Previous Exhibitions at PAAM - 2007 -2008 Art of the Garden – Members Invitational Exhibition                                                                    June 27 – July 27, 2008 Nineteen artist-members have been invited to participate in PAAM’s 2008 Art of the Garden Exhibition.  Selected artists were asked to interpret works from the permanent collection, applying their own style and personal aesthetic to collection favorites.  The result is an intriguing exhibition of paintings, sculpture, and works on paper that draws inspired lines of relevancy from the Provincetown Art Colony’s past into its present.  The exhibition coincided with the 11th Annual Secret Garden Tour, a fundraising event that supports the educational and cultural initiatives of PAAM and provides funding for public programs throughout the year. Artists represented the Art of the Garden Exhibition include: Ramon Alcolea, Sally Brophy, Barbara Cantor, Polly Cote, Gail Fields, Joe Fiorello, John Gilbride, Mary Ince, Andrew Kooistra, Lorraine Kujawa, Joan Cobb Marsh, Peter McDonough, Nancy Nicol, Suzanne Packer, Lynn Stanley, Michael Waldon, Rachel White, Mike Wright, James Zimmerman Edna Boies Hopkins is generally included with the group of artists collectively known as the Provincetown Printmakers, yet not a great deal is known about her life and art. Much of this lack of information is due to her early death in 1937 (with no direct heirs) and to her many homes (New York City, Paris, Provincetown, Cincinnati, Columbus, and Maine). During her lifetime, Hopkins was a highly successful artist with strong ties to Provincetown who in two brief decades produced at least seventy-four known woodblock prints. The rarity of her work and the lack of large amounts of biographical information on her make her a mysterious and compelling artist. Copies of the corresponding catalogue- the first publication specifically focused on her career and artistic production- are available for purchase at PAAM. Organized by The Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio; Springfield Museum of Art, Ohio Edna Boies Hopkins Woodblock Prints: Strong in Character,Colorful in Expression June 13 – August 3, 2008 Opening: June 13, 8 - 10 Interior of Robert Motherwell Studio Studio Show June 13 – August 3, 2008 Opening: June 13, 8 – 1 Curated by Michael Mazur Studios are full of ghosts — ghosts of artists long gone, but not forgotten by relatives who hold on to their workspaces as memorials. When I visit them, I’m disconcerted by the sweet sorrow of their emptiness, their cleanliness and order. Yet the artist’s presence, nearly palpable, persists in the silent air. The studio is the laboratory, the workshop, the sanctuary and temple, the home and the retreat. It is the spiritual and physical core of the artist’s life. - M. Mazur Three prominent cultural venues are sponsoring The Studio Show, a large collaborative exhibit that will present the history and fate of artist studios in Provincetown. The exhibit illustrates the architectural and historic significance of these structures through paintings, photographs, models, objects and architectural plans. Visit Greater Boston with Emily Rooney Online: Raising awareness for Provincetown's artists Locations: The Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum, 1 High Pole Hill; Provincetown Art Association and Museum 460 Commercial Street, and the Fine Arts Work Center, 24 Pearl Street. Charles Hawthorne Studio (image link) Hawthorne Studio Interior Painter Phillip Malicoat and Family Studio Show – Artists at Locations PAAM: Charles Hawthorne- 1872-1930 In Provincetown between 1915-1930 29 Miller Hill Road - Barn and House –Cape Cod School of Art, 46 Pearl Street E. Ambrose Webster-1869-1935 In Provincetown-1900-1935 180 Bradford Street 463 Bradford Street Gerrit Hondius- 1891-1970 In Provincetown 1951-1970 Hondius House – 516 Commercial Street Blanche Lazzell-1878-1956 In Provincetown -1916-1956 351A Commercial (non-existent) Hans Hofmann-1880-1966 In Provincetown 1932-1966 76 Commercial Street at Nickerson St. Ext. Bruce McKain - 1900-1990 In Provincetown-1928-1990 House-Pearl St. George Yater-1910-1992 In Provincetown 1931-1992 House/Studio – 48 Pearl Street; 4 Brewster Street Philip Malicoat – 1908 - 1981 In Provincetown 1930 - 1981 Mary Hackett - 1906-1989 In Provincetown-1931-89 5 Nickerson St. Peter Busa- 1914-1970 In Provincetown-1936-1970 FAWC Barn (school) House and studio – 600 Commercial Street Leo Manso - 1914-1993 In Provincetown-1947-1993 House/studio – 594 Commercial Street Collage Franz Kline-1910-1962 Provincetown-1950’s-1962 Bradford/Mechanic Chaim Gross-1904-1991 In Provincetown ’24’38’39’43-‘91 Fritz Bultman-1919-1985 In Provincetown ’38-85 8 Miller Hill Rd. Jack Tworkov-1900-1982 In Provincetown ’23-35 1954-1982, 30 Commercial Street Jim Forsberg - 1919-1991 In Provincetown 1953-91 Studio (near Beach- combers) Robert Motherwell - 1915- 1991 In Provincetown-1959-91 Sea Barn, 633 Commercial Street Kenneth Stubbs – 1907 – 1967 In Provincetown – 1930 – 1967 Nanno DeGroot – 1913 - 1963 In Provincetown – 1956-63 507 Commercial Street Richard Miller (1875 – 1943) and Irving Marantz (1912 – 1972) In Provincetown – 1918 - ?/? 200 Bradford Street Tony Vevers (1926 – 2008) In Provincetown – 1950s – 2008 250 Bradford Street Ilya/Resia Schor (1904-1961/1910 – 2006) In Provincetown Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum : Edwin Dickinson-1891-1978 Provincetown (Truro)-1912-1978 Oliver Chaffee - 1881-1944 Ada Gilmore (Chaffee) - 1883-1955 Provincetown 1913-1955 3 Central Street Tod Lindenmuth - 1885-1976 EB Warren Provincetown 1915-1940 159 Commercial Street Ross Moffett-1888-1971 In Provincetown 1913-1971 Shirt factory building – 50 Court Street Karl Knaths - 1891-1971 In Provincetown-1919-1971 Agnes Weinrich-1873-1946 In Provincetown 1915-1937 8 Commercial Street Henry Hensche -1899-1992 In Provincetown 1922-92 Cape Cod School of Art - 46 Pearl Street Herman Maril - 1908-1986 In Provincetown-1946-86 256 Bradford Street Peter Hunt-1898-1969 In Provincetown-1930-1960 445 Commercial Street Ellen Ravenscraft Heinrich Pfeiffer Ferol Sibley Warthen Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown : The exhibition highlights studio self-portraits of the 2007-2008 FAWC Visual Arts Fellows: Xin Song, Kambui Olujimi,Minako Shirakura, Nathalie Miebach, Roberta Fleming Jeffries, Janelle Iglesias, Steve McClure, Robert Gutierrez, Meghan Gordon, Christy Georg Art of the Garden Members' Exhibition June 27 – July 27, 2008 Opening: June 27, 8 - 10 Nineteen artist-members have been invited to participate in PAAM’s 2008 Art of the Garden Exhibition.  