The paintings of artist and art educator, Carl Lopes, are typically large works.  In his paintings, Lopes strives to merge his visual ideas with personal feelings to create very individual pieces that can, at times, surprise people. His paintings have a rhythm to them; his training in realism allows Lopes to try to create the idea of being able to touch patterns made from abstract geometric forms, and to make use of space as well as shadow and light. 
    Visual Arts Director at Barnstable High School, Lopes spends his day interacting with art.  As an art educator, he firmly believes that his studio work directly influences his effectiveness as an instructor. Imparting studio and critical analysis skills to his students, he inspires and encourages them to create, learn and achieve high standards.
    Known widely for his geometric acrylic paintings on canvas, Lopes has recently turned his attention towards centuries-old African mask designs. Still geometrical in approach, his recent work portrays the jubilance of ethnic royalty and splendor through a blend of painting, drawing, and holographic collage. The greatest change in his recent body of work is in the addition of the human face, and wildlife, which allows viewers to interact with decorative and playful groups. His work invites viewers to travel throughout his compositions which show his delight in his heritage as well as the fun he has making them burst with color and light.
    Lopes received his Bachelors of fine arts at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) in painting and his Masters of Fine Arts in Painting at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY in the 1970s. Since then, he has received post graduate credits for art education and is also a faculty member at the University of Massachusetts (Dartmouth). He has also received a number of awards for both his artwork and his teaching of art since the 1980s, including Arts Educator of the Year from the Art Foundation of Cape Cod (2007); and from the Pratt Institute (2000) and by Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Outstanding Art Educator (2007, 2001 and 1995). As an artist, he received Best In Show at the Bierstadt Gallery (1990), as well as a number of other art awards; his work has been featured in both solo and in group exhibitions in Massachusetts, New York, and Colorado.

Wellfleet Women: Del Filardi and Selina Trieff
February 25 - March 26, 2012
    Since its founding, the Cape Cod Museum of Art has been collecting the work of important artists associated with Cape Cod, the Islands and Southeastern Massachusetts. The initial impetus for the collection was to acquire and preserve at least one example of the work of each artist of importance to the region. Over time the museum has had the opportunity to collect the work of selected artists in depth. This exhibition focuses on two important women artists who reside on the Outer Cape and whose work is immediately identifiable: sculptor Del Filardi and painter Selina Trieff.
    Del Filardi received her B.S. in Health and Physical Education from State Teachers College at Cortland (NY), and a Master’s in dance from Columbia University. She went on to use her ability to analyze motion to create and choreograph metal steel into magnificent birds. From her home overlooking the Pamet River in Truro, she spends much of her time bird-watching. Observing the birds’ fluid movements, she captures this sense of movement by creating realistic sculptures.
    Filardi came to metal sculpture in her intense search for self expression and self fulfillment. She burst forth with her greatest productivity when she found herself mastering the challenge of steel with the welding torch. Early on, many of her works were abstract pieces, large and small. Later, sculpting large species birds proved to be a very exciting career.
    Former owner of the Blue Heron Gallery in Wellfleet, Filardi, the recipient of numerous awards including a gold medal from the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club (NY), has exhibited at many galleries and museums, including the Smithsonian’s National Academy of Science and the Boston Museum of Science.  Many of the prizes and honors she has received were for her Birds of Endangered Species. Her work is in both private and corporate collections.  She is an elected member of the Society of Animal Artists and the Salmagundi Club.
    Selina Trieff grew up in New York City and graduated from Brooklyn College (studying with Mark Rothko) before attending the Art Students League (studying with Morris Kantor) and the Hans Hofmann School both in New York and Provincetown. An abstract artist until the mid-1960s, she then began painting archetypal portraits, and, in the mid-1970s, turned her attention to a series of large charcoal drawings. By the 1980s, she developed her style to depict pastel-clothed clowns and black-robed pilgrims in the Commedia Dell’arte tradition. She also frequently paints farm animals.
    Trieff, who resides in Wellfleet with her husband, artist Robert Henry, has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions throughout the US as well as overseas, including Paris; Oslo; and Goteborg, Sweden. She has taught extensively at various institutions including: New York Institute of Technology; National Academy of Design; Vermont Studio Center; Pratt Institute; Kalamazoo Art Institute; New York Studio School;, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown; Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill; Provincetown Art Association and Museum; Indianapolis Art League; New York Figurative Academy; Women¹s Artists Seminar; and Notre Dame University.

