STATEMENT ON WORK :

The consistent evolution of Stopforth's work has led him to develop a
convincing form of abstract figuration that displays considerable drawing, graphic
and pictorial skills. His new large scale works on paper in which he employs a
combination of poured, spilled and vigorously applied color, overlapped by a
range of drawn surfaces, constitute a sophisticated and powerful shift in
direction.
He has not entirely abandoned the narrative structures that consistently
linked his work to the social and political concerns of his past life in South
Africa under apartheid, but what he has been able to do is to enlarge the scope
of that awareness, and in doing so has liberated his work entirely from those
constraints. There is a dramatic and complex sense of movement; meaning and
time in these new works that appear haunted by a serene ambiguity

The Schoolhouse is located at 494 Commercial Street, in Provincetown's historic East End Gallery District. The galleries are open daily from 11, and always by appointment. For information, please call Michael Carroll(508) 487.4800. xt 105