current exhibition

The Schoolhouse Gallery Presents:

NEW/ NOW 2010

July 16 - August 4, 2010
Reception: Friday July 16 7-10 PM

The gallery presents our second survey of the best and brightest in contemporary visual thought as compiled by Schoolhouse Director/owner Mike Carroll. This version of NEW/NOW presents the penumbra of possibility that occurs when this group of artists’ marks, brushstrokes, rollers, cameras, torches, brushes and other strategies make contact with their chosen surfaces and then team up for a show.

The show features a suite of new intaglio prints from MARTY DAVIS, a group of new paintings on panel from REBECCA DOUGHTY, a new multi-panel print from DANIEL HEYMAN and new work from SHARON HORVATH. Individual works will be available from LORA BRODY, ELISABETH CONDON, DAMIEN HOAR de GALVAN, BENJAMIN JUNDANIAN , NONA HERSHEY, STANLEY WILLIAM HAYTER, XYLOR JANE, RICHARD KLEIN, LESLIE MURRAY, THOMAS NOZKOWSKI, DOUG PADGETT, PAUL STOPFORTH, VICKY TOMAYKO, AND KENDALL TURNER.

LORA BRODY presents a new image from a series in progress; an image from the state of Rajasthan in India. Brody is a photographer known primarily for her figurative work done with a pinhole camera. She lives and works in Boston and Provincetown.

ELISABETH CONDON earned an undergraduate and graduate degree for painting in LA and Chicago before moving to New York. Now, an Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of South Florida since 2003, Condon divides her time between Tampa and Brooklyn. A frequent traveler, Condon experiences the world in movement. In the studio, spontaneous pours and gestures become contingencies to respond to with translucent color, liquid puddles, Chinese idioms and photocopies of sketches from various locations. For her the process of drawing or painting is akin to taking a trip. Paris, Taichung and New York merge into fictional realms that invite imaginary wandering.

MARTY DAVIS discovered her passion for printmaking at the start of her formal studies at UNC Chapel Hill. Davis made woodcuts for several years until her desire to use different textures led her to take up new tools. She studied etching at the Corcoran, lithography at Pratt, and eventually photo etching at Provincetown’s Fine Arts Work Center. Currently her studio vocabulary includes etching, photo etching, aquatint and monotypes. Her images are primarily abstract and demonstrate her interest in layer and line. The work is an invigorating synthesis of beautiful tones, exquisite edge and sensuality used in engrossing compositions. Davis’s recent work reveals a dynamic interplay between ink and mineral spirits, a layered dialogue made when mark and tone, temperature and texture, and light and scale are employed to prompt a discussion between the picture’s plastic surface and an abstract image space typically reserved for painters. Originally from Virginia, Marty Davis has made her home in Provincetown since 1980. She has been active in efforts to keep Provincetown alive as a vibrant community where art making and teaching are encouraged, including an involvement with the Fine Arts Work Center where she is now President of FAWC’s Board of Trustees. She also serves on the board of the Provincetown Conservation Trust. Her work is represented in collections in Washington, New York (where she has had several shows at the Cortland Jessup Gallery) and Boston, in addition to Cape Cod.

The animal characters that inhabit REBECCA DOUGHTY’S work navigate life’s comic and tragic journeys. Doughty creates psychologically charged narratives with deceptively simple images, layered and scraped surfaces, and spare line drawings. In a kind of 2-dimensional miniature theatre, stories are told through subtle gestures, or through the triangulating gazes that travel between the characters, their maker, and the viewer.

Rebecca’s work has been exhibited widely, including The Drawing Center in New York, The Boston Drawing Project, DeCordova Museum, Rose Art Museum, and the Courthouse Gallery in Ireland. She has received fellowships from Ucross Foundation, The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, and awards from The Massachusetts Cultural Council, The A.R.T Grant Fund, The Blanche E. Colman Foundation, and an AICA Boston Best Show Award. Her work is in the permanent collections of DeCordova Museum, Simmons College, Wellington Management, Fidelity Investments, The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, and many private collections.

STANLEY WILLIAM HAYTER spent most of his life in Paris, where in 1927 he founded an experimental workshop for the graphic arts – Atelier 17 – that played a central role in the 20th century revival of the print as an independent art form. (The name was adopted in 1933 when Hayter moved his establishment from its original home to 17 Rue Campagne-Premi ène). In 1940-50 he lived in New York, taking Atelier 17 with him. Hayter was a chemist by training and had an unrivalled knowledge of the technicalities of printmaking, on which he wrote two major books, New Ways of Gravure (1949) and About Prints (1962). His historical importance has long been acknowledged (probably no modern British artist has been so influential internationally). Among the artists who worked with Hayter at Atelier 17 are Miro, Milton Avery, Alexander Calder, Louise Bourgeois, Max Ernst and Jackson Pollack.
His own work has won him recognition as one of the outstanding graphic artists of his time. His work continues to be exhibited internationally. He represented England at the Venice Beinale in 1958 and the British Museum mounted an exhibition of his prints in 2001. His prints are varied in technique and style, but most characteristically are influenced by the abstract vein of Surrealism and are notable for their experiments with texture and colour. Hayter's prints are in most major museum collections around the world. There will be several prints available for this exhibition.

