” He began by drawing figures on the beaches, eventually extracting the essential elements from this environment—the water, sun, birds, figures—and reconstituting them with the mark-making language of previous abstract work. “I am now combining this language with a variety of figurative and symbolic images including those derived from my African experience.” 38 Years of Influence: Celebrating the Castle Hill Community at the Provincetown Art Association & Museum Exhibition runs March 6 - April 19 Breon Dunigan, 2005-07, Ingress, Vaporous, Surveilance, and Emimisary. Joyce Johnson, Forms in Bloom exhibition checklist, with essay by Founder Joyce Johnson on the History of Castle Hill TRANSFORMATIONS: Contemporary Sculpture Joe Fiorello, Conny Hatch, Alexandra Smith, and Mike Wright Curator Elisabeth Pearl has arranged this intriguing collection of new sculptures that breathe life back into forgotten and discarded materials. February 20, through April 5, 2009. Works by Alexandra Smith, Connie Hatch, Mike Wright, and Joe Fiorello Joe Fiorello, Conny Hatch, Alexandra Smith, and Mike Wright, are four sculptors who have exhibited independently for years in Provincetown’s art galleries. Acknowledging the synergy of their work, they have welcomed the opportunity to collaborate on this exhibition.Though their styles and methods may differ, the four artists share a natural inclination to rummage and re-create. exhibition checklist Connie Hatch Mike Wright Hatch is motivated by a desire to send a message about preserving and sustaining the natural environment. She is drawn to the beauty of weathered wood and patinized metals which take on new life in her imaginative work. Bowing always to Provincetown’s byways and its natural surrounds, Wright’s work pays homage to the likes of Blanche Lazzell, Ferol Sibley Warthen and Greek mythology. Joe Fiorello Fiorello incorporates a formal and minimal aesthetic influenced by the simplicity of early Cycladic and Minoan sculpture. His medium is welded steel salvaged from industrial sites. Alexandra Smith Smith comes to sculpture after years as a jewelry maker and designer. Her metal works are influenced by Wassily Kandinsky’s paintings and by the sculptures of John Chamberlain and Frank Stella. Vintage Provincetown: Exhibition of Jules Aarons Photography January 30 - March 29 Curated by PAAM’s Executive Director Christine McCarthy exhibition checklist Jules Aarons Photo, PAAM permanent collection An exhibition of rarely seen vintage photographs by the late Jules Aarons. Like many of the nation’s most celebrated artists, Aarons spent his mid-century summers in Provincetown, drawing inspiration from the remote seaside community and its legendary light. The Photographs of Jules Aarons features the people and places of Provincetown, seen through the eyes of a truly gifted artist who will be remembered for the sensitivity he showed to both his subjects and his craft. Inspired by the work of French photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson and Eugene Atget, Aarons preferred a candid approach to street-photography and sought to document his subjects unawares. “I used a camera, a waist level twin lens reflex, that had rarely been used for candid or documentary shots…” he explains, “the subjects did not always know the photograph was being taken.The photographer who has to hold his camera at eye level telegraphs his intentions.” The compassion he felt for his subjects, coupled with his exacting timing, resulted in a body of work that intimately documents the human condition while revealing Aarons’ unique aesthetic. A renowned physicist and engineer by trade, Aarons worked for many years as a senior scientist at the Air Force Geophysics Research Laboratory at Hanscom Field in Bedford. He joined the faculty at Boston University in 1981, and helped establish BU’s Center for Space Physics in 1987. Aarons photographed predominantly in the Boston area, but his scientific career allowed for unique opportunities to photograph unfamiliar streets. While traveling the world to attend conferences and give lectures,Aarons amassed an impressive collection of work from his visits to Paris, England, India, South America, and Japan. This exhibition is made possible by a recent acquisition of Jules Aarons photographs; two portfolios of the artist’s work have recently been gifted to PAAM’s permanent collection by a private donor. Members’ Juried Exhibition January 16 – March 8, 2009 Juror: Adrian Tio, Printmaker, Dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts, UMASS Dartmouth at left: Adrian Tio, Monumento a Los Desparecidos oil pastel/paper on polychromed wood exhibition checklist Juror’s Statement It was both a pleasure and a challenge to judge the entries for the 2009 Open Exhibition hosted by The Provincetown Art Association Museum. It was a pleasure to see first-hand the diversity of media and imagery being utilized by the artists who responded to the call for entries. And it was an equally daunting challenge to assemble an exhibition that was both comprehensive and reflective of the works presented for consideration. As you view the exhibition, you will note what appear to be thematic relationships in the final arrangement of the work. These relationships came together during the selection process as a means of creating visual dialogs between somewhat similar imagery, media or palettes. To the artists whose works are on display, I extend my congratulations on your accomplishments and offer my best wishes for continued success. To those whose work was not chosen for this exhibition, I sincerely encourage you to continue to work in the studio – future exhibition opportunities await those of you who persist in developing your craft.- Adrian Tió 2008-2009 FAWC Fellows January 16- March 1, 2009 Cutting edge art by the Visual Arts Fellows of The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. First Year Visual Arts Fellows: Taylor Baldwin, Julia Brown, Adam Davies, Michele Kong, Lilly McElroy, Jason Mones, Leslie Murray, Micha Patiniott Second Year Visual Arts Fellows: Meghan Gordon, Kambui Olujimi exhibition checklist We are glad to welcome the 2008-09 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 The Fellows at The Fine Arts Work Center 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 heritage. 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. 