The Schoolhouse Galleries

PRESENT

Jennifer Amadeo-Holl, Daniel Heyman, Doug Padgett , Anne Lord, Kathi Smith, Tia Scalcione, Ron Rumford, Vicky Tomayko, Jim Rann, Marty Epp, Karen Coill, Pasquale Natale, James Reardon

NEW WORK

Friday, July 16 - Wednesday, August 4

RECEPTION: Friday, July 16 7-10 PM

DANIEL HEYMAN does not work primarily in any one medium. He is comfortable as a painter, as a print maker, or as a draftsman. Heyman may use ceramic tiles for drawing projects, colored pencils for book projects, or a needle and thread for a textile work. Recently he has been to Japan where he studied traditional watercolor woodblock printing, and so is currently enthusiastically carving blocks of wood and preparing imported papers with animal skin sizing. Daniel’s gouache paintings of interiors scenes, flowers or cityscapes are full of color and pattern. The prints range from lounging figures on the beach to tall standing figures printed on highly patterned papers. There are also erotic watercolors based on Japanese shunga. For Daniel Heyman making art requires flexible and varied responses to materials, subject matter, and visual stimuli.

This is the first exhibition of Mr. Heyman’s work at the Schoolhouse Galleries

DOUGLAS PADGETT grew up in the Midwest and began painting as a teenager.He studied art at the John Herron Institute, Purdue University, and the BFA painting program at Indiana University. Mr. Padgett moved to the Provincetown Ma. in 1986 and now lives and works in New York City. Padgett will present newly printed images made in Provincetown. He will show new paintings in the galleries from September 3 through 29.

 

ANNE LORD is an artist who lives and works in Provincetown. She draws, makes prints and is well known for her ceramic work. For this exhibition she will present a new series of prints, including 2-sided transfer prints.

 

RON RUMFORD’s newest work expands on many of the themes he’s been working with over the past 10 years. For this exhibition Rumford has reprinted old plates, joining them with new printed elements as a way to find new meanings in existing images, existing histories. The results are a series of monoprints with collage works that are built by printing layers from copper, polymer clay and cardboard plates over a period of time and then adding collage elements. Each sheet goes through the press a number of times (up to 10) and each time new a layer of information is added. Rumford is more interested in how an image changes as it evolves than in printing a resolved edition of very ‘alike’ prints. He sees printmaking as a fluid way of constantly recycling materials and ideas: a layer of information goes onto the paper; it can stand alone or be transformed by another and/or successive layers of printed ink. Chine colle and collage extend the options even further. The images start with printed elements because of what is unique to printmaking processes: an etched line achieves something that cannot be had with drawing materials. Printed matrixes can be repeated and changed.

Ron Rumford exhibits regularly in Philadelphia, New York, Boston and is a staff favorite at the Schoolhouse Galleries.

 

TIA SCALCIONE makes prints, drawings and paintings in her Provincetown studio. She takes her fascination with time in the landscape and imbues it into her renderings of the shore and Beech Forest, resulting in startlingly beautiful images. More than pictures, Tia’s careful choices of material and mark seem to reveal the secrets of the places she selects. Because she has chosen an indirect method, printmaking allows Scalcione to produce genuine marks that are not self-conscious, marks that do not usually exist in her painted works. Spontaneous and experimental, the results are authentic and true.

 

KATHI SMITH presents new white-line woodblock prints that represent a continued exploration, and an outgrowth, a tendril, of her previous year’s work, which was based on a journey to, and a cultural and artistic exchange with, the people and country of Japan.

Last year’s work was about freedom and release of spirit (air element). This new work explores humanity’s imposition of order, structure (of society) on organic nature in terms of seeking harmony between the two and living within it. The work explores the deeper connections that make it possible for us to live here, fusing and overlapping our own structure, order with the order of
natural law. ~ KS

 

VICKY TOMAYKO was born in Detroit Michigan in 1955. She received a BFA from Wayne State University in 1977. In 1978 she was awarded a Ford Foundation Grant for the Arts. She received an MFA in printmaking from Western Michigan University in 1979. Tomayko was an assistant professor of art, teaching printmaking, at Connecticut College in New London, CT from 1979 to 1981. She moved to Provincetown in 1982 with husband, artist Jim Peters. Tomayko was awarded a fellowship at The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown in 1985-86.

