The Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies To Host Open House and Art Exhibit

Art in the Service of Science Influenced by the Ocean and Coastal Landscape, will be on display through mid-May. Join artists Sally Brophy, Conny Hatch, Brian Larkin, Marie-Danielle Leblanc, Nathalie LeMi, Marian Roth and Mike Wright and PCCS scientists exploring the connection between art and science. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact 508.487.3622; ext. 103.

Sally Brophy
After over 25 years as a graphic artist, she is especially drawn to the slow, deliberate process of cutting wood to create a line, then gradually applying paint to wood and paper, to produce a print. Printmaking and painting brought her back to the roots of the creative process.

Conny Hatch
An artist who had the great fortune of having her Dad teaches her how to use all kinds of hand and power tools from a very young age. After studying art with a concentration on ceramics at the Maine College of Art and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, she moved to Provincetown in 1998. A 1999 Castle Hill sculpture workshop with Paul Bowen turned her interest towards working with found and reclaimed materials to create lively and unique sculptures.

Mike Wright
With humor and grace, Wright pays homage to the working past of the Provincetown community and views her work as part of the continuum of Provincetown art history. Using the process of assemblage, she collects salvaged, discarded wood remnants of the fishing fleet and old local homes and creates modernists sculptures. An artist committed to preserving the history of her community, she also interprets the works of well-known Provincetown artists by creating minimalist sculptures of their two dimensional works.

Brian Larkin
Active in the world of art in Rhode Island and Provincetown, Larkin finds his muse in both the city and the sea. Using painting and sculptural constructions, his work stimulates the imagination and challenges the status quo. In much of his work, the artist has captured a moment, a vivid but fleeting impact of color and technique, which evoke powerful suggestions of mood. Although some of his work is experimental, it excites but never alienates his audience. He works in a variety of styles and techniques from traditional watercolors to hybrid combinations of media that stretch the limits of what a given medium can and should do.

Nathalie LeMi
Spontaneity and intuition are reigning values in LeMi's work. She intentionally experiments in order to allow accidents and mistakes then enjoys accentuating them, which increases and emphasizes their beauty. Those mistakes inspire her and often lead her in other directions with the impulse of the moment.

Marie-Danielle Leblanc
The beauty of the artist's landscapes comes mostly from a spontaneous gesture and a certain attraction to danger. They are considered abstract and are illustrated by a series of horizontal bars that blend one into the other. Some sky and sea reflections seem to rest on the shore, hazy textures hide perspectives and shapes slowly disappear in the whiteness of the sand or the indigo of the sea.

Marian Roth
With her paintings, Roth achieves the same kinds of feelings she invokes with her pinhole imagery - among them a sense of being in place. Roth is interested in creating imagery that deals with a complex and idiosyncratic relationship between the self and the world.

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