Former Exhibitions
Recent Gifts and Acquisitions from 2011
January 21 - February 12, 2012
The works of art in this exhibition are a sampling of gifts and acquisitions accepted during 2011. Included are paintings, sculpture and works on paper. Some of the artists represented are John Babineau, photography; William F. Boogar Jr., bronze sculpture; Craig Brodt, ceramic sculture; Peter Busa, silkscreen print; Robert Cormier, pastel; Emily Farnham, watercolor; Arnold Geissbuhler, ceramic; Xavier Gonzalez, oil; Lena Gurr, linotype; Megan Hinton, oil; Harry Holl, ceramic; Gerrit Hondius, ink with watercolor; Irving Kriesberg, pastel; Arthur McMurtry, oil; Elliot Orr, watercolor; Aiden Lassell Ripley, oil; Umberto Romano, oil; and Rose Ann Samuelson, acrylic.
Image: Robert Cormier, "Man with a Fur Collar"
Bill Armstrong: Photography
December 17, 2011 - February 12, 2012
The photographs by Bill Armstrong in this exhibition are works commissioned by Christopher Hyland. The commissions came about for various reasons: the three figurative abstract Jeffersons because Hyland was interested in having the multiple aspects of personality manifest in photographic art; the three figurative abstract athletes to celebrate the Olympics and sport in general and the degree to which excelling in sport transforms the athlete and the viewer. Hyland commissioned the abstraction of Copley's painting, because of the seminal position of the African, poised at the center of the painting ready to rescue Watson, a white boy of English ancestry and because Hyland's friends, Julia and Alice Meyer, brought him to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, to see the painting which their mother had donated to the museum in honor of her husband, Ambassador George Von L Meyer. Most importantly, Hyland commissioned the triptych of The Last Supper in response to Pope Benedict XVI's request for contemporary art and because of Hyland's particular interest in Transubstantiation, transformation.
Three of Armstrong's Mandalas, for Hyland, were included because they represent three universal forces often found in major belief systems throughout the world. The fourth Mandala was selected because it was chosen by Hyland who felt it represented the quintessential abstract photograph, and subsequently by Aperture for the front page of its seminal book on abstract photography. The final one was selected because, to Hyland, it was the first figurative abstract he had seen that merited attention and recognition.
Bill Armstrong is a New York-based artist who received a BA in Art History, and an MBA from Boston University. His works have been shown across the country as well as abroad. His photography has a very unique quality to it; Armstrong plays with his photography, often manipulating the image through a number of different processes including photocopying, blurring or even changing and re-photographing a picture to create images that are very different from their original state. His photographs include both abstractions and images of figures.
Elizabeth Chater, Printmaker
December 17, 2011 - February 19, 2012
Elizabeth Chater was born on August 10, 1914 in Baltimore, Maryland. Her mother had studied art with Charles Hawthorne in Provincetown and the family summered on Cape Cod. In 1995, until the end of her life, Elizabeth lived and worked on Cape Cod, studying at the Cotuit Art Center and she had many local exhibitions of her work.
In my artwork I try to maintain a vision that is both alive to the world around & aware of a visual aesthetic that is strong & vibrant. The integration of these two elements is what interests me most. I find that working in a variety of media keeps my thinking alive. One type of work helps the other & keeps me aware of form as well as content. By constant re-evaluation, I try to bring each work to a good resolution. I love the contrast of character in a variety of face – the drama of everyday life is what motivates me.
My purely abstract paintings are expressions of the joy of color movement & a kinetic sense of music & dance. I like to make us aware of the aesthetic qualities in the life all around us. My prints & collages are done in a variety of media – some in silkscreen alone & some with silkscreen & acrylic or pastels. I sometimes add color to the hand printed woodcuts. The mono-prints are of two kinds – some done on a zinc plate with oil based inks and stencils; other made on ½” plastic sheets painted with luma paints or crayons. They are printed in a press on wet Arches paper – the strong pigment creates a glowing mono print and may be enhanced later with more color. The colloges are of variety of things – old canvases – torn prints on Japanese paper-hand paper with silkscreen prints on top – nylon mesh screening or found objects.
-Elizabeth Chater
Mary Moquin & Marc Kundmann: Timeless: Explorations in Wax-Based Media
November 19, 2011 - January 29, 2012
Gallery Talk: Sunday, December 11, 2 - 3: 30 pm
Marc Kundmann’s recent work is an exploration of painting with encaustic wax, one of the oldest forms of painting. The technique allows him to build and remove textured layers of color, transparency, and pigments. He tries to focus on the joy of creating, and painting with honesty. His hope is that the resulting layers create not only intriguing and beautiful surfaces, but also give emotional life to the subjects, and hint at the mystery inside.
Kundmann studied with fine artists connected to the long tradition of painting and art-making on the Cape including Robert Henry, a student of Hans Hofmann, and Fine Arts Work Center Fellows Jim Peters, Bert Yarborough and Richard Baker. Through them he learned to explore materials, freeing himself from the constraints of representing the real world and work in a more expressive way, responding to color and composition and creating work from both understanding and emotion.
Mary Moquin explores a sense of the prevailing unity found in the eternal rhythms of nature. She is drawn to the regenerative solitude of the timeless spaces she depicts. Moquin has had a connection with the landscape since she was a small child. She was raised on the remnants of a 50-plus-acre-farm and explored miles of old work paths that led to secluded “special” places. She reveled in the sense of peace found in the silence and solitude they afforded. Mary Moquin currently lives on Cape Cod with her husband and spends the summer in a remote dune cottage on Sandy Neck, with no modern conveniences 
and only accessible by four-wheel drive or boat. It is here that she continues her intimate connection with the landscape. Most of her work is inspired from the contemplative time spent there.
Moquin uses a mixed media approach often incorporating the use of hot or cold wax. She holds a BFA in printmaking and an MFA in painting and teaches painting at the Cape Cod Art Association in Barnstable.
Mary Moquin and Marc Kundmann will also give a Gallery Talk, a conversation about their work and the timely and timeless technique of encaustic and wax-based painting, on Sunday, December 11 from 2:00 to 3:30 pm. Wax medium has historical roots dating back to ancient Greece and is one of the hottest topics in the contemporary art market. Marc and Mary will discuss their individual attraction to the medium and their use of its unique properties to explore memory and place in the Cape Cod landscape and beyond.
Images:
Above: Marc Kundmann, Early July Morning
Below: Mary Moquin, Presence
MATRYOSHKA DOLLS: A Collection of Malcolm Shriber
November 23 - January 30, 2011
Matryoshka dolls, more commonly known as Russian nesting dolls, the most popular Russian national souvenir, are distinctive. The dolls are hand-carved, brightly painted wooden figures which separate at the middle to reveal another, smaller doll inside. The last doll of the decreasing sizes does not separate.
Traditionally, the largest doll is a woman dressed in a sarafan, a Russian folk costume, and the smallest doll is a baby. The dolls in the middle are generally children. However, the possibilities available when painting these dolls are endless. Beyond those in traditional folk costumes, categories include animals, movie stars, athletes, musicians, and even political leaders. The collection on exhibition at the CCMA in memory of Shriber’s wife Roberta features a variety of categories providing a wonderful selection of the craftsmanship and artistry of matryoshka dolls.
Nancy Ellen Craig: Of Face and Body
Sponsored by the Hess and Helyn Kline Foundation
December 3, 2011 - January 22, 2012
Although Nancy Ellen Craig is well known for her portraits, she is also drawn to painting scenes from the Bible and Greek mythology. Her large paintings featuring such subjects are reminiscent of the works of the great Italian Renaissance painters. Her works are larger than life and seem to capture images of both pain and glory. Craig’s paintings are action filled and seem to burst out of dream-like backgrounds. Her works are impressive both for their great size, and the immense talent that Craig has for the art of painting.
“She paints from imagination, often beginning with poses recorded in her sketchbooks over the years. Many of her subjects are taken from Greek myth or Renaissance iconography of such painters as Titian or Raphael. She is attracted to these epic themes, she says, because “the Greek myths embody extreme universal truths –” - Berta Walker
Born in New York, Nancy Craig attended a progressive school that allowed her to express herself freely, and it was there she discovered her skill at drawing and painting; often of forms that were larger than life. Later, Nancy attended Sweetbriar College in Virginia, as well as Bennington in Vermont. She then went on to study at the Art Students League in New York, and the Académie Julian in Paris where she learned the techniques of painting that she needed to transfer her drawings into paintings. Her teachers include many impressive painters such as Hans Hoffman, Edwin Dickinson and Frederic Taubes. Nancy obtained international notoriety early on as a portrait painter which led her to travel the world painting royalty, celebrities and the common people she saw in her travels. In the 1970’s Nancy moved to Truro, Massachusetts and secluded herself from the world because she felt that the praise she was obtaining came too easily, and she wanted to have a chance to be forgotten and then become known again for her new work.
Image: Standing Before Custer
The Great Silence by Lorrie Fredette
June 11 - January 8, 2012
Gallery Talk by Lorrie Fredette: Sunday, July 31, 2 pm
The Great Silence, a sculpture created by Lorrie Fredette specifically for the Bank of America/Hunter Gallery, is made of beeswax, tree resin, muslin, brass, steel and nylon line and will be suspended from the beams in the gallery.
Fredette’s work is inspired by medical sciences. She is particularly interested in the way that information is collected and passed on. Fredette says of her work:
Like tales of big fish, it is often distorted and misrepresented in the telling. My installation, The Great Silence began with the study of the smallpox virus, an epidemic of which is presumed to have killed 75 percent of the original residents of Cape Cod between 1614 and 1617. With smallpox as my host, I set out to uncover the story around this epidemic, and the altered memories associated with it through years of re-telling the story. Thus, The Great Silence is the most current factual version of a grossly eroded memory and its progression.
