Addison Art Gallery, Fine Art Gallery on Cape Cod

Addison Art Gallery is honored to once again be invited to show at Provincetown's Mary Heaton Vorse House. Below, please find links explaining the significance of this house, and the restoration by noted designer Ken Fulk to revive the spirit of an amazing age in our country’s history.

MHV house curator Gene Tartaglia will choose work for the exhibition, which will open on Friday, October 11. The show will encompass older works, giving the show some of the delights of a retrospective, alongside new paintings acknowledging Mary Heaton Vorse and this gathering place for the Provincetown Players, world-renowned journalists, and twentieth-century bohemians.

The exhibition will hang through the winter. Tickets required to Provincetown Arts Society. Reservations required (and viewings by appointment) by contacting helen@addisonart.com.

Addison Art Gallery, named "Cape Cod’s Best Art Gallery" by Cape Cod Magazine, has been recognized by American Art Collector for presenting “the public with art by newly discovered artists and masterpieces by established artists.”

Read more about the Mary Heaton Vorse House in the article links below:

"Ken Fulk's Love Letter to Provincetown, America's Original Bohemian Mecca" –Town and Country Magazine

"Can a New Arts Center Revitalize Provincetown?" – New York Times

About Mary Heaton Vorse on Wikipedia

Karri Allrich

Karri Allrich is an expressive New England artist painting evocative landscapes, seascapes, and nature-inspired abstractions on canvas, panels, and paper. She is a Fine Arts graduate of the Corcoran School of Art in Washington DC, where she majored in studio painting and photography. Her eclectic artistic influences include Wolf Kahn, Fairfield Porter, Forrest Moses, and Helen Frankenthaler.

From the Copley Society of Boston and The Cahoon Museum of American Art to the Portland Museum Rental and Sales Gallery and Seattle Design Center in the Pacific Northwest, Karri has exhibited her work in juried, group and solo gallery shows in New York, NY; Denver, Boulder, and Fort Collins, CO; Seattle, WA; Portland, OR; Boston, Wellfleet, Dennis, and Orleans, Massachusetts.

Teresa Baksa

Teresa Baksa came to Cape Cod to paint in 1990. She is a graduate of Harvard University, 1989, and Montserrat College of Art, 1979. Her influences include Montserrat founder Joseph Jeswald, Montserrat senior faculty member and student of Hans Hoffman, Paul Scott, and Salvatore Del Deo of Provincetown.

Baksa finds inspiration almost everywhere which she expresses through sensations, feelings, and metaphor, whether it be figurative, landscape, or
imaginative. Her sources of inspiration determine the approach she will take in a work of art so her style varies within her overall body of work.

Baksa has exhibited in many invitational and juried exhibitions at Cape Cod Museum of Art, Cahoon Museum of American Art, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown Arts Society, Cotuit Center for The Arts, and galleries in the mid-Cape area and Provincetown. She was given a solo exhibition at CCMOA in 2004. Her work is in many private collections locally, nationally, and abroad.

Paul Baldassini

Paul Baldassini’s dedicated study of 16th century and other master painters, combined with his vast knowledge of modern painting techniques, results in contemporary realist paintings that appeal to art collectors who appreciate both how a painting is created and the nature of the subject portrayed in a painting.

“My technique is similar to that of the old masters, yet incorporates a contemporary style. I capture specific moments of a scene as objectively as possible with a certain believability and authenticity while continuing to advance a style of painting that blends detail with the elegant aesthetics of a fine art painting.”

Steve Bowersock

As a United States Marine, Desert Storm taught Steve Bowersock discipline, and the opportunity to view the exquisite works of the great European artists fueled his commitment to study and develop his artistic abilities.

From first strokes using watercolors, to his latest in oil, Bowersock's efforts have led to him now digging into the representational surreal mindset, a tripping of the mind from the natural to the personal. Creating unique dreamscapes, he contemplates and parses the subject matter of what lies on the edges of comprehension. Like trying to grab onto nature’s hidden heartbeat, “it’s about tapping into imagination’s world, into a feeling, a deep ongoing exploration of the seen and what lies just beyond our minds’ eye. These place places hold such great fascination, yet they are often where we most hesitate to go.”

