Current Exhibitions  

PASTEL PAINTERS SOCIETY OF CAPE COD: Signature 2009
April 18 - June 14
   The high standards of its Signature Membership affirm the Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod’s nationwide prestige. The honor of Signature Membership is awarded to working artists of consistent excellence, who may then may write PPSCC after their name and may submit to the prestigious Biennial Signature Exhibitions. Signature Members of the Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod serve the community through offering high caliber art exhibits for viewers of all ages.
    PPSCC was founded in 1995 by a handful of local pastelists for the purpose of establishing viable soft pastel exhibition venues while fostering public understanding and appreciation of the pastel medium. Just a few years later, the non-profit organization's membership spanned the nation.
    The following artists are included in this exhibition: Edith Cohenno Bryant, Carolyn Caldwell, Robina Carter, Ed Chesnovitch, Shizue Cooper, Diana DeSantis, Kimberly Ann duCharme, Carole Chisholm Garvey, Liz Haywood-Sullivan, Anne Heywood, Susan A. Hollis, Joan Ledwith, Marge Levine, Jane Lincoln, Pat Ross Marx, Ann M. Murphy, Rosalie Nadeau, Mona Podgurski, Debra Quinn-Munson, Susan Ransom, Donna Rossetti-Bailey, M'Lou Sorrin, Phill Thompson, Lorraine W. Trenholm, Penny Viscusi, Margaret Williams-McGowan.
Image: "Jessica" by Diana DeSantis
Join the Pastel Painters for an Opening Reception, Friday, April 17, 5:30 - 7:30 pm

JENNIFER DAY: Air & Ocean: New Paintings
April 25 - June 7
Gallery Talk: May 16, 2 pm
    "This work explores the mystery of natural phenomena, it communicates a vastness of air, water and space that suggests something is going to happen, or has just happened."  - Jennifer Day
Jennifer Day's large-scale monochromatic paintings of the sea have been exhibited throughout New England. A graduate of Bowdoin College and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, she received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Pennsylvania.

ROBERT CIPRIANI: 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For'
May 1 - June 7
    Robert Cipriani is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and is both a professional artist and a noted graphic designer. His paintings are represented by many galleries and have received a number of awards, including the “Artist of the Year, Painting” designation from the Cambridge Art Association in a show juried by Edgar Driscoll, formerly the Boston Globe art critic for 30 years. In February of 2008 he was part of a three-person show of nationally known Expressionistic artists at the Phillips Gallery at Big Arts in Sanibel Florida. 
    "Expressionism is the most natural form of painting for me as there are no boundaries to my imagination and curiosity, just a process of discovering and expressing new ways to look at life and at creativity. I usually do find what I’m looking for, then start searching all over again.
    "I typically know where I’m going with a painting, but often find that it starts to lead me, to draw me in other directions. I look for, and am always open to this,  because new ideas often arise from just the process of starting to paint,  and by being open, aware, and really curious.  My multimedia paintings often incorporate collage, photography, type, acrylics, and modeling mediums - a great selection of tools.
    "In addition, I am very influenced by my life’s work as a graphic designer, art director, and creative director. Conversely, my approach to painting influences my design work in a way that makes it richer and more interesting. The two arts share many parallels: solutions that flow naturally from well-defined objectives; a need for passion, creativity, innovation, and exploration; the use of color for representation, emotion, and effect; and juxtaposition of large and small, strong and delicate, soft and sharp, dark and light, smooth and textured and the desire to be influenced and directed by the act of creativity itself.
    "When I paint, I'm spontaneous and precise at the same moment, always within the halo of a consistent vision."

ARTWORK: Interns' and Mentors' Exhibition
School to Careers Art Internship Program
May 9 - 31
Reception: Thursday, May 14, 5:30 - 7:30 pm.
    The 12th annual ARTWORK exhibition, May 9 - 31, features painting, sculpture, textile design and other media produced by students during the course of their partnerships with renowned local artists. The School to Careers Art Internship Program pairs junior and senior high school students with successful working artists for eight weeks, working in a collaborative environment that promotes creative growth and offers insight into the lives and routines of professional artists.
   