Recent Works: Milton Teichman
February 25 - March 25, 2012
   This winter, a selection of Milton Teichman’s recent paintings and sculptures is on exhibition at the Cape Cod Museum of Art.
    Teichman has a double passion in his life. While he taught literature and writing on the college level for 47 years, he also actively pursued his interest in painting and sculpture.
    During adolescence and in the years that followed, he was drawn to the paintings of Picasso, Matisse, and Braque. He loved their visual simplifications, their deliberate and creative distortions of factual reality. He was intrigued also by the work of Kandinsky and Mondrian. Their work struck him as a form of visual music, stirring the feelings through the eye as music stirs the feelings through the ear. In Mondrian, he also saw the beauty of two-dimensionality and the exciting dialogue between form and space.
    In the 1960s, partly under the influence of the abstract expressionists (Gottlieb, Motherwell, Kline, and others) he turned to non-objective painting and collage, treating the canvas not as a window though which one views a scene but as the glass itself, on which the pure elements of design–form, space, color, texture, and line are brought into harmony. His constructions in wood, styrofoam, plastic, and found materials, were likewise nonobjective compositions.
    Teichman lived in the Hudson Valley of New York for many years and moved to Cape Cod in 1999 when he began to experiment with paintings that reflected the influence of the Cape landscape. In these paintings he abstracted and simplified the ever-changing appearances of ocean and bay, marshes and sand dunes. The colors he employed were poetic rather than naturalistic. Currently, he paints such quasi-representational landscapes as well as nonobjective paintings and collages which reflect his continued interest in the interplay of form and space on a two-dimensional surface. In his three-dimensional work, he now focuses on table-size sculptures in wood, sheet brass, fired clay, and bronze, many of which reflect the influence of the primitive art of Mexico, where he has spent several winters.
    Teichman received a Ph.D. in English, the University of Chicago (1966), M.A. in English, Duke University (1953) and B.A. in English, Brooklyn College (1952). He also studied with Max Schnitzler of New York City; Evelyn Fisher of Poughkeepsie, NY; William Pachner of Woodstock, NY; Ati Johansen of Millbrook, NY. On the Cape, he studied with Bob Bailey, Joan Pereira, Paul Bowen, and Jim Peters. In Mexico, he studied with sculptors Jesus Mendez, Mario Rangel, and Francisco Contreras.
    His works have been exhibited in New York in juried shows at the Woodstock Art Association and the Poughkeepsie Art Association (Barrett House). His art has also been included in juried shows at the Art Students’ League in Woodstock and at the Albany Museum of Art. He has had one-person exhibitions at Bennett College, Millbrook, N.Y. (1975) and at Marist College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. (1970, 1985, 1996). As a longtime member of an artists’ cooperative, Summergroup, he exhibited in group shows throughout the Hudson Valley of New York. On Cape Cod, his artwork has been exhibited at the Provincetown Art Association’s juried shows since 1999. In the fall of 2004, he was Artist-in-Residence at Cape Cod Community College and showed a selection of thirty-five years of work in painting and sculpture in the Higgins Gallery. In the spring of 2010, one of his bronze sculptures was included in a juried show in Boston of the New England Sculptors Association; in the summer of 2011, Mashpee Public Library purchased his bronze sculpture We Are All One for display in the library lobby. He has also had his sculptural work exhibited in San Miguel, Mexico, at the Galeria Diana (2006), Galeria 19 (2007-8), and Galeria Mero (2008). His painting and sculpture are also in many private collections.
Image: Music in my Heart, acrylic

Fantastic Dream World: Thomas Eaton 
March 31 – May 6, 2012 
    “The structure of a painting rather than formalities, sequence, and limitations is usually the format I follow. Creating somewhat of a paradox of past and present events in everyday life. Taking an ordinary item, and reshaping the physical aspects, then placing that item in unusual setting, seems to be a good precedent for a surreal painting. I believe it is essential for the painting to arouse curiosity.”
                    - Thomas Eaton
    Born in Schenectady, New York in 1948, Thomas Eaton became interested in painting at an early age. While exploring the different styles of art, Eaton was introduced to the Boston Schools as well as the “isms”, but upon reflecting on the different styles, he created one that was distinctly his own. Spending anywhere from four to seven hours a day in his studio, Eaton works in surrealist, contemporary and traditional styles on canvas and board. When painting, Eaton begins with an ochre under-wash which he develops into a predominant theme with many layers of paint. He has named his style of painting, “contemporary surrealist impressionism”. In this style, “A unique focused, personally symbolic take on the realities that lie beneath the surface of our minds” is created. Eaton reflects on our daily lives in his own personal way.  Eaton is a member of the Provincetown Art Association, the Cape Cod Art Association and the Cape Cod Museum of Art. He has won many awards, and has had multiple one-man shows across Cape Cod where he now lives. His paintings can be found both in museums and in homes across the country.
Image: Tea Time

