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Three Masters at Berta Walker

Varujan Boghosian, Penelope Jencks, and Paul Resika

Lighthouses, dune people and gods will be on display at the Berta Walker Gallery beginning August 1, when an exhibit of three master artists’ work opens.

The exhibit will be on display until August 17.

The exhibit, on display until August 17, is set to showcase the work of Paul Resika, Penelope Jencks and Varujan Boghosian, with each bringing different mediums to the gallery space.

Boghosian, known for his constructions and collages, is presenting a series of new works created over the last six months. His constructions accumulate meanings, combining found objects and other materials to prompt the viewer into unexpected associations. Boghosian’s artwork has been exhibited worldwide and is held in many museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Penelope Jencks' ''Couple on the Beach.''

Jencks, meanwhile, was previously best known for her monumental public sculptures of Eleanor Roosevelt and Robert Frost, among others. In the last few years, however, she has released a new series of life-sized sculptures from her studio, along with miniature nudes, modeled after the beach people she remembers from her time on the Cape as a child. The pieces served as the subject of a critically acclaimed retrospective of Jenck’s work in 2006.

For the exhibit at the Berta Walker Gallery, Jencks is presenting a bronze table with five 20-inch nudes in varying stages of dress and undress, and a second table that holds inside the emerging forms of two new large sculptures.

Resika will also be exhibiting a new series of Cape-inspired works that found their direction in lighthouses after the artist came across some drawings he had made years ago. In his new paintings, Resika, who first came to Provincetown at 19 to study with Hans Hofmann, has set his lighthouses in fields of rich color, solitary but moored to a surrounding world of moons, fish and the land’s edge. Resika’s work is held in numerous collections, and several catalogs have been published about his contributions to the world of art.

The exhibit of these three master artists work will be on display at the Berta Walker Gallery from August 1 to 17, with an opening on August 1. The gallery is located at 208 Bradford Street. To find out more about the gallery or these artists, visit www.bertawalkergallery.com or call 508.487.6411.