Selected artists were asked to interpret works from the permanent collection, applying their own style and personal aesthetic to collection favorites.  The exhibition coincides with the 11th Annual Secret Garden Tour, a fundraising event that supports the educational and cultural initiatives of PAAM and provides funding for public programs throughout the year. Artists represented the Art of the Garden Exhibition include: Ramon Alcolea, Sally Brophy, Barbara Cantor, Polly Cote, Gail Fields, Joe Fiorello, John Gilbride, Mary Ince, Andrew Kooistra, Lorraine Kujawa, Joan Cobb Marsh, Peter McDonough, Nancy Nicol, Suzanne Packer, Lynn Stanley, Michael Waldon, Rachel White, Mike Wright, James Zimmerman PAAM's 11th Annual Secret Garden Tour was held Sunday, July 13th with a double header garden experience. The day began with a walking tour of Provincetown's Secret Gardens and concluded at the Museum with a reception at the Art of the Garden Exhibition. Mary Ince, after Ferol Sibley Warthen Romanos Rizk May 16 – July 13, 2008 Counted among Provincetown’s prominent contemporary artists, Romanos Rizk was born of Lebanese parents in Providence, Rhode Island. Trained as a classical painter, he arrived in Provincetown to study with Henry Hensche in 1948. exhibition checklist Joyce Johnson May 16 – July 13, 2008 Joyce Johnson is known for her figurative and biomorphic sculptures inspired by the natural environment. Working in clay, wood, and bronze, her idiom is small abstract sculptures whose angles and curves cast intriguing shadows. Her reliefs are inspired by the natural world - plants and flowers - creating a metaphor of tranquility. Johnson spent most of her early childhood in Concord, MA, and inspired by the many literary figures that lived there during the nineteenth century, she developed a passion for literature and writing. Twenty-six and still uncertain about her future, she traveled and lived in Madrid for two years. She began her serious study of sculpture with one of Spain's most respected sculptors, Don Ramon Mateu, who encouraged her to return to America to continue her studies. Upon graduating with honors from Boston's School of the Museum of Fine Arts in 1962, she completed a graduate teaching fellowship there the following year. Johnson has had a number of one-person shows and the New York Review, The Boston Globe, Cape Cod Times and Cape Arts have reviewed her work. She has received commissions for public sculptures in Cornwall and High Head. She founded the Nauset School of Sculpture in North Eastham in 1968 which evolved into Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill. She also co-founded the Outer Cape Artists Residency Consortium and is on the board for the Highland Center Inc. and Campus Provincetown. In 1997, Cape Women Creating named her a "Living Treasure." exhibition checklist Johnson's exhibition at PAAM features works from her nearly fifty-year career on Cape Cod. The artist lead a guided walk-through of the exhibition and discussion of her artwork on Tuesday May 27, 2008. Harvey Dodd May 23 – June 22, 2008 This anniversary exhibition celebrates artist Harvey Dodd’s fifty years in Provincetown and features watercolors and pastels from all stages of his career. Dodd moved to Cape Cod in the late 1950’s, spending his summers sketching portraits in Provincetown. He has since studied at the Art Students League, the Boston Museum School, and with Richard Diebenkorn and Elmer Bischoff at the San Francisco Institute. His eponymous gallery on Commercial Street has attracted private and corporate collectors for nearly forty years. exhibition checklist Margery Ryerson and Ellen Carroll. April 18 – June 8, 2008. exhibition checklist In the art colony at Provincetown, Charles Hawthorne introduced his plein air painting methods to numerous students, among them Margery Ryerson and Ellen Whyel Carroll whose work is presented in this exhibition. Margery Ryerson Ellen Carroll A native of New Jersey, Ryerson spent nearly thirty summers on Cape Cod; she attended Hawthorne’s courses from 1911 to 1920. She also studied with Robert Henri at the Art Students League during those years, through 1918. In the winters, she worked mornings at a childcare facility tending babies and preschoolers. Children naturally became source material and inspiration for her paintings. Following two consecutive exhibitions of her etchings with the Paris Salon, she exhibited prints and paintings at esteemed institutions throughout the U.S. As her intimate portraits of children from infancy to adolescence became widely known, her work was favorably compared to the impressionist Mary Cassatt. Ryerson lived to age 102 – long enough to witness nine decades of her work included in a centennial exhibition in New York. Ellen Whyel Carroll, a native of Pennsylvania, also studied in the art colony with Hawthorne. Her training began at the Carnegie Institute and the Art Students League. Besides working in oils and watercolors, Carroll created marionettes. Her prints and drawings reside in the collection of Penn State University, some of them depicting the tipples, coal works, and coke sites that were so much a part of her early life as the daughter of a captain of the coal industry. Margery Ryerson Ellen Carroll view online auction catalogue and results 2008 Spring Consignment Auction Preview Through June 7, 2008 The 2008 spring consignment auction featuring vintage artwork by Cape Cod artists. Represented artists include Alvin Ross, James Hansen, Ross Moffet, James Lechay, Serena Rothstein, Chaim Gross, and other favorites. Online catalogue pending. The auction was held at PAAM June 7, 2008 at 7pm. The Annual Provincetown High School Academy of Art Science and Technology Exhibition May 16 –25, 2008 PAAM's 9th year of partnership with Provincetown High School's Academy of Art, Science and Technology (ASST).  