Current Exhibitions at PAAM Pat de Groot, Window to the Sea: Birds, Light and Water June 19 - August 2, 2009 A survey exhibition of works by Provincetown artist Pat de Groot, whose small-scale paintings offer unique perspectives on familiar coastal imagery. de Groot creates intimate pieces that explore the relationships of elements from the natural world; particularly the effects of light on water. This exhibition will include paintings and a sampling of de Groot's calligraphic drawings of shorebirds. The artist will present a public lecture on Tuesday, June 23 at 7pm. cormorants at Provincetown breakwater, 1988-93, above selections from 65 x 156" grid of 27 drawings, assembled in 2009 permanent marker on rag paper, each measuring 18 x 12" artist’s statement For the past twenty years I have involved myself exclusively with the visual goings on outside my window facing Provincetown Harbor. In the seventies and early eighties I made thousands of calligraphic drawings of seagulls using a hollow bamboo stick and India ink. Later I moved on to black ducks and water, and in September and October into November every year, to cormorants drawn from life with a permanent marker in a kayak at the breakwater. In the late eighties I started to draw on paper with oil paint using the tube as an implement, and black ducks, light and water as an image. Recently I have been making small oil paintings with a palette knive on treated paper and on canvas. My present involvement is with the sky as it meets the water, in how, painting with the sky and the water as a guide, I may come up with a surface that in some ways conveys what it feels like to be in that space where water stretches to the horizon and the sky continues up overhead. -Pat de Groot Pat de Groot is represented in Provincetown by Albert Merola Gallery, and in NY by Tibor De Nagy Gallery. exhibition checklist The 2009 Fredi Schiff Levin Lecture Series continues on June 23 with Window to the Sea: Birds, Light and Water: A Gallery Talk with Pat de Groot. Read more about the continuing FSL Lecture Series here. Red Moon in June, 2007 oil on board, 12 x 11" Private Collection Members' Juried June 19-July19, 2009 Featuring works by established and emerging artists from within the PAAM membership. PAAM's juried exhibitions represent contemporary artists, many who live and work on outer Cape Cod. While the work varies greatly in media and approach, each artist-member joins a long roster of distinguished artists who have studied, taught, and exhibited at PAAM over the past 95 years. Featuring works by Astrid, Nancy Hall Brooks, Chip Brock, Ted Chapin, Mimi Coxson, Georgia M. Coxe, Ed Crane, Jerome Crepeau, Shareen Davis, Joerg Dressler, Bob Enos, Michael Fennelly, Erik Fettig, F. Ronald Fowler, Anne Garton, Iris Goldfarb, Tighe Hanson, Brent Harold, Robert Henry, Jenny Humphreys, Mary Ince, Roger Carl Johanson, Paul Kelly, Elizabeth Lazeren, Toni Levin, Douglas Lissick, Mason Morfit, Michael Moss, Lisa-Marie Nowakowski, Carol Odell, Brendan O'Hara, Orfeo Fabbri, Jane Paradise, Todd Perry, James Reardon, Philip Redo, Edwina Rissland, John B. Rogers, Andrea Rosenthal, Dick Singer, Gail Sharretts, Joe Trepiccione, Selina Trieff, Mike Ware, Tim Winn, Mike Wright, Laurence Young, James Zimmerman, and Martha Zinn. Fabio Fabio Fernandez, the juror, has given special designation to 5 artworks in this exhibition: Juror’s Choice Sculpture: Mike Wright, Monument #1 (maquette), 2009, Juror’s Choice Photography: Roger Carl Johanson, Parade for Hope, 2009, silver gelatin selenium toned photograph, Juror’s Choice Painting: Michael Moss, Sole I, 2008, oil on panel, Juror’s Choice Work on Paper: Douglas Lissick, Portuguese Fishermen Mending Nets, aquatint, Juror’s Choice: Mason Morfit, Lemons, 2008, oil on Masonite. exhibition checklist Mason Morfit, Lemons, 2008 oil on Masonite, 12 x 12" Juror's Choice Fabio J. Fernández is an artist and curator based in Boston where he is Exhibitions Director at The Society of Arts and Crafts. He holds an M.F.A. in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan and a B.S. in Business from Seton Hall University in New Jersey. Fernández has exhibited his work in the United States and abroad and has been a visiting critic at various universities around the country as well as an invited juror for a number of arts-related organizations. I believe in PAAM’s important mission and so it was a privilege to be asked to jury the 2009 Members Juried exhibition. Choosing from 175 art objects was a challenge, but a worthwhile one - my selections reflect the subjective qualitative filter that I have developed over time. This filter assists me in choosing work that is in-line with my formal and conceptual concerns. For the installation, I chose to divide the room according to four loosely defined categories: landscapes/seascapes, figurative, still lifes and abstractions. My hope is that this imposed order makes it easier for the eye and mind to contemplate the work as gallery visitors walk through the space. - Fabio J. Fernández, June 18, 2009 SHELL SERIES (Rapture), 2005, oil and gold leaf on sea clam shell, Collection of Lise Motherwell and Bob