Dynamic Duo: Recent Work From Mary Giammarino and Pete Hocking
Four Eleven Gallery, located at 411 Commercial Street in Provincetown, announces Dynamic Duo: Recent Work From Mary Giammarino and Pete Hocking. The show opens on Friday, 16 December 2022 and there will be a reception for the show on Saturday, December 17th from 5-7 PM, The show runs through Sunday, January 8th. In addition to the show, Giammarino and Hocking’s artworks will be available to view and purchase at fourelevengallery.com
Mary Giammarino, Spirit 8 x 10 inches, oil on panel
Giammarino and Hocking both engage the Outer Cape landscape through dynamic painting methods. Giammarino, a practitioner and teacher of plein air painting, creates artworks that bear direct witness to place, environment, and a moment in time. Hocking, an avid hiker and studio painter, makes paintings that are distilled through time, memory, and the body. The work of both artists offers a unique testament to the experience of place and, by juxtaposing their work, this show invites us to see our beloved landscape in unexpected and compelling ways.
Mary Giammarino’s devotion to light and color is evident in all of her paintings. While her work is influenced by an impressionist palette, her work is less idealized and more contemporary by design. Giammarino’s plein-air paintings reflect her passion and devotion to capturing the exquisite drama of nature’s fleeting moods. She has been returning to Provincetown to paint and study the Cape light every spring since 1989. Giammarino has had numerous solo shows and exhibitions in Provincetown, Philadelphia and Vermont. Her work is in private collections and museums as well as all over Europe.
Pete Hocking is an interdisciplinary artist, activist, and teacher who lives and works on the Outer Cape. His artworks are concerned both spatial poetics and the one’s emotional connection to place. He’s interested in the ways that individual human identities are inscribed into human and non-human landscapes, and ultimately in the ways that the non-human world defies human intervention. Hocking teaches at Rhode Island School of Design, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and is a founder of Provincetown Commons.