The AAST is a collaborative mentoring program in which students in grades 11-12 work one on one with mentors and members of participating organizations on individually designed projects over the school year. Fourteen students participated in this year’s program, exploring a diverse range of interests, including ichthyology, veterinary science, graphic design, culinary arts, and the creation of graphic novels. This years Academy Students are: Andrea Abraham, Kellie Blome, Tina Brown, Sydney Cummings, T.K. Dahill, Joey Donnamario, Dillon Michalski, Jasmine Hadley, Candice McGaugh, Margarita Millan, Jacob Nichols, Holly Rose, Jade Silva, and Kelsey Trovato. Spring is here and with it PAAM is celebrating the 9th year of our partnership with Provincetown High School's Academy of Art, Science and Technology (ASST).  The AAST is a collaborative mentoring program in which students in grades 11-12 work one on one with mentors and members of participating organizations on individually designed projects over the school year. Fourteen students participated in this year’s program, exploring a diverse range of interests, including ichthyology, veterinary science, graphic design, culinary arts, and the creation of graphic novels. PHS Academy Coordinator Nancy Flasher has said: “Academy students engage with community adults who share with students their journeys of actualizing personal dreams and abilities, and in turn, these young men and women immerse themselves in the same process.” This year’s exhibition will include a large, constructed “aquarium,” created by Academy student and ichthyologist Candice McGaugh and her mentors Jody Melander and Dennis Minksy, a weight lifting demonstration conducted by Jacob Nichols and unique T-shirts created by WZKD Dillon Michalski (wiz kid for you over 40-year-olds). Refreshments will be served and the public is invited to attend. Patrick Webb: 25 Years of Work Opens March 14th 6-8pm through May 18th 2008 As a painter living in Provincetown and New York, Patrick Webb’s work is largely figurative with an obvious reverence for the power of space, “I want a painting to be active, spatially active” Webb explains.  He juxtaposes city life and the semi-sanctuary of Provincetown, investigating the psychological effects of crowded streets, private rooms, and ethereal landscapes. The accessibility of Webb’s painting is due in large part to his protagonist Punchinello, a well-known clown from Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo’s frescoes at Palazzo Rezzonico in Venice. Webb first encountered this complex character during a visit to Italy in 1989 and saw in Tiepolo’s creation a kind of everyman that could effectively be adapted to modern times. The tragic-comic Punchinello appeared in Webb’s compositions in the early 1990’s, becoming not just a motif but the central character through which recollections and dramatizations of the artist’s personal experiences could be translated onto canvas. “He was particular, but also general. He could be repeated. In Punchinello, I found an Everyman who, in my paintings, is Everygay man,” he explains, “My version of Punchinello is distinctly different from that found in the Commedia dell’Arte – slimmer, without hump, driven by his sexual appetite and search for self […] The humor and pathos of the stories and figure allow me access to the joys and terrors of human experience.” Webb’s body of work appeals to viewers in its cohesive storytelling, flawless representation of mood, and refined co-mingling of sobriety and humor. exhibition checklist Little Mysteries: An Exhibition Created by the Fifth Grade Students of Wellfleet Elementary School Opens April 18th, continuing through May 18, 2008. exhibition checklist PAAM Celebrates the First Student Curating Collaboration with Wellfleet Elementary School- In March, PAAM welcomed eighteen fifth grade students and Wellfleet Elementary School art teacher Alexander Roberts to our galleries to participate in the spring Student Curating Program. The students, who had been focusing in the classroom on the work of Wayne Thiebaud, were introduced to the paintings of Alvin Ross, an artist whose haunting still lifes and figurative works provided a contemplative counterpoint to the vibrant paintings of the west coast artist. During their curating session at PAAM, students participated in a Visual Thinking Strategies discussion, in which they were asked to respond collectively to Ross’s work. Many of Ross’s paintings are on extended loan to PAAM, providing a unique opportunity to study and create from an extensive body of the artist’s work. After choosing paintings for their exhibition, students participated in interpretive art-making and creative writing sessions. Visiting Artist Tracey Anderson led the students in responding to their Ross painting with oil pastels, and provided creative context and background on the artist. Ross began drawing and painting in elementary school; as a mature painter, he worked representationally—and against the stylistic grain—during a time when abstract expressionism was at its height. His small, carefully rendered works articulate the beauty found in commonplace objects: a bin overflowing with crumpled paper, or a glossy, white cake. His figures are often turned away from the viewer or only partially in view. Of Ross’s Heather and Chrysanthemums, fifth grader Mackenzie Foley wrote, “Since the artist doesn’t show her face, you have to rely on body language. You wonder what kind of mood she is in. This picture is very mysterious.” Members’ Juried Exhibition. Juror Edsel Williams. April 18th through May 11, 2008. exhibition checklist