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July 23, 2010

Schoolhouse at night

There’s a view-worthy group show now up at Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown that I want to call out before it’s gone – you have to move fast in the summer on Cape Cod because the short season doesn’t allow shows to linger long. Dally and it's gone.

Richard Klein's recycled eyeglasses

As I have noted before, Schoolhouse and its across-the-hallway neighbor, Art Strand, consistently have some of the most lively and interesting shows in town. That’s true this week as well. I was stopped in my tracks by the work of Richard Klein, who has fashioned eyeglasses into pieces that seem lighter than air and that cast the most fabulous shadows. Points to the artist or recycling as well as aesthetics.

Marty Davis's prints

Vicky Tomayko's monoprint

Much quieter but very lovely and evocative are Marty Davis’s prints. They are delicate without ever being bland. I love Vicky Tomako’s luscious monoprint, with colors that sing. It’s not an easy effect to achieve when you are printing color on color. Tomayko's years of experience with the medium allows her to achieve results that seem effortless but are anything but.

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