Steinberg Tabitha Vevers: Narrative Bodies June 5 - July 19, 2009 exhibition checklist NARRATIVE BODIES is a mid-career survey exhibition of the work of painter Tabitha Vevers that highlights the artist’s feminist engagement with tradition and myth. Vevers uses personal narratives that explore the female body and sexuality and old master techniques to address issues that include war, AIDS, environmental degradation, the relationship of the sexes, and women’s historical positions in society. This combination of time-honored representational strategies with contemporary subject matter makes Vevers work both pressing and timeless. The artist was initially compelled to paint the figure in the 1980s by a “desire to take the female nude back from art history and portray her with the complexity of an individual woman’s perspective.” Vevers’ paintings are also characterized by recurring references to the sea. This pervasive metaphor underscores the content of her paintings, and also reflects her personal experience – Vevers grew up in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and continues to paint on Cape Cod and in Cambridge. Ms. Vevers received her B.A. in painting from Yale University and studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.  She has received numerous awards and honors including a George & Helen Segal Foundation Grant, residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA ‘86, ‘91, ‘93 and The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH. Tabitha Vevers is represented in Provincetown by DNA Gallery. This exhibition sponsored in part by Snug Cottage. A catalogue of this exhibition is available at the PAAM store ($9.95 + s/h) or by calling PAAM @ 508.487.1750) EDEN (Eveandadam) 2007, oil and gold leaf on ivorine 9 3/8 x 10" FLYING DREAM (Flying Lesson), 2000, oil and gold leaf on steel, Collection of Edwin Sherin and Jane Alexander FLYING DREAM (Mary), 2003, oil on galvanized steel, Lent by the Artist FLYING DREAM (Marja), 2003 oil on galvanized steel Private Collection "I am floating by the ceiling, flying back and forth; I feel as if I were suffocating, I don't want to be noticed. Suddenly a procession of solemn, old men appear carrying a coffin on their shoulders. My father lies in the coffin submerged in a soup full of fruit which splashes back and forth following the movement of the men's steps as if pushed by the waves on a pond." The 2009 Fredi Schiff Levin Lecture Series opened with Tabitha Vevers: Narrative Bodies, a Lecture with Curator Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, on June 9. Read more about the continuing FSL Lecture Series here. Art of the Garden May 8 - July 12, 2009 Featuring exceptional floral works culled from PAAM's permanent collection by curator Polly Burnell. This exhibition occurs in conjunction with PAAM's Annual Secret Garden Tour, a popular walking tour of stunning private gardens in Provincetown's west end. Garden tour guests enjoy free admission to this exhibition. Proceeds benefit the cultural initiatives of PAAM. exhibition checklist Suzanne Sinaiko (1918 - 1998) The Provincetown Bay watercolor on paper, 24 x 18" PAAM Collection, gift of Napi Van Dereck, 2000 Marion Campbell Hawthorne (1870-1945) Delphinium, 1934 watercolor on paper, 19.5 x 13.5" PAAM Collection, anonymous donor Blanche Lazzell (1878 - 1956) Marigolds, 1938 color white-line wood block print, 15 x 13" PAAM Collection, extended loan from Hilary and Sidney Bamford, 2003 SUMMER 2009 12th ANNUAL SECRET GARDEN TOUR Sunday, July 12th 10am-3pm Celebrate PAAM’s 12th Annual Secret Garden Tour on Sunday, July 12th with a double header garden experience. The day begins with a walking tour of gorgeous Secret Gardens in Provincetown’s west end from 10am-3pm. Visitors are then invited to the Provincetown Art Association and Museum to tour the Art of the Garden, an exhibition of floral works in air-conditioned galleries. All proceeds from the event benefit PAAM exhibitions and educational programs. For twelve years, the Secret Garden Tour has led guests through hidden stone paths and crooked wooden walkways into borders and beds of specimen plants, common and exotic flowers, and lush greenery. This year, the owners and tenders of fragrant and visually stunning Provincetown gardens plan to welcome more than 500 visitors. The gardens selected represent the “best of the west,” as all are located in Provincetown’s beautiful west end, making the tour quite walkable from PAAM and nearby parking lots. Free parking has been provided at Benson, Young and Downs Insurance Agency and Gately-McHoul’s Funeral home, found at the end of Harry Kemp Way. A fleet of shuttle-cars will make continuous stops between the parking lots and gardens throughout the day. Please call 508.487.1750 to reserve tickets. Tickets to the Secret Garden Tour are just $30, and include admission to PAAM’s galleries for the Art of the Garden exhibition. This event continues to be a success year after year due in part to the kindness of more than fifty dedicated volunteers. All proceeds from the event support PAAM exhibitions and education programs. save the date printable event postcard

