Clark Gallery at Gallery 444 PTown

Clark Gallery exhibits contemporary art in all media by emerging, mid-career and established artists from the Northeast and nationally. The gallery’s exhibition program reflects a broad range of twentieth century ideas appealing to collectors and institutions with diverse interests.

Clark Gallery is a full service contemporary art consulting company finding artwork for new and established collectors, museums, public and private corporations, museums, architecture firms, real estate agents, developers, non-profit art organizations, restaurants, interior decorators, art auctions and other art related organizations. To see additional images of artwork, or for information about purchasing artwork exhibited on this site contact Dana Salvo at dana@clarkgallery.com

Among our well established services are in-home consultations, private exhibition previews, and space rental for corporate and charity events.

Established in 1976, Clark Gallery is one of New England’s leading art galleries and a member of the Boston Art Dealers Association. Located just outside Boston in Lincoln, MA, an area known for its rich cultural offerings, Clark Gallery is minutes from the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park and the Walter Gropius House in Lincoln, as well as the Rose Art Museum in neighboring Waltham.

Dana Salvo, Owner, has been the recipient of two awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and has twice received the Fulbright Scholar Award. A nationally recognized photographer, his work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions throughout the United States. He has also received grants from the Lila Wallace Fund; the Asian Cultural Council; the Massachusetts Cultural Council; the Berkshire Taconic Foundation’s Artist Resource Trust; the LEF Foundation; and several other awards which assist artists in mid-career. His work is represented in numerous collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MOMA, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Fogg Art Museum, San Francisco MOMA, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts and the Addison Gallery of American Art.

Salvo is the author of Home Altars of Mexico. Published simultaneously by University of New Mexico Press in the United States as well as Thames and Hudson in Great Britain, the book is a result of his family’s experience examining how people evoke sacredness in their everyday environments in the creation of devotional altars and household arrangements which sanctify and personalize the places in which they live.

 

Center Street Studio

Artist and Master Printer James Stroud established Center Street Studio after working with printmaker Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17 in Paris in 1980-81, then completing his MFA in painting and printmaking at the Yale School of Art in 1984. Since then Center Street Studio has produced hundreds of print projects with artists of national and international reputation. Stroud is particularly respected for actively seeking out emerging talent and pursuing projects with young artists. The studio specializes in all kinds of intaglio techniques but produces woodcut and monotype projects as well.

 

Jane Paradise “Dune Shacks of Provincetown, Series 1”

On the wild back shore of Provincetown Massachusetts writers, artists and families made summer homes in the early 1900’s. Affectionately called the dune shacks, some were originally life saving huts in the late 1890’s but most were constructed in the 1920’s and 1930’s out of debris and ship wrecked ruins.

Some of these original shacks survive today – some restored, some bandaged, some dilapidated – all loved. Each shack is unique with its own personality and its own name.

Through these photographs I am trying to give a flavor of what it is like to live in a dune shack and/or experience the dune landscape. Most shacks are occupied in the summer, very few in the winter. But the landscape is always accessible.

The nineteen shacks that remain are in an area called “The Dune Shacks of The Peaked Hill Bars Historic District“ part of the Cape Cod National Seashore. The shacks were originally built on public land – this was common in those days in Provincetown – the landing place of the Pilgrims. There wasn’t so much of a distinction between public and private land. You built a house and you lived in it. No one thought anything of it. Then the National Seashore (a welcome force) came along and swept 18 of them up into the bureaucracy. One owner had clear title to prove he owned the land and the shack. Other shack occupants signed different lease agreement with the Seashore.

It is not easy to live or stay at a dune shack. It is about a 2-mile walk from your car, or, if you are lucky, someone “authorized” might give you lift over the dunes on one of the two sand roads. The shacks have no running water and no electricity. There are kerosene lamps for light and wells dug in the sand a walk away for hand pumping drinking and washing water. It is heavy going pumping and carrying those gallon jugs of water. Propane stoves are used for cooking, wood burning stoves for heat. If you are lucky you might have a propane refrigerator that works. Otherwise coolers are the order of the day in the summer. Outhouses are a short stroll away.

Coyotes will howl in the night, foxes will cry or scream; numerous animal tracks will envelope the sand around your shack in the morning. You wonder where all those tracks came from and how you didn’t hear a sound.

Solitude abounds with the sound of the sea ever present.

This is home for those of us who want to be (t)here, who are lost without the endless vista of sand, the crashing Atlantic Ocean waves, the whales, the seals, the sand, the night sounds, the night skies. We worry about the increasing popularity of walkers and incursion of the “public” on these fragile lands and structures. They will outlive us though. They have so far. We must believe that.

Within this backshore environment inspiration and creativity always flowed along side full moon parties and drunken revelries. Literature and the arts flourished in this simple lifestyle, as did the families who have summered for generations here.

Eugene O’Neill owned, lived and wrote for summers in an old coast guard station in the dunes. It fell into the seas as the dunes receded. Mabel Dodge Luhan, a patron of the arts, held forth in the dunes with Jack Reed who is best remembered for his first-hand account of the October 1916 revolution “Ten Days that Shook the World.” Later on, in 1981, Warren Beatty would play him in the movie “Reds” where the opening scenes were filmed on the Provincetown dunes. Scenes from the 1968 “The Thomas Crown Affair” with Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway were shot on these dunes.

The author Hazel Hawthorne owned a shack and came here “with the thoughtful intention of living directly and truthfully.” Harry Kemp the poet lived in what may have been a converted chicken coop and wrote numerous poems about the dunes. Other visitors to these windswept shores were e.e. Cummings. Jackson Pollack, Willem de Kooning, Tennessee Williams, Walker Evans, Charles Demuth and Jack Kerouac who wrote part of “On the Road” here.

