Christopher Sousa - The Immoralist
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.
Chet Jones - New Paintings
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.”
Frederick Brosen - Provincetown Watercolours
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.
Ryan Landry - Before I Forget…
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.
Daphne Confar - Beachtown
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.
Nick McPhail - Views
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.
Michael Costello - Temps Retrouve
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
Tim Saternow - Watercolors
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.
John Dowd - Night Paintings
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.
Three Amigos - Carroll, Galloway and Rice
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:
Opening Preview
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.