Upcoming Exhibitions at PAAM Previous Exhibitions

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11 am to 10 pm, Friday
11 am to 5 pm, Saturday and Sunday

October–May:
Noon to 5 pm, Thursday through Sunday,
and by appointment

OFFICE HOURS :

9 am to 5 pm, Tuesday through Saturday
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Take Route 6 to the Provincetown Center exit. Turn left at light onto Conwell Street, then left at stop sign onto Bradford Street, 1/2 mile on right is Bang Street, right one block to Commercial.

Parking is available in many private and municipal lots in Provincetown, and depending on the season, parking may be available on Commercial Street.

JULY 2009 @ PAAM

Continuing Exhibitions:

Art of the Garden
Polly Burnell curated exhibition to complement the Secret Garden Tour.
Patrons & Jalbert galleries thru 7/12.

Tabitha Vevers: Narrative Bodies
Mid-career exhibition. Moffett &
Hawthorne galleries thru 7/19.

Members’ Juried
Fabio Fernandez curates this show of
exceptional contemporary artworks.
Hofmann Gallery thru 7/19. Underwritten
in part by Ralph Oliva and Jeffrey Carlson. (Pick-up art 7/21)

Window to the Sea:
Birds, Light and Water
Survey exhibition of Pat de Groot’s
art offering unique perspectives on
familiar coastal imagery. Duffy Gallery
thru 8/2.

1 Jazz in the Cape Air, 6pm, $15
Dick Miller and friends. Go to www.
paam.org, click on Special Events.

5 Magnificent Garden Flower
Arrangements, 3pm, FREE
In conjunction with the Secret Garden
Tour, Mary Garrett of Flowers by
Mary demonstrates how to fashion
magnificence from your garden.
Arrangements for sale immediately
following. Proceeds benefit exhibitions
and education programs.

7 ALH Lecture, 7pm, FREE
Based on her recently published
monograph, E. Ambrose Webster:
Chasing the Sun, Gail Scott lectures
on one of Provincetown’s first and
foremost painters. Book signing follows.

10 Provincetown Arts Magazine
Release Party, 5pm

12 Secret Garden Tour, 10-3, $30
Ten stunning west end gardens. Tickets
include admission to PAAM, free parking
and access to shuttles. Call 508.487.1750 to reserve your tickets!

15 Jazz, 6pm, $15
Summer Jazz with Bart Weisman, Steve
Ahern (trumpet, flute), Bruce Abbott
(sax, flute), Fred Boyle (piano) and Ron
Ormsby (bass).

17 Opening, 8-10pm, FREE
Director’s Choice Exhibition
Anne Peretz: Cape Cod Paintings
Paintings by Anne Peretz, In
the Patrons Gallery and Jalbert Gallery
through September 13.

18 Board Meeting, 10am
Members are invited to attend.

18 FSL Lecture, 3pm, FREE
Painter and teacher Thomas Bosket
discusses innovative and traditional
approaches to painting. A primer for Bosket’s workshop,
July 21-23.

21 Drop-off, noon-4pm
Members’ 12x12 show and silent auction.
Works must be 12x12”, dry, no frames,
no hangers. Shipped works must arrive
by July 20. Pick up Members’ Juried.

22 Jazz, 6pm, $15
Summer Jazz with Bart Weisman, Zoe
Lewis and suprise guests.

24 PAAM Circle Preview Party, 6-8pm
Museum is closed for this intimate
preview party featuring a gallery
talk by Varujan Boghosian, cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. By invitation only. To get yours, go to the paam circle page and join the paam circle!

24 Three Openings, 8-10pm, FREE

Varujan Boghosian: A Career Survey
Inspired by the past, the legacy of
myth, and a love of iconography.
Through August 30.

