Upcoming Exhibitions at PAAM Auction Preview May 23 – June 7, 2008 Opening: May 23, 7 – 9 PM Auction: June 7, 7 PM Consignment auction of vintage Provincetown art. Harvey Dodd May 23 – June 22, 2008 Opening: May 23, 7-9 Featuring watercolors and pastels, this anniversary exhibition celebrates Harvey Dodd’s fifty years in Provincetown. Joyce Johnson May 23 – July 13, 2008 Opening: May 23, 7 – 9 PM Joyce Johnson began carving in wood when she was about ten. She continues to be passionate about carving, but also works in clay, direct plaster and other materials that she reproduces in bronze. Her idiom is small abstract sculptures whose angles and curves cast intruiging shadows. For her reliefs, Johnson chooses forms from 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. Johnson’s exhibition at PAAM features works from her nearly fifty-year career on Cape Cod. Romanos Rizk May 30 – July 13, 2008 Opening: May 30, 7 – 9 PM Counted among Provincetown’s prominent contemporary artists, Romanos Rizk was born of Lebanese parents in Providence, Rhode Island. He trained as a classical painter, and arrived here to study with Henry Hensche in 1948. For the next ten years, Rizk painted portraits, the town and the harbor, then set out to establish his own style of abstraction. His success and special place within the genre is attested to by numerous museum invitationals and acquisitions over three decades. Studio Show June 13 – August 3, 2008 Opening: June 13, 8 – 10 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 8 Pearl Street. 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. The artists highlighted include Gerrit Beneker, Edwin Dickinson, Mary Hackett, Charles Hawthorne, Peter Hunt, Blanche Lazzell and Robert Motherwell. Visit Provincetown, America's oldest continuous art colony! Edna Boies Hopkins Woodblock Prints: Strong in Character, Colorful in Expression June 13 – August 3, 2008 Opening: June 13, 8 - 10 Organized by The Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio; Springfield Museum of Art, Ohio This exhibition is the first since the artist’s death in 1937 and examines her color woodblock prints for which she was heralded during her lifetime. Created during a brief period of just two decades, Hopkins’ woodblock prints demonstrate her increasing evolution towards Modernism while exploring three main themes: Floral compositions, figural works, and townscapes from Provincetown, MA. This exhibition includes 50 of Hopkins’ finest works drawn from public and private collections. Art of the Garden Members' Exhibition June 27 – July 27, 2008 Opening: June 27, 8 - 10 Robert Henry July 18 – August 31, 2008 Opening: July 18, 8 - 10 In the summer of 2008, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum will present 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 forthcoming 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. 12 x 12 Auction August 1 – August 31, 2008 bids closing on Aug. 31 at 3:00 Herman Maril August 8 – October 12, 2008 Opening: August 8, 8- 10 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. Maril’s stylistic journey is reminiscent of the Renaissance, has roots in Cubsim, moves into Modernism, and results in a simple elegance, undefinable within an art historical context. Reserved, simple, essential, core, subtle, distinct, pictorial, and elemental – all terms that have been used to describe Maril’s work, yet the overall effect is one that allows the viewer to experience details that have been extracted, to see space and form become one, to achieve visual pleasure through color and attain a lyrical rhythm. This exhibition will include over 50 paintings and watercolors from the 1930s to the 1980s. An exhibition catalogue will accompany the exhibition. Previous Exhibitions Current Exhibitions

APRIL 2008 at PAAM:

6 Memorial Service, 3pm
Celebrating the life of Frank Schaeffer.

10 filmArt@PAAM, 7pm
Days of Heaven (1978) 94 min.,
admission $5/$3 members.

15 Drop-off, noon-4pm Members’ Juried: juror Edsel Williams. No size limit. For accepted works, go to paam.org Thursday afternoon, April 17. Pick up works not included by Fri, April 18. Works accepted available for
pick-up 5/13.


24 filmArt@PAAM, 7pm
Bus 174 (2002) 150 min., $5/$3 members.

21- 25 Family Week
Free art classes for children.

MAY 2008 at PAAM:

3 Blue Door, 8pm, $10
Arthur Cook, cello and Deborah
Gilwood, piano. Works by Faure,
Beethoven, Franck.

13 Pick-up, noon-4pm
From the Members’ Juried and
Members’ Open: Blue.

15 filmArt@PAAM, 7pm
Matador (1986) 110 min., $5/$3
members.

22 Opening Reception, 7-9pm
PHS Academy of Art, Science & Technology.
In the Hawthorne Gallery through
May 25.

23 Three Openings, 7-9pm:

Spring Consignment Auction Preview.
Vintage Provincetown
Art. In the Duffy Gallery through June
7, 5pm. NB: Date change: Live auction
June 7, 7pm

Joyce Johnson. NB: This exhibition
opens for viewing on May 16. In the
Hofmann Gallery through July13.

Harvey Dodd. In the Moffett Gallery
through June 22.

27 Fredi Schiff Levin Lecture, 7pm
Joyce Johnson gallery talk.

29 filmArt@PAAM, 7pm
Morocco(1930) 122 min., $5/$3 members.

The Provincetown Art Association and Museum supports the creation and exhibition of contemporary art, and maintains, preserves, and exhibits works held in the Museum Collection. The organization has anchored the art community in Provincetown for nearly a century, and it's mission is continued to be supported through the recent renovation and expansion, and through the activities of it's membership, patrons, supporters and friends.

The contemporary wing’s two galleries and four studio classrooms support PAAM’s commitment to education and provide resources for current practices. The three galleries in our historic wing, along with the collection preservation areas, facilitate our mission to assemble, maintain, and exhibit the museum's significant collection of American art.