Provincetown Gallery: Third Featured Exhibition
The Rice Polak Gallery is excited to announce our third feature exhibition of the 2021 season. We will be exhibiting the work of Stanley Bielen, Robin Cheung, Donald Saaf & René Romero Schuler. The show previews today, Thursday August 5th and runs through Wednesday August 18th. The Opening Reception for this exhibition is on Friday August 6th beginning at 7pm. As a friend of the gallery, we’d like to offer you an exclusive online preview of their work.
We also have another treat for you – if you click on the video below you can hear the voices of these 4 wonderful artists.
The Voices of Stanley Bielen, Robin Cheung, Donald Saaf & René Romero Schuler
René Romero Schuler – “Every Picture Tells a Story”
In every work I create, I strive to show the imperfection, stress, and underlying beauty of the beings I portray. There are no fine characteristics or clearly defined attributes in these figures. They are “everyone” and “no one”. They are stripped to their most essential elements…their most basic form. The meaning is in the “representation” of the image, not the image itself. Every mark is deliberate. I do not limit myself to any single medium. Texture is my vehicle. I am only limited to one message: Our inner beauty transcends the physical, emotional, and mental. My work is deeply connected to my soul, and I attempt to convey that in everything that I do.
Donald Saaf – “Scenes From Everyday Life”
I have been exploring the place where fine art and folk art intersect. My subject matter draws from the local experience of community, family and immediate surroundings as well as an internal dream place. Although some of the imagery is very personal, I am always striving for the universal. The figures in the pictures are simultaneously ‘me’ and a sort of ‘Everyman’. At times I approach a composition like a quilt, or even a stained glass window; breaking down the composition into luminous forms and shapes. I try to see the pictures simultaneously both for their ‘story’ and as pure abstraction. I’m interested in memory; the memory of place and experience. It’s the moment that happens when the external worldoverlaps with the internal world.
Robin Cheung – “Strata”
Our world is a veneer over layers of history — my work celebrates those layers, cuts through them, and brings them to life. Crusted by time, ancient vessels rise to the surface, imprinted by the past they have survived. I want my work to reflect the scratched and rugged remains of ancient walls and floor tiles, and the graceful profiles of timeworn vessels. I have always been intrigued by the various shapes and surfaces throughout history with their endless variation among the patterns, flecks, and lines that invite deeper study.
Stanley Bielen – “Gratitude”
The attraction of the visible world and the attraction of artist materials, in my case oil paints, is what has guided my whole working life. The pleasure of seeing expressed through the medium of oil paint. The subject matter has not changed however, my approach to my materials constantly evolves.
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: “Figs/White Saucer” by Stanley Bielen
