Provincetown Art Galleries: Second Feature Exhibition
Provincetown art gallery, The Rice Polak Gallery, is excited to announce our second feature exhibition of the 2021 season. We will be exhibiting the work of Deb Goldstein, Willie Little, Susan Mikula & Christie Scheele. The show opens on Thursday July 22 and runs through Wednesday August 4th. The Opening Reception for the show is on Friday August 23 beginning at 7pm. Click on the video below to hear the voices of these 4 wonderful artists.
The Voices of Deb Goldstein, Willie Little, Susan Mikula & Christie Scheele
Deb Goldstein – “Prossessing Memory”
Memories are physical, spiritual and emotional – some hauntingly present and some barely a shadow. They can be traumatically dark or luminously brilliant with much in the gray. Some build a house and stay for the duration. Others are a trace. In whatever form, they take hold. There are a myriad of triggers. Objects also have memory and history. For this show, I am combining both the experience of memory and objects that hold their past to explore and illustrate just a few aspects of why, what, when and how memory moves us.
Willie Little – “Beneath the Surface”
There is so much going on beneath the surface: The application and removal of materials, the planning and contemplation, the waiting, the frustration, the scraping, gouging from the rage of the senseless murders of people of color, all are processes to make this work. But there is so much more to what’s going on beneath the surface, especially during this past year. This country, this world is going through what should be an awakening of many sorts. It is up to us as human beings to accept change and make serious changes to make life better for mankind, on a planet we should cherish, not destroy. There is an old African proverb that goes like this: “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
Susan Mikula – “Santaland”
My work is narrative, though not with a linear beginning, middle and end structure. Just as my style is figurative, though not literal, which gets me closer to the essence of things. Conveying beauty as I see and understand it is also an important part of my work, though not everyone agrees with what I find beautiful. My ideas sometimes form around an object or a scene and work their way out from there, but more often it starts with a concept that I want to explore, an exploration that I want to share, a feeling that I want to express. From conception through visualization to final selection, it’s a form of distillation, a slow process, to find that which is necessary.
Christie Scheele – “Ways of Knowing”
With the right atmospherics, anything and everything can reflect a powerful beauty—from smokestacks or headlights on a road to a glorious summer day. Working in a terrain between the descriptive and the abstract, I explore both mood and shape, color, and surface, seeking to create an absorbing experience for the viewer.
The gallery is now open daily, online and of course by appointment. Please visit our new website where you now buy artwork directly. And if you are in town this Friday please stop by the gallery.
Featured image above: “Lush Mists” by Christie Scheele