Works by Gabriel T. D’Agostino, Lee Brock, Sue Butler, Barbara Cantor, Mary Cassel, Larry Collins, Polly Cote, Vivian Dickson, Sarah Dineen, Orfeo Fabbri, Miriam Fried, Tristan Govignon, William P. Hamlin, Anne Ierardi, Laurie Israel, Megan Karlen, Louise LaMontagne, Michael Moss, Mike Wright, Carol Odell, Victor Powell, and Shirl Roccapriore. Carol Odell Miriam Fried Edsel Williams is an American (born 1962, Virginia) contemporary art dealer and gallerist based in New York City, East Hampton, New York, and Miami, Florida. Williams is well known for finding artists early on, and nurturing their careers in joint projects such as exhibitions, collection placements, and original artist book projects. Williams focuses primarily on the work of young artists, and established contemporary artists such as Ross Bleckner, David Salle, Jack Pierson, Damien Hirst, Gilbert & George, and Cindy Sherman. Williams is known to work very closely with private collectors based in New York, London, and the West Coast. He also curates several public collections throughout the United States. This exhibition has been generously sponsored in part by Irma Ruckstuhl. BLUE: Member's Open Exhibition  March 7 – May 11, 2008 Museum School Student Exhibition Friday, May 9th from 7-9PM. Join the students and faculty of the Museum School at PAAM at an exhibition of new work in a variety of media and genres, including printmaking, painting, and drawing, created with 2008 Museum School Faculty Vicky Tomayko, Doug Ritter, Margaret Shields, Anne Flash and Rob Dutoit.  The ACCREDITED FALL 2008 calendar and courses at the Museum School is here. Small Sculpture from the Permanent Collection February 22 – April 13, 2008 exhibition checklist Works by Varujan Boghosian, William Boogar, Paul Bowen, Doris Caesar, Mihran Chobanian, Pat De Gogorza, Edwin Reeves Euler, Joe Fiorello, Chaim Gross, Dimitri Hadzi, Elspeth Halvorsen, Harold Harris, Herbert Kallem, Lila Katzen, Jack Kearney, Yayoi Kusama, Irving Marantz, Richard Pepitone, Albin Polasek, James Rosati, Ellen Sidor, and Nancy Webb. PAAM's Youth Education Program: Tell Me What You See: An Exhibition Created by Veterans Memorial Elementary School Students Featuring the Art Work of Ross Moffett March 14 – April 13, 2008 Join us on Friday, March 14th, from 1-3pm, at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, as we celebrate the opening of Tell Me What You See: An Exhibition Created by Veterans Memorial Elementary School Students Featuring the Art Work of Ross Moffett. Twenty-seven first, second and third grade VMES students were invited to PAAM to participate in the Youth Education Program for Student Curating. Working collaboratively with PAAM’s Curator of Education Lynn Stanley, and VMES teachers Lisa Fox, Mary Beck, Martha Neal, and Valerie Valdez, the artwork of Ross Moffett was chosen as the focus of the exhibition. From the early 20th century through the 1960s, Ross Moffett played an integral role in Provincetown’s art community and the forming of the Provincetown Art Association. His vibrant studies of fishermen and figures working the land demonstrate his strong connection to his environment and offer insight into Provincetown’s past.   Students chose from a variety of Moffett’s painting and prints in PAAM’s permanent collection, and participated in writing exercises, in which they were asked to respond to and describe the work, along with the reasoning for their choice.  This was followed by art making sessions facilitated by Visiting Artist Tracey Anderson; students worked with Anderson to create oil pastels drawings in response in their paintings and prints. Excerpts of writing, as well as the created artworks and collection pieces will be on display     Second grade teachers Martha Neal and Mary Beck emphasized that “the exposure to great art created in Provincetown raises each child’s awareness of local artists, and increases their appreciation for Provincetown’s rich art heritage and of PAAM offerings. As children have the opportunity to respond to works of art, we see development of language and writing skills as well as evolvement of both critical and creative thinking skills.”   The Provincetown Art Association and Museum’s Youth Education Program for Student Curating has worked for the past sixteen years with local schools across Cape Cod to create their own exhibitions utilizing works from PAAM’s permanent collection.  PAAM gratefully acknowledges the Provincetown School System and teachers Lisa Fox, Mary Beck, Martha Neal, and Valerie Valdez for their support of this project.   There will be a special reception for students, educators, family and friends, held at 1pm on Friday, March 14th. A second reception will be held Friday evening, March 14th from 6-8pm, in conjunction with the opening of Patrick Webb: 25 Years. The public is warmly invited to attend both receptions. Familiar Faces: Portraits at PAAM  featuring Nancy Ellen Craig, Philip Malicoat, Henry Hensche, Charles Hawthorne February 29 – April 13, 2008 Curated by Breon Dunigan and Christine McCarthy exhibition checklist The individuals who shaped the Provincetown art colony are featured in the commemorative exhibition. The selected works in the show unveil the exchange of inspiration and instruction that gave rise to Provincetown’s rich artistic heritage, extending through the decades to works by contemporary artists and teachers who keep that tradition alive.    