PAAM’S TASTEFUL COUNTERBALANCE: ZEHRA KHAN SOLO SHOW COMPLIMENTS DE GROOT COLLECTION

The natural world is fully celebrated in two glorious shows at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) this summer. “Art of the Garden: Selections from the Pat and Nanno de Groot Collection” are on view through July 24. “Your Everyday Myths,” a solo exhibition by Zehra Khan, runs through August 28, with a public reception on July 22.

“Art of the Garden,” curated by PAAM CEO Christine McCarthy, centers on the work of Dutch-born Nanno de Groot (1913-1963). He started making art in 1948 at 35 years old, (take heart, late bloomers.) Self-taught, de Groot wrote in his artist statement that “in moments of clarity of thought, I can sustain the idea that everything on earth is nature, including that which springs forth from a man’s mind and hand. A Franz Kline is nature as much as a zinnia.”

De Groot considered himself an American Abstract Expressionist as he came into his own when he moved to New York City in 1950. Attracted to the Provincetown/New York connection, he rented a Provincetown studio from Fritz Bultman in 1956. De Groot was intensely productive in the summers he spent here.

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