Kathy Cotter

Kathy Cotter spent her summers as a child in Truro and has maintained a home in Provincetown/Truro for over 40 years. She is a process painter playing with color, textures, and subjects in a way that remain abstract. Cotter strives to have the viewer feel personal connection to the work: a memory, feeling or emotion. She believes that everything, animate or inanimate, has a spirit or essence and her job is to portray that. Painting for her demands experimentation, fearlessness and willingness to try something new. Her exploration and expression is unique. Her work includes oil painting, encaustic, screen printing and combinations thereof. Her work has been shown in Provincetown, Palm Beach, Key West, Miami, and the Hamptons.

"The work of Kathy Cotter is very evocative of life on Cape Cod...and the textural quality of the work is what always seems to excite.” —M Sebastian Arau

Julia Cumes

Julia Cumes is a South African-born, Cape Cod-based photographer known for her storytelling approach, capturing moments of human connection and the essence of community life. Her work in this exhibit centers on the shellfishing community, reflecting her passion for documenting real people and the narratives that shape their lives. Through her photography, Julia aims to spark dialogue about the broader challenges we face as a society, including environmental change and community resilience. Most recently, Julia was chosen as the 2024 "Artist of the Year" by the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.

Salvatore Del Deo

Salvatore Del Deo was born in 1928, the child of Italian immigrants, Assunta Balsafiore and Giovanni-Romolo Del Deo. He moved to Provincetown at 17 to study painting with Henry Hensche, and later with Edwin Dickinson. Having dedicated the rest of his life to painting there, he is now regarded as one of the iconic art community’s treasured artists, honored many times over in museums and gallery exhibitions.

Salvatore has given generously, not only of his art, but also of his time to the community. With his wife Josephine and a circle of friends, he founded the Fine Arts Work Center and the Provincetown Heritage Museum. He also created the first program (a children’s art class at PAAM) to ever win a Mass Grant for the Arts. He helped Harry Holl found the Cape Cod Museum of Art and he co-founded the Cape Cod Regional Technical School. Salvatore continues to create his chromatically rich paintings to this day.

After graduating from the University of Massachusetts with a degree in landscape architecture, Jonathan Earle spent 20 years in architectural and construction management. As his career path moved him further and further away from expressing his ideas with pencil and paper, he returned to his true passion, painting.

“Creating a sense of place in the landscape is at the core of landscape architecture. A sense of place is the experience or emotions associated within a familiar setting. It is this principle that I draw upon when painting, the dimension that is formed by people’s relationship with their physical setting, whether an actual figure in the painting or the viewer. I aim to capture the emotion and energy of that place. Whether it be the energy of a crowded street or the potential energy of idle boats, each evokes emotion and feeling for a place.”

Maryalice Eizenberg is an award-winning artist who completed coursework at the Worcester and Springﬁeld Fine Arts museums, earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree at Clark University, and studied with painters John Cosby, Donald Demers, Kim English, Daniel Keys, Gregg Kreutz, Joseph Paquet, and Charles Sovek. Dramatic patterns of light and color are what attract her most to a subject.

She teaches at the Creative Arts Center in Chatham, and is a member of Oil Painters of America, and Twenty One in Truro. Her work has been shown in museums on and oﬀ the Cape. Her work is held in private collections in the United States, Europe and Japan.

Amy Ford

Amy Ford is a mixed media artist with a focus on the human form.

She has studied figure drawing for over twenty years, beginning in 2001 in the studio of Silvestro Pistolesi in Florence, Italy. This intensive catapulted her from casual creativity to a relentless search for her own voice as an artist.