Lorrie Fredette creates site-specific installations that comment on the distortion of memory and experience. She employs beauty, dimension and place as part of a process of alteration. Her work has been shown in exhibitions at Mass MoCA (Williamstown, MA), Gallery Ehva (Provincetown, MA) and the University of Virginia (Charlottesville). Awards include MARK 09 and a Strategic Opportunity Grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts (2010 and 2007 respectively). Recently, she was awarded and attended a residency at Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY. Fredette earned a BFA in sculpture from the Herron School of Art/Indiana University. Born and raised in Burlington, MA, a very frequent visitor to Cape Cod, she now lives and works in New York’s Hudson Valley.
America the Beautiful: Artwork inspired by Katherine Lee Bates’ Song
September 17 – December 11
Artists’ Reception, Sunday, September 25, 2 - 4 pm
Gallery Talks by the artists are scheduled throughout the exhibition; see below
“Americans all see the country from their own point of view. ‘From different vantage points, we look out at this beautiful land… It takes our breath away- and invites us to breath together, side by side, our cultures diverse yet interwoven.”
- From Cape Experience article by Debi Boucher, quoting weaver Katie Hickey
“America the Beautiful”, written by Falmouth-born Katherine Lee Bates in 1885 as a poem, and then put to music by Samuel A. Ward in 1910, has been a favorite patriotic song of Americans for over a century. In this exhibit painters and weavers from Cape Cod have created works that artistically reflect their interpretation of different lines of the poem. Collaborating together are eleven painters and eleven weavers. Some painters are creating their work as an interpretation of a weaving, while some weavers are interpreting the painting of their partner. This exhibition began at the State House in Boston before continuing to the Cahoon Museum of American Art in Cotuit, and then to CCMA.
In creating this exhibit the artists hoped to interpret and honor the song as well as celebrate the beauty and diversity of America. Proposed by Shawn Nelson Dahlstrom, an artist from Dennis, the exhibit is meant to celebrate the beauty that is America, and even though the country has flaws, there is still much to be proud of and rejoice. For the twenty-two women from Cape Cod who worked together on this exhibit it was a unique and enjoyable experience. The artists, worked together to draw on different lines of the song to come up with a way to show just what makes America beautiful.
Painters participating in the exhibition are: Rita Doddridge, Patricia Stark Feinstein, Anne Garton, Jane Lincoln, Barbara Melcher, Norma Mutch, Kate Nelson, Shawn Nelson Dahlstrom, Carol Odell, Suzanne Packer, Odin Smith. The participating fiber artists, who work in textiles such as fabric, yarn, and natural and synthetic fibers, are: Susan Clark, Sandra Godwin, Shannon Goheen, Christina Jervant, Katie Hickey, Nancy Kirchner, Beth Minear, Sue Pellowe, Janet Rice, Gretchen Romey-Tanzer, and Elena Tobin.
Image: "Amber Waves of Grain" woven by Sue Pellowe
From New Jersey To Cape Cod - Mel Leipzig, Daniel Finaldi & Linda Pochesci
September 17 - December 4, 2011
Gallery Talk by exhibition artists: Saturday, October 29, 2 pm
From New Jersey to Cape Cod is a group exhibition of the works of painting buddies, Mel Leipzig, Daniel Finaldi and Linda Pochesci.
Mel Leipzig is well known for his hyper-realistic portraits, including portraits of Cape Cod artists Robert Henry and Selina Trieff. Of special interest in this exhibition is a dual portrait of Elizabeth Ives Hunter and Michael Giaquinto, CCMA Executive Director and Exhibitions Curator, respectively, done by Leipzig. Leipzig, a longtime resident of Trenton, NJ, who comes to Cape Cod for a month in each summer to paint, is a professor at Mercer County Community College where he teaches painting and art history. He studied painting with Josef Albers and James Brooks, among others, and earned a 3-year certificate from the Cooper Union in 1956. Throughout his career he has received numerous awards for both his art and teaching including a Fulbright Grant to Paris, 1958-59, and four grants from the New Jersey Council on the Arts. He also received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1995. His works are in the collections of many museums in the northeast, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the National Academy Museum as well as the Springville Museum of Art in Utah.
Daniel Finaldi’s work has always been concerned with a painterly and direct observation of reality as he sees it. In past years his approach was to discover a mood within a certain place or in a particular spot, interested in the spontaneous feeling that he was experiencing in that moment. He wanted to paint that feeling. The emotion was always based upon a visual experience.
Within the past 9 years Finaldi’s work has taken on another dimension. While continuing to paint interiors and landscapes directly from life, he now finds that he wants people in those places, people in his life and environment; family, students and friends. Finaldi is devoted to observing people as they are and as he perceives them in their space.
Finaldi teaches of fine art and art history at Freehold Borough High School. He has also and Adjunct Faculty member at Brooklyn College and Mercer County Community College teaching fine art painting. He was the 2009 Gerald R. Dodge Fellowship Grant Recipient.
The paintings Linda Pochesci has been working on for the past six years are a composite of many different realities that are put together but don’t actually exist anywhere but on the canvas. She looks at the canvas as a type of stage, where she’s setting the drama or telling a story. Her paintings explore her search for home. She’s attracted to the dynamics of architectural space as a metaphor of a dwelling place of the soul.
Pochesci was born in Massachusetts. She grew up in New Jersey and attended college there. While an undergraduate, she studied with Mel Leipzig. Upon graduation she moved to Boston and eventually attended graduate school at Massachusetts College of Art. She studied with the artist George Nick while earning her MFA in painting.
She has exhibited extensively in Massachusetts and New Jersey. In 1995 The Dodge Foundation awarded her a major grant as part of their "Artist Initiative" program. Additionally, Linda has received numerous mini grants from the foundation for ongoing artistic development in the studio and in the art classroom. Linda Pochesci currently lives in New Jersey where she works professionally as an artist and educator. She spends the summer in her studio in Cape Cod, MA.
Image: Mel Leipzig paints on CCMA's Sculpture Porch
Men and the Sea: works of Frank Cardozo Nicholas
September 10- November 27, 2011
Gallery Talks by Tracy Nicholas Bledsoe: Thursday, October 6, 1 pm and Sunday, October 23, 2 pm
Frank Cardozo Nicholas was an artist whose paintings feature the landscape and people of Cape Cod; he also studied the Native Americans, as well as reflecting on his African American heritage. His works sought to reflect the human condition. The paintings in this exhibition feature his maritime paintings.
He painted the common laborer as well as ballerinas, striving to show his love of nature, justice, freedom, music, dance and the sea bringing it all together to reflect the beauty and diversity that is America. Nicholas painted laborers in the field, American Indians in ceremonial dress and fishermen working against the violent sea. He created his paintings using mixed media of oil, acrylic and casein to illustrate his diverse subjects.
“When I came to live on the Cape more than 30 years ago, like many artists, I had already been swayed by its natural beauty, open skies and wide-stretched shores. The extraordinary quality of light here has been well remarked on for a long time and I appreciate it as a natural mystery, one that reflects the relationship of light with the many waters of this place. It is a challenge and a glory to paint as even the sands boast a spectrum of tone and color. I have never failed to be amazed at the constantly changing natural wonders of Cape Cod and the Islands.”
- Frank Cardozo Nicholas
Born in Washington, DC, Nicholas was educated in art at the Pennsylvania Museum School, Pratt Collage, the Art Students’ League, and the Brooklyn Museum School before becoming a commercial artist illustrating trade books and text books before moving onto greeting cards. In 1970, Cardozo moved to Cape Cod, and by 1978 he was working full time as an artist, which he did for the next 25 years creating more than 200 paintings. His works have been exhibited across the Cape and throughout the country as well.
Image: "The Big Meadow"
Cindy Kane: New Directions
September 10 - November 13
Cindy Kane’s map series is one type of artwork for which she is most recognized. Her creation of maps grew partly out of the connection she felt to the Middle East; her husband and his family are from Israel. Kane’s maps respond more to political feelings and the world around us, than to traditional maps. In her maps she responds to war and conflict by combining images of fire with world maps and newspaper headings. She has also addressed extinction by painting images of birds on sheet music. Other subjects she often reflects on are her personal heroes, writers, thinkers and leaders both politically and spiritually; Kane brings her feelings on these subjects to life in her works of art.
“It is easy to get lost in Cindy Kane’s map series.… Distressing for the navigational eye, each collage of countries, colors and geometric shapes leads everywhere and nowhere at once. Squiggles collide with severe shards of soft color, pinned down by webs of jagged lines. Like a smattering of yarn, glass, and sticks, everything is chaotic.” - Sara G. Levin
"These maps reflect my sense of balance or instability as I observe the political and environmental tumult of our times. They are not about particular places, but rather concern my fascination with migration patterns and the forces of nature." - Cindy Kane
She has lived on Martha's Vineyard with her husband and two children since 1996. Kane is a self-taught painter whose maps reflect her interest in politics and the environment. She has created her own works of art ever since she was a child, and many of her works today contain some of the artwork of her own children. Some of her work is shown and sold locally at the Louisa Gould Gallery on Martha's Vineyard. Her works have been in exhibited in galleries across the country from San Francisco to NY. Currently she is represented by Lora Schlesinger Gallery in Los Angeles, and by the Cross MacKenzie Gallery in Washington DC.
Image: Hallelujah!