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Image: "Granpa P" by Julia Powers, pastel drawing

Teaching Art / Creating Art: ART EDUCATORS JURIED SHOW     
Jan 10 - Feb 22
Reception Jan 22, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Cape Cod & Islands Art Educators Association
    Sponsored by The Law Office of Singer and Singer, LLC.
Curated by Elizabeth Ives Hunter, Executive Director, and Michael Giaquinto, Exhibitions Curator
    A juried exhibition of art work by art teachers from all over Cape Cod and the Islands, featuring pottery, paintings, printmaking, pastels and more. Many of these artist/teachers also exhibit professionally in galleries across the Cape.

Image: "Little Deuce Coupe" by Deborah Greenwood
 

ARNOLD GEISSBUHLER: SCULPTOR (1897 - 1993)
Shaped by the 20th Century: Drawings & Sculptures from his Lifetime
November 8 - January 25, 2009
Curated by Al Kochka, Director of the Geissbuhler Project
Sponsored in part by a grant from the Jeremiah Kaplan Foundation of the UJA Federation, NY
     Born in Switzerland in 1897, Arnold Geissbuhler apprenticed with Zurich architectural sculptor Otto Munch before moving to Paris in 1919. He studied with sculptor Antoine Bourdelle, who had been a student of Rodin’s. At the Académie de la Grande Chaumière he became friends with many artists, including Alberto Giacometti, who became a lifelong friend. He also met a young student, Elisabeth Chase of Dennis, MA, who later became recognized as a Rodin scholar.  They fell in love and married.  
    The Geissbuhler’s travelled extensively. He exhibited in Paris, New York and Boston. The first showing of his work was at the Whitney Studio (later the Whitney Museum of American Art) and his first one-man show was held at the Kraushaar Gallery on Fifth Avenue, where drawings by Rodin were also on display. 
    They resided in Provincetown from 1934 – 1937. Geissbuhler taught drawing and sculptural techniques at Wellesley College for 21 years from 1937 through 1958. He had a sculpture studio in Dennis where they set up residence in 1970.
     Geissbuhler brought with him to America the academic tradition of monumental, heroic sculpture. But he went beyond the traditions of realism and became more abstract, working with new materials such as ceramic.
      The selections in this show trace the artist’s evolving forms of expression influenced by the time in which he lived, the changing artistic movements around him, and how he responded to them.
        This exhibition highlights examples of his work: from his early academic years, his changing styles during the 1930s while at Wellesley and Provincetown, his work during the Great Depression and WW II, his own Atomazon series, his family themes and in his final years, his heroic-sized ceramic works.

ARCHITECTURE OF THE CAPE COD SUMMER
   Work of Polhemus Savery DaSilva Architects Builders
November 1 - January 4, 2009
    "Each house is a wish—a place of tranquility by the sea, where memories are made with families and friends…a particular version of the endless summer."
  - Michael J. Crosbie, PhD, AIA; introduction to book, Architecture of the Cape Cod Summer
   
    This exhibition shows the design process and creations of the region’s top architecture and construction firm, Polhemus Savery DaSilva Architects Builders. It explores the compelling art – underpinned by the science of construction, influenced by the specific demands of the region and client, and executed by master craftsmen that make this firm so respected in their profession. The show includes a chronology of the firm’s major work – including its work on CCMA – and a close look at three houses. 
    See the design process of a dazzling seaside home, “House on Champlain’s Bluff,” the inner spaces and architectural  details that make “Pepperwood” a unique work of art, and learn how regulatory constraints were turned into positive influences for “Home On Harper’s Island.”
    The work comes alive through drawings, models, small architectural elements, and stunning color photographs taken by some of the nation’s top architectural photographers.
    The book, Architecture of the Cape Cod Summer, is available in conjunction with this show, with an introduction and text by Michael J. Crosbie, Ph.D., AIA. 