While raising five children, Amy studied with Joan Pereira at Castle Hill, where she discovered a love for intense color and dynamic brushwork. She continued her studies with Charles Sovek at the Creative Arts Center in Chatham, MA, Jo Hay at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and Richard Fox at University of New Hampshire, Durham.

Her work has been shown at multiple solo exhibitions throughout New England, including at The Commons, Provincetown, MA, Edwards Gallery, Holderness, NH, McLaughlin-Hills Barn Gallery, Durham, NH and Studio Allston, Allston, MA. In 2022, Ford was featured in Boston, MA at a two-person show at Beacon Gallery. Her work has been shown at multiple group shows at Cambridge Art Association, Concord Art Association and The Barn Gallery in Ogunquit, ME. Most recently, her large-scale work was featured at the Crown & Anchor for the summer season show, It’s Not John.

Stephanie Foster

Stephanie Foster is a Boston native who majored in English at Boston University and then attended New England School of Photography. She designed, wrote and photographed for the Boston Globe and worked as a fashion photographer at a top studio on Newbury Street. On the Cape, her interest shifted to nature photography and portraiture.

A columnist and photojournalist, Stephanie has received awards from Grand Circle Travel, Parade Magazine, the New England Press Association and Suburban Newspapers of America. She has had two solo shows of fine art photographs at the Cape Cod Museum of Art and her work is in their permanent collection.

“I have pursued a career as a painter for many years now. Along the way my methods, materials and focus have evolved. A naturalist at heart, the landscape is the perfect vehicle for expressing the joy I have for the world that surrounds me. I’m most successful when I’m able to communicate that joy to the viewers of my paintings.”

Marc teaches landscape painting workshops nationally.

Marc has shown his work in galleries and museums nationally and internationally since the early 1980s. He is a Master Signature Member of The Oil Painters of America (O.P.A.M.), having won an Award of Excellence at O.P.A. National Exhibits in 2000, 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2011. In 2011 Marc’s painting ‘Right or Left’ was awarded Bronze Medal for Painting at the OPA National Exhibition in Coeur d’Alene, ID. Among his many awards, he’s placed four times in The Pastel Journal’s ‘Pastel 100’ competition.

Joyce Johnson started carving in wood when she was about 10 years old. It was her first love and continued to be although she also worked in clay, direct plaster and other materials to be reproduced in bronze. She was accepted at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston from which she graduated with honors. Ms. Johnson founded Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, and was a founder of the Peaked Hill.

In 2013, the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod presented her with the Lifetime Achievement Award. In October, 2014, she was posthumously honored with the Award for Artistic Excellence at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum's 100th Anniversary Gala. Ms. Johnson has received reviews in the New York Review, American Art Collector magazine, Cape Cod Times, Cape Arts and Boston Globe, among others. She was commissioned for public sculptures for Probus Gardens in Cornwall, England, and at High Head public lands in North Truro.

Steve Kennedy

Steve Kennedy has been living and painting on Cape Cod since 1981. He grew up in central Connecticut and knew he wanted to be an artist from an early age. Kennedy went to Paier College of Art, graduating in 1981. He then moved to Cape Cod, never left, and began painting outdoors plein air year round. Within two years he was established in the gallery scene.

His work is thoughtful, colorful and direct. Studio work tends to be more evocative, contemplative. He prefers time-worn subjects, things others would pass by without noticing. He cites Edward Hopper as an influence.

Kennedy'a work is collected locally, nationally and internationally. He has won prizes at many art shows, including: The Salmagundi Club (NYC), International Marine Art Exhibition (Mystic Seaport Museum, CT) North Shore Arts Association (Gloucester, MA), Creative Arts Center (Chatham, MA), New Haven Paint and Clay Club (New Haven, CT) and elsewhere. His work is in the permanent collection of the Cape Cod Museum of Art (Dennis, MA), Cahoon Museum of American Art (Cotuit, MA), Truro Historical Museum, (North Truro, MA), Wequassett Inn & Resort, (Chatham, MA), New Haven Paint and Clay Club, and many business and private collections.