Rosemary Simpkins: Remember... A 9/11 Trilogy Honoring the Victims of September 11, 2001
September 10 - October 9, 2011
Book Artist Rosemary Simpkins created an interactive sculptural bookwork, Twin Books, in 2002, as a memorial to the victims of the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, destroyed on September 11, 2001. Twin Books was exhibited at CCMA in the fall of 2006, the fifth anniversary. It was then that Simpkins read an article in the Boston Sunday Globe that stressed that the people who died on 9/11 deserved to be remembered.
Five years in the making, two new projects join Twin Books, on the tenth anniversary of 9/11 to remember all the victims killed on that horrific Tuesday morning:
Crater of Tears is a sculptural interpretation of United Airlines Flight #93, which crashed near Shanksville, PA.
Pentagon Red (They Were Engulfed by Fire) pays tribute to the 125 Pentagon workers that were killed on 9/11. Pentagon Blue (They came from the Sky) describes the ordeal of the passengers and crew of American Airlines Flight #11 before it crashed into the west side of the Pentagon.
Rosemary Simpkins received her degree in Graphic Design from Parsons School of Design in New York, and her Master of Art/Book Arts from the London Institute's Camberwell College of Arts. She has been a member of the Center for Book Arts in New York City since 1993. Born in Mexico City, Simpkins and her husband, Bud, lived in New Jersey, Connecticut, New York City (across from the World Trade Center), and London, before retiring to Cape Cod in 1997.
Random Distribution: Landscape paintings by Joyce Zavorskas
July 16- Sept. 11, 2011
Illustrated lecture: Tuesday, August 16, 2 pm
Artist’s reception: Friday, August 19, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Random Distribution, an exhibition of recent oil paintings by Joyce Zavorskas, documents landforms silently transformed by gravity and the forces of nature. They record aspects and oddities of the activity of erosion where ocean encounters sand, and fix in time the face of the beloved before its demise. Random patterns arranged by wind and rain appear and dissolve, elusive and uncertain. The paint application and crusted surfaces present images of natural disorder, fragments of time, suggesting aspects of our contemporary culture and circumstances, under siege from wars, recession, climate changes, and indifference to the fragility of our environment. Zavorskas endeavors to transform paint into sand and clay, to construct layered crusted surfaces that become cliffs or ocean or remain abstract rhythmic patterns. She feels compelled to pursue a deeper level of scrutiny in her work, and emphasize the loss of beloved narrow land places.
The natural world has always been a sanctuary for me, a place to breathe wind and think and feel, undistracted at last. The activity of erosion presents images of natural disorder, inevitable entropy, as well as renewal and redemption. Random visual quirks and oddities arranged by natural forces document fragments of time and suggest aspects of our contemporary culture and circumstances, under siege from wars, recession, climate changes, and indifference to the fragility of our environment.
Retreating to the studio after walking in nature provides distance from direct observation, an opportunity to edit and explore with more diverse organic materials, letting go of specificity and allowing pigment, wax, sand and debris to create the work. Random patterns and rhythms appear and disappear, elusive and eternal.
- Joyce Zavorskas
Joyce Zavorskas was awarded a month-long residency at the Vermont Studio Center in February 2011 to complete these new paintings, surrounded by snow instead of sand. A year-round resident of Cape Cod for 28 years, her home studio is in Orleans.
Image: "Gravitational Pull"
CAPE COD PLEIN AIR PAINTERS: Painting the Changing Light
July 9 - September 11
The Cape Cod Plein Air Painters include Lora Barrett, Philip Bergson, Robina Carter, Jane Eccles, Maryalice Eizenberg, William Maloney, Rosalie Nadeau, Merylle-Lee Thompson, Phil Thompson, Joyce Zavorskas, JoAnn Ritter, and Steve Kennedy.
The term “plein air” emerged with the Impressionists during the 19th century. Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, a painter and academic, wrote and influential paper in 1800 in which he stressed the importance of completing outdoor studies quickly and directly, without developing the detail of an exhibition painting.
The Cape Cod Plein Air Painters evolved in 2004 when several local professional artists decided to paint together on a weekly basis, to observe directly from nature, and to share ideas and expertise. The group travels to a different site each week, in all four seasons, to document a moment in time.
Matthew M. Schulz - Chasing The Light: Landscapes, Wildlife and Sporting Art
The Third Annual Arthur J. McMurtry Memorial Exhibition
August 5 – 30, 2011
Osterville artist Matthew Schulz’s love of the outdoors began at an early age with his grandfather. These early experiences became the driving force behind his artistic expression. Color and light have always fascinated Schulz. His work expresses the inter-relationship between these two elements which he feels with an almost physical force. This exhibition will include the full range of Schulz’s work from highly finished studio pieces to plein air studies.
Perspectives on the Provincetown Art Colony
June 4 - August 7
Sponsored by Terry Hart Cogan, and Richard Cuda & Family
Members Reception: Sunday, June 5, 2-4- pm
Talk and Book signing for Perspectives of a Provincetown Art Colony: Thursday, July 7, 6 pm
This exhibition, highlighting the rich cultural heritage of Provincetown, is directly associated with Deborah Forman’s new book, Perspectives on the Provincetown Art Colony. Last year the National Trust for Historic Preservation designated Provincetown “home of the nation’s oldest art colony” and Forman’s book, largely based on her interviews with artists and writers, traces that history. When Charles Hawthorne opened his Cape Cod School of Art in 1899, he turned the little fishing village into an artistic treasure.
Forman’s book explores 20th-century art as it played out in Provincetown. A microcosm of American art during that century, the town hosted a diversity of styles, including traditional art, impressionism, early modernism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art and beyond. The exhibition features works included among more than 300 images in the book; artists represented in the exhibit include: Robert Motherwell, Jack Tworkov, Hans Hofmann, Red Grooms, Michael Mazur, Chaim Gross, Paul Resika, Anne Packard and dozens more.
Deborah Forman covered the artist colony in Provincetown for 30 years, interviewing dozens of artists and writers for articles for the Cape Cod Times, Cape Cod View magazine, Art New England and Boston Magazine. These interviews are at the core of her book. Among the numerous artists she interviewed are Robert Motherwell, Jack Tworkov, Red Grooms, Raphael Soyer, Chaim Gross, Myron Stout, Fritz Bultman, Paul Resika, Arnold Newman, Joel Meyerowitz, Sidney Simon, John Grillo, Leo Manso, Michael Mazur, Helen Frankenthaler, Paul Bowen, Jim Peters, Varujan Boghosian, Sal Del Deo, Tony Vevers, Anne Packard, Selina Trieff, and Robert Henry.
Forman was the features editor of the Cape Cod Times and editor-in-chief of Cape Cod View magazine. She wrote the script, conducted the interviews, and worked on filming for Art In Its Soul, an award-winning documentary of the history of the Provincetown art colony, which aired on Boston’s public television station, WGBH, and subsequently on public television stations nationwide. She has a degree in journalism from Temple University, and has studied art at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and at Philadelphia Museum School of Art.
Image: Karl Knaths, "Flight from Egypt"
Twosomes: Photography by Mark Chester
June 18 - July 10, 2011
Twosomes, an exhibition of photography by Mark Chester, presents images culled from Chester’s 40 years of traveling with a camera, presented in pairings related by subject matter, graphic interest or, as the photographer puts it “a stretch of the imagination”. The Twosomes photographs, published in a book of the same name, will travel through the US, and internationally, hosted by such venues as OK Harris in NYC and Reykjavik Museum of Photography in Iceland.
Mark Chester, a professional photographer since 1972, was Director of Photography and staff photographer at ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), in NYC. His photographs, in the permanent collections of museums in Baltimore, Brooklyn, Denver, Portland (ME), Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, among others, have been widely exhibited and published. Charles Kuralt, a Twosomes subject, whose book Dateline America was photographed by Mark Chester, said of him: "...one of our finest ...a wonderful eye and consummate skill...nothing murky or artificial."
Penelope Jencks: Eleanor Roosevelt
April 2 - May 29, 2011
The first public monument to an American woman to be commissioned by the city of New York is an 8-foot tall bronze sculpture of Eleanor Roosevelt, which now graces Riverside Park. The sculptor, Penelope Jencks, has given CCMA her entire series of maquettes, created in preparation for this commission, as well as the original ceramic sculpture from which the final bronze statue was cast.
Jencks, a working sculptor whose career has spanned 40 years, is best known for her life-size sculptures of people. She received her BFA from Boston University in 1958, then studied under Hans Hofmann in Provincetown, at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME, as well as Stuttgart Kunstakademie in Germany. She has perfected her own unique style and has created numerous works in terra cotta, bronze and stone. Jencks is the recipient of many awards including the 1988 Henry Hering Memorial Medal for "Outstanding Cooperation between Architect and Sculptor" by the National Sculpture Society.
Her public and private commissions are many, and range from an ordinary beach-bather, to the sculpture of one of America's leading historians, Samuel Eliot Morison, who is casually seated atop a 20-ton granite pedestal looking seaward on the Commonwealth Avenue Mall in Boston, and the statue of Robert Frost on the campus of Amherst College, Amherst, MA. Jencks’s sculptures are not classical figures - all have a casual but realistic presence and are easily recognizable as real people, including their unattractive flaws. She also has the uncanny ability to capture her sitter's gesture and expression in a moment in time.
Penelope Jencks is a member of the National Academy of Design and the Royal British Society of Sculptors. She is also a Fellow of the National Sculpture Society. Some of her notable public collections and commissions include: The White House, Washington, DC; The Maggie Cancer Care Center, Edinburgh, Scotland; the Readers Digest Corporate Headquarters, Pleasantville, NY; the Boston Public Library, Boston, MA; the Bibliotecca di Pietrasanta, Italy; and Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.