Among the familiar individuals depicted are Hans Hofmann and Edwin Dickinson within paintings by Nancy Craig that appear in the company of comparable figurative works by Charles Hawthorne, Henry Hensche, Philip Malicoat, George Yater and others. Themes of student, teacher, mentor, and colleague are revealed in these works. An eighteen year old Salvatore Del Deo is captured in a portrait by his teacher, Henry Hensche. He in turn paints fellow artist Afon (Nicholas Afonchicov), a popular model for many of his friends. In 1930, Philip Malicoat was the subject of a study by his teacher, Charles Webster Hawthorne. Mid Career Artists Bob Bailey and Timothy Woodman January 11 – February 24, 2008 Bob Bailey exhibits large scale shaped canvases and 3D text drawings in which he uses fonts and text as integral compositional elements. They are constructed from both traditional materials and found wire and styrofoam detritus, which provide a unique palette of color, shape and abstracted line. Bailey sustains an idea of artworks as color delivery systems, capturing color within line and language, and metaphorically fuses discordant elements within these carefully carpentered dimensional works. A graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University with an MFA in sculpture, Bailey also spent time at Skowhegan and at Wendell Castle School in woodworking and furniture design. A former fellow of FAWC, he and his wife- sculptor Breon Dunigan- have lived in Truro for many years. He has shown solo at UFO Gallery, DNA Gallery, and most recently, artSTRAND; he has also exhibited his work on several occasions at PAAM, in New York, San Francisco, Miami and Melbourne, Australia. ENTRY , 2007, 26 x 36 x 4" , acrylic and foam on panel 0oh, 2004, 36 x 36 x 4", acrylic / panel. Timothy Woodman spent time at Rhode Island School of Design and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture before completing an MFA at Yale University School of Art in 1976. It wasn’t long before his work was exhibited at galleries in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York—Zabriskie Gallery and Tibor de Nagy Gallery among them. His work has received critical attention from the likes of Hilton Kramer, The New York Times, and Art in America. He is most noted for figurative wall sculptures- gestures of everyday life- crafted from aluminum sheeting and finished with oil paint. Before settling year-round in Wellfleet, Woodman and his partner, the painter Helen Miranda Wilson, split their time for many years between New York and outer Cape Cod. He is represented by the Cherrystone Gallery in Wellfleet, and the Albert Merola Gallery in Provincetown. Works from his Moby Dick series—135 graphic paintings (one for each chapter) are included in this exhibition, as well as works from his Proust’s In Search of Lost Time that include fifty-two 5x7” high-color and high-contrast graphic oil paintings on panel. Moby Dick Series, (detail)., 2006 The Structure Within: An Exhibition Created by Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School Educators, with Visiting Artist Vicky Tomayko   Featuring works from the PAAM Collection and Drypoint Etchings by CCLCS Educators   January 18 – February 17, 2008 Deborah Greenwood PAAM’s Curating Program for Educators guides local teachers to create and mount their own exhibition in the Museum’s galleries. Participants choose works of art from PAAM’s permanent collection, then engage in creative writing sessions and a studio art project that dialogues with their selected paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures.  This year PAAM collaborated with ten educators from the Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School. Visiting Artist Vicky Tomayko worked with each teacher to create dry-point monotype prints,  inspired by work spanning a century of art-making on Outer Cape Cod.   PAAM encourages teachers across school curricula to participate and the CCLCS group will bring a wealth of varied experience to their exhibition. The 2007-2008 CCLCS Curators are: Susanna Graham-Pye,  Special Education;  Deborah Greenwood, Art; Sandra Hemeon-Mcmahon, Spanish; Pia Mackenzie, French;  Carrie Quenneville, Art; Elizabeth Moore, Math; Paul Niles, Science;  Rosalind Pace, Poetry;  Karen Scichilone, Math; and John Stewart,  Social Studies. Bill Behnken, Passing Lights, Lithograph Karen Scichilone, Lead Me Home Chaim Gross Selections from the Collection featuring Chaim Gross January 18 – March 9, 2008 Featuring works from PAAM’s permanent collection, as well as drawings and small sculpture by renowned artist Chaim Gross. Chaim Gross is well known locally for three prominent sculptures along Commercial Street. A Provincetown icon, The Tourists graces the lawn of the Provincetown Public Library. Dancing Mother stands in the Berta Walker Sculpture Garden, and Dance Rhythm in the James and Frances Bakker Sculpture Garden, both at PAAM. Gross achieved international renown as one of the greatest 20th century figurative sculptors for his lively, naturalistic and often interlocking figures. This exhibition includes studies for major public art sculptures at PAAM; both works on paper and small bronze maquetes will be featured. Among these are several works gifted to PAAM by the Lawrence Richmond bequest in 1978, including Mother Love and a number of untitled studies. Sponsored in part by the Provincetown Tourism Fund. Serena Rothstein Curated by Rob Dutoit January 18 – March 9, 2008 exhibition checklist One of the few women working among the early abstract expressionists, Serena Rothstein received exceptional critical notice even for her early exhibitions.  She first presented paintings in a group show in December 1951, alongside John Grillo, Jan Muller, Felix Pasilis and Willard Golovin.  The New Yorker critic Robert M. Coates wrote of this show, “The only ones I really admired, however, were Serena Rothstein…   The works included in this exhibition will be seen publicly for the first time since they were first shown almost fifty years ago. Their existence necessitates critical adjustment to the male-centered history of early abstract expressionism. An accompanying catalogue published by LongNookBooks with essay by Mary Maxwell SERENA ROTHSTEIN: DISCOURSE IN PAINT is available for purchase at the PAAM bookstore. Nathalie Miebach 2008 Fine Arts Work Center Fellows January 11 – March 2, 2008 The Fine Arts Work Center provides seven-month fellowships, October through May 1, to twenty emerging artists and writers of exceptional talent. The fellowships provide living/work space and a modest monthly stipend. While the Fellows are not directed or supervised during their term, they are offered the opportunity to pursue their work independently while living within a diverse and supportive community. The Fellows are selected from a pool of 500 to 600 applicants from around the world.  