Jewelry as Art: Etta Goodstein
March 31 - April 22, 2012
    Jewelry Designer, Etta Goodstein designs and produces an extraordinary range of one-of-a-kind works of art using amazing gemstones and precious metals. This exhibition is a retrospective of her unique jewelry designs from 1968 through the present.  Etta works with a variety of gemstones set in karat gold and sterling silver.  Especially well know for her work with Australian opals, she also includes champagne diamonds, pink tourmalines and color changing sapphires in her wearable art.
    Etta has been designing and creating hand-crafted jewelry since 1968. In 1970, she opened her shop, Jewelry by Etta, in West Dennis in an antique full-Cape studio/shop, where she creates only unique pieces of jewelry. Her work has been displayed worldwide in juried exhibitions.
    Born in Chicago, she moved to Worcester, MA at age 6 and attended high school there. She explored many forms of artistic media until she attended her first silversmith class in high school.  Once she had the experience of one small piece of work, she knew she had found her creative center, and never looked back. Excited by the potential, she also took a night class at The Craft Center in Worcester.  After high school, she moved to Cambridge with $10 in her pocket. Working on Charles Street in Boston in 1970 was a wonderful experience and helped shape her future in her chosen field. Six short weeks later she started her own wholesale company.
    In 1972, she decided to try retail once again. This time it achieved the momentum she needed to start her journey that has taken her around the world, and provided a quality of life she could not have possibly imagined. Challenged intensely by a cancer diagnosis in 2010, she continues to follow her dream to wherever it leads her. She’s humbled, honored, and grateful when she sees her work on a person who has come to cherish the heirloom-quality pieces she feels fortunate enough to have created over the years.
Image: Opal pendant

Retrospective: Donald Stoltenberg
April 7 – May 13, 2012 
  Donald Stoltenberg is a painter, printmaker, teacher and author. He has exhibited in many major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, the Boston Athenaeum and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and is included in many collections public and private. He has many awards praising his contribution to art. The exhibition at the Cape Cod Museum of Art will include a variety of his work from paintings, and prints which will include collagraphs, and constructions.
    Stoltenberg constructs his art. He creates his art by combining parts, by adding to the whole. He likes to build things up. He has a strong interest in architectural and objects made by man. His interests range from bridges, trains, airplanes and boats.  He responds to all the angles and space of each object.
    Born in 1927 in Wisconsin, Donald Stoltenberg received his Bachelor of Science from the Institute of Design of the Illinois Institute of Technology in Visual Design Art in 1953. He then worked as a graphic designer under famed industrial designer and illustrator Raymond Loewy. In 1954 he relocated to Boston where he worked as a graphic designer at the Container Corporation of America. In 1960 he set up his own art studio on Commercial Wharf in Boston and began devoting himself full time to painting. Working on Commercial Wharf inspired Stoltenberg to paint marine art, concentrating on sailboats and steamships, particularly focusing on the study the classic ocean liners of the 20th century. The next decade would find him perfecting his craft and painting many different subjects in an abstract expressionist style.
    In 1957 Stoltenberg began to teach art at the DeCordova Museum School in Lincoln, Massachusetts where he taught oil painting, watercolor and printmaking. In 1962 he was the Visiting Critic as the Rhode Island School of Design. At the same time Stoltenberg was teaching across Cape Cod. He taught printmaking at the Castle Hill Center in Truro, and at the Falmouth Artist Guild, as well as printmaking and drawing at the Cape Cod Conservatory of Music and Art. He has also authored two books on printmaking and the environment of the artist. In 1980 he began to teach privately at his studio attached to his Cape Cod summer home where he relocated permanently in 1967.  Over the years he has exhibited across New England as well as in a number of other states, also having won a number of honors for his unique style of painting. Today Stoltenberg continues to produce art as a member of the American Watercolor Society and the New England Watercolor Society. He is also a Fellow of the American Society of Marine Artists. His marine works of Cape Cod illustrate many images of the ocean in a style that is distinctly his own.
Image: Railway

ArtWork: School to Careers Art Internship
April 27 - May 13, 2011
Artists’ Reception, Thursday, May 10, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
    The 15th annual ArtWork exhibition, featuring work created by students and mentors from the Cape Cod and the Islands School-to-Careers Art Internship Program, is on display April 27 - May 13. This exhibition includes a mix of painting, sculpture, textile design and a variety of other media produced by students during the course of their partnerships with renowned local artists. Their mentors will also have work exhibited. An artists’ reception, open to the public, will be Thursday, May 10, 5:30 - 7:30 pm. 
    The School-to-Careers 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: Katelyn Bess stands next to her pottery at the 2011 Art Internship Reception.

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