Overlooks: Contemporary Landscape Painting by Megan Hinton
April 30 - June 12, 2011
Gallery Talk by Megan Hinton, Saturday, May 7, 2 pm
The works in this collection put into question notions of traditional landscape and nautical painting that is deeply entrenched in regional art history and offers a fresh, contemporary approach to the landscape painting.
These landscapes come from my Cape and Islands surroundings, from walks along the shorelines, sea ponds, bogs, and creeks to the interior of my studio where the process of achieving these abstracted pictures takes place. I place emphasis on what is objective, water formations, horizon lines, and what is not, abstract painterly brush work, drippings, and sculptural impasto marks. This duality suggests my interest in the tension between subject and process. What the painting is doing is as important to me as what it is depicting.
ArtWork - Student Art Interns & their Mentors
May 12 - June 5, 2011
Opening Reception, Thursday, May 12, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
The 14th annual ArtWork exhibition, featuring work created by students and mentors from the Cape and Islands School to Careers Partnership, is on display at CCMA May 12 - June 5. This exhibition includes painting, sculpture, textile design and a variety of other media produced by students during the course of their partnerships with renowned local artists. An opening reception, open to the public, will be Thursday, May 12, 5:30 - 7:30 pm.
The School to Career Art Internship Program pairs junior and senior high school students with successful working artists twice a year. For eight weeks, students work with artists in their studios in a collaborative environment that promotes creative growth and offers insight into the lives and routines of professional artists.
Image: Glass vase by Mark Vokey
Naturally Inspired: Paintings Abstracted from Nature
April 2 – May 29, 2011
Curated by Jan Lhormer
“The eclectic mix of contemporary works that will be showcased should create a jolt of excitement that will surpass the white cube mentality of traditional gallery walls. Also, it unifies artists and venues from opposite ends of the Cape who interpret landscape with inventive visual language.” - Jan Lhormer
The Naturally Inspired: Paintings Abstracted from Nature exhibition will feature paintings from the seven artists associated with Cape Cod: Bert Yarborough, Mike Carroll, Bailey Bob Bailey, Francie Randolph, Jan Lhormer, Carol Odell and Betty Carroll Fuller. These artists paint in an abstract expressionist style, illustrating the incredible variety of artistic expression on Cape Cod. The artwork in this exhibition is inspired by nature and organic forms ranging from plants and gardens, to the sky and outer space. The abstract representation of these forms is just as beautiful as they appear in nature.
Image: Untitled by Mike Carroll
Faculty Spectrum: Cape Cod & Islands Art Educators Association
January 29 – March 27, 2011
Reception: Thursday, February 3, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
The Cape Cod & Islands Art Educators Association meets once a month at the Cape Cod Museum of Art throughout the school year. This year, the museum will host an exhibition of the artwork of member teachers from the Cape and Islands. This exhibition follows Through Young Eyes, a Cape-wide student art exhibition recently held at CCMA. The personal artistic endeavors of an art teacher can often become overshadowed by their teaching careers. This exhibition allows the artist behind the educator to come to the forefront.
Artists included in the exhibition: Art Balzotti, Liane Biron, Alexandria Boudreau, Bonnie Brewer, Craig Brodt, Eileen Casey, Ursula Coute, Jody Craven, Kristen Curtis, Deborah Donovan, Molly Driscoll, Abby Fay, Celine R. Federici, Lisa Fox, Deborah Fowler Greenwood, Frances K. Johnson, Jenny Kelly, John Krenik, Carl Lopes, Peter Mann, Kathryn Meyers, Tom Noonan, Nathan Olin, Judi Olkkola, Janet L Olson, Kimberley Possee, Maria Daluz Reid, Gretchen Romey-Tanzer, Marcia Simpson, Daniel Springer, Bernadette Waystack, Lee Connolly Weill, Ho Yin Yuen.
Image: Wood fired sculpture by Craig Brodt
Marguerite E. Falconer: Scenic Impressions
January 29 - March 27, 2011
Marguerite Falconer attended the School of the Museum of Fine Art in Boston and the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, MA. She also studied with Robert Douglas Hunter, Robert Curtis, and Emile Gruppe. From 1969 to 1993, Falconer, along with Daniel McElwain, was the co-proprietor McElwain-Falconer Art Gallery in Chatham, where she displayed her own oil paintings, along with the work of McElwain and other Cape Cod artists. Falconer’s landscapes are very soft and clear, always giving the viewer a feeling of tranquility and peacefulness. She has exhibited in numerous group shows, and has received many awards over the years. This exhibit brings together some of the best landscape paintings that Falconer has created.
Image: "Sunset at Paine's Creek"
Creative Convergence: Cape Cod
Cape Cod Museum of Art; January 15 - February 28, 2011
Addison Art Gallery: January 15 - February 28
A renowned group of artists from across the United States and Mexico decided to meet in Provincetown, our country’s oldest art colony, and to explore Cape Cod, the region that inspired Charles Hawthorne, Edward Hopper and Henry David Thoreau. Like other artists who have been drawn here for over 100 years, they came to be inspired by the landscape, the light, the sea, our communities and each other. We invite you to discover their own interpretations of this place and its people.
Artists included are: Jeff Bonasia, Rick Casali, James Coe, Daniel Corey, Ian Factor, Frank Gardner, Jerome Greene, Logan Hagege, Marc Hanson, Ignat Ignatov, Pater Kalill, Stapleton Kearns, Jeremy Lipking, Eric Merrell, Ernesto Nemesio, Colin Page and Paul Schulenburg.
Image: "Cape Sunset" by Colin Page
The documentary film, Painting Together in Provincetown: Creative Convergence Cape Cod, made by Chatham filmmaker, Jon Goward and Creative Convergence artist Paul Schulenburg, was filmed during the artists' October 2010 painting excursion in Provincetown. The half-hour film gives the viewer an entertaining insight into the artists' creative philosphies and will shown at the museums Saturdays through the end of the exhibition.
The Subject is Light:
The Henry and Sharon Martin Collection of Contemporary Realist Paintings
August 21 - November 7, 2010
This exhibition is sponsored by Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation, The MacKenzie Charitable Trust and an anonymous donor.
Henry and Sharon Martin, who began to collect art over 30 years ago, have built what is arguably the strongest Hudson River School luminist collection in private hands today. Within the last 10 years, they have expanded their focus on the living artists of Cape Cod – concentrating on work that meets their exacting criteria. Henry Martin says, “When we’ve looked at the same picture 100 times, we want to look at it for the 101st time and still see something new”. The Martins believe that representational art is re-emerging as an important element in American art and are focused on excellence in all areas. Their goal is to acquire the best works by the best artists of this region.
The exhibition at the CCMA includes work by Jacob Collins, William Davis, Donald Demers, Robert Douglas Hunter, Joseph McGurl, Anne Packard, Pam Pindell, Peter Quidley and Matthew Schulz. The Martins, as well as some of the artists represented, will give Gallery Talks during the course of the exhibition. The Martins, charming, articulate and passionate about their art, will guide gallery visitors through their collection at the CCMA and talk about the collecting process which has engaged them for so long.
Image: "Oncoming Sea" by Don Demers
The Christopher Hyland Collection of Photography
By Way of These Eyes – The Sublime, Exotic and Familiar
June 5 – August 8, 2010
Sponsors: The Ellen and Richard Cuda Foundation of the Cape Cod Foundation
U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management
Wednesday, July 14, 2 - 4 pm: Christopher Hyland will give a personal tour of this exhibition, free with museum admission. You won't want to miss this remarkable opportunity to hear him discuss his extensive collection as well as his own photography.
Textile designer Christopher Hyland has had a life-long love affair with visual beauty which he has pursued with passion and panache. A resident of New York City, he is an avid furniture designer, photographer and a collector of African art, American art and photography. The CCMA is fortunate to be able to exhibit his photography collection during the summer of 2010.
Photography is a mechanical extension of the human body which enhances the individual’s ability to view the world in ways beyond one’s own eyes and mind. The Hyland Collection includes many of the iconic images of the early 1900s side-by-side with masters of the 21st century.
Fifty-three photographers are represented in the exhibition. Edward Weston’s Shell; Andreas Feininger’s The Photo Journalist; and a fascinating group of photographs by Thomas Barbèy who integrates images of historic sites in Venice and Vatican City with waterfalls and flowing rivers included. Also represented are Henri Cartier-Bresson and Herb Ritts as well as Robert Mapplethorpe, all of whom whose images challenge our understanding and appreciation of their work. John Dugdale is represented by a series of small and exquisite images. Marcus Leatherdale’s images of India stand in striking contrast to his work in New York in the 1980s as part of Andy Warhol’s circle.
Christopher Hyland is both photographer and collector and some of his work is included in the exhibition. Of particular interest is the seven-piece Transformation series, completed in 2009, which speaks to the contrast between the fierce and the vulnerable.
Image above: "Transformation IV" by Christopher Hyland
L-R: "The Photojournalist" by Andreas Feininger; "Behind the Gare, St. Lazare, Paris" by Henri Cartier-Bresson; "The Artist's Mother" by John Dugdale; "Sleeping Cupid" by Robert Mapplethorpe
ROBERT MARCUS: Sculpture
April 10 - June 6, 2010
Demonstration: Molding from a Live Model - Sunday, May 9, 2 pm
Gallery Talk: Lost Wax Casting of Bronze Sculpture - Thursday, May 20, 2 pm
Robert Marcus enjoys the texture, appearance, and strength of bronze. Many of his pieces originate in clay or plaster, and his life-sized works begin from wax body molds made directly from a human model. Most of his sculptural ideas, however, find their final form in bronze metal. Marcus is inspired by the flowing curves of the human form and the negative spaces they create. His work, which is highlighted by topologically interesting surfaces, ranges from wall reliefs of playful biomorphic shapes to life-sized bronze abstractions.
