Inclined to the Bend:
Michael Jones and Christine Lovely
August 1 - September 15
The collaborative exhibition, featuring painting and poetry by Judge Michael Jones and Christine Lovely, is an expression of their love affair for the Province Lands. They were inspired by the poet Mary Oliver after reading an article about her in the New York Times in July 2009. What was to be a day of discovery, cycling through the pines and dunes near Race Point in Provincetown, became more. Returning for countless visits, the couple became enchanted with the Beech Forest and its storybook feeling with chattering cattails and entwined birch trees. The pair started sketching and writing finding a unique challenge during their collaboration in merging the two art forms so that they have union yet also an individual voice.
While it is Lovely’s first exhibit, Jones’ work has been shown in various exhibitions in several museums from Switzerland to New York City. His most recent exhibit at The Sports Museum in Boston featured his exclusive portrait of Michael Phelps.
A catalogue will accompany the exhibition including two portraits of the couple, a photograph by Don Krohn from Orleans, and a portrait done in oils by renowned portraitist Nancy Ellen Craig.
Moving On: Site installation by Barbara Cohen
August 7 - September 18
Barbara Cohen’s Moving On installation features a conveyor belt with a canvas duck surface that rotates at two revolutions per minute. A one or two layer application of spherical graphite drawings (ping pong balls) covering the conveyor is held in place by a four-inch Plexiglas rail. Slowly evolving before the viewer, the top layer turns counter to the bottom layer in a series of repetitive movements that track Cohen’s nervous system. The moveable belt on the installation changes the layout of the “drawing”. According to the artist, she is interested in “the combination of mapping my system and seeing how my images change throughout the day according to my insides … My energy changes from moment to moment and the jagged and jittery lines are a reaction to those changes”.
Glass Transformed: Celia Pearson Photographs
August 14 – October 10
Gallery Talk by Celia Pearson: Saturday, August 14, 2 pm
Sea glass has demanded the attention of photographer Celia Pearson since she was commissioned to photograph for the book Pure SEA GLASS by Richard LaMotte (Sea Glass Publishing, 2004). The prints in this exhibit are some of the best examples of the artist’s body of work on this subject.
Kirk Nelson, Executive Director of The New Bedford Museum of Glass, says of her work, “Ms. Pearson’s images…transcend the subject of sea glass. Through her sensitivity to the color, shape and surface texture of the glass, her mastery of lighting and her eye for graphic composition, Pearson creates images that read as works of abstract art on many levels.”
What is it about sea glass that continues to enthrall this artist? Pearson says, “As I focus on the glass, I am paying attention to its physical beauty, the light that informs it, the relationships between various elements. But there is something more that attracts me – something that’s energetic, unseen and as compelling as the beauty in front of me. These vestiges of mankind transformed by nature seem to be full of echoes, memory, and spirit.”
The North American Sea Glass Festival will be held October 9 & 10 in Hyannis at the Resort & Conference Center. Click here for more information.
The Subject is Light: The Henry and Sharon Martin Collection of Contemporary Realist Paintings
August 21 – November 7
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 focused 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 Martin collection includes work by Joseph McGurl, William Davis, Jacob Collins, Robert Douglas Hunter, Anne Packard, Pam Pindell, Donald Demers, and Peter Quidley. CCMA is fortunate that the Martins are willing to share their collection with its members and visitors.
The Martins are charming, articulate and passionate about their art. They will be available to guide gallery visitors through their collection at the CCMA and to talk about the collecting process which has engaged them for so long.
In 2011, this exhibition will travel to the Lyman Allyn Art Museum in New London, CT.
Image: "Fishermen off of White Island Light" by William Davis
