Midge Battelle: Love Letter to a Dream

Love Letter to a Dream is a career retrospective by the Provincetown artist Midge Battelle.

The exhibition will survey work created from 1986 to the present day, beginning with hand-printed black and white photographs, moving on to her oil paintings created in the early 2000s, and finally to her more recent work with the Cyanotype medium.

From the Curator

Midge Battelle and I have been witnessing each other for over 40 years–the way we live our lives and the work we make , alone and sometimes together. I have been living with and looking at the blessings she creates daily.

Midge’s works are mediations on the joys and sorrows, the ups and downs, the sadness and wonders of life. The Grid, The Blue, The Silver, the Pale and sometimes the Saints . Her work is Healing, as is the

spending of time with her. The photographs, the Cyanotypes, the prints and the paintings all work together to express Midge’s view of the world.

About the Artist

Midge Battelle is a photographer, painter, curator, gallerist, and teacher living and working year round in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Battelle was born in 1945 in Worcester, Ma. As a young adult, Battelle arrived in Provincetown for the first time during the Summer of 1966, moving there year round in the Spring of 1967. Midge has also spent time in both Boston and the Western MA.

In recent years Battelle has been mostly focused on her painting practice, while working also in summer months on Cyanotype photography. Her work in both mediums is connected by a similar visual aesthetic and subtext. Expressing the value of beauty and feeling through simplicity of form and subtle light conditions, the work is informed by a romantic minimalist vision.

Battelle is a graduate of Greenfield Community College with a concentration in photography, and a strong focus on art history, design and color theory . She is also a graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, Massachusetts with a B.F.A. degree. She studied photography there with Laura McPhee and Abelardo Morrell, as well as critical studies in art history.

Battelle’s work is represented in both private and museum collections. She has also served on the PAAM Exhibition Committee , as well as curating several exhibitions there over the years. For several years, Battelle had been represented by the AMP Gallery in Provincetown, as well as previously at Gallery Ehva, The Gail Brown Gallery, The Robyn Watson Gallery, The Neily Gallery, and several invitational exhibits throughout New England.