Kim Kettler

Kim Kettler is a multidisciplinary artist who earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts before pursuing graduate work at Pratt Institute in New York City. She studied locally with painters Salvatore Del Deo and Jim Peters, and with sculptors Joyce Johnson and Paul Bowen.

Kettler taught papermaking and collage at Castle Hill in Truro, in the Miami Dade and Nauset School systems, and at the Istanbul American School in Turkey. Her work is held in public, corporate, and private collections in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

Jonathan McPhillips graduated from Connecticut College in 1993 with a Cum Laude Distinction in Fine Art. Working in the studio and on location, his work includes the harbors, beaches, vessels, and architecture of our coastal marine environment—a celebration of coastal New England.

Recent accomplishments include multiple awards in juried shows at the Salmagundi Club, NY, NY and the achievement of signature status in The American Impressionists Society. Jonathan continues to be invited by the U.S. Department of State to participate in the “Art in Embassies” program which has sent his work to U.S. embassies around the globe.

Bunny Pearlman

"Her paintings are uniquely ‘Bunny,' with a kind of outside-the-box magic. Their gessoed and frescoed surfaces are steeped with a watery infusion of color and form. They’re quietly disarming — not declarative or overwhelming. You feel as if you’re being let in on a bit of secret but you’re not quite sure what it is. At the same time, the paintings don’t feel finite — they’re open and expansive, illuminating mysteries where words fall short.” —André van der Wende, The Provincetown Independent

Andrea Petitto was born in rural Massachusetts where, in her youth, she had to choose between art and science. Instead of the usual children's literature, as a small child Andrea was fascinated by the images in large folio books of Rodin and Michelangelo sculptures. These influences can still be seen in the strong sense of solidity and form in her paintings. In 1990, after a career as university professor and industry consultant, she moved to art. Andrea taught art classes at Finger Lakes Community College in Canandaigua NY, Cape Cod Art Association in Barnstable and Creative Arts Center, Chatham. She has had solo shows in Canandaigua and at the Copley Society in Boston, and has won many awards in Rochester, NY, Boston’s Copley Society, and at many venues on Cape Cod.

Carol Petretti

Masterfully capturing the beauty of her surroundings, Carol Petretti paints with insight and sensitivity reflecting her reverence for the world around her.

Carol studied at The School of the Worcester Art Museum which, at that time, was one of the few accredited art schools styled on the European atelier model of art education. As a scholarship fellow, she continued her academic education with such notable teachers as Sante Graziani, Lee Schulmann and Mary Robbins Murphy. Carol earned a BFA in painting.

Believing one’s education is never complete, she continues to explore her craft with great American contemporary masters and teachers from Florence Academy.

In Cynthia Reid’s newest works, color, shape, and texture are key elements. Her birds, florals, bird nests, cottages, landscapes, and garden vignettes provide a contemporary take on traditional subject matter. In painting her flowers and birds, she takes a whimsical approach and uses a sunny palette of colors. “These paintings are intended to evoke joy and portray the inherent beauty of the natural world,” says Reid.

Cynthia Reid left a successful career as a physician to pursue a passion for painting that had consistently increased while she was practicing medicine. Her interest in art began when she was young and painted with her paternal grandparents, both of whom were oil painters.

Sacha Richter

Sacha Richter’s landscape paintings are unique. It is evident he is a painter that loves color and abstraction, and his personal vision combining the two is compelling. Richter’s approach to landscape painting most often begins outdoors in nature. He continues to work on them in his studio. Richter studied at The Studio Arts Center International, in Florence, Italy in 1990 before attending Massachusetts College of Art. There Richter studied landscape painting under the direction of Jeremy Foss, receiving a BFA with honors in 1995. Sacha and his family of artists have long history with Provincetown.

