Exhibition highlights

March 20-24

Community ART Bash/ OMR birthday
Reception: Friday March 20; 6-8 PM

Gallery Artists
No reception

Atelier - A Studio Sale at the Gallery

Postcards to the Edge
Also: Gallery artists
Reception: Friday May 1  6-9 PM

Spring Arts Competition
Reception: Friday May 22   6-9 PM

NEW/NOW
New painting and drawing

Eunju Kang, MP Landis, Paul Stopforth and Michelle Weinberg. With Consuelo Isaacson and Gina Kamentsky
Reception: Friday July 10   7–10 PM

Paul Lee, Sharon Horvath, Mark Adams. With Daniel Heyman
Reception: Friday July 31   7–10 PM

Amy Arbus, Laura Arena, Adam Davies, Michael Fisher and Johnathan Lewis
Reception: Friday August 21   7–10 PM

Gallery artists including: Liz Carney, Dermot Meagher, William Hamlin, Karen Coill, Rebecca Doughty and Jefferson Hayman
Reception: Friday Sept. 11   7-10 PM

Gallery Artists TBA
Reception:  Friday Oct. 2    6-9 PM

LIZ CARNEY
LIZ CARNEY lives and works in Provincetown. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Art from Smith College. Liz has studied with George Nick, Paul Resika and Stuart Shills.  She has exhibited in Boston and Provincetown. Liz creates oil paintings based on the Provincetown landscape and will exhibit new work on September 11, 2009.

Dark Gardens, Liz Carney

adam davies
ADAM DAVIES is a photographer whose work explores the edges of urban and rural landscapes. Davies uses a large-format camera to take color negatives that are then digitally scanned and printed. His working process bridges traditional and contemporary methods. Adam has recently attended residences at Yaddo, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas. He has recently exhibited at Project Basho Photography Center, Westmoreland Museum of Art, and Silver Eye Center for Photography. He has held teaching positions at Carnegie Mellon University, Robert Morris University, Harvard University, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Born in United Kingdom, Adam currently lives in Washington, DC..

Marconi Sation Road, Wellfleet, Adam Davies

sharon horvath
SHARON HORVATH presents new work starting July 31, 2009. 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. 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.

Lion's Pie, Sharon Horvath

Paul lee
PAUL LEE is an artist from England who currently lives in Brooklyn. He uses a very raw sort of raw material—beer cans, light bulbs, bath towels, and rocks— to make paintings, collages, and sculptures. He also makes drawings from and on paper. All of his work is made from materials transport or carry the resonance and evidence of love, information and the value assigned to beauty. Lee was born in London in 1974 and has a BFA from the Winchester School of Art. He has lived in Brooklyn, NY since 2001. In November 2006 Lee held his first solo exhibition in New York at Massimo Audiello. He also shows regularly at Schoolhouse Gallery and has participated in group shows at Ampersand International, San Francisco; Texas Gallery, Houston; Coleman Projects, London; and Paul Kasmin, Team, and Exit Art, New York.

johnathan lewis
JOHNATHAN LEWIS is a photographer from Miami and a recent Massart graduate. His latest body of work celebrates the bodies of Gay men, while referencing the classical and questioning traditional perceptions of masculinity and body ideals. These archival inkjet prints begin as 4X5 negatives and are printed on a Hahnemuehle digital paper comparable to their textured watercolor paper. Each piece is floated in a frame without glass, similar to presentations typically used for large paintings. In August 2009 he will present a gathering of new black and white images from his series, 'Our Divine'.

UNTITLED, (Our Divine Series) 2008

susan lyman
SUSAN LYMAN will exhibit with Vico Fabbris, Peter Hutchinson, and Natalie Miebach in an exhibition titled ‘Second Nature’ at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum from October 16-November 29, 2009. Second Nature is a group exhibition of environmental artworks by four nationally recognized contemporary artists who bring fresh, distinctive voices and dynamic new imagery to the genre. Included pieces offer stunning interpretations of the natural world, inspired by sources such as hard scientific data and pure fantasy. Opening October 16, 7-9PM For more information please visit www.paam.org or call 508.487.1750.

michael fisher
MICHAEL FISHER is a photographer who lives and works in New York City. In 2005 he went to the Plaza Hotel to drop off a package for his then-boss, Annie Leibovitz, who was shooting Sarah Jessica Parker there for Vogue.  Taken with the state of the place he managed to explore the entire hotel; offices, maids’ quarters, locker rooms, kitchens (seven in total), the employees’ cafeteria and many of the 805 hotel rooms and suites. All the rooms were in different states of demolition. This photographic journey through the hotel is fascinating, captivating, and breathtakingly beautiful.

Plaza 1, Michael Fisher

AMY ARBUS/NICK FLYNN
NICK FLYNN has penned captions for a photographic essay of AMY ARBUS’S images that will appear in Provincetown Arts Magazine in 2009. These images are among those that will also be found in her August 2009 exhibition at the gallery, a continued exploration of the work that resulted in her 2008 publication, ‘The Fourth Wall’.  Flynn’s “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City” (Norton, 2004), won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, was shortlisted for France’s Prix Femina, and has been translated into thirteen languages. He is also the author of two books of poetry, “Some Ether” (Graywolf, 2000), and “Blind Huber" (Graywolf, 2002), for which he received fellowships from, among other organizations, The Guggenheim Foundation and The Library of Congress. Some of the venues his poems, essays and non-fiction have appeared in include The New Yorker, the Paris Review, National Public Radio’s “This American Life,” and The New York Times Book Review. His film credits include “field poet” and artistic collaborator on the film “Darwin’s Nightmare,” which was nominated for an Academy Award for best feature documentary in 2006. One semester a year he teaches at the University of Houston, and he then spends the rest of the year elsewhere.

AMY ARBUS, a New York-based photographer, has published four books,
including the award-winning On the Street 1980-1990 and The Inconvenience of Being Born. The New Yorker calls her most recent book, The Fourth Wall, her masterpiece. Her photographs have appeared in over one hundred periodicals around the world, including the New Yorker, People, Dazed and Confused, and the New York Times Magazine. She has had twenty-one solo exhibitions worldwide, and her photographs are a part of the collection of the New York Public Library and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

daniel heyman
DANIEL HEYMAN will present some part of a larger project scheduled to be seen in its entirety at Swarthmore College and then at Wesleyan University in the spring of 2010. For this piece Heyman has constructed a room out of plywood, whose surface is entirely covered with etchings printed right on the wood -- no paper.  Inside this wooden room is an ink on paper no-holds barred, visual musing on the psychological impulses that lead to violence and/or sex which when not acknowledged or resolved can lead to war and its celebration, and of course torture. The gallery will show the wood etchings and a selection of the ink on paper drawings.  

michelle weinberg
MICHELLE WEINBERG presents new work for 2009; an investigation of titles, signs, and slogans. Inspired by Kenneth Koch's One Thousand Avant-Garde Plays, Weinberg exhibits Subtitles, Camouflages and TeleNovelas an installation of small works that probe the intersection of narrative and plastic art forms, and the new vocabulary that results. Besides her now familiar architectural rearrangements, Weinberg’s use of text as personae, her saturated colors and efficacious marks seem to contribute to another function. Both individually and as a group these works also function like a poem, sign or title. Viewers experience shifts in meaning as the language intersects with the piece's own physical, visual structure. Weinberg employs meaning as a painter’s tool executed in a piece with both visual and conceptual aspects.