Maritime Patterns presents a body of work by Aron Belka centered on the coastal landscapes of New England and the broader Northeast, where representation is continually interrupted by processes of layering, erosion, and reconstruction. Rather than pursuing direct realism, Aron Belka's paintings move through cycles of creation and destruction, allowing forms and ideas to emerge, dissolve, and reconfigure across the surface.

The resulting compositions balance abstraction with moments of recognizable structure, where atmosphere and gesture often take precedence over precise depiction. Through the use of varied tools and mark-making techniques, Belka distorts traditional landscape conventions, producing fractured surfaces that reflect the instability and fragmentation of contemporary experience.

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In Cape Codernism, Casey Haugh’s paintings engage the visual character of Provincetown through a language of restraint, where light, structure, and color are distilled into deliberate, pared-down compositions. Rather than describing place in full, the works hold back, allowing atmosphere and spatial relationships to carry the image.

Working within a contemporary interpretation of American modernism, Haugh emphasizes simplified forms, compressed space, and stylized color relationships that transform familiar environments into carefully structured compositions. At times the work recalls the compositional clarity of Milton Avery, while remaining grounded in Haugh’s own approach to coastal architecture and landscape.

Varied in palette and mood, the paintings are unified by a consistent interest in reduction—finding in streets, structures, and open skies an ongoing occasion for formal inquiry.

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Born of despair and bewilderment over current events, this work is the result of my choice to embrace the absurd and to focus on things that are either delightfully frivolous, or eternal and utterly indifferent to human affairs. Small, oil on canvas paintings of soft serve ice cream and cupcakes* floating in space, hovering over Provincetown Harbor or inserted into settings that pay homage to favorite artists, combine with painterly renderings of alternately placid or roiling seas to juxtapose the power and beauty of the geophysical world with some of the more ephemeral pleasures of life on earth. As the work has progressed, a common visual language has emerged as structural similarities between these polar opposites on the emotional/gravitational spectrum have come to light. Piled up frosting echos swirls of ocean spray, cupcakes turn comically geological evoking a stylized mountain top in one piece, a messy space rock in another. And so it goes...

In The Breath of Memory, Kris Haas explores abstraction through restraint, atmosphere, and the accumulation of layered surfaces. Built through an intuitive yet controlled process, the paintings rely on subtle tonal shifts, veiled forms, and gestural markings that emerge slowly through sustained looking.

Rather than functioning as fixed images or narratives, the works operate through suggestion and sensation, allowing memory to remain fragmented, atmospheric, and unresolved. Scraped lines, dripped passages, and muted fields of color create surfaces that feel both constructed and eroded, balancing immediacy with quiet deliberation.

Though minimal in palette and composition, the paintings maintain a strong physical presence, where texture, transparency, and scale become central to the viewing experience.

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