SAM FEINSTEIN (1915 - 2003): A Retrospective
May 31 - July 27
Curated by Patricia Stark Feinstein
    This exhibition will reveal the seventy-year trajectory of Sam Feinstein’s development from realism through expressionism, cubist expressionism, Hofmann-influenced abstraction to Feinstein’s own unique language of color—vibrating and luminous — in his monumental, mature abstract paintings.
    Born in Russia and raised in Philadelphia, Feinstein taught and supervised classes at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and filmed the museum’s first art documentary. He later moved to New York and studied with Hans Hofmann, whom he filmed in 1950 to create his documentary, Hans Hofmann.  Feinstein taught at Pratt Institute, wrote for Art Digest magazine and exhibited his paintings in New York, Philadelphia and Provincetown until he withdrew from the exhibition world in 1960 to dedicate himself to refining his principles and teaching for the remainder of his life. Feinstein spent his summers on Cape Cod, during the 1950s in Provincetown, and in 1960 moved to Whig Street in Dennis where he painted and taught for the next 42 years.
    Curator Patricia Stark Feinstein, a painter, teacher, curator, lecturer and former faculty member at Riverdale Country School in New York City, will expand upon the art and philosophy of her husband in related events during the show. She studied with Sam Feinstein and taught with him for eighteen years. She has written a book on her husband’s work that will be released by the award-winning Fields Publishing in conjunction with this exhibition.

FOUR PAINTERS: On Common Ground
June 7 - August 10
Curated by Paul Resika
Gallery Talk: Donald Beal on Thursday, July 17, 11 am
    To make something New, without tricks, requires talent, perseverance and a dedicated life. It also takes passion. I have known the work of Beal, DuToit, Paulson and Radell for 30 years.  I believe they have these qualities.      Paul Resika
    Donald Beal, Robert DuToit, David Paulson and Thaddeus Radell have a 30 year history of friendship – at one time or another schooling together, living together, and studying with  Paul Resika at Parsons School of Design in New York. 
    Like Resika they all have a deep respect for the modernist principles of his teacher Hans Hofmann. They went their different ways: Beal and DuToit to the Outer Cape, Radell to France and New York, and Paulson to upstate New York, but they share an ongoing dialogue that continues to shape their work and lives. As Beal describes it, “Our work differs as our natures differ, but there is a like spirit and feeling that runs through all the work and unites us.”  
    Donald Beal was born in Syracuse, New York and lived in Westford Massachusetts until graduating high school in 1977.  He studied art at the Swain School of Design in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he earned his BFA in painting in 1981. After moving to New York City to study at Brooklyn College, he went on to receive his MFA from Parsons School of Design.  Provincetown, Massachusetts has been his home since 1985, where he is represented by the Berta Walker Gallery. Beal has been a professor in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Massachusetts, North Dartmouth since 1999.
    Robert DuToit of North Truro was born in Boston in 1956 and began painting at the age of 10. He received a BFA from the University of New Hampshire and an MFA from Parsons School of Design in New York City and has studied for extended periods in France and Italy. An active Cape artist since the 1980s, he has been involved in numerous solo and group shows in Boston, New York and the Outer Cape, most recently at Maurice Arlos Fine Art Gallery in New York and the DNA Gallery in Provincetown. His recent work consists of elemental landscapes of various motifs as well as small direct figure compositions.
    David Paulson was born in Providence, R.I. in 1955. At 17 he began drawing with charcoal and watercolor.  He attended Swain School Design in New Bedford and studied printing and drawing with David Loeffler Smith. In 1978 he attended Parsons School of Design MFA program, where he studied with Paul Resika. He took sculpture classes with Peter Agostini in 1980 at New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture, where he also taught. He lived in Brooklyn until 1994 and spent some winters in Provincetown.  He currently lives in Ghent, New York.           
    Thaddeus Radell was born in 1956 in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, the son of artists. In 1978, he received his BFA at Mercy College of the University of Detroit and his Master of Fine Art at Parsons School of Design in 1982.  After graduating, he moved to France where for 14 years he divided his time between Paris and the South. He is currently living and working in New York City.  He has had numerous solo shows in France and at the Marurice Arlos Fine Art Gallery in New York City. 
    Curator:  Paul Resika      
    Born in New York City, Paul Resika studied with Hans Hofmann in New York and later in Provincetown. His work merges the emotions of abstract expressionism with his representational subjects, often of nature. He has received numerous awards and his work is included in many museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Museum of American Art.   Resika currently divides his time between New York and Provincetown.
Image: "Sunflower," pastel painting by Robert DuToit