His sculptures “Dream,” “Dreams II,” “Jublilation,” and “You and Me,” are partial human forms in contemplative or other expressive configurations. The negative, or “missing,” parts create tension and draw the viewer into a more intimate relationship with the figures. Giving equal visual weight to both positive and negative spaces adds an additional dimension to the pieces.
Marcus has been creating indoor and outdoor bronze sculptures since 1975. He studied at the Summit Art Center in Summit, NJ and at the Johnson Sculpture Atelier in Princeton, NJ. He learned the “lost wax” method for creating bronze sculptures through visits to a number of art foundries in the New York area. Marcus taught courses in sculpture at the Somerset Art Association and the New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts in New Jersey, gave workshops in mold making and in the lost wax casting of bronze, and has taught privately. He has a Ph.D. in physical chemistry and has worked as a research scientist and as a university professor in physics and nanoelectronics. Marcus’ pieces have won prizes in multiple exhibitions in the New York area, and many of his pieces are housed in private collections in this country and in Canada.
John Babineau: Ongoing Projects
January 29 - March 13, 2011
Presentation on Photographic/Printing Processes with Bob Korn: February 5, 2:30 pm
Gallery Talk: February 26, 2:30 pm
Ongoing Projects, an exhibition of the large-scale photography of John Babineau, presents two themes that are of continuing interest to the artist. One project, Brotherhood of Dreamers, is a collection of images of men in quiet contemplation. Babineau watches for the un-staged nuance or fleeting moment of revelation that presents light, the male figure and the back- and foreground in an integrated and exalted composition.
The other project, France in General, draws images from another growing archive of photographs taken during various trips to France. Babineau and his wife regularly travel to France. His interest in the country goes beyond the visual; he’s also interested in the social and political ferment that is still taking place there. Babineau combines multiple images that play off one another in contrasting or complimentary ways.
In both of these projects, Babineau uses photographs from his archive to create a diptych or triptych with the original image. Adding these images from his archive give the pieces more depth and understanding.
John Babineau is a fine art photographer specializing in street photography. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, John was raised in the Boston and South Shore area. At age eleven, he received a Kodak Brownie Starflash camera for Christmas and a life-long love of photography ensued. After a three year enlistment in the US Army in the late 1960s, John attended the New England School of Photography and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (Boston, MA) graduating with a BFA in photography and art education. He has taken many graduate-level art courses and photography workshops since, most recently at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA.
He has taught photography to a variety of age groups and skill levels. He has exhibited in a variety of photographic venues including the Atlanta, Boston, New York and Washington, DC areas.
In 2008, John was selected by Arlington County (VA) Cultural Affairs to photograph Arlington’s sister city, Reims, France. The subsequent exhibit “Crossing Glances/ Regards Croises” was held simultaneously in Reims and Arlington in 2009. Cecile Bethleem, a photographer from Reims, photographed Arlington in this joint exhibit with Didier Rousellet writing the text for the combined French/English language book.
John is a resident of Arlington, VA and South Yarmouth, MA. He and his wife Barbara are presently transitioning to the Cape full time.
For more information on the work of John Baineau, click here: www.johnbabineau.com
Image above: "Young Men, France"
VARUJAN BOGHOSIAN: RECENT WORKS
EDWARD GIOBBI: COLLAGES & PAINTINGS
June 11 - July 31
The Cape Cod Museum of Art features companion exhibitions: Collages and Paintings, works by Edward Giobbi, and Recent Works by Varujan Boghosian. Varujan Boghosian and Edward Giobbi are both friends and artists who use pieces of the past and present in their work. Boghosian, Giobbi, as well as Romanos Rizk, Ciro Cozzi, Salvatore Del Deo, Robert Douglas Hunter and Marge Osborne (later Mrs. John Whorf, Jr.), came to study with Henry Hensche in the summer of 1949. Boghosian and Giobbi have remained especially close ever since.
Varujan Boghosian attended the Vesper George School of Art in Boston and the Yale School of Art and Architecture. He has taught at Cooper Union, Yale, Brown and Dartmouth. He is a master of the arts of collage and assemblage whose work has won national recognition and is largely inspired by the past. His collages are creations of items he finds at antique shops, flea markets, yard sales and items found while beachcombing. When arranging the items in his work, he gives the items a new life while maintaining their personal and historical identities. Boghosian’s work is represented in the Denver Art Museum, the Mattatuck Museum, the Hood Museum and the Cape Cod Museum of Art among others. Image at left: Boghosian's "Skeleton"
When Edward Giobbi was a young boy, his family told him stories of artists. As Michelangelo, Da Vinci and Giotto became is heroes, he knew he wanted to be an artist. Giobbi works with a strong and historical Italian influence, and revives the atmosphere of traditional Italian heritage in his mixed media work. Like Boghosian, he also uses found items (dried flowers) in his collages. Giobbi’s work is represented in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Whitney Museum, and CCMA among others. Image at right: Giobbi's "The House from My Window"
Boghosian and Giobbi will be exhibiting together because of their homage to history through the found items they incorporate into their work. The notion of the past and the mystery that goes along with it has greatly influenced both artists. Giobbi is still indebted to Hensche about whom he says: ''He taught the Impressionist style, which is when I learned color logic, whereby all colors fit as they do in nature. This enabled me to build a color vocabulary that I continue to use today.''
13th Annual ArtWork Exhibition
School to Careers Art Internship Program
May 8 - 30
Reception: May 13, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
The 13th Annual ArtWork Exhibition features art work produced by students during the course of their partnerships with renowned local artists. The School to Careers Art Internship Program pairs high school juniors and seniors with successful working artists for eight weeks, working in a collaborative environment that promotes creative growth and offers insight in to the lives and routines of professional artists.
A reception for the artists and their mentors is May 13.
Image: Pastel by Rachel Maginnis
SARAH SON-THEROUX: Landscapes
2nd annual Arthur J. McMurtry Memorial Exhibition
February 27 - April 11
Gallery Talk by Sarah Son-Theroux: Saturday, March 13, 2 pm
Gallery Talk by CCMA Curator Michael Giaquinto: Thursday, April 1, 1 pm
This exhibition features recent landscapes Sarah Son-Theroux has painted over the last several years, including some she did as a Fulbright Scholar in Estonia from 2007 - 2008. A plein air painter, her extensive education includes an MFA from Indiana University and a Fulbright grant in 2007 to paint in Estonia in affiliation with the Estonian Academy of Art. Son-Theroux's engaging and forceful landscapes capture the literal and spiritual powers of nature, hinting at the sacramental connection between man and his environment.
Image: "Pair of Oak Trees"
BARBARA ROCKEFELLER: A RETROSPECTIVE
October 31 – December 6
Painter, photographer and teacher, Barbara Rockefeller attended Parsons School of Design and the Art Students League in New York, and received degrees in Art Education, Visual Arts and Museum Studies from NYU. She works in oils and watercolor, and has received numerous awards in juried shows.
Rockefeller has exhibited at Lincoln Center, the Rockland Center for the Arts in New York City, Fairleigh Dickinson University, the Ridgewood Art Institute in New Jersey, and the Creative Arts Center in Chatham. She is a past president of Salute to Women in the Arts, a creative non-profit organization in New Jersey dedicated to giving women artists an “arena for their ideas and a platform for their work.” Rockefeller is former registrar and trustee for Cape Cod Museum of Art.
DAYS LUMBERYARD STUDIOS 1915 - 1972
September 19 - November 15
Sponsored by Renate, Hans & Maria Hofmann Trust through JPMorgan Private Bank; Philanthropic Services
This is a comprehensive exhibition featuring artwork spanning almost 100 years by artists who once had studios at Days Lumberyard. A broad and eclectic mix of artwork in a variety of media by over 30 artists will be on view. This exhibition was previously on view at Acme Fine Art, Boston, MA.
The Days Lumberyard Studios in Provincetown, MA, ranks among the most important incubators for artists of the 20th century. Two of that century’s most influential teachers, Charles Webster Hawthorne and Hans Hofmann, along with many of their students, worked in these studios. Between 1915 and 1975, more than 100 artists had studios at the lumberyard and/or the adjacent Brewster Street Annex. Some of the most highly regarded American artists of the time maintained studios at Days for at least one season, including Edwin Dickinson, Ross Moffett, Vaclav Vytlacil, Mercedes Matter, Perle Fine, Myron Stout, Fritz Bultman, George McNeil, Robert De Niro, Sr., John Grillo, Peter Busa, Robert Motherwell, Helen Frankenthaler, Ed Corbett, Lester Johnson, and Jan Muller, among numerous others.
The works in the exhibition come from private collections, the estates of artists, from Acme Fine Art and other galleries. A handful of pieces are on loan from various museums’ permanent collections.
Accounts differ with respect to the date that artists began using the studios at Days Lumberyard. Records indicate that Frank Days, Sr. acquired the 24 Pearl Street property in 1911. The first evidence of studios on the property as indicated in town tax records was 1916; however, several artists claim to have used the space as a studio as early as 1914.
Over the years, the studio complex was expanded with the addition of the Brewster Street Annex. In 1951, the Days family sold the studio complex to Joe Oliver and Manuel Raymond. Oliver and Raymond immediately began much needed maintenance and renovations.
About a decade later, in 1972, the Fine Arts Work Center acquired the Days Lumberyard property, and to this day many of the original studios continue to be used as living and work spaces by artists who have been awarded fellowships by the Work Center. The Fine Arts Work Center itself was founded in 1968 by a group of distinguished Provincetown writers and visual artists, a number of whom had studios in the original Days Lumberyard. They include Gil Franklin, Philip Malicoat, Fritz Bultman, and Robert Motherwell. The Fine Arts Work Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to continuing the same tradition and spirit of artistic creativity that was engendered by the artists of Days Lumberyard so many years ago.
