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| Mark Adams/ Tom Borgese/ Brent Jones/ Rena Lindstrom/ Jim Rann In the Silas-Kenyon Gallery October 17 through December 1, 2003 Artists Reception: Friday October 17 6-9 PM
The Silas-Kenyon Gallery presents new work from three artists who live and make work on the Outer Cape. There will also be a Group Show of season favorites including new work from Athens Georgia artist Brent Jones.
MARK ADAMS is a cartographer and painter who lives in Truro and works all over the country. He makes books, drawings and paintings with inks and watercolor paints that often originate in his experiences working with people and animals in the natural environment of Cape Cod’s National Seashore. Adams will exhibit a new body of works generated from the introduction of photo etchings into his studio, and the responses to these exciting new juxtapositions in the work. He considers the new pieces like field notes containing parts of the real world along with components of an interior life inspired by the local landscape. They offer an integration of paint, pen and etching that until now had remained distinct in the work. Making these images led Adams to question the unseen forces he became responsible for in their rendering; forces that we ordinarily take for granted, like gravity and the tides. In this new work we see how our bodies move in concert with a natural order, and are reminded of our connections with the range of seen and unseen inhabitants of the Cape, as well how we are influenced by what lies beyond. "We live in a world that is much bigger than we know", says Adams when asked to describe his motivations for making these exciting images.
TOM BORGESE continues his series of paintings of outer-space phenomena with this installation of one large nebula painting directly on the wall of the Silas-Kenyon Gallery. Borgese paints Geary buildings, Japanese fashion, gem stones and outer space. He focuses specifically on the this area as he feels it parallels a pre-modern function of art, one which acted like science in its desire to explore and understand the then current unfolding world. In the same way a Renaissance artist might have grappled with a physical problem like perspective, his paintings represent the philosophical ramifications brought on by knowledge. How do you think about a dying star? Borgese gives us an opportunity to consider our position in the universe and to ask what defines our unfolding world. In this case he adds the impact of scale to the discussion.
BRENT JONES lives and works in Athens, Georgia where he makes art that builds creatures of the future from the reclaimed rubbish of the past. Jones will present lamps and torches made from found metal and machine parts brilliantly reassembled in functional furniture that is slightly, slyly humorous.
RENA LINDSTROM began painting at the end of 1997. She has studied painting with Jim Peters and Rob Dutoit and drawing with Bill Behnken and Michael Burban. Mostly I've followed a trail of painters I like who lead me on to others. Living in Provincetown, one breathes art. I've learned the bus schedule to New York and which trains will get me to the museums. - RL Lindstrom writes about art as well and has interviewed many artists and visited their studios, which has demonstrated much to her about how to be a painter in the world. She likes most to paint what lies in her field of vision, the people and objects and vistas that are a part of her daily experience here on the Cape. For this exhibition she will present new paintings of babies and also a series of landscapes.
JIM RANN has been drawing since he was a young boy, when he dreamed of becoming an artist. Ten years ago he began to take art-making more seriously. Now as he enters his 60th year and has attained some measure of success he enjoys the feeling of joy he experiences while in the midst of the creative process, along with sharing the final work with others. Rann’s work is usually quite personal, whether it portrays children playing with the " wrong " toys, as in his "Sissies and Tomboys" series, or a series of portraits of his dog Molly and Partner, Peter, that comprised " The Molly " show, or the 2002 series of familiar Provincetown scenes. Rann enjoys taking inspiration from the world around him. In fact some of these new paintings take figure studies begun with a classroom model and finish them at home by painting his own domestic or outdoor scene in around them to finish the work.
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