AIDEN LASSELL RIPLEY (1896 - 1969): A Retrospective
Curated by Elizabeth Ives Hunter, CCMA Exec Director
August 2 – October 5, 2008
Gallery Talk with Elizabeth Ives Hunter: Oct 5 at 3 pm
    Aiden Lassell Ripley was born in Wakefield, Massachusetts and spent much of his life in the Boston area, often traveling to Cape Cod.  The son of a musician, Ripley developed his talent as a tuba player and considered a career as a musician, but he soon discovered that painting was his true passion. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Art in Boston and received the Page Traveling Scholarship which allowed him to travel and paint in Europe from 1923 to 1925. 
    During the 1940s and 50s, Ripley became known as one of America’s pre-eminent painters of sporting scenes – hunters and game, fly-fishing on pristine rivers, and plantation life -- but his work extends well beyond this subject matter.  The CCMA exhibition will focus on the totality of his work – portraits, still lifes, non-sporting landscapes and allegories.  Ripley’s ability to maintain excellence of design and convincing emphasis and subordination marks his work as truly outstanding.
    According to CCMA Executive Director Elizabeth Ives Hunter, curator of the exhibition, “The full breadth of Ripley’s work is examined in the book THE ART OF AIDEN LASSELL RIPLEY by Julie Carlson Wildfeuer and Stephen B. O’Brien, Jr., published in conjunction with the show. Taken together, the exhibition and the book will facilitate a re-evaluation of Ripley’s reputation as an artist.”
    Ripley studied art at the Fenway School of Illustration and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston with Philip Hale and Frank W. Benson.  He was elected to the Guild of Boston Artists in 1925, an honor that signaled acceptance by the most important painters of the day.  He served as president of the Guild from 1959 until his death in 1969.  Ripley received fifty prizes during his lifetime.  
    This exhibition is made possible in part by The Ellen and Richard Cuda Family Foundation of the Cape Cod Foundation. 
    An essay on Aiden Lassell Ripley (1896 – 1969): A Retrospective by Elizabeth Ives Hunter which appeared in American Art Review Magazine is available on request.

SKIP TREGLIA’S FOUND OBJECTS: SPIRITS OF LAND AND SEA
July 26 – September 28, 2008
Gallery Talk:  Thursday, August 7, 6 pm 
    My work is a form of artistic recycling in which I’m connecting my sense of design with nature’s.      -Skip Treglia
   Skip Treglia creates whimsical figures from objects found in nature which emphasizes his strong belief in our connectedness to nature. This exhibition presents his very large sculptural assemblages of fish and shamans.  
   Born in Boston in 1946, the artist grew up in a large family of Italian and British immigrants in Watertown, MA. As a child he would bicycle to his favorite fishing holes, bringing both a fishing rod and a sketchbook.
   Today he searches for found objects with unique character, such as aged, weathered, bleached, or twisted drifts of wood or metal polished by the elements. Some of his findings have spent a great deal of time in the ocean and so it seems to him natural to incorporate them and his love of fishing into his unusual fish figures. 
    His whimsical shaman figures are influenced by his interest in Native American and Mayan Art and by his travels and workshops in Mexico and Guatemala.
    As part of this exhibition, Treglia is asking visitors to suggest a name for one of his unnamed shamans. A shaman is the spiritual leader of a tribe who offers guidance and healing through communication with animals and spirits of the earth. This particular shaman depicts birds on his outstretched arms made of driftwood. Treglia will announce the title he chooses the week of September 15th.          
   Treglia attended the New England School of Art and was awarded the Gold Medal in Illustration from the Copley Society of Boston in 1968. In addition to creating assemblages from natural materials, he has been a recognized abstract painter for over thirty years. He also founded Aurora Enterprises, a landscape design service. His works are widely exhibited and collected throughout New England.
Image: Song Catcher

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