Reception Friday, August 30, 2024 7-9pm

On View August 16 - 28, 2024
Reception Friday, August 16, 2024 7-9pm

Christopher Sousa has lived and worked in Provincetown, MA since 2003. His curious figures and portraits explore themes of isolation and alienation, longing and desire. He counts Lucien Freud, Paul Cadmus, Jenny Saville and Euan Uglow among his influences. Sousa has studied at the Art Students League in New York, NY and with Larry Collins and Donald Beal in Provincetown.

On View August 16 - 28, 2024
Reception Friday, August 16, 2024 7-9pm

On View August 16 - 28, 2024
Reception Friday August 16, 2024 7-9pm

Painter Chet Jones has lived and worked in Provincetown, Massachusetts since 1993. He received a B.A. from Boston College, Chesnut Hill, MA and completed Graduate Studies in Fine Arts, Rosary College, Florence Italy. Jones is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, NY, NY 1996. He was awarded a full fellowship residency at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont, 1996 and a full residency scholarship to the Skowhegan School of painting, Skowhegan, Maine 1981.

“Chet Jones’ moody and evocative oil paintings convey a pared-down and primordial house from within an existential landscape. There is a freshness to the colors and brushwork that fills his painted forms with a vibrant and sometimes haunting presence. His ability to focus on shape allows him to magnify and amplify common architecture and transform it into a new, yet familiar landscape.”

On View August 2- 14, 2024
Reception Friday August 2, 2024 7-9pm

Frederick Brosen, one of America’s finest watercolor artists. These striking works are infused with the architectural romance of New York City. By focusing on the time of day around him and the city, Brosen brings an awareness of New York as a place of history and limitless experience. At dawn, Brosen travels on his bike in quest of new subjects, when the streets are devoid of the hustle-bustle of daily metropolitan life. With painstaking care and commitment, he sketches a scene, photographs it, and sketches again. Finally painting, Brosen builds his color by starting with light washes and adding layer after layer of rich tone. The results are crystalline and sophisticated images that reflect each location through the intimacy of countless details.

On View August 2 - 14, 2024
Reception Friday, August 2, 2024 7-9pm

Landry has studied and shown at the following institutions. Florence Academy of Fine Arts, Florence, Italy, School of Visual Arts, Manhattan, New York, Art Student League, Manhattan, New York, New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, New Orleans, Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown.

On View July 19 - 31, 2024
Reception Friday July 19, 2024 7-9pm

Daphne Confar received a BFA from Laguna Beach College of Art and Design and an MFA in Painting from Boston University, Boston MA. Her work has been exhibited in Museums and Galleries throughout the United States and Europe. Her artistic process involves building upon a tonal underpainting, adding layers of color, at times sanding between each layer.

On View July 19 - 31, 2024
Reception Friday, July 19, 2024 7-9pm

Nick McPhail is a Los Angeles-based painter and sculptor using renaissance techniques to consider the peripheral mundanity of urban life. Born and raised in Laingsburg, Michigan, Nick attended Michigan State University where he studied painting and ceramics, graduating with a BFA in 2006. Since then, he has maintained a consistent practice that has evolved to rely on personal observation and photography as the basis for his intuitive compositions.

On View July 19 - 31, 2024
Opening Reception Friday, July 19, 2024 7-9pm

Figure

”The work explores the anxiety of humankind in the twenty-first century. Its goal is to capture the human body in all its vulnerability by celebrating our perceived flaws. To demystify the nude, one has to find beauty in the grotesque, yet in an affectionate manner. My subjects are imperfect and I do not flatter them. They are painted with emotional honesty. Their nudity becomes a vehicle for presenting the psychology of the sitter over the formality of portraiture, allowing me to discover and pierce the unconscious. I choose my models for their ability to inspire empathy for our universal humanness, and their capacity to confront the truth within ourselves as to what we believe to be beautiful.”

Nature Morte

“Painting from nature is not copying the object, it is realizing ones sensations.” - Paul Cezanne

Still life, aka nature morte, is the tradition of painting inanimate objects that delight the eye. Still lives may be a celebration of the pleasures of life such as food and wine or a warning of the ephemerality of these pleasures. The genre of memento mori from the Latin “remember you must die” often contain dead flora, corpses of fauna and the presence of pest that remind us of the passage of time and the brevity of life.

These works hover between memento mori and the Proustian Moment, a vivid recollection of past events through sensory stimulation. The objects which we might fail to notice day to day in these works conjure up the unconscious memory of a unique experience, time, or place.”

- Michael Costello

On View July 1- 17, 2024
Reception Friday, July 5, 2024

Jefferson Hayman is an artist whose work explores the themes of nostalgia, common symbols, and memory. Through a quiet minimalism, he invites the viewer to partake in the narrative process in a way that is both intimate and deeply personal.

On View July 1- 17, 2024
Reception Friday, July 5, 2024

Tim Saternow is an American painter whose watercolor paintings explore the old High Line train trestles above the gritty industrial streets of New York City, the empty homesteads of Joshua Tree, California, and the dignified and genial old houses of Provincetown, on Cape Cod.