Image: Hans Hofmann at Days Lumberyard studio
HEATHER BLUME: Adrift
September 19 - November 1
Adrift, an art installation by Heather Blume, will be on exhibit at the Cape Cod Museum of Art September 19 - November 1. Blume has created a multimedia installation especially for the museum’s Ocean Edge Gallery.
Blume graduated with an MFA cum laude in sculpture from the New York Academy of Art in 1994 and has been an avid artist and art educator since. She enjoys a rich and varied career; her figurative works are collected nationally and internationally. Most importantly, Blume lives, works and is inspired by the people and landscape of her native birthplace, Cape Cod.
From the artist's statement:
In considering the opportunity to create an installation for “the red room” of the CCMA, I had an immediate idea of the type of artwork I would undertake. What came to mind was the pulse and flow of the sea and the memory of rhythm it leaves behind on the beach each day in the form of the tide line. A tide line is primarily composed of a drift of seaweed entanglements, marsh grass, and occasional egg cases each in its’ own way evidence of earth’s origins and sustenance. I decided to create the memory and feeling of the shoreline against the intense backdrop of the red walls.
I have reached a new stage of my life and artistic career; although I am not old, I am older and do sense a difference in how I experience my being. As the horizon of life approaches I find I have a deeper appreciation for the surrender of the flowing dislodged and drifting sea forms; I feel an impassioned surrender to being a small part of a greater whole.
- Heather Blume
“We want eternal oceans. But we are perishable;
Friends, we are salty impermanent kingdoms”
- Robert Bly
ROWLAND SCHERMAN: Photographs of Our Times
March 6 - April 11
The images of photographer Rowland Scherman will be familiar to baby boomers because they document the political and cultural celebrities of the formative decade of the 1960s. As a photographer for Life magazine, a young, hip long-haired Scherman had easy access to events and used his fast-moving camera lens to capture many of the iconic images of that era: Bob Dylan silhouetted against a blue aura used as the cover of Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits, Robert Kennedy strategizing with advisers, Janis Joplin at Woodstock. Scherman was everywhere the action was in those days. Disillusioned after the 1960s, Scherman traveled extensively. He settled for a while in Wales and later in Alabama, working new jobs, always taking new photos along the way. In 2000, he came to Cape Cod, the place of many fondly remembered childhood vacations, and stayed.
Image: "Bobby Kennedy" (photo) by Rowland Scherman
Betsy Bennett Retrospective at Cape Cod Museum of Art
November 21, 2009 – January 17, 2010
Curator Talk with Michael Giaquinto: Sunday, January 3, 2 pm
Betsy Bennett, Artist: A Cape Cod Treasure, a selection of Betsy Bennett’s works, will be on exhibition at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, November 21 – January 17. The paintings in this exhibit are done in egg tempera and watercolors. Bennett is well known for her mastery of the egg tempera technique.
Bennett's training began at age 13 at the Philadelphia Art Museum and the Pennsylvania Art Association. After high school, she was awarded a four-year scholarship to Moore College of Art in Philadelphia. In 1955, she moved to Cape Cod where she and her husband, Sid, raised three children. She began teaching watercolor, oil painting, and drawing in 1958 at Chatham, Harwich, and Dennis-Yarmouth adult education programs, plus substituting as an art teacher in the elementary and high schools of those three school districts. She also taught at the Cape Cod Art Association and the Nauset Painters. In 1976, the Bennetts moved to the Oregon Coast where she continued to teach and exhibit. Returning to Cape Cod in 1993, she continued to paint in her studio in Harwich. She was on the Cape Cod Museum of Art’s Collections and Acquisitions Committee until a year prior to her death in 2007.
ROGER COOK: Language of Dimension
September 12 - October 25
Roger Cook, an internationally known graphic designer, photographer and artist lives in Washington Crossing, PA. He has been the President of Cook and Shanosky Associates, Inc., a graphic design firm he founded in NYC in 1967. The firm produced all forms of corporate communications including: Corporate Identity, Advertising, Signage, Annual Reports and Brochures.
His graphic design and photography have been used by IBM, Container Corporation of America, Montgomery Ward, Squibb Corporation, Black & Decker, Volvo, Subaru, AT&T, New York Times, Bell Atlantic, BASF, Lenox, and many other major international corporations.
For "Symbols Signs" their 52 transportation-related symbols designed for DOT (the US Department of Transportation), he received the Presidential Award for Design Excellence from President Reagan and Elizabeth Dole on January 30,1984 in the Indian Treaty Room of the Old Executive Office Building in Washington, DC.
Roger Cook's statement about this exhibition:
In 1999, after 46 years as a graphic designer, I found time to explore this new medium, sculptural "assemblage". The inspiration and opportunity to explore this mode of artistic expression comes at a time when my commercial career has sufficiently matured so that I can apply my skills, experiences, and a lifetime of artistic perspective to create "statements" with these assemblages.
Most of my "raw" materials come from private collections, my own photography, flea markets, and antique shops, where I spend hours searching for items that inspire use in my art. My process, using these "found" materials, feels to me much like theater. As in the legitimate stage, I work within a three-dimensional form to portray the comedy or tragedy of life. (See “Odyssey” art) I create these miniature, silent, "theaters" to express my feelings about a range of subjects. The three-dimensional objects I construct, using the found and fabricated objects (my "Thespians"), are a series of "performances" that share my feelings with my audience.
Image: "Times 4" by Roger Cook
NICK PATTEN: Interiors
July 18 - August 23, 2009
Gallery Talk: July 18, 2 pm
“Settling on a composition for one of my room interior paintings is a progressive process. I pick and choose the most interesting and necessary elements from an array of photographs, often adding items from my imagination. Light and dark is a primary focus of my painting with particular attention to brushstroke and gradation in the darkest areas. Though working from photographs with the aim of creating believable paintings, I strive to bring a quiet drama to everyday scenes. My paintings are never too photographic. In part, I aim to paint so that the content of the image is most compelling and how the painting was made is secondary.” - Nick Patten
A recent article described Patten as “a master at creating spaces that speak not through people or movement, but through shadows, light and reflections.” He has won numerous prizes in nationally juried shows. The most important honor awarded him to date is winning the Gold Medal of Honor in the oil painting category at the juried Allied Artists of America in New York City in 1999.
For more information, click here for Nick Patten's website.
Image: Remembering White Trees
PHILIP KOCH: Unbroken Thread: Nature Paintings and the American Imagination
June 20 - August 16, 2009
According to Eva J. Allen, Ph.D, Philip Koch’s works constitute “a contemporary re-imagining of the romantic panoramas of the great 19th- century American landscape painters.” The works in this exhibition were created over the past seven years at various locations throughout New England as Koch followed in the footsteps of artists from the 19th century through the present. He considers himself very much a part of the “unbroken thread” that has evolved through the tradition of depicting New England in art for almost two hundred years.
Philip Koch studied studio art and art history at Oberlin College in Ohio. In the Oberlin library, he found a monograph on Edward Hopper and developed an interest in drawing from life. He also discovered the school’s collection of the Dutch Old Masters paintings. Their works caused Koch to become restless with his “simple abstract paintings as they came to seem more clever than insightful. I (Koch) wanted something deeper and began scratching about another path.”
In the summers of 1968 and 1969, Koch studied at the Art Students League where he became interested in 1930’s regionalism, especially the work of Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood and Charles Burchfield.
The regionalists’ colorful expression of the Midwest landscapes prompted Koch to pursue his MFA in painting at Indiana University in Bloomington, where realism was still encouraged. This is where Koch “discovered the romance of 19th-century landscape painting.”
In 1973, Koch began teaching at Maryland Institute College of Art, where he is now a full professor. Since 1983, he has spent twelve summers as the resident artist in Edward Hopper’s studio in Truro, MA.
RICHARD NEAL: Face to Face
June 6 - July 13, 2009
Reception: June 13, 5:30 - 8 pm
All visual art, even realism, has an inherent abstract quality. Colored shapes enter the eye and are interpreted by the mind, which convinces us that we are seeing a landscape or a portrait. I am curious about that mysterious space between the eye and the mind, which can cause us to question reality. What is it that makes us feel so sure that we are looking at a face, when maybe it is all just in our imagination? - Richard Neal, 2009
Richard Neal has had a long interest in piecing together imagery from the material that makes up the world around us. There is a physicality about the work that reflects the wounds created by pulling things apart and the healing process of piecing things back together. Painting and drawing are the activities that help the works transcend their often mundane material origin.
He is a graduate of the Cranbrook Academy of Art and his work has been shown in museums and galleries in many places including Provincetown, Boston, New York City and Washington, DC. His work is included in private collections in the United States, Canada and Germany.
Image: "Premonition"
PASTEL PAINTERS SOCIETY OF CAPE COD: Signature 2009
April 18 - June 14, 2009
The high standards of its Signature Membership affirm the Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod’s nationwide prestige. The honor of Signature Membership is awarded to working artists of consistent excellence, who may then may write PPSCC after their name and may submit to the prestigious Biennial Signature Exhibitions. Signature Members of the Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod serve the community through offering high caliber art exhibits for viewers of all ages.
PPSCC was founded in 1995 by a handful of local pastelists for the purpose of establishing viable soft pastel exhibition venues while fostering public understanding and appreciation of the pastel medium. Just a few years later, the non-profit organization's membership spanned the nation.
