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 Saturday, October 12. 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. Events are free courtesy of the 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

Paul Batch is a contemporary painter praised for his evocative atmospheric landscapes. His paintings are a poetic response to the fleeting and ephemeral light cast by the passing sun or rising moon. He focuses on transitions, painting various times of day, changing weather, and the rich seasons New England offers.

Paul received his BFA and MFA from the Hartford Art School where he studied under the late great Stephen Brown. He is an award-winning member of Oil Painters of America and Portrait Society of America. His work has appeared in numerous publications including the Artist’s Magazine, International Artist and Fine Art Connoisseur.

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.

“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.

Sharon McGauley, an internationally collected artist, has earned multiple grants and a residencies. Her richly layered, evocative oil paintings are found in museums, galleries and private collections worldwide. Her landscape work is grounded deeply in a sense of place, and captures the beauty of a broad range of subjects, each one defined by shifting, simple palettes and a love of big spaces and subtle tones. Similarly, her charming, vibrant portraits capture the essence and personality of a wide variety of people, both real and imagined.

She lives in Portland, Maine and spends a lot of time in her family home on Cape Cod.

Her work has shown in numerous solo and juried shows across the country, and has been featured in a solo show at the Key West Custom House Museum. McGauley paintings can be found in prestigious collections in the US, Canada, Europe and Japan.

Artist’s Statement

Land and seascape paintings are, for me, about capturing a sense of place.

The experience of solitude is the starting point; the sense of being alone and engulfed by the landscape is one I frequently seek out. I am especially drawn to places where the sea meets the sky in such a way that you can’t tell where one ends and the other begins.

Painting portraits is a similarly immersive experience, but about capturing the essence of a person – their charm, often, or some unique part of their personality – and I often wonder where they end and my imagination begins. Portraits are a collaboration with the people I am painting, and landscapes are a collaboration with the world around me.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 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.

Born in Brazil in 1976, Cleber Stecei began experimenting with abstract painting as a teenager. After arriving in the United States at the age of 19, he became inspired by the beautiful New England scenery and has since excelled in landscape painting.

“A Master in the Making...represented by one of the Cape's most prestigious galleries, Addison Art in Orleans. Stecei’s reputation as a landscape artist has been rising like a mellow tide that is still building. His work has been noted in several national art publications and his paintings are in collections country-wide. Stecei's talent, age, and new presence in the market have thrust him to the heady upper echelons of the art scene—all in less than 18 months.”—Mary Grauerholz, Cape Cod Life

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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