JEN BRADLEY
CATHERINE WIDGERY
PASQUALE NATALE
AMY SABRINA

New Work in the Galleries

AUGUST 23 through SEPTEMBER 4, 2002
RECEPTION: Friday, August 23 7-10 PM
ARTIST TALK: Saturday, August 24 Noon

JEN BRADLEY lives and works in Provincetown. For this exhibition she continues delving into traditional painting, drawing, and printmaking issues to delight and astound us with images that finally exist just beyond our ability to define or explain them. Bradley paints light, flowers, birds and insects at the moment they take to flight, and the memories of still lives. She also goes to the Franklin Park Zoo and draws the Gorillas that live there. The paintings are paintings; the drawings are drawings, the prints - prints. Yet her ability to capture the scale of sadness or the color of something human in time is finally what makes these pictures art. See them.

 

CATHERINE WIDGERY: Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1953, Catherine Widgery received her B.A. from Yale University in 1975, living and working in London, New York and Rome before settling down in Montreal in 1979 where she lived until her return to the US to live in Truro, Mass in 1999. She has exhibited in Canada, the US, and Europe. Her exhibit Lost Sense at the Royal Ontario Museum in 1998 received international recognition. Her work appears in the collections of the Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal, the Musee du Quebec and many other public and private collections. She has completed twenty-eight major public commissions in the US and Canada.

She is currently working on projects in Mesa, Denver, Santa Fe and Toronto. A recent Museum show "playthings" is traveling for the coming year to Vancouver and Palm Desert. In all her work, there is a subtle balance between the forces and forms of nature and our human structures and ordering impulses. Widgery’s personal work uses the fragile materials of nature, while in her public work, her main interests lie in creating environments that involve the collaboration with the architect, designers and landscape architects so that the art work is woven intimately into the building or landscape. In these large installations she enjoys using industrial materials in direct and surprising ways.

For this exhibition she has made four large mysterious ark-like objects which face a large American flag. Thousands of white feathers make up the flag, as do similar amounts of branches, crab claws, and paper pieces for the arks.

Catherine Widgery has exhibited in Europe, the US and Canada and completed more than twenty eight large public commissions.

 

PASQUALE NATALE’s sculptures transform life’s simple cruelties from a source of despair to one of perseverance and consolation. As a child, Pasquale constructed shrines with fabric and real roses. “I felt most connected with myself when I was touching, working with, and feeling objects.” His shrines now are switching stations, sites of metamorphoses where poetry, design, and architecture intersect to transform “irreversible absence. . .into tangible presence.”
For this installation Natale has made a single long shelf for the Project Wall fitted with numerous clay chairs in various animated positions. Some of the chairs are broken while others are fixed to the wall. They are eerily human and funnily like a skyline. In fact, this is Natale’s intention. The piece is a comment on the recent discussion of Provincetown’s changing face, population, and economics.

 

AMY SABRINA was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she now lives and works. She attended the Rhode Island School of Design and the University of Minneapolis, and is the recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board individual Artist Grant and a McKnight Fellowship. Sabrina presents ceramic work that she has been creating over the past nine years….teapots, cups, vessels, plates, and tiles enlivened with whimsical lifestories, friends, pets, flowers, fruit, insects, and personal domestic images. Sophisticated without being slick, and simple without being homey, Sabrina’s works are what they seem to be, yet they first ask us to consider form and experience before the possibility of utility.

 

 

The Schoolhouse Center is located at 494 Commercial Street in Provincetown’s East End Gallery District. For information or to interview the artists please contact Michael Carroll at 508.487.4800 X 105 or check our web site at www.schoolhousecenter.com