The following artists are included in this exhibition: Edith Cohenno Bryant, Carolyn Caldwell, Robina Carter, Ed Chesnovitch, Shizue Cooper, Diana DeSantis, Kimberly Ann duCharme, Carole Chisholm Garvey, Liz Haywood-Sullivan, Anne Heywood, Susan A. Hollis, Joan Ledwith, Marge Levine, Jane Lincoln, Pat Ross Marx, Ann M. Murphy, Rosalie Nadeau, Mona Podgurski, Debra Quinn-Munson, Susan Ransom, Donna Rossetti-Bailey, M'Lou Sorrin, Phill Thompson, Lorraine W. Trenholm, Penny Viscusi, Margaret Williams-McGowan.
Image: "Jessica" by Diana DeSantis
JENNIFER DAY: Air & Ocean: New Paintings
April 25 - June 7, 2009
Gallery Talk: May 16, 2 pm
"This work explores the mystery of natural phenomena, it communicates a vastness of air, water and space that suggests something is going to happen, or has just happened." - Jennifer Day
Jennifer Day's large-scale monochromatic paintings of the sea have been exhibited throughout New England. A graduate of Bowdoin College and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, she received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Pennsylvania.
ROBERT CIPRIANI: 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For'
May 1 - June 7, 2009
Robert Cipriani is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and is both a professional artist and a noted graphic designer. His paintings are represented by many galleries and have received a number of awards, including the “Artist of the Year, Painting” designation from the Cambridge Art Association in a show juried by Edgar Driscoll, formerly the Boston Globe art critic for 30 years. In February of 2008 he was part of a three-person show of nationally known Expressionistic artists at the Phillips Gallery at Big Arts in Sanibel Florida.
"Expressionism is the most natural form of painting for me as there are no boundaries to my imagination and curiosity, just a process of discovering and expressing new ways to look at life and at creativity. I usually do find what I’m looking for, then start searching all over again.
"I typically know where I’m going with a painting, but often find that it starts to lead me, to draw me in other directions. I look for, and am always open to this, because new ideas often arise from just the process of starting to paint, and by being open, aware, and really curious. My multimedia paintings often incorporate collage, photography, type, acrylics, and modeling mediums - a great selection of tools.
"In addition, I am very influenced by my life’s work as a graphic designer, art director, and creative director. Conversely, my approach to painting influences my design work in a way that makes it richer and more interesting. The two arts share many parallels: solutions that flow naturally from well-defined objectives; a need for passion, creativity, innovation, and exploration; the use of color for representation, emotion, and effect; and juxtaposition of large and small, strong and delicate, soft and sharp, dark and light, smooth and textured and the desire to be influenced and directed by the act of creativity itself.
"When I paint, I'm spontaneous and precise at the same moment, always within the halo of a consistent vision."
ARNOLD GEISSBUHLER: SCULPTOR (1897 - 1993)
Shaped by the 20th Century: Drawings & Sculptures from his Lifetime
November 8 - January 25, 2009
Curated by Al Kochka, Director of the Geissbuhler Project
Sponsored in part by a grant from the Jeremiah Kaplan Foundation of the UJA Federation, NY
Born in Switzerland in 1897, Arnold Geissbuhler apprenticed with Zurich architectural sculptor Otto Munch before moving to Paris in 1919. He studied with sculptor Antoine Bourdelle, who had been a student of Rodin’s. At the Académie de la Grande Chaumière he became friends with many artists, including Alberto Giacometti, who became a lifelong friend. He also met a young student, Elisabeth Chase of Dennis, MA, who later became recognized as a Rodin scholar. They fell in love and married.
The Geissbuhler’s travelled extensively. He exhibited in Paris, New York and Boston. The first showing of his work was at the Whitney Studio (later the Whitney Museum of American Art) and his first one-man show was held at the Kraushaar Gallery on Fifth Avenue, where drawings by Rodin were also on display.
They resided in Provincetown from 1934 – 1937. Geissbuhler taught drawing and sculptural techniques at Wellesley College for 21 years from 1937 through 1958. He had a sculpture studio in Dennis where they set up residence in 1970.
Geissbuhler brought with him to America the academic tradition of monumental, heroic sculpture. But he went beyond the traditions of realism and became more abstract, working with new materials such as ceramic.
The selections in this show trace the artist’s evolving forms of expression influenced by the time in which he lived, the changing artistic movements around him, and how he responded to them.
This exhibition highlights examples of his work: from his early academic years, his changing styles during the 1930s while at Wellesley and Provincetown, his work during the Great Depression and WW II, his own Atomazon series, his family themes and in his final years, his heroic-sized ceramic works.
CREATIVE CONVERGENCE: Renowned Painters Showing on Cape Cod
A collaboration between Cape Cod Museum of Art and Addison Art Gallery
Cape Cod Museum of Art exhibition dates: January 12 - February 28
Reception: Friday, February 12, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Gallery Talk: Friday, February 12, 1 pm
Reception: Saturday, February 13, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
In the fall of 2009, award-winning painters, with roots and homes from across the United States, Mexico, Ireland, Bulgaria and Russia, met in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Inspired by its thriving art colony, historic town, as well as its magnificent surrounds, and each other, these artists created a wonderful diversity of plein air works in their individual styles. All established artists, they are bringing their completed works together for exclusive shows on Cape Cod, another area widely known for its natural beauty, history and for nurturing the arts.
Participating artists included Jeff Bonasia, Scott Burdick, Daniel Corey, Frank Gardner, Jerome Greene, Logan Hagege, Marc Hanson, Ignat Ignatov, Peter Kalill, Jeremy Lipking, Kevin McNamara, Ernesto Nemesio, Colin Page, Paul Schulenburg and Alexey Steele.
Impressionist landscape painters are drawn to the beauty of light falling across the landscape. Their avowed intent is to capture that impression in the two dimensional plane of the canvas. We live at a time when this art of seeing and recording the look of nature is widely practiced and has been brought to an extraordinarily high level of excellence. Since the 19th century, Cape Cod had been a center for plein air painting because of the special quality of its light and the sculptural aspects of its landscape. It is a rare treat to be able to see the work of an internationally trained group of impressionist painters focused on one of the other amazing regions of the world. We will see the reality of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, presented through the filter of the artist's eye - some things familiar and some things arrestingly novel - and thus be able to vicariously experience the place. CCMA is fortunate to be able to work with Addison Art Gallery in presenting this exhibition which represents a local painting tradition in a much larger context.
- Elizabeth Ives Hunter, Executive Director, CCMA
A. LESLIE ROSS: Magazine Illustrations
October 24 - January 3
A. Leslie Ross’s works are very diverse. He was well known as a magazine illustrator, especially his action sports covers for Super Sport, All Sports and Popular Sports and his work for Boy’s Life magazine. He also worked with oil and watercolor painting. Ross will be remembered for his use of compelling composition, vivid color and understanding of movement. In 1971 he was awarded the Two Thousand Men of Achievement honor.
Ross studied art at The New York School of Fine Art (Parsons) and Pratt Institute in New York City. His first studio was on East 63rd Street and from there he started his successful illustration career.
During World War II he served as the Art Director of the US Training Aid Division and designed hand cut silk screen teaching aids for the U.S. Forces. At the close of the war he returned to Poughguag, NY, where he resumed his illustration work, combined in later years with university teaching at Dutchess Community College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
As a young man, Ross spent summers on his aunt’s farm in Amenia, NY, working with horses, developing his drawing ability and the knowledge of horses that established his reputation, becoming best known for illustrations involving action and horse movement. He produced over 300 Western covers in oil, gouache and acrylic between 1947-1956, working for Famous Western, Pocket Books, Popular Library, Street and Smith and Pines Publications to name a few.
ART VISIONS: K-12 CAPE-WIDE STUDENTS' ART EXHIBITION
December 4 - January 17, 2009
Student artists steal the spotlight during Art Visions, a Cape-wide student art exhibition at the Cape Cod Museum of Art. This annual exhibition features artwork created by Cape Cod students in grades K-12, opens Friday, December 4, 2009, through Sunday, January 17, 2010.
The exhibition represents a large-scale collaboration between the CCMA and schools from Provincetown to Falmouth. For this show, teachers chose up to four pieces of artwork created by students. The artwork, matted, framed and prepared for hanging prior to installation at CCMA, is a comprehensive selection of drawings, paintings, prints, pottery and sculpture that traces the creative development of young artists from the region.
Art Visions will hang in Hope McClennen Gallery, offering a unique comparison between the students' artwork and the work of regional artists exhibited in adjacent galleries.
PRINTMAKERS OF CAPE COD
April 17 - May 30
Opening Reception: Sunday, April 18, 2 - 4 pm - free with paid museum admission
A juried exhibition of works by Printmakers of Cape Cod will be on display April 17 – May 30 with the Marcia Howe Collection of Printmakers of Cape Cod. Works in the exhibition will feature printmaking techniques including woodcut, wood engraving, linocut, collagraph, lithography, and intaglio printing. Marc St. Pierre, art professor at UMass/Dartmouth, and chair of the printmaking department, is juror for the exhibition.
The diversity and vision and innovation among members make our exhibitions an exciting learning experience for members and the public alike. Members work in a wide variety of methods and media from traditional methods such as etching and lithography to experimental surfaces and digital imagery. All work is original.
- Printmakers of Cape Cod
The Printmakers of Cape Cod began in 1976 as a small group of artists dedicated to creating original prints. It was started by Ruth Berry, who in retirement on the Cape encouraged local artists to promote and produce prints. The original group was five members, including Marcia Howe of Orleans, who helped other artists to investigate new media and a variety of printmaking methods by teaching classes in her home studio and other places from Orleans to Provincetown. She organized the printmakers and became Printmakers of Cape Cod’s first president. Today, Printmakers of Cape Cod has more than 90 members from Cape Cod and the south shore of Massachusetts.