DANIEL HEYMAN has spent several years making images about the war in Iraq, specifically the abuse and torture of innocent Iraqis at Abu Ghraib and other prisons. Heyman traveled to Jordan and Turkey where he has talked face to face with over 25 former detainees, painting their portraits and taking down their own versions of what happened to them at the hands of the American captors. Three of these detainees have since been killed in the war. Heyman’s work has been shown widely both in Philadelphia and nationally. His work was featured in the Winter 2008 edition of the Virginia Quarterly Review, and “Male Desire: Homosexual Desire in American Art,” (Harry Abrams, ’05) by Jonathan Weinberg. The following museums and libraries have acquired portfolios of this work: Library of Congress, New York Public Library, Yale University Art Gallery, Baltimore Museum of Art, Princeton University Art Museum; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; University of Iowa Museum of Art; Hood Museum of Art, Free Library of Philadelphia, Spencer Museum of Art; Smith College Art Museum; Vassar College Art Museum; Davidson Art Center, Wesleyan University; Davis Art Museum, Wellesley College; North Dakota Museum of Art, and the Special Collections Library at American University. He holds degrees from Dartmouth College and the University of Pennsylvania, and currently teaches at Swarthmore and RISD. He grew up on Long Island.

For this exhibition he will present a special 5 panel etching and relief print.

DAMIEN HOAR de GALVAN was born in 1979 in Northampton, MA. He received a B.S. from Green Mountain College in 2001, a post-baccalaureate certificate from School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 2008. He lives and works in Boston, MA. He will present a new collage.
SHARON HORVATH has received numerous grants, awards, and fellowships, including a Certificate of Honor from Tyler School of Art Alumni Association in 2007, the Anonymous Was a Woman Grant for painting in 2006 and the Edwin Palmer Memorial Prize for painting from the National Academy Museum in New York City in 2004. In 2002 she received the Richard C. Von Hess Award for excellence as a teacher and mentor from the University of the Arts. She received Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants for painting in 1997 and in 1993. She was also awarded the Jacob H. Lazarus-Metropolitan Museum of Art Rome Prize Fellowship for painting by the American Academy in Rome for 1997-98. In 1995 she was a Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation “space program” resident. In 1994, Horvath’s awards included an NEA Regional Grant (Mid-Atlantic) and an Elizabeth Foundation Grant for painting. She received a Hassem, Speicher, Betts, and Symons Purchase Award in 1999 and the Richard and Hilda Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1993. In 1992, Horvath won a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for painting. During 1986 and 1987 she was a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Horvath received her BFA from Cooper Union in New York City and her MFA from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University in Philadelphia and Temple Abroad in Rome. In 1985 she was awarded a Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Scholarship by the Tyler School of Art. Since 1987, Horvath has shown her paintings and drawings in solo exhibitions in New York, Philadelphia, and Boston and internationally.

Sharon Horvath, Wave, 2010, 10x10"

NONA HERSHEY'S work is included in numerous public collections around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Library of Congress, DC; Fogg Museum; Yale University Art Gallery; Minnesota Museum of Art; Crakow National Museum; and the Calcografia Nazionale, Rome. She has participated in over 100 Print Biennials and Group Exhibitions internationally. Numerous solo exhibitions include those at Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY; Dolan/Maxwell Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; Galleria Il Ponte, Rome, Italy, and Miller Block Gallery, Boston. She has had residency grants at the Asillah Forum Foundation, Morocco; the Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ireland; the MacDowell Colony, NH, and at the Ucross Foundation, WY. She taught at Tyler School of Art in Rome, Italy for 12 years and at Temple University's Tokyo program for one year. Since September 1993, Ms. Hershey has been Professor and Coordinator of the Printmaking Department at Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. She was a recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Grant in 2004.

XYLOR JANE is a painter who lives and works in Massachusetts. She draws on counting systems like mathematical algorithms, palindromes, Fibonacci series and prime and other numbers to make her art. By refuse to disallow the very human nature of mark making Jane’s work also declines to be defined or categorized in a typical manner. Instead she uses personal history, art history and the physical qualities of time along with brush and pen as studio tools in service of her elegant, generous and sometimes bewildering images. For this exhibition she will present a new painting. Jane exhibits regularly throughout the US and Europe.
RICHARD KLEIN is a Connecticut-based artist, curator, and writer. As an artist, he has exhibited widely, including the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase, Caren Golden Fine Art in New York, the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Hales Gallery, London, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Wisconsin, Gavlak Gallery in Palm Beach, FL, and the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA. As exhibitions director of The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum he has organized over 40 exhibitions in the past fifteen years, and is currently working on the development and presentation of a major video installation project with artist Shimon Attie that will be presented at The Aldrich in January 2011 and will subsequently tour nationally.

