Exhibition Review: William Ciccariello – Provincetown Independent

William Ciccariello was featured in The Provincetown Independent – “William Ciccariello is the a featured artist at Rice Polak Gallery.” The exhibition runs Thursday July 23 – Wednesday August 5. Here’s an excerpt from the article on Ciccariello’s latest series:

This series of small portraits of great players from baseball’s golden era, part of a group show at Rice Polak Gallery in Provincetown through Aug. 5, transcends the familiar historical art of baseball, because Ciccariello isn’t actually concerned about depicting the players themselves. In these paintings, as in his other work, with such subjects as shipwrecks, soldiers, and still lifes, what he’s interested in is time. Specifically, he’s concerned with what time does to our heroes: our athletes, majestic sailing vessels, warriors, and, by extension, us, when time overtakes us all.

“…The ideas and feelings I address in my painting are ones of fragility, balance, precariousness, decay and ruin, permanence, and the transitory quality of time,” he says. “I like to impart some hard effort to make them worthy of memory and merit.” 

Please click here to read the entire article: William Ciccariello’s Paintings Play Ball With Lost Time.” by John Grenier-Ferris

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Featured image above: “Slide II” by William Ciccariello