Ubiquitous and Familiar: The Paintings of Elisabeth Pearl
Provincetown Magazine, May 11, 2023
REVIEW: by Steve Desroches
Upon walking into the Charles Hawthorne Gallery at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM), front and center there is a self-portrait of artist Elisabeth Pearl positioned on an easel with an empty stool at an angle. The gaze on her face is focused and pensive, apropos of the meta presentation of a work space of a painting of an artist taking a moment away from her work in her Provincetown studio with her pet dalmatian posing for attention and for the image on the canvas. It’s also an entirely appropriate greeting to the exhibition Ubiquitous and Familiar: The Paintings of Elisabeth Pearl featuring the work of an artist with a keen observatory eye that can give definition to the blur of motion by stopping it by the millisecond and adorning it with memory and viewpoint.