Modern day writers, artists, poets, dancers, and scientist still apply for residencies and flock here for the solitude, the love of the land and the creativity it inspires. Families still come and raise their children, grand children and great grand children. Memories are created.

Marsden Hartley may have summed it up best in his autobiography “What a summer – in among those amazing dunes – shifting with the wind before one’s eyes – burying young pine trees to their tops – moving incessantly… Whoever will forget those dunes – once having seen them – and the great rumbling, dramatic “outside” as it was called – the ocean itself, the long stretch of lovely sands, and nothing else.”

13FOREST Gallery at Gallery 444 PTown

For ten years 13FOREST Gallery has been working with some of the finest artists in the Boston area to bring recognition to their work and to link them directly with the public. When the opportunity arose to present a late-summer exhibition at Gallery 444 on Commercial Street in Provincetown, we saw it as a way to extend our tenth anniversary while continuing to introduce unique artists to new audiences.

The exhibition 13FOREST at 444 includes ten artists whose work represents the exceptional quality and range of our collection. A curated selection of unframed works will also be on view. Several of the artists have never had their work shown on the Cape, while others are creating new work specifically for Provincetown.

13FOREST at 444 will feature the work of Linda Cordner, Mia Cross, Nicole Duennebier, Susan Jaworski-Stranc, Boriana Kantcheva, Kenji Nakayama, Wilhelm Neusser, David Palmquist, Heather Pilchard, Mike Ryczek, and many more.

Events

Fri 9/8, 7 pm: Opening Reception
Sun 9/10, 7 pm: Meet the Artists of 13FOREST

Join us every night at 7 for refreshments.

 

Rich Fedorchak & Marlis Dunn at Gallery 444 PTown

Rich Fedorchak: After a 35 year career as a registered nurse working primarily in pediatric critical care and pediatric hematology/oncology, I am now retired and devoting most of my time to my artistic pursuits, which I have been active in since the mid-1970’s. I produce work in collage and assemblage, and experimental cinema. Recently I had a solo exhibit of my work at AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, NH. My films have been screened at various juried festivals in the US and Canada including The 8Fest, the Winnepeg Underground Film Festival, the Montreal Underground Film Festival, and the Haverhill Experimental Film Festival. 

My artist friend Marlis Dunn (paintings) who lives in North Truro and will sharing the exhibit with me. 

 

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Also in Provincetown this week: September 28-October 2 Mates Leather Weekend, September 29-October 1 4rd Annual Provincetown Inspiration Weekend, September 30 Provincetown Dance Trophy Ballroom Dance Competition

Steven Menendez at Gallery 444 PTown

Steven was born and raised in Miami Florida. He was drawn to nature and photography since early childhood. At young age he was either hiking in the woods and climbing trees or styling his wardrobe from head to toe for his own photoshoots.

In 1987, fresh out of high school, Steven opened a vintage clothing boutique in South Beach during the pioneer days when South Beach was still the wild west. He became known by models, stylists and magazine editors who encouraged him to bring his magic to the set. His career as a fashion stylist soon rocketed and he was sought after for his talent and vision.

Steven’s perspective in photography and art direction have been greatly inspired by his travels. His contact with exotic landscapes have further influenced his creative perspective. His passion for living in touch with the earth guides him in all of his pursuits.

With a history of over 25 years working on photoshoots Steven brings his expertise to every project. He believe a beautiful image should be easy to capture when all the elements are in place. He is passionate about capturing visually stimulating images that triumph the beauty in our world.

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Also in Provincetown this week: Augusy 3 Homemade Boat Race, August 10 The 13th Annual Provincetown Jazz Festival, August 12 The 7th Annual Lobsterfest, August 12-19 Carnival Week

Scot Titelbaum at Gallery 444 PTown

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Also in Provincetown this week:  July 8-16 Bear Week

Ramble Market Collection at Gallery 444 PTown

Ramble Market is a totally unique group of shops.

• Antiques
• Vintage Home Furnishings And Accessories
• Mid Century Modern Furnishings
• Hand-Knotted Persian Rugs
• Handcrafted Furniture Made Out Of Reclaimed Materials
• Fine Art, Paintings & Sculptures
• Reclaimed Metal Animal Artwork
• Custom Furniture & Upholstery

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Also in Provincetown this week:

Caroline Owens at Gallery 444 PTown

I became a weaver at age five, when Sarah Oberholtzer’s mother presented her with a potholder loom that let me– Sara was never interested– transform floppy cotton loops into dense, strong squares. Somehow, that repetitive over and under motion created a structure with dimensional cells, each with a visible surface, edges, and a hidden second layer. I spent years experimenting with materials (newspapers, spun fibers, wire, plastic, painted paper), weave structures (plain, twill, tapestry, overshot), and presentation (garments, containers, hanging panels) through traditional crafts. My current work, woven tapestries of paper that has been stained, painted and sanded, continues this exploration of surface and structure.

New works often begin with a strong emotional response to a visual image encountered in my daily life.  Others arise from a lifelong curiosity about geology, landforms and forests. Whatever subject I have chosen, I then use photographs, sketches and draft paintings to explore its structure, looking for a resonant visual composition with energy that can be expressed through interlaced strips of paper. The final composition is reproduced at least twice with acrylic inks and paints, building complexity by sanding back to reveal underlying layers. Each painting is then cut into sections and strips for weaving.

 

http://wovenimages.com

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Also in Provincetown this week: May 26-29 Memorial Day Weekend 

 

Group Show at Gallery 444 PTown

Exhibits from Gallery 444 PTown core artists and artist friends.

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Also in Provincetown this week: June 1-4 Cabaret Fest, June 1-5 Women of Color & Friends Weekend, June 4 Provincetown 10K, June 2-4 Encaustic Conference