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Cape Cod

Light Beyond Vision: Child Captures the Cape’s Special Places

// Current Issue, Issue Articles, January/February 2020

by J. Fatima Martins

Can a book of photography substitute for an exhibition of the same photographs? This is the question pushed forward by Andrew Child by concurrently publishing a color photography book and mounting an exhibition of the same images at ArtSpace Maynard. The question may seem elementary, and the answer may seem obvious, but it’s more complicated than we think. Child is an artist who is aware of himself. In the introduction to his gorgeous book of color panoramic infrared images, “Cape Cod and the Islands: Light Beyond Vision,” he makes clear that there are many books documenting the Cape Cod region: “I suspect that many readers will object to my referring to Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket as a single place. Shelves of books have been written about each.” So, what’s so special about Child’s photographs and why should be pay attention to him as an artist? Child expands the … [Read more...] about Light Beyond Vision: Child Captures the Cape’s Special Places

CELEBRATING DORIS EPSTEIN: SOLO SHOW HIGHLIGHTS FALMOUTH SEASON

// Current Issue, Issue Articles, July/August 2019

by Lee Roscoe

The Falmouth Art Center, which opened in its new digs in 2009 as an outgrowth of the original Falmouth Artists Guild founded in 1966, is a happening place of spirit and vitality for members and the public alike. Presenting 36 shows of every media imaginable in three galleries throughout the year, FAC offers classes, workshops, summer art camp, hands-on participatory demos, movies and more for all ages and all abilities in 11,000 debt-free square feet that also holds two classrooms, as well as rooms for weaving, sculpting and pottery. “We’re dedicated to the community as an art center for everybody and to serve the local artists, that’s what sets us apart,” director Laura Reckford stressed. “We’re unique on the Cape in that anybody can pay a small fee and exhibit your piece on the wall to sell if you choose.” This July and August, they’ll be presenting “The Falmouth Art Center’s … [Read more...] about CELEBRATING DORIS EPSTEIN: SOLO SHOW HIGHLIGHTS FALMOUTH SEASON

Suzanne M. Packer, "Yellow Glimmer," 2018, oil on canvas, 24” x 36”, featured in Cape Waters Abstracted II at Cultural Center of Cape Cod. Photograph by Robert Nash.

ARTIST, TEACHER, MUSE: PACKER PAINTS, BONDS CAPE COD’S HEARTBEAT

// Current Issue, Issue Articles, May/June 2019

by Lee Roscoe

Suzanne M. Packer showed her first artwork at the San Francisco Museum of Art when she was five years old. Some of her earliest memories are of spending her Saturdays sitting at the dining table painting watercolors and drawing with her dad, A.S. Packer, noted illustrator for Parade magazine, as her mother, teacher and school principal, encouraged her. She grew up in a suburb near Manhattan and was taken to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the MOMA and the Frick Collection. She says art runs in the family. One grandchild is a working artist. Her “very supportive” husband, Dick McGarr, is a painter. They live in a uniquely artistic house designed by Nina Wolff, with wide pine panel floors, stressed-wood doors and exposed beams. Married with children and freelancing as a graphics designer — for which she had trained at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in the 1960s — she opened … [Read more...] about ARTIST, TEACHER, MUSE: PACKER PAINTS, BONDS CAPE COD’S HEARTBEAT

Lorraine Trenholm painting of Suzanne M. Packer painting on the 21 retreat.

ELECTRIFIED BUT RUSTIC: TWENTY-ONE IN TRURO’S CAHOON RETREAT

// Current Issue, Issue Articles, May/June 2019

by Lee Roscoe

They have different backgrounds, influences, subject matter and mediums, but they are united in supportiveness and mutual respect as the “Twenty-One in Truro.” The group started in 1999 when two women thought the Corn Hill cottages in Truro, Cape Cod, would make a great artists’ retreat. Within about a week, 21 women, all the place had room for, had signed on. The venue for their annual week-long retreat at the end of September into October changed years back, from the dunes overlooking the bay, to the south-facing side of Truro’s Pamet River at the five Sladeville Cabins (which themselves have an artistic history going back to the 1920s). “It’s electrified but rustic,” said Kate Nelson. “We have to prepare for 20- to 80-degree weather, bring boots for mud, bring food and artist’s materials, but it’s great; you get to leave your husband and kids, and be yourself.” In their … [Read more...] about ELECTRIFIED BUT RUSTIC: TWENTY-ONE IN TRURO’S CAHOON RETREAT

Formal Aspects at the Cape Cod Museum of Art

// Exhibits

By Rhiannon Leigh As a Cape Cod native and artist, I understand using the child-like sense of home, vibrant sunsets and colors of the coast and the overall relationship with nature to evoke one's passion. "Formal Aspects," an exhibition in which six artists use their memories of time spent on the Cape to create vastly different portrayals of their experiences with the unique Cape Cod landscape, is currently on view at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis. The show features Erica Adams, Emily Berger, Joanne Freeman, Sarah Hinckley, Joanne Mattera and Mira Schor, who utilize several different mediums and techniques that give the show contrasting qualities ranging from bright, color field paintings that evoke a light hearted emotion to paintings that hold a much darker meaning. Sarah Hinckley, who curated the show, wrote that she finds her inspiration from her experiences growing … [Read more...] about Formal Aspects at the Cape Cod Museum of Art