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 participate in PAAM's Youth Education initiatives. Works from the Collection Opens January 16, through March 1. Selections from PAAM’s permanent collection, including works by Robert Motherwell, Bruce McKain, B.J.O. Nordfeldt, Charles Webster Hawthorne, William Merrit Chase, and Blanche Lazzell, among others. Curated by Christine McCarthy. B.J.O. Nordfeldt (1878 - 1955) Still Life (Chicago), 1911 oil on canvas, 21 x 31" Gift of I. David Orr, 1996 in memory of Franz Kline exhibition checklist Rods and Monsters: The Puppet Designs of Ed Christie Curated by Breon Dunigan In the Duffy Gallery through January 25 Ed Christie has been associated with The Jim Henson Company for 27 years. He is currently a creative and managerial consultant at Sesame Workshop, primarily designing characters for Sesame Street. He has designed, built, and wrangled puppet characters on most of Henson’s productions including The Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock, The Dark Crystal, and Muppets Take Manhattan, as well as the stage musical Little Shop of Horrors. He is the winner of eight Emmy Awards for his work on Sesame Street and received the Oasis of Peace Award for his work on the Israel/Palestine production of Sesame Street. © Sesame Workshop Puppetry is a fusion of sculpture and theater, and as such it has been a perfect endeavor for Ed Christie. Sculpture is his passion, and he has always been a musical-theater buff, having loved performing in school productions. But growing up in suburban Elmont, New York, he was unaware that puppetry was a way to combine his interests or even that it was a viable profession. That outlook changed dramatically in 1977, when Christie was a senior at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, working toward an arteducation degree: He followed a classmate’s lead and got an internship at Jim Henson’s Muppet Workshop in New York. Being a working artist was no longer just a dream. These were heady times for Henson; his syndicated television series, The Muppet Show, had become a worldwide hit, making household names of Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy. His idealistic experiment in children’s television, the PBS show Sesame Street, transformed the medium with its multiracial vision of learning, tolerance, and play among characters such as Bert and Ernie, the Count, Big Bird, and Cookie Monster. Christie thrived in Henson’s creative enterprise, and would spend twenty-five years there (half of them after Henson died in 1990), building and designing puppets for movies and television productions, and eventually becoming a vice president in charge of the New York Muppet Workshop. Plant Puppets designed and built by Ed Christy for Dunesbury: The Musical, 1983. photo by Martha Swope, courtesy of Gary Trudeau “To design puppets,” Christie says, “you have to believe that the sculptured forms will eventually come to life.” There are many different kinds puppets— hand puppets, finger puppets, marionettes, rod puppets, ventriloquist dummies, even full-body walkaround characters—and over the years, Christie has worked on most of them. Henson’s Muppets were especially notable for being constructed in foam and cloth, soft media that Christie, who had focused in school on bronze and wood, soon became quite proficient in. During the time he worked for the Muppets (and after leaving in 2002), Christie also designed and built puppets for off-Broadway and Broadway productions, such as Doonesbury: The Musical in 1983 and most recently, the 2007 Kennedy Center revival of Carnival!—a production that required sixteen puppets, all of which are included in this exhibit. He now designs puppets as a freelancer, most often for international Sesame Street productions, including those in Russia, Mexico, Canada, Japan, China, South Africa, Egypt, Israel/Palestine, India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Germany, and Northern Ireland.Christie and his partner, Howard Karren, fell in love with Cape Cod in the 1980s after spending some time in Provincetown for the wedding of a friend. They vacationed here for decades and now live in Truro year-round. Christie designs at home and oversees “puppet builds” in New York via the Internet, and in his spare time works on non-puppet art, exhibiting locally. “I’ve always felt that puppetry straddled the fence between theater and fine art,” he says. “It’s great that PAAM is willing to embrace it.” Works from the Collection, through January 16. James Lechay (1917-2001) Portrait of Irving Marantz, 1965 oil on canvas 48 x 36", gift of the Artist Nanno de Groot (1913-1963) Untitled, 1951 oil on canvas 40 x 30", gift of Elise Asher Art on the Edge Exhibiton Culmination of 12-week middle school art education program. Opens January 16 in the Hawthorne Gallery through January 18. Art on the Edge is a FREE Saturday arts program for Middle School Students at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. Participants from Harwich to Provincetown explored their artistic interests, working with five professional teaching-artists, in the inaugural cycle of this twelve-week arts immersion program this fall. ART ON THE EDGE is supported in part by the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod, Peter Petas and Ted Jones, The Aeroflex Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Polly Burnell Leaving 1996,oil/panel, 15 X 12" Polly Burnell - Irene Lipton March 2 – April 15, 2007 Curated by Donald Beal Irene Lipton Untitled 2007, oil/canvas, 36 x 48" 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 exhibition checklist   Norman Barr, Low Tide 1980, oil/board, 6.75 x 9" 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 exhibition checklist Learning To See: The Legacy of Charles W. Hawthorne An 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. 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.   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   exhibition checklist   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 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 exhibition checklist Charles Hawthorne His First Voyage,1912 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 exhibition checklist Members’ Juried Exhibition January 12 – February 25, 2007 Juror: Cindy Nickerson, Director/Curator of the Cahoon Museum of American Art exhibition checklist Current Exhibitions at PAAM Previous Exhibitions at PAAM - 2011 Previous Exhibitions at PAAM - 2010 Previous Exhibitions at PAAM - 2009 Previous Exhibitions at PAAM - 2008 Previous Exhibitions at PAAM - 2007 Previous Exhibitions at PAAM - 2006

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