Upcoming Exhibitions

 

RED from the CCMA Collection
September 4 - November 14
The artworks in Red are objects from the CCMA collection that use the color red within the context of the piece. What is it about the color red that draws our attention so much? It is one of the boldest colors, and one of the most expressive. Red symbolizes many extreme emotions, such as guilt, pain, passion, courage and anger. Because of this, artists can use the color in their work as a tool to convey certain feelings. This exhibition will showcase the many ways artists use the color red to communicate a range of different feelings and emotions with the viewer. Included in this exhibition are: Dawn, oil on canvas by Taro Yamamoto; Two Figures/Black and Red, oil/gold leaf on canvas by Selina Trieff; and Janie in the Garden, oil on canvas by Sam Barber.

Kathryn Smith: Contemporary White-Line Prints   
October 9 – December 12 
Sponsored by Law Office of Singer & Singer, LLC
Gallery Talk by Kathryn Smith: Saturday, October 23, 2 pm
    “Their beauty, poignancy, spirituality, and elemental moodiness are distilled into multiple colors fitted like a jigsaw into delicate, curvilinear designs. Nature is shattered like a mirror and elegantly reordered to create a skewed yet compelling and equally honest new perspective.”
       - Patricia Zur, Provincetown Art Guide

    Kathryn Smith has made a career out of creating beautiful work using the white-line printmaking technique. The original wood block print technique derives from Japan. In this process, a wooden template is cut for each separate color in the final print. Cutting each individual block to fit in with the rest of the work is time consuming and very labor intensive. Frustrated with this process, printmaker and resident of Provincetown, Bror J.O. Nordfeldt, decided to cut one block for the entire piece. With all the colors on the same surface separated by a line leaving a white negative space on the print, the final piece could be created and executed much more quickly. Thus, the white-line print, or the Provincetown Print was born.
    Kathryn Smith’s grandmother taught her the white-line print technique when she was only four years old, and she had been making prints ever since. Though after studying in Maryland, and living in Colorado, Smith returned to Provincetown for the summer months to resume printmaking with her grandmother. The next few years were very important, with the Smithsonian Institute and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum holding exhibitions on white-line prints. Since Smith has returned to Provincetown, she has dedicated her career to teaching and creating work using the white-line print technique. Her own body of work is a beautiful contemporary testament to Cape Cod, including landscapes, seascapes, towns, and floral prints.

White Line Printmaking Workshop with Kathryn Smith
Saturday & Sunday, November 21 & 22, 10 am - 2 pm
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Curator's Choice: Portraits from the Collection
October 16 - December 12
Most of the portraits in this collection have rarely been on display. Included are works by Gordon Hansen, Henry Hensche and Charles A. Coupler. CCMA has a collection of works by Gordon Hansen, a Dennis resident, who was an illustrator and newspaper artist at the Boston Art Club, and studied at the MFA Boston (1925-1932). He was also staff illustrator for the Boston Herald Traveler from 1928 to 1967, and created magazine covers including The New Yorker and Cosmopolitan. Henry Hensche, a student of Charles Hawthorne, established the Cape School of Art in Provincetown and used the "mud heads" as a teaching technique. A portrait of Henry Hensche, by Charles Couper, a student of Hensche, will also be on display.
Image: "Profile of a Man with Mustache" by Gordon Hansen