Richter paints landscapes and still lifes, working toward creating paintings that are “real in themselves.” His work is in public and private collections in the U.S. and Europe. Richter lives and works in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Amy Sanders paints richly detailed paintings capturing the beauty of pine woods, peaceful landscapes, joyful beachgoers, and the ocean and weather of the Cape.
Pastel is her primary medium as its flexibility allows her to expressively capture the beauty and depth of the scenes that draw her. Amy is an award-winning artist, Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America, and respected art juror on the show circuit. Her work resides in collections throughout New England and abroad. She has been represented by the Addison Art Gallery since 1998.

Tia Scalcione

A Boston native, Tia Scalcione studied painting at Boston University. After moving to Provincetown in 2001 she began investigating monotype, showed regularly at Schoolhouse Gallery and PAAM, and led classes for children and adults at PAAM and Castle Hill. After taking a break to raise her two sons, she has been creating ink-on-paper works inspired by the abundant natural beauty around her, and reworking of older monotype prints. This past year she has been exhibiting in Wellfleet and Provincetown

William Scully

Nature is the inspiration for much of William Scully’s (b. 1967) photographic work. William approaches art through exploration and repetition, seeking out and probing into the hidden areas of the natural world. He looks for gesture in nature by wandering natural realms with his camera and sampling the variations in light and atmosphere that change with time and season and weather. He has travelled with his camera to such exotic locations as Borneo, the Galapagos Islands, and the Egyptian Red Sea, but finds the local kettle ponds on Cape Cod to be one of the best resources for his underwater artistic compositions.

Paul Schulenburg is an internationally collected artist whose work has shown at the Hopper House Museum, in solo shows at Cape Cod Museum of Art, at Provincetown Art Association and Museum and Cahoon Museum of American Art. He has appeared over dozens of times in respected national art publications including on the cover of American Art Collector.

Schulenburg is a first place Copley artist, member of Oil Painters of America and was commissioned by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to create a portrait of museum trustee Eliot Forbes.

“Paul Schulenburg is one of those rare painters who can capture not just what something looks like but what it feels like…That alone makes his work a treasure.” —Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm.

Fay Shutzer

Originally trained and licensed as a psychologist, Fay Shutzer pursued two career paths that relied on imagery: one that uses words, the other, paint. A graduate of Mount Holyoke College, Fay also holds a Masters and Ph. D. in Psychology from New York University, and two postdoctoral certificates.

Fay studied with landscape artist Anne Packard and at the Art Students League in New York. Fay’s landscapes reflect her New England roots and her passion for light on rural buildings. In addition, she teaches plein air painting at the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill.

Catherine Skowron

Catherine Skowron has been an artist and educator on the outer Cape since 1969. Skowron’s work "provides viewers with originally interpreted Cape Cod themes that transcend the genre. Her landscapes reflect the naturalist in her soul—she knows these dunes and paths intimately and revels in bringing people into her own special places.” Provincetown Banner 1/30/2014.

She has studied art in France and Italy and on Cape Cod with Carol Whorf Westcott, Salvatore Del Deo and Elizabeth Pratt, and holds a MA from Goddard College.

Catherine has exhibited in a variety of venues in both open and juried shows, and her works are in private collections throughout the US, Canada and Europe. In 2015 Skowron received an award from the Edward Hopper House Art Center in Nyack, NY for works included in “After Hopper” events sponsored by Addison Art Gallery, Orleans, MA. She is featured in Johnny Bergmann’s film “In the Light of Hopper.”

Olivier Suire Verley studied in La Rochelle first, then in Tours with Jean Abadie. Moving to Paris, he also studied etching with Pierre Gandon, Albert Decaris and Caillevaert Brun. Verley’s inspiration is a quest for the essentiality in life, leading the artist to discover the salutary power of color. From that time onwards, his themes also changed; landscapes, still lifes, portraits and again, the ever-present sea.

Always looking for new lights, Olivier travels often: Italy (Rome, Venice), Japan, China, Morocco, Spain, Egypt, Mauritius, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, etc.

He shows throughout France, Spain, in China, Japan and, in the United States, exclusively at the Addison Art Gallery. His work is featured multiple books and films.

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