Selection is based on the quality of work and an “emerging artist” criteria. The Visual Arts Committee, comprised of 35 working artists, initiates the selection process by narrowing the field of applicants to in a pre-jury screening process. Those finalists are then invited to send original work to the Fine Arts Work Center for a second and final round. Included in this group of finalists are 10 to 15 Former Fellows applying for a second-year fellowship.   Each year three professional visual artists are chosen by the Visual Arts Committee to serve as an outside jury. This jury is varied in discipline, gender and ethnicity. The jurors convene at the Work Center in April to select the fellowship recipients. FAWC's jurying process is unique in that the outside jurors review original work rather than slides to inform their discernment in awarding fellowships. The outside jury which selected the 2007-2008 Fellows included: Simone Leigh, Clarence Morgan, and Gregory Sholette.   THE FIRST-YEAR VISUAL ARTS FELLOWS ARE: Christy George, Meghan Gordon, Robert Gutierrez, Janelle Iglesia, Roberta Flemming Jefferies, Kambui Olujimi, Minako Shirakura and Xin Song   THE SECOND YEAR VISUAL ARTS FELLOWS ARE: Nathalie Jacqueline Miebach and Steve McClure More information about the fellows can be found at www.fawc.org As part of PAAM’s century-long mission to promote and cultivate the practice and appreciation of the arts on Cape Cod, we partner with many regional institutions. The Fine Arts Work Center Fellows Exhibitions provide emerging artists an opportunity to exhibit their work within the museum during their residency in Provincetown, and their participation provides the public with access to outstanding contemporary works. FAWC Fellows in turn are participating in PAAM's Youth Education initiatives. As working artists, the Fellows will engage with local students from Harwich Middle School who take part in the Student Curating Program at PAAM. Pauline Palmer (1869 - 1938) The Lumber Wharf, n.d.,oil on canvas, 28 x 32" Gift from the estate of the artist Selections from the Town Collection November 30 2007– January 13, 2008 Curated by Stephen Borkowski and Christine McCarthy The Town of Provincetown Art Collection consists of artwork by local artists, as well as nationally prominent artists who have resided in town over the course of the last century, and includes paintings, sculpture and murals as well as prints and drawings. The Town's collection represents many fine examples from our own "art colony," an art community with the longest continuous history in the United States. The Selections Exhibition highlights works by PAAM’s founding member/artists – Charles W. Hawthorne, E. Ambrose Webster, and Edwin Dickinson; the Provincetown Printmakers - Blanche Lazzell, Agnes Weinrich, and Mary Bacon Jones; as well as some contemporary artists – Arthur Cohen, Ciro Cozzi, and Lois Griffel. Information about Town Collection and The Art Commission's online catalog of the works in the collection can be found here. Ada Gilmore (1882 - 1955) The Heron 1934, oil on canvas, 36 x 30" Gift of Helen Edel Buker, 1976 Recent Gifts to the Collection November 9 – January 13, 2008 An exhibition of newly gifted works to PAAM's expanding Permanent Collection, many originating from private donors and rarely exhibited publicly in the past. William L'Engle (1884 - 1957) Fish Composition, 1940 oil on canvas, 16 x20", Gift of Helen and Napi Van Dereck, 2007 Members’ Open: Small Works November 9 – January 6, 2008 Alvin Ross September 28 – January 6, 2008 “In his writing, Ross mentioned the unity of opposites, and it is intriguing to see how he developed this concept. A vital part of his work uses an interplay of surfaces that are crumpled or smooth, objects that are opaque or transparent, substantial or insubstantial, small or large, hard or soft. The instability of one form is a foil for the stability of another,” -Tony Vevers PAAM is grateful to Lenore Ross and Patricia Shultz for making this wonderful body of work available for exhibition in the Alvin Ross wing. Christine M. McCarthy Executive Director Alvin Ross (1920 - 1975) Apples on Chair, 1973 oil on canvas, 20 x16", PAAM Collection The Provincetown Art Association and Museum is pleased to present the work of Alvin Ross. A former President of PAAM, Ross was best known for his paintings of still-life, interiors and the figure. In his artist's statement Ross notes that "Ideas for my paintings may be taken from situations which I have seen, experienced, or drawn directly from my life. My paintings are conceived in a variety of ways: Drawing directly from upon nature of a subject seen or experienced; Recording through sketches and watercolors; Memorizing a situation or experience seen; Long stretches of drawing, practically doodling, to search from schemes or themes; By creating abstractions or abstract patterns for the possibility of determining construction of a composition." White Crock and Vegetables, 1975 oil on canvas, 14 x22", PAAM Collection A&P, 1961 oil on canvas, 27 x34", PAAM Collection Lillian Orlowsky:   The Signature is in the Work A Joint Retrospective Curated by Robert Henry and Selina Trieff AT THE CAPE COD MUSEUM OF ART: oils and collages September 1 – November 11, 2007 and the PROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM works on paper September 28 - November 25, 2007 This retrospective marks a critical step in acknowledging Lillian Orlowsky’s stature and underlines the significant contribution of Hans Hofmann and his students to American mid-century art. -Elizabeth Ives Hunter & Christine McCarthy, Executive Directors Lillian Orlowsky, Untitled, on view at PAAM through November 25, 2007   This Exhibition has been Sponsored by The Renate, Hans & Maria Hofmann Trust. an exhibition catalogue is available in the paam bookstore. Lillian Orlowsky was a well-known member of Cape Cod artist’s community from the 1940’s until her death in Provincetown in 2004.  