Susan Mikula Opening at the Mary Heaton Vorse House!
I am beyond thrilled to announce a collaboration between the Rice Polak Gallery and the Provincetown Arts Society who will be presenting the work of artist Susan Mikula at the Mary Heaton Vorse House located at 466 Commercial Street.
This month long solo exhibition will feature more than 50 images by Susan.
The Opening Reception is this Thursday from 5-7pm. Please rsvp here to attend this elegant event.
SUSAN MIKULA
August 10 – September 10, 2023
“ANTHOLOGY” – a mid career review
Photographer Susan Mikula shoots exclusively with instant films often using past-expiration Polaroid films.Working only with available light, and without cropping or image manipulation, her technique strips away detail and softens edges to better reveal the underlying and essential form and feeling of her subject.
Susan Mikula is a storyteller, chronicling spaces and places that are marked by the history and presence of the people whose lives have formed and filled them. She shoots in unique-positive, analog instant photography with often past-expiration film stocks, which are then digitally processed for exhibition.
“I’m thrilled to be able to take this wide-view look at what I’ve been scratching away towards all these years. These images – many shown here for the first time – are all from Polaroid originals, taken in natural light. Narrative but not literal, with a kind of indefinition that hopefully gets under your skin. The Mary Heaton Vorse House is such a beauty herself; it’s an honor to show this work on her walls.”
The Rice Polak Gallery is now open daily, Thursday, Friday & Saturday evenings, online and of course by appointment. Please visit our website where you buy artwork directly. And if you are in town this Friday please stop by the gallery and experience this wonderful show in person.