PAAM Collection Works
Works from the permanent collection. In the Moffett Gallery through September 6.

Members’ 12x12
Exhibition and silent auction of 250+ members’works. Artists contribute 100% or
50% of the sale price to support
PAAM initiatives. Register to bid at the
Front Desk. In the Hawthorne Gallery.

Closing reception & refreshments,
September 12, 4pm. Final bids accepted alphabetically beginning 5pm.

27 Jazz, 6pm, $15
Music in the Cape Air with Dick Miller
and friends.

28 FSL Lecture, 7pm, FREE
Curator and Executive Director
Chris McCarthy discusses Anne
Peretz’s exhibition featuring paintings
created on Cape Cod that capture
the changeable dunes, shore and sky
filtered through her unique sensibility.

29 Blue Door Chamber Music,
7pm, $15
Cello and piano selections by Blue
Door — Arthur Cook, cello; Deborah
Gilwood, piano.

AUGUST 2009 @ PAAM

3 Cape Cod Chamber Music
Festival, 7pm, $32
The Borromeo String Quartet
performs J.S. BACH Passacaglia and Fugue for Organ in C Minor; L. AUERBACH cetera desunt; and L.v. BEETHOVEN String Quartet in C-sharp Minor, Opus 131. For tickets and
information 508.945.8060 or www.capecodchambermusic.org

4 Members’ Annual Meeting, 6pm
Your opportunity to participate in
the election of officers and trustees,
to hear reports of organizational
activities from the Director, Board
and Committees, and to ask questions.
Followed immediately by the Volunteer
Recognition BBQ.

4 BBQ & Volunteer Recognition
immediately following Annual
Meeting, free for volunteers listed
on page 4, $10 for others, RSVP
by email bbq@paam.org

5 Jazz, 6pm, $15
Summer Jazz with Bart Weisman,
drums; Dane Vannatter, vocals; Fred
Boyle, piano; Chris Rathbun bass.

7 PAAM Circle Preview Party, 6-8pm
Museum is closed for this exclusive
preview party featuring a gallery talk
on Search for the Real: Hans Hofmann and
His Students by curators Don Beal and
Christine McCarthy, cocktails and hors
d’oeuvres. By invitation only. To get yours, go to the paam circle page and join the paam circle!

7 Opening, 8-10pm, free
Search for the Real: Hans Hofmann and
His Students. Highlights include drawings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and PAAM’s and private collections. In the Duffy
Gallery through October 11.

8 ALH Lecture, 3pm, free
Marika Herskovic discusses her
book American Abstract and Figurative
Expressionism: Style is Timely, Art is
Timeless, a survey of post-World War
II American painters and sculptors,
illuminating ways in which the most
mainstream creative work engaged
the creative power of the individual
expressionist artist.

11 ALH Lecture, 7pm, free
Mary E. Abell examines Charles W.
Hawthorne’s early background and
artistic influences from his arrival in
Provincetown in 1899 to his death in
1930, including his Cape Cod School of
Art, teaching philosophy and methods,
artistic legacy, and involvement with the
Art Association and Beachcombers.

12 Blue Door Chamber Music,
7pm, $15
Pianist Deborah Gilwood and cellist
Arthur Cook with Anthony Brackett on
clarinet.

16 Walton Ford Event, 11-3pm,$20
From the Tip of the Berkshires to the Tip of
Cape Cod
11-12:15, public lecture by Walton Ford;
12:30-1:45, lunch break; 2-3, conversing
with Walton Ford in the PAAM studios,
viewing original artwork and Q&A.

18 FSL Lecture, 7pm, free
Former Hans Hofmann students—
Myrna Harrison, Robert Henry and
Selina Trieff discuss their experiences
with the artist in conjunction with
the exhibition Search for the Real: Hans
Hofmann and His Students

19 Jazz, 6pm, $15
Music in the Cape Air with Dick
Miller and friends.

25 Eyelash Cabaret, 7pm, $15
The legendary chanteuse Ilona
Royce-Smithkin and effervescent Zoe
Lewis return to PAAM for one night
only!

26 Blue Door Chamber Music,
7pm, $15
Cellist Arthur Cook and pianist
Deborah Gilwood with Amy Kimball
on violin.

Initiated by the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod, and the Now in its fourth year, the Passport to the Arts has evolved from a small group of eight organizations to its current impressive roster of 40 cultural organizations, representing the very best of the arts and culture of Cape Cod.