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PRESS RELEASE The Schoolhouse Galleries 494 Commercial Street Provincetown, MA 02657 PRESENT Alexis Doshas/ Kate Wolf/ Amy Arbus Friday, October 1 - Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Alexis Doshas presents a series of color photographs taken with a low light, or available light at night. These fuzzy, dreamlike images conjure feelings that are indistinct yet familiar.
Kate Wolf lives in Seattle and spends time on Cape Cod and takes in points from there to here. She takes pictures, plays music and produces interactive media. Her photographs are personal and quiet. For this exhibition, she will present a new series called, 't r a n s p a r e n t: sea and land shots'. These dreamy, faraway shots lay bare close ties to water, landscape, buildings and figures. The studies politely impose on the surroundings, respecting the subjects, saying, "I was there with you."
Amy Arbus presents work from her recent 'Rites and Rituals' exhibition, a series of 26 black and white images, and includes portraits of people in Oaxaca, Mexico at the Day of the Dead celebration, in Siena, Italy at the Palio horse race, in Norway on Constitution Day, in Sicily at the Easter Processions, in Pennsylvania at a Civil War Reenactment, in California at The Rose Parade, and in New Orleans at Mardi Gras. Also included are participants in an Irish Dance Contest, an Independence Day traditional dinner, at Flag Day, during Fleet Week, at an Indian Festival and in the Columbus Day, Saint Patrick's Day, Memorial Day and Puerto Rican Day Parades in New York City.
Robin Bruch paints relaxed but quietly ecstatic versions of geometric abstraction. The images often recall bold textile patterns or the symbolic meditative diagrams of India called yantras. An association with Western manuscript painting is also present, but overall her work is rooted in the picture of contemporary abstraction. For this exhibition she will show a new group of round paintings.
Morgan Cohen photographs surfaces of objects and walls in places whose characteristics would normally be unnoticed, unused, or too used to matter. He is drawn to their lack of significance, as it offers an opportunity to notice and to present life in something seeming otherwise lifeless. The spaces Cohen photographs appear to be a small part of a fabric of space that is created by the relationships between ourselves and that which surrounds us. His photographs encapsulate a desire to see purely and to bring attention to such surfaces and spaces. Looking at Cohen's work it is apparent that the acts of seeing and isolating can be purposeful, powerful, and transformative. His focus on unnoticed space grants it a position that is pure and free from the distraction of association. However, the photographs also retrieve space, grasping it from the world, defying architecture and history and making something truly sublime. Morgan Cohen's work is also on view through October 2 at Gallery Naga, 67 Newbury St., Boston, MA. 02116.
Ewa Nogiec is a Provincetown painter who also makes community projects. This is her first exhibition in the galleries.
Timothy Ojile was born and raised in Minneapolis, MN, and was graduated 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.
Marian Roth will show a selection of images from her studio. Using a relatively simple method of photography - the pinhole camera, Roth achieves surreal images of great magic and mystery. Because the amount of light that enters through the hole is limited, and there is no lens to focus, the resulting images are soft in their overall detail. Roth works with large sheets of paper, and for some images produces both negatives and positives that are distinguished by their different colors. These photographs can make one dizzy, for the space in them is precipitously warped and the intense red, yellow, green and blue colors are hallucinatory. In these haunting images Roth takes the familiar landscape of Cape Cod and transforms it into a dreamscape of twisted space and glowing light and color.
Tia Scalcione has been living and working in Provincetown for over three years.
MP Landis will be exhibiting new paintings and works on paper exploring the structure and function of the grid. Landis lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He has had recent exhibitions in New York City, Philadelphia, and Madrid and began his teaching career this summer at the Fine Arts Work Center.
The Schoolhouse Galleries are located at 494 Commercial Street in the heart of Provincetown’s East End Gallery District.
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