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Provincetown :: Thursday, September 2nd 2010
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A photograph by Paula Horn Curtis. |
Sketching an Adventure on Foot
Explore Art Past and Present on Friday Nights
May 27th, 2009
Maybe you start with gesso. Or perhaps a piece of found driftwood, stolen from its secret past by the waves and now washed ashore to wait for new markings.
| When the galleries open their doors to share the wares of more than a century of artistic ferment on the Outer Cape, you never know what you'll discover. |
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It’s only the beginning, and certainly too soon to say where it will lead.
It’s much like crossing into Provincetown’s east end on a Friday night, when the galleries open their doors to share the wares of more than a century of artistic ferment on the Outer Cape. All you can do is follow your pulse, but there's no telling what vision you'll find.
Housed in the shingled dwellings of Cape Cod lore, they beckon with great bounty, both from the town’s earlier days and the artists who still take canvas to the street to paint “em plein aire.”
At the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, this endless creative energy is currently on display in three new exhibits.
"Artist's Eye," an exhibit curated by the nationally recognized artist Paul Resika, features works culled from the museum's extensive collection of more than 2,500 pieces. The collection includes work from more than 600 artists who have studied, created, lived and played in the Provincetown art colony.
Also on display is an exhibit of works by Provincetown painter and restauranteur Ciro Cozzi, a student of both Hans Hofmann and Henry Hensche. And Wellfleet photographer Paula Horn Kotis, whose body of photographs span worlds from Cyprus to Israel, is showing her work as well.
But don’t stop there. Think of all the layers in an oil painting. Likewise, so many other galleries stand nearby, ready for you to draw a line to their doors.
Consider the Schoolhouse Gallery, which is currently presenting work by Provincetown painter Liz Carney and others. Or lift your foot-brush for a new layer and head to the Bowersock Gallery, to explore work by Donna Harkins, Gail Sauter and Dennis Perrin, among others.
But remember, art in Provincetown bleeds outside the lines – it heads west on Commercial Street, it spills onto Shank Painter Road, it hides around the corner of Pearl Street. It even spends time on the beaches, where you will often find painters endeavoring to capture the Cape’s renowned play of light just as their brethren did a century before.
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