In 1994, Tomayko and her husband built their house and studios on the dunes in Truro where they live with their children, Arvid and Sylvia. Tomayko teaches printmaking at the Museum School at Provincetown ArtAssociation and Museum, a college credit program connected with Cape Cod Community College. She is also an Artist-in-Residence at The Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School in Orleans, a community based middle school, and teaches classes for adults and children at The Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill.

Vicky Tomayko’s art has always been focused on fantasy in the natural world, creatures inhabiting gardens and undersea worlds where anything could happen. A printmaker and storyteller, Tomayko’s new work explores the narrative potential of “imagined monsters” cavorting in one-of-a-kind images produced as drawings, monotypes, drypoints, and paintings. Many of the new drawings are “transfer prints”, a gritty/textural printing method used by Paul Gauguin in his illustrations for Noa Noa, A Journal of the South Seas.

The monotypes are a series of fantastical beasties with multiple appendages, warts, bumps, and eyes, each with a story to tell, each created with successive films of intense color, sometimes hard edged, sometimes painterly. The creatures fill up the paper right to the edges in a confrontative manner, and describe an array of human-like emotion and activity. Babies, dancers, lovers, hikers, consumers, grievers, etc... the prints speak of the importance of everyday events. With the drypoints (in which a printing plate is directly scored with a sharp scribe and printed as an intaglio), she is exploring the evolution of a print from beginning linear sketch to an intense, multilayered picture. This results in a series of prints, interrelated, yet each progressing the “monster’s” narrative.

Tomayko’s tempera paintings, also produced in series on paper, are black and white and pink on black or white paper. Sometimes the images are absurd enough to make you laugh. Humor and empathy for the creatures are a major part of the work.

 

MART EPP is a painter and printmaker who exhibits regularly in Boston and at the Schoolhouse Galleries in Provincetown. Epp also teaches printmaking and drawing at the following locations: Two Rivers Press in Vermont, Mixit Print Studios in Somerville, the DeCordova Museum School in Lincoln, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Fine Arts Work Center here in Provincetown.

 

KAREN COILL currently studies at the Museum School in Boston and at the FAWC. She has been exhibiting in Provincetown and Boston for the past three years. Her work is distinct. The collage/assemblages are best described as intimately layered imagery taken primarily from a palette comprised of vintage Life Magazines circa 1940 - 1970 and a collection of antique publications from the late 19th century. In the "tradition of Rauschenberg"

Karen applies the transferred images from her palette to the ghost surfaces of the printed materials. With this, she begins to create layered environments that juxtapose, color, shape and type with emblematic American iconery, in a fresh, exciting way.

In this exhibition, Coil presents her most recent investigation into non traditional Printmaking, using what most recognize as traditional printmaking processes and materials. She successfully and unequivocally makes these unconventional interpretations her own.

 

JENNIFER AMADEO-HOLL lives and works in the Artist Building, located in the historic Fort Point district of South Boston. Exhibited nationally and internationally, critics have called her work 'knockout, confident painting' exhibiting "a marvelous synthesis of visual energy". She will present a large matrix of small paintings called, ‘In Lux”.

 

Tight focus and unique perspective give JAMES REARDON’s photographs an abstract painter-like quality. By filtering out the distractions surrounding his subjects, the work provides a fresh perspective on everyday, overlooked images. It is the intent of the artist to capture the light, color and emotion of a place, as he sees it, at a given point in time.

James studied painting and printmaking at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and received his fine arts degree through the Museum School and Tufts University. Photography has been his main source of image making for the past ten years. He lives in Boston and Provincetown. Recent exhibits in Provincetown include a solo show at Café Edwige, juried members shows at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, P.A.A.M. 12 x 12 auction and a juried show at the Silas Kenyon Gallery.