We are grateful to the estate of William Freed and Lillian Orlowsky for their major support to make this important retrospective possible. In the show’s catalogue, co-curator Robert Henry tells us “Lillian Orlowsky was a member of that special group of artists who experienced the excitement of the introduction of Abstract Art into America…struggling to adapt a new vision to their own world.  There was little recognition for the male artists and still less for their female colleagues.”  The title of the show refers to the fact that Orlowsky rarely signed or dated her work.  “She was remarkably self-effacing, but was a terror when she felt that artists and their cause were in any way threatened, dismissed, or endangered,” Henry tells us. Orlowsky was born in New York in 1914. She grew up poor during the depression and her education as an artist in the 1930s and 40s took place in a time when artists were affected by social issues. According to art historian April Kingsley, who wrote an essay for the show’s catalogue, Orlowsky considered this “the happiest time of my life.” The artist said this period was" one of the most important periods of art in this century” because the Works Progress Administration (WPA), supported artists financially to make their work and because she found her way to the classes of Hans Hofmann who “taught her to see.”  Kingsley says that Lillian and her husband William Freed “grew to be among Hofmann’s closest friends.  She never lost her connection with Hofmann’s aesthetic theories and with her fellow Hofmann students." Lillian Orlowsky Abstraction, 1940, on view at the Cape Cod Museum of Art through November 11, 2007   Read Lillian Orlowsky's Artist Statement on PBS Members Juried Exhibition September 28 – November 4, 2007 PAAM welcomes James Hull to PAAM as the jurist for this Members Juried exhibition. Hull has organized exhibitions at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Fernbank Science Center exhibiting dinosaurs fossils from China, at the Arts Festival of Atlanta installing site specific sculptures for an audience of over one million viewers, at The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (Nexus) as Chief Installer and Facility Manager for three years and as curator and organizer of the Annual King Plow Sculpture Show from 1991 - 1994. Since moving to Boston he has worked at The RISD Museum, RISD, The DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, the List Visual Arts Center at MIT and The ICA, Boston. 21 in Truro: Visions and Voices on the Outer Cape   September 28 – November 4, 2007 This exhibition presents resultant and reciprocal works from poets and artists enjoined in a regionally specific collaborative process. The words of writers and the works of visual artists from the lower Cape serve inspiration and source within the new works presented in this exhibition. The Twenty-One in Truro are: LaVerne Christopher, Michele Dangelo, Jane Eccles, Sarah Fielding-Gunn, Ruth Hogan, Susan A. Hollis, Joan Ledwith, Jane Lincoln, Jerre Moriarty, Rosie Nadeau, Kate Nelson, Julie Olander, Suzanne M. Packer, JoAnn Ritter, M’Lou Sorrin, Grace Stergis, Lorraine Trenholm, Christie Velesig, Barbara Wylan, Linda S. Young, Joyce Zavorskas Edwin Dickinson in Provincetown, 1912-1937 July 20 - September 23, 2007 The exhibition Edwin Dickinson: The Provincetown Years, 1912-1937 curated around the paintings, prints, and drawings done during the 25 years that American modernist painter Edwin Dickinson (1891-1978) resided and worked in Provincetown, Massachusetts from 1912-1938. He is considered a "painter's painter" due to his ambitious, multifigured compositions of ambiguous and fanciful content within complex spacial compositions. The show is curated from many unknown works from private collections as well as drawing on many of his better-known pieces, and includes numerous graphic works of Provincetown locales. Dickinson was honored with three earlier single-artists shows at the Provincetown Art Association (of which he was a founding member) held in 1948 and 1967 with a retrospective in 1976. This is the first exhibition devoted to Dickinson to be held at PAAM since the artist’s death in 1978. His history within the community is conveyed through the subjects within his work. Contemporary audiences are provided with an opportunity to examine the life and career of an artist within the context of the town that was central to his art and life. Interior, 1916, 72 x 60 ", oil on composition board private collection Provincetown was one of the major centers for the development of 20th century modernism in this country, and Dickinson was a friend and colleague of many well-known artists who helped establish Provincetown as central within the concerns of contemporary art in the early years of the last century. His practice was infuential to and informed by the New York School of Abstract Expressionists, whom he was associated with in Provincetown and New York. His work is in the collections of numerous museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Hirschorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Pennslyvania Acadamy of the Fine Arts, MOMA, The Metropolitan Museum, and The Chrysler Museum, among others. View from 46 Pearl Street, 1923 Elizabeth Finney, 1915 Oil on canvas, 26 x 24”, Private Collection PAAM's Fall Auction Preview September 7 – 22, 2007 The live auction of early Provincetown art was held Saturday, September 22, 2007 at 7 PM. The proceeds from this auction directly benefit the exhibitions and educational initiatives of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. Auctioneer: James R. Bakker MA License #154 view the auction page for complete lot listings. Lot 32 Ross Moffett Portuguese Woman in the Dunes, 1935 oil on illustration board, 12 x 16" slr, Study for mural at Barnstable High School, Est. 4000/6000 MASS Art/Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Low Residency Thesis Exhibition September 14 – 23, 2007 Works by students in FAWC/Massachusetts College of Art MFA program in the arts. In concurrence with the Hudson D. Walker Gallery Exhibition at FAWC, 24 Pearl Street in Provincetown. www.fawc.org Selina Trieff : MASTER OF THE LOOK A 30 Year Overview July 27 - September 9, 2007 Selina Trieff has pursued figurative subject matter throughout her nearly 60 year career.  