Richard Klein, Two Trains

LESLIE MURRAY has recently concluded a Second Year Fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She received a BFA from the Maine College of Art in 2008 and has returned as a visiting critic. As an undergraduate she interned at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado and worked as a studio assistant for Michael Mazur. She has exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Portland, Maine, the Hudson Walker Gallery and the Provincetown Museum of Art in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

THOMAS NOZKOWSKI has become one of the most original and celebrated abstract painters of his generation. From the late 1970s to the present day, he has made paintings and paintings on paper in two specific sizes. Within this framework, he has mined the complex possibilities of imagery and visual language, leaving behind the confines of Minimalism and the commercialism of Pop. The formal qualities of his work have defied definition. Patterns, broken grids, biomorphic shapes and geometric abstraction often collide and multi-faceted figures and complex ground embrace. The result is a unique vocabulary that Nozkowski characterizes as having "a quality of logic on the brink of dissolution.”

Nozkowski (b. 1944) lives and works in New York City and High Falls, NY. His work has been seen in over 65 solo and group exhibitions worldwide. Recent solo shows include: Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2008), Fisher Landau Center for Contemporary Art, Long Island City (2008), and Subject to Change, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany (2007). A mid-career retrospective of Nozkowski’s paintings curated by Marc Mayer took place at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, in June 2009.

Recent group shows include: The Continuous Present, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven (2009), Degas to Diebenkorn: The Phillips Collects, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. (2008), Point of No Return, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin (2008), Think With The Senses, Feel With The Mind: Art In The Present Tense (curated by Robert Storr), La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2007), Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2007).

DOUG PADGETT is from the Midwest. He studied art at the John Herron Institute, Purdue University, and the BFA Painting program at Indiana University. Mr. Padgett lived on Cape Cod for several years before moving to New York City, where he now lives and works.

PAUL STOPFORTH makes paintings and works on paper that focus on fragments of history and memory including the influence of 50’s movie posters, the remnants of a military occupations, the influence of Hindu deities, and renditions of sites of political incidents. His work demonstrates a willingness to embrace disparate spaces and the objects that inhabit them.

Stopforth studied at the Johannesburg School of Art and was awarded British Council Scholarship to attend the Royal College of Art in London; he and his wife Carol made the decision to leave South Africa in 1988, perhaps the bleakest year of the state of emergency period. Over the course of his career, he has held numerous one-person exhibitions both in South Africa and in the U.S.A. and has been the recipient of numerous awards and residencies. Public collections holding his works include the Harvard Film Archive, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, Tufts University Gallery, the National Gallery, Cape Town, the Johannesburg Art Gallery, Durban Art Museum, the Pretoria Art Gallery, and University of the Witwatersrand Art Galleries. Stopforth is especially noted for an important series of drawings based on the death of the Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko. He taught in the Visual and Environmental Studies Department at Harvard for 10 years and is currently visiting faculty at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

Paul Stopforth, Blanket Pin 2, 2010
Artist/printmaker, VICKY TOMAYKO, was born in Detroit Michigan in 1955. She received a BFA from Wayne State University in 1977. In 1978 she was awarded a Ford Foundation Grant for the Arts. She received an MFA in printmaking from Western Michigan University in 1979. Tomayko was an assistant professor of art, teaching printmaking, at Connecticut College in New London, CT from 1979 to 1981. She moved to Provincetown in 1982. Tomayko was awarded a fellowship at The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown in 1985-86. Currently she teaches printmaking at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, the Fine Arts Work Center, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at The Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School in Orleans, a community based middle school.

Vicky Tomayko’s art focuses on fantasy in the natural world and the complexity of rural life. A printmaker and storyteller, her work explores the narrative potential in one-of-a-kind images produced as drawings, monotypes, dry points, and paintings. Tomayko’s prints are compelling and colorful results of this accomplished artist’s abilities to integrate the joy of color with accuracy and narrative prompts. Besides the local landscape, Tomayko sites Louise Bourgeois and Charles Burchfield as major sources of artistic inspiration. Tomayko populates her landscapes with fantastic, friendly creatures with personalities rooted in watchfulness, humor, and the conflicts of living in a changeable world. Narratives are an integral part of the imagery, though they are used as prompts and guides rather than explanations. Characters reappear in successive works, examining the geology of shifting sands and waters.

The Schoolhouse Gallery is located at 494 Commercial Street in the heart of Provincetown¹s East End Gallery District. For information and press contact Mike Carroll at 508.487.4800 or email mike@schoolhouseprovincetown.com.

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