BY HOWARD KARREN SEP 1, 2021
SOURCE: PROVINCETOWN INDEPENDENT
David W. Dunlap’s Building Provincetown is an ongoing project with a worthy aim: to create a comprehensive history of the town — that is, its residents, year-round and part-time, and all the astonishing work and eccentric play they are known for. But it’s organized in a counterintuitive way.

BY THE INDEPENDENT SEP 1, 2021
SOURCE: PROVINCETOWN INDEPENDENT
Alden Gallery, 423 Commercial St. in Provincetown, presents a two-person show of works by Alice Denison and Jane Paradise opening Friday, Sept. 3 and running through Sept. 16.

SOURCE: PROVINCETOWN INDEPENDENT
BY ANDRE VAN DER WENDE SEP 1, 2021
Judy Pfaff is home after returning from Sweden two nights before. “I’m calling from Tivoli, N.Y., trying to get used to what time it is now,” she says brightly. If she’s tired, it’s not evident. Pfaff doesn’t have a lot of time between engagements. She lectures part-time at Bard College where she’s been a professor of art since 1994. Last week, she taught a sold-out workshop at Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill. Now, she and one of her assistants are busy preparing and packing crates for a show of sculptures and works on paper at Provincetown’s Gaa Gallery, opening Friday, Sept. 3.

Source: PROVINCETOWN INDEPENDENT
By HOWARD KARREN
John Dowd’s Labor Day weekend exhibit at William Scott Gallery, 439 Commercial St. in Provincetown, has been an annual event that his followers have attended for decades, often with a frenzy of enthusiasm. His streetscape oil paintings have become emblematic of Provincetown — reproduced on posters and hung on the walls of collectors far and wide.

SOURCE: PROVINCETOWN INDEPENDENT
BY SUSANNAH ELISABETH FULCHER - SEP 1, 2021
In her Truro home, the sculptor Breon Dunigan bends to calm her lively puppy while four of her majestic horned “trophy heads” observe the scene silently from above. “Much of my work is about taking something that has had a life and giving it another new life,” she says.

SOURCE: PROVINCETOWN INDEPENDENT
BY HOWARD KARREN AUG 25, 2021
In the fall of 2019, before the Covid lockdown, Robert Henry had a memorable solo show called “Ship of State” at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis. The many large paintings in that exhibit depicted people in boats at sea in what appeared to be desperate attempts to survive.

SOURCE: PROVINCETOWN MAGAZINE
By Steve Desroches - August 25, 2021
Two men lay on their backs on what looks like a white brick road with blue and green mortar holding it all together.

SOURCE: PROVINCETOWN INDEPENDENT
BY HOWARD KARREN AUG 18, 2021
“I’m always working,” Brenda Horowitz says, sitting in her North Truro studio with her right wrist wrapped in a tight bandage, the result of a recent fall. “I don’t stop. I love the process.”

SOURCE: PROVINCETOWN INDEPENDENT
BY ANDRE VAN DER WENDE AUG 18, 2021
Brodsky’s paintings — oils on 3-inch diameter copper tondos, or circles — are like tiny portals. Though Brodsky doesn’t consider herself a “narrative painter,” the works transport the viewer somewhere vast and open.

Source: New York Magazine / Curbed / Great Rooms
By Wendy Goodman August 16, 2021
Construction of a hotel next door to Han Feng’s loft covered her east-facing windows, so she came up with a plan.

SOURCE: Boston Globe Visual Arts
By Cate McQuiad - Globe Correspondent. Updated August 12, 2021

Ansel, a painter’s painter who works wet-on-wet, uses old master paintings as source material to create fluid, gestural abstractions.

SOURCE: THE PROVINCETOWN INDEPENDENT
BY JOHN GREINER-FERRIS AUG 11, 2021
Feng’s artwork lies at the intersection of photography, still life, and sculpture. She joins the ranks of artists who use the camera as a tool — like a paintbrush or recording device.

SOURCE: PROVINCETOWNINDEPENDENT
By JOHN GREINER-FERRIS Aug 11, 2021
It has been said that if you let an artist work long enough, he’ll eventually start working abstractly. If true, this certainly applies to Rick Wrigley, who says his career over the past 40 years can be broken into three phases: furniture maker, house builder, and now sculptor.

SOURCE: THE BOSTON GLOBE
By Cate McQuaid Globe Correspondent, Updated August 5, 2021, 11:31 a.m.

Provincetown has a long history as an art colony, but until the pandemic, art dealers didn’t often work together. The summer season is a sprint, with long hours and quick exhibition turnovers. There hasn’t been time to collaborate. COVID spurred them to reach out to each other. A group of about 30 galleries has now formally become the Provincetown Art Gallery Association.