Printmakers of Cape Cod, a non-profit organization of artists, is devoted to the production of artist-made prints and to fostering education and understanding of original, unique and limited editions of prints by sponsoring exhibitions, workshops, and demonstrations for its membership and the public.
Gertrude (Marcia) Herrick Howe, artist, teacher, and printmaker was born in Canajoharie, New York in 1902. A 1924 graduate of Mount Holyoke College with a major in art, she continued her studies at Pratt Institute and the Art Students League in New York and Provincetown. After marrying Arthur A. Howe, she lived in Westchester County, NY and illustrated children’s books and designed book jackets for several New York publishers. About printmaking, Marcia once said, “It’s a step up from painting,” describing it as her favorite form of work, “full of complication and mystery”.
Image: "The Wave" by Marcia Howe
ARCHITECTURE OF THE CAPE COD SUMMER
Work of Polhemus Savery DaSilva Architects Builders
November 1 - January 4, 2009
"Each house is a wish—a place of tranquility by the sea, where memories are made with families and friends…a particular version of the endless summer."
- Michael J. Crosbie, PhD, AIA; introduction to book, Architecture of the Cape Cod Summer
This exhibition shows the design process and creations of the region’s top architecture and construction firm, Polhemus Savery DaSilva Architects Builders. It explores the compelling art – underpinned by the science of construction, influenced by the specific demands of the region and client, and executed by master craftsmen that make this firm so respected in their profession. The show includes a chronology of the firm’s major work – including its work on CCMA – and a close look at three houses.
See the design process of a dazzling seaside home, “House on Champlain’s Bluff,” the inner spaces and architectural details that make “Pepperwood” a unique work of art, and learn how regulatory constraints were turned into positive influences for “Home On Harper’s Island.”
The work comes alive through drawings, models, small architectural elements, and stunning color photographs taken by some of the nation’s top architectural photographers.
The book, Architecture of the Cape Cod Summer, is available in conjunction with this show, with an introduction and text by Michael J. Crosbie, Ph.D., AIA.
SAM FEINSTEIN (1915 - 2003): A Retrospective
May 31 - July 27, 2008
Curated by Patricia Stark Feinstein
This exhibition will reveal the seventy-year trajectory of Sam Feinstein’s development from realism through expressionism, cubist expressionism, Hofmann-influenced abstraction to Feinstein’s own unique language of color—vibrating and luminous — in his monumental, mature abstract paintings.
Born in Russia and raised in Philadelphia, Feinstein taught and supervised classes at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and filmed the museum’s first art documentary. He later moved to New York and studied with Hans Hofmann, whom he filmed in 1950 to create his documentary, Hans Hofmann. Feinstein taught at Pratt Institute, wrote for Art Digest magazine and exhibited his paintings in New York, Philadelphia and Provincetown until he withdrew from the exhibition world in 1960 to dedicate himself to refining his principles and teaching for the remainder of his life. Feinstein spent his summers on Cape Cod, during the 1950s in Provincetown, and in 1960 moved to Whig Street in Dennis where he painted and taught for the next 42 years.
Curator Patricia Stark Feinstein, a painter, teacher, curator, lecturer and former faculty member at Riverdale Country School in New York City, will expand upon the art and philosophy of her husband in related events during the show. She studied with Sam Feinstein and taught with him for eighteen years. She has written a book on her husband’s work that will be released by the award-winning Fields Publishing in conjunction with this exhibition.
FOUR PAINTERS: On Common Ground
June 7 - August 10, 2008
Curated by Paul Resika
Gallery Talk: Donald Beal on Thursday, July 17, 11 am
To make something New, without tricks, requires talent, perseverance and a dedicated life. It also takes passion. I have known the work of Beal, DuToit, Paulson and Radell for 30 years. I believe they have these qualities. - Paul Resika
Donald Beal, Robert DuToit, David Paulson and Thaddeus Radell have a 30 year history of friendship – at one time or another schooling together, living together, and studying with Paul Resika at Parsons School of Design in New York.
Like Resika they all have a deep respect for the modernist principles of his teacher Hans Hofmann. They went their different ways: Beal and DuToit to the Outer Cape, Radell to France and New York, and Paulson to upstate New York, but they share an ongoing dialogue that continues to shape their work and lives. As Beal describes it, “Our work differs as our natures differ, but there is a like spirit and feeling that runs through all the work and unites us.”
Donald Beal was born in Syracuse, New York and lived in Westford Massachusetts until graduating high school in 1977. He studied art at the Swain School of Design in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he earned his BFA in painting in 1981. After moving to New York City to study at Brooklyn College, he went on to receive his MFA from Parsons School of Design. Provincetown, Massachusetts has been his home since 1985, where he is represented by the Berta Walker Gallery. Beal has been a professor in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Massachusetts, North Dartmouth since 1999.
Robert DuToit of North Truro was born in Boston in 1956 and began painting at the age of 10. He received a BFA from the University of New Hampshire and an MFA from Parsons School of Design in New York City and has 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 the Outer Cape, most recently at Maurice Arlos Fine Art Gallery in New York and the DNA Gallery in Provincetown. His recent work consists of elemental landscapes of various motifs as well as small direct figure compositions.
David Paulson was born in Providence, R.I. in 1955. At 17 he began drawing with charcoal and watercolor. He attended Swain School Design in New Bedford and studied printing and drawing with David Loeffler Smith. In 1978 he attended Parsons School of Design MFA program, where he studied with Paul Resika. He took sculpture classes with Peter Agostini in 1980 at New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture, where he also taught. He lived in Brooklyn until 1994 and spent some winters in Provincetown. He currently lives in Ghent, New York.
Thaddeus Radell was born in 1956 in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, the son of artists. In 1978, he received his BFA at Mercy College of the University of Detroit and his Master of Fine Art at Parsons School of Design in 1982. After graduating, he moved to France where for 14 years he divided his time between Paris and the South. He is currently living and working in New York City. He has had numerous solo shows in France and at the Marurice Arlos Fine Art Gallery in New York City.
Curator: Paul Resika
Born in New York City, Paul Resika studied with Hans Hofmann in New York and later in Provincetown. His work merges the emotions of abstract expressionism with his representational subjects, often of nature. He has received numerous awards and his work is included in many museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Museum of American Art. Resika currently divides his time between New York and Provincetown.
Image: "Sunflower," pastel painting by Robert DuToit
AIDEN LASSELL RIPLEY (1896 - 1969): A Retrospective
Curated by Elizabeth Ives Hunter, CCMA Exec Director
August 2 – October 5, 2008
Gallery Talk with Elizabeth Ives Hunter: Oct 5 at 3 pm
Aiden Lassell Ripley was born in Wakefield, Massachusetts and spent much of his life in the Boston area, often traveling to Cape Cod. The son of a musician, Ripley developed his talent as a tuba player and considered a career as a musician, but he soon discovered that painting was his true passion. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Art in Boston and received the Page Traveling Scholarship which allowed him to travel and paint in Europe from 1923 to 1925.
During the 1940s and 50s, Ripley became known as one of America’s pre-eminent painters of sporting scenes – hunters and game, fly-fishing on pristine rivers, and plantation life -- but his work extends well beyond this subject matter. The CCMA exhibition will focus on the totality of his work – portraits, still lifes, non-sporting landscapes and allegories. Ripley’s ability to maintain excellence of design and convincing emphasis and subordination marks his work as truly outstanding.
According to CCMA Executive Director Elizabeth Ives Hunter, curator of the exhibition, “The full breadth of Ripley’s work is examined in the book THE ART OF AIDEN LASSELL RIPLEY by Julie Carlson Wildfeuer and Stephen B. O’Brien, Jr., published in conjunction with the show. Taken together, the exhibition and the book will facilitate a re-evaluation of Ripley’s reputation as an artist.”
Ripley studied art at the Fenway School of Illustration and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston with Philip Hale and Frank W. Benson. He was elected to the Guild of Boston Artists in 1925, an honor that signaled acceptance by the most important painters of the day. He served as president of the Guild from 1959 until his death in 1969. Ripley received fifty prizes during his lifetime.
This exhibition is made possible in part by The Ellen and Richard Cuda Family Foundation of the Cape Cod Foundation.
An essay on Aiden Lassell Ripley (1896 – 1969): A Retrospective by Elizabeth Ives Hunter which appeared in American Art Review Magazine is available on request.
Harry Holl Sculpture and Clay Studio Exhibition
December 18 – January 9
This exhibition will display the work created by the artist-teachers, and selected students of the Harry Holl Sculpture and Clay Studio. The work ranges from simple bowls and vases, to more advanced pieces such as castles, fountains and tableware. Opened in February of 2008, the studio offers wheel-thrown pottery classes year round taught by Nathaniel Doane, Matt Kemp, Steve Kemp, Sarah Holl, Kim Holl, Lois Hirshberg, Alex Roberts, Mark Knowland, Marita Burns, Caitlin Nesbit, Angela Persechino and Jenn Reed. Open studio can also be scheduled for students to work on their own projects.
Image: Pottery by Laurie Goldman
Through Young Eyes: K-12 Cape-wide Student Exhibition
December 10, 2011 - January 15, 2012
Reception: December 15, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Student artists steal the spotlight in this annual exhibition of student art, Through Young Eyes. This large-scale collaboration between CCMA and schools from Falmouth to Provincetown invites each art teacher to submit three works of art created by their students to exhibit at the region's premier art museum. A great diversity of styles and media is shown including paintings, drawings, sculpture, ceramics, jewelry, printmaking, digital art, collage and other multi-media works by children in kindergarten through high school.
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