Memorial Day Weekend Open House
Addison Art Gallery 43 South Orleans Road (RT 28), Orleans, MA, United StatesJoin friends, old and new, for an exhibit of fresh works and a celebration of another great Cape Cod season.
Join friends, old and new, for an exhibit of fresh works and a celebration of another great Cape Cod season.
Work by contemporary artists inspired by Edward Hopper and the places he painted on Cape Cod In 1930, his first year renting on Cape Cod, Edward Hopper painted a watercolor entitled “Wellfleet Bridge.” “Wellfleet Road” was completed in 1931. “The Capron House”, a painting of one of Wellfleet’s most pristine and historically significant homes, was completed in 1933. While Edward and Josephine Hopper had spent most of their married lives in a rented apartment in New York City, when an … Read More
Work by contemporary artists inspired by Edward Hopper and the places he painted on Cape Cod with an emphasis on Wellfleet. Reception, artists’ panel and demonstrations throughout the month. For more information, email art@addisonart.com.
Satisfy your curiosity about plein air painting by watching Maryalice Eizenberg paint along Main Street in Wellfleet. She is an energetic instructor who enjoys answering questions while she paints and her demos are always entertaining and informative.
Susan will demonstrate how she uses a small plein air study to create a larger studio piece. Influenced by the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist, the use of wet on wet, broken color and loaded brush will be discussed.
Fay will demonstrate how she works to capture the changing effects of afternoon light and shadow.
See artists painting scenes of Wellfleet in the morning and join us for a reception from 4 to 6 at the Wellfleet Public Library.
Join artists and friends for an exhibit of new paintings inspired by Edward Hopper and the places he painted on Cape Cod. Featured will be wet paintings of classic and distinctive Wellfleet scenes created that morning.
Steve will discuss materials, choice of colors and subject, and how to begin a plein air piece while painting, as well as how Hopper’s work influences his own.
Marc Kundmann, who known for his effective use of the luminous and layered properties of the encaustic medium, will demonstrate and talk about how to bring these same qualities to acrylic painting.
Award-winning, internationally collected oil painter Sharon McGauley is known for her atmospheric, evocative oil paintings of land and sea. Her paintings are studies of the natural environment that synthesize observation, memory and experience. Long inspired by the Cape, McGauley expands on her landscape work and has also begun adding a subtle figurative element. These paintings focus on groups of beachgoers exploring low tide in a variety of lights, allowing McGauley to play with the subtle abstraction of figures getting lost … Read More
See artists painting beautiful Orleans gardens, all to benefit the Orleans Improvement Association. For tickets, please contact info@orleansimprovement.org.
We hope you and your friends will be able to join us to meet the artists and discover works painted that day and throughout the spring.
"Hopper Stories" is a unique series of eight short fiction films inspired by Edward Hopper's masterpieces. The list of paintings includes "Nighthawks", "A Woman in the Sun", "Conference at Night", "First Row Orchestra" and others. The idea of the series was to ask directors to choose the Edward Hopper painting that most intrigued them, and to make a short film out of it. The directors are either well known — such as Mathieu Amalric in France (Best Director Award, Cannes … Read More
An exhibition and reception honoring our country’s history and featuring historical sites of the Cape including Sea Captains' homes, antique inns, windmills, cranberry bogs, preserved landscapes and more.