On View July 1- 17, 2024
Reception Friday, July 5, 7-9pm

John Dowd received a degree in architecture at Notre Dame and further advanced his studies in Rome. His work has been exhibited throughout the country with numerous works held in private, corporate and museum collections. He was awarded the Altman Prize “Grand Prize for Landscape“ from the National Academy of Design, NY, 1992. Dowd currently resides in Provincetown and New York City.

Curated by Gene Tartaglia
June 7 - July 21, 2024 

Opening Reception - Saturday June 15, 2024 5-7pm
Additional Reception: Friday, July 5, 2024 5pm – 7pm 

Featuring Michael Costello, Daphne Confar, Frederick Brosen, Ryan Landry, Tim Saternow and others.

Tickets are availalble for the July 5, 2024 Reception Below:

Reception Friday, May 24, 2024 7-9pm

Featuring work by Chet Jones, Nick McPhail, Jefferson Hayman, John Dowd, Jane O’Hara, Michael Perry, Christopher Sousa, Richard Whitten, Daphne Confar, Michael Costello, Ryan Landry, Tim Saternow, Casey Haugh and others.

The Provincetown Arts Society in collaboration with The Provincetown Art Gallery Association Present a Winter Exhibit at The Mary Heaton Vorse House Curated by Gene Tartaglia

Saturday, January 27 - Extended to March 31, 2024
Reception: Saturday, February 17, 2024 5 – 7 PM

Look for us in exhibition at Provincetown’s Mary Heaton Vorse House with our partners at The Provincetown Art Gallery Association.

Provincetown Arts Society announces a new exhibition featuring selected works from the gallery members of The Provincetown Art Gallery Association. The Mary Heaton Vorse House is located at 466 Commercial Street in Provincetown’s historic East End. Visitors may make an appointment or visit the exhibition in person and on line.

For information or to schedule an in person viewing contact: gene@provincetownartssociety.com

The Provincetown Art Gallery Association is a group of gallerists, curators, and inspired small businesspeople who work together to promote Provincetown as a destination and source for fine art and culture.

The beautiful Mary Heaton Vorse House is located on Commercial Street in Provincetown’s historic East End. Once owned by journalist, labor organizer, and arts patron Mary Heaton Vorse, the home has been lovingly remodeled in her honor by Provincetown Arts Society’s creative team of Ken Fulk and event producer Gene Tartaglia. Since opening in 2020 it has become a vibrant gathering place, a presenter and producer of music, theater, literature, fine art, and new thought, and an incubator for the visual arts in Provincetown.

For this exhibition curator Gene Tartaglia will select a suite of works from each participating PAGA member gallery and present the exhibition from January through March, 2024. Works will include painting, photography, sculpture, and mixed media and will present an intersection of contemporary thinking in art making as seen through the lens of the Gallery Association’s curators and artists.

Participating galleries include:

Alden Gallery
Berta Walker Gallery
Bowersock Gallery
Egeli Gallery
Frederick Studio Provincetown
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Larkin Gallery
On Center Gallery
Rice Polak Gallery
The Schoolhouse Gallery
Stewart Clifford Gallery
William Scott Gallery

Artist Reception Friday, September 1, 7-9pm
In conjunction with The Provincetown Gallery Stroll.

Purchase Available Work By John Dowd

Artist Reception Friday, August 18, 7-9pm
In conjunction with The Provincetown Gallery Stroll.

Reception Friday, July 18, 7-9pm
In conjunction with The Provincetown Gallery Stroll.

Artist Reception Friday, August 18, 7-9pm
In conjunction with The Provincetown Gallery Stroll.

“This show is an exploration of the use of repeated patterns to create a feeling of ecstasy within this medium of eggshells. Using the batik process to create backgrounds of strong  colors is meant to bring the viewer into the exuberance that shaped the experiences now rendered into visual art. Combining different techniques (batiked and painted eggshells) in the same compositions presents the viewer with a tension inherent in ecstatic moments - the known self and this heightened experience dwelling together simultaneously for the first time.”

-Paul Wirhun

Artist Reception August 4, 7-9pm
In conjunction with The Provincetown Gallery Stroll.

Artist Reception Friday August 4, 7-9pm
In conjunction with The Provincetown Gallery Stroll.

Artist Reception Friday July 21, 7-9pm
In conjunction with The Provincetown Gallery Stroll.

Reception Friday, July 21, 7-9pm
In conjunction with The Provincetown Gallery Stroll.

Artist Reception Friday, July 21, 7-9pm
In conjunction with The Provincetown Gallery Stroll.

Artist Reception - Friday, July 7, 7-9pm
In conjunction with The Provincetown Gallery Stroll.

Reception Friday, July 7, 7-9pm
In conjunction with The Provincetown Gallery Stroll.

Reception Friday, June 30, 7-9pm
In conjunction with The Provincetown Gallery Stroll.

June 30 - July 12, 2023
Artist Reception Friday, June 30, 7-9pm

John Dowd has unveiled an extraordinary series of realistic night paintings that celebrate the town. These captivating artworks transport viewers to a bygone era, evoking a profound sense of nostalgia and mystery.John Dowd's mastery of light and shadow comes to life in this remarkable collection, skillfully capturing the tranquility and enigmatic beauty of nighttime scenes, creating compositions that resonate with viewers on a deeply emotional level.

The unveiling of John Dowd's series of night paintings is the first of his two exhibitions at The William Scott Gallery. The second collection will be Summer Work and will be on view over Labor Day weekend.