PRESS RELEASE

The Schoolhouse Galleries 494 Commercial Street
Provincetown, MA 02657

For Immediate Release

December 5, 2004

Contact: Mike Carroll

508.487.4800 X 105

www.schoolhousecenter.com

Winter 2004-2005

From December 6, 2004 until Easter weekend, 2005 the galleries will be open by appointment by calling 508.487.4800. Our staff is always available through the off-season for any questions or assistance you may require.
Please check out our on line ART SHOP for new available images from our gallery artists.

 

IN THE GALLERIES: In the front gallery a group show of gallery artists including work from Ramon Alcolea, Tim Arnold, Vivian Bower, Alexis Doshas, Jennifer Amadeo-Holl, Jenny Humphreys, Amy Kandall and William Hamlin.

In the back a presentation of the acclaimed 'STORIES' exhibition from Tony Mendoza.

TONY MENDOZA was born in Havana, Cuba in 1941. He left for Miami with his family in 1960. He bought his first camera at age eleven and continued photographing through grammar school, high school, Yale University (Bachelor of Engineering), and the Harvard Graduate School of Design (Master of Architecture).


Since then his work has been exhibited and published widely. He is the author of five books, including Cuba: Going Back (1999), Stories (1987), and Ernie (1985). He has received three National Endowment For The Arts Fellowships. A Guggenheim Photography Fellowship, as well as two Creative Writing Fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council (He is the only artist in Ohio to receive Ohio Arts Council Fellowships in three separate mediums: photography, video and creative writing.).

His photographs are in the collections of major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Museum of Modern Art, the New York City, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Los Angeles, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA., Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA., and the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He teaches photography at Ohio State University.

STORIES is a continuing body of photographic images with text that were first compiled for a book of the same name. The exhibition is a series of single and groups of images that are presented with text underneath the pictures, as part of the final artwork. The text drives the images in a buoyant and lively way, often subscribing to the magical realism of his Latin heritage. Mendoza writes directly from the center of his experience, whether it is his decision to live life as an artist, his relationships, travels or family life.

In STORIES Mendoza uses beautiful images that are personal yet also have the quality of being a shared secret, a blown up snapshot from a scrapbook of lost moments brought to life again. Mendoza's final images combine expert photographic skills with the astute observations found in the text. His writing is masculine yet warm and accessible, counter-academic but smart, and offers a winning combination of humor and accuracy. The results present a rare opportunity to be inside what we are looking at, to experience content supported by formal strength as an organic system. Rather than being sentimental it is a living, lived experience, one we are happy to try on for a time.

Marian Roth

MARIAN ROTH

 

Also in the back galleries: New prints from Vicky Tomayko, winter work from Marian Roth, photographs by Phil Smith and a large pastoral erotic gouache on paper from Daniel Heyman.

 

 

SCHOOLHOUSE SPECIAL PROJECTS is a section of the galleries that can be used year-round. It consists of several departments that enable clients to secure staff assistance in the purchase of artworks from our roster.

byDESIGN is a service provided by Director Michael Carroll who works directly with design professionals privately selecting artworks for your home or workplace.

The ARTSHOP allows you to shop online for affordable works by gallery artists.

We also handle portfolios of vintage and modern prints from acclaimed photographers PAULA HORN KOTIS and AMY ARBUS. For information or a viewing contact Michael Carroll at mcarroll@schoolhousecenter.com.

General Information

The Schoolhouse Galleries are located at 494 Commercial Street in Provincetown's historic East End Gallery District. In season, the galleries are open daily except Wednesdays from 11 am until 6 PM, 9 PM on weekends. Limited parking is available in the Bradford Street end of our lot, located in the rear of the building.

For further information about exhibitions or to interview the artists please contact Michael Carroll at 508.487.4800 X 105 or e mail at mcarroll@schoolhousecenter.com

 

 

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