Jane Tuckerman Haunted
Guest Curated by John Borowicz

Jane Tuckerman
Milagro

Jane Tuckerman's exceptional relationship with the medium of photography has resulted in a stunning array of imagery.

Exploring the ritualistic, transformative, and magical aspects of various cultures, her work is both tranquil and unsettling. Though incredibly candid and humane, her art's undeniable strength is that it seeks to include the viewer in an open dialogue with both the artist and subject. She compels us to not only look, but to see in unexpected ways. While grounded in photography, Tuckerman often pushes her poignant exploration into the realms of painting, collage and sculpture.

This exhibition will offer an in depth and unique look at one of the SouthCoast's most engaging artists.

~ John Borowicz, Guest Curator

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kathryn Lee Smith: Crossing the Fine White Line
Guest Curated by James R. Bakker

 

Kathi Smith’s exceptional work carries and extends a unique and important legacy in the art of printmaking into the 21st century. Provincetown’s tradition of white-line printmaking is infused with new life in Kathi’s hands, and is made vital to a new generation. We at NBAM are especially pleased to host this fine exhibit for our audiences as an informative educational experience, as well as a lush and fulfilling aesthetic idyll.

 

Vault Series: Michelle Grabner — The Pleasures of Merely Circulating
Curated by Joan Backes

 

Michelle Grabner
Untitled (2006)
50 inch diam eter
Flash on canvas
courtesy of Shane Campbell Gallery

 

"I value averageness. I flourish in the middle. ... Specialness is for others."

~ Michelle Grabner

"[My] recent body of work employs various sized round stretchers. The points of abstract information that dot the colorless circle fields parallel infant utterances, beginning speech, or a speech disorder. No longer indexes of patterns of familiar things, they are the pattern of base thought, visual echolalia, meaningless sequences of points that expand and progress outward in an Archimedes spiral. Textual and arithmetical, the painting's non-Cart esian coordinates establish an active metaphor for forgetting while at the same time underscoring a teleologic belief principle."

~ Michelle Grabner, 2007

 

Chicago artist Michelle Grabner speaks of her circular paintings as “... just another component of my daily life like vacuuming, making the beds, preparing a lecture, reading to children... It is a practical and aesthetic activity, leisurely and routine, casual and obsessive. It is also cathartic, the fastidious filling-in of the endless negative and positive spaces. I think the paintings are fundamentally a momentary stay against the confusion in a busy day.”

Joan Backes, founding curator of our Vault Series exhibitions, and curator for VAULT SERIES: Michelle Grabner — The Pleasures of Merely Circulating, explains that Grabner employs “various sized round stretchers using the medium of flash on canvas, a flat vinyl-based paint that looks like gouache and gives a sturdier surface.”

“Grabner’s insistent and minute patterning has been said to refer to the realm of the domestic; fabrics and textiles (blankets, rugs, clothing curtains, and so on). This labor-intensive repetitive work relates to the simple daily chores that are done by each of us, day after day, week upon week.”

“Grabner’s circular paintings and prints seek balance yet hint at compulsion,” states Wayne L. Roosa, Ph.D., Professor of Art History at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minn., author of the essay in NBAM’s exhibition brochure, “But they do so with such beautiful nuances of grays, sensitive lines, and fine-tuned touches of paint shifting in hues that the viewer is richly nourished in the meantime.”

 

Location Not Specific (or, It's Neither Here Nor There)
Sculpture and drawings by Caroline Doherty and Sean Naftel
Erin Treacy, Guest Curator

Visit the Website for Location Not Specific at www.locationnotspecific.com.

 

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