Called “an American original” by New York Times critic John Russell, Trieff generates allusively gripping figurative compositions that are richly pensive, introspective, and strangely self-like.  In concurrence with this exhibition, The Fredi Schiff Levin Lecture Series presented: Selina Trieff- An Artist's Gallery Talk on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 at 7PM This exhibition and accompanying catalogue are made possible by a generous grant from the Hans, Renate and Maria Hofmann Trust. The Travellers (diptych, left panel) 1991, 72 x 60 inches, oil on canvas The splendor of the ensemble and the distinction of the individual works testify to the strength of Trieff’s contemplative sensibility and the quality of her workmanship. Knowledgeable painting is not hard to find. Less common, and more compelling, is painting that bears witness to something worth knowing. Trieff’s uncommon wisdom has created a universe in which the painter herself stands revealed as an emblem of the folly and the vanity of each mortal one of us. Hers is a painterly cosmos that dares to move and to disturb at the same time that it delights the eye. For all the opulence of her work – the stained-glass radiance of the color, the theater of gold leaf, and the bravura application of the paint – the power of the work is not in its will to please but in its ability to provoke. It takes up the challenge of Goya’s caustic aquatint “No Man Judges Himself as Others Judge Him,” defying us to look at ourselves as ruthlessly as the artist looks at herself. No sentimentalist, she turns a hard eye on herself and her own mortality. No mawkish naturalist, she uses anatomy metaphorically, as an emblem of certain of the great mythic themes that repeat themselves in our fantasies, longings, and fears.…The magic in Trieff’s works is that, in viewing them, we realize how lonely we are for such intimations of something wholly other than the rational world we have come to accept as real. These eloquent works speak for that buried part of us that would resist forever the action of sun, wind and weather, gravity and time. -Maureen Mullarkey Arts Magazine, New York. Triad, 1983 ,72 x 60 inches, charcoal Bob and Me, 1975, 72 x 72 inches, oil on canvas 12 X 12 ARTISTS PANELS AN EXHIBITION AND SILENT AUCTION August 3 - September 2, 2007 12 x 12 inch panels were made available to the membership for use in this exhibition and silent auction. This annual event offers an opportunity to bid on a variety of works from our membership - to support the artists and the Association, and to enjoy the high level of achievement and variety of subjects expressed within these works. View and place your bid on a unique work of art from our membership. Victor and Charles DeCarlo: BROTHERS IN ART June 8 - July 29 Victor DeCarlo attended art school at the Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC in 1946 and later that year began working under the well known muralist and fresco painter, Jean Charlot.  In 1948 he continued studying at the Arts Student League, NY and went on to Europe. In 1954 he returned to the US and continued to teach and paint.  He exhibited widely in galleries and museums nationally and internationally.  DeCarlo eventually ended up in Provincetown in 1969 until his death in 1973.  This exhibition highlights the work of Victor and his brother Charles.  Charles DeCarlo, four years older than Victor, had also established an artistic direction as a WPA artist. In addition to studying with Jerry Farnsworth in Truro, he eventually taught art as a means of supporting his family. They both were completely and wholeheartedly devoted to the pursuit of an artist's life, and the brothers set up a studio together in New Haven, CT which they shared from 1954-68. Often in total disagreement about approach, Charles tending to objective, Victor to the non-objective. In 1972 Charles and his family moved to Wellfleet, where he died in 2003. Victor De Carlo, People on the Beach, c.1970 oil/canvas, 30 x 36" Charles Di Carlo, North Truro, Red Pump , c.1946 watercolor, 15 3/8 x 22" Looking back on the life and the art of these two brothers, one is struck by their special camaraderie. This fraternity in art, let alone “en famille,” is certainly rare. One is reminded of the unusual closeness of the brothers Maurice and Charles Pendergast, but very few other such instances come to mind. From their earliest days as young artists in New Haven, Victor and Charles led separate artistic lives together, each contributing to, but not overwhelming, the other’s individual vision. That they managed so beautifully in this special rapprochement is a testament to their mutual respect and understanding. Often in disagreement about approach, they yet agreed to disagree. Today, as we are privileged to enjoy this double retrospective of their work, we also pay tribute to their singular achievement–”Brothers in Art” and in life.   - Josephine Breen Del Deo Untitled, c. 1990's, mixed media, 24 x 22" Jim Hansen Curated by Pasquale Natale and John Donovan      June 15 - July 22 As a painter and sculptor working in bronze, gouache, mixed media, and oil, James Hansen's art employs various levels of abstraction and representation within metaphorically rich compositions. Hansen’s relationship with Cape Cod began in the late 70s. Hansen maintained a studio in the Day's Lumberyard at the Fine Arts Work Center, and his first Provincetown exhibition was held in August of 1981 at the Julie Heller Gallery. A catalogue of this exhibition, with an essay by scholar and historian Christine Temin is available at the Museum.