Provincetown
Gallery Ehva
Contemporary & Early Provincetown Art
Ewa Nogiec, Director
Winter hours:
Fri, Sat, Sun Noon-4pm
provincetown
contemporary artists
James Bakker
Rachel Brown
Daniel Cleary
Barbara Cohen
Tamar Cohen
Didier Corallo
Daniel Dejean
Tasha Depp
Donna Dodson
Rob DuToit
Jenny Fragosa
Lorrie Fredette
Wendelin Glatzel
Iren Handschuh
Suzanne Harding
Myrna Harrison
Alicia Henry
Jenny Humphreys
Leslie Gillette Jackson
Jane Kogan
MP Landis
Bill Liebeskind
Virginia Luppino
Jay McDermott
Kevin McDermott
Andy Moerlein
Ewa Nogiec
Fawn Potash
Richard E. Smith
Sterck/Rozo
Lisa Ventre
Michael Walden
Rob Westerberg
Special Collection:
Richard Baker
Sculpture Garden (outside):
Whale Tail: Greg Clemence
Wind: Donald Gerola
"Diana Godess of the Hunt": Jerry Holmes
Phil Smith, Show Installations
74 Shank Painter Road
P.O. Box 1426
Provincetown, MA 02657
508-487-0011
508-776-4856 (cell)
www.galleryehva.com
art@galleryehva.com
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William Harry Warren Bicknell | Joseph Birren | Evelin Bodfish Bourne
Peter Busa | Frank Carson | Oliver Chaffee | Dorothy Lake Gregory
Marion Hawthorne | Blanche Lazzell | Joseph Kaplan | Karl Knaths
Doris Lindo Lewis | William Littlefield | Dorothy Loeb | Olga Sears
Marcus Waterman | Agnes Weinrich | D.C. Wyman
Suzanne Harding
July 31-August 12, 2009
Opening Friday, July 31, 6-8pm
Suzanne Harding ~ The boxes are little stories that bring the humor of being human.
My box constructions are stories begun the spark of on idea which eventually leads to that point where the personal and the collective meet. I think that the best stories begin there. The work is playful and the palette tends towards the bright and saturated colors. Some of my influences would be early Walt Disney animation, and more recently, the work of Red Grooms.
The current body of work focuses on certain characters that have been with me since childhood. Each piece has as its' inspiration a popular culture icon, and the narrative expands from that persona.
These icons have been in my consciousness for a long time, bringing me to ask what are they doing when they aren't "working" selling product. Who are they, and who do I imagine what they might be doing on their "off time". Each narrative contains humor and the poignancy of human nature at play.
Making the boxes brings to mind the complex layers of the everyday, and that the world is full of color, pattern and design. The cartoon sensibility of my work allows me to let go of being exact; lines are never drawn with a ruler, all the angles are drawn freehand, making things somewhat askew and oddly proportioned.
I create the work in ink, then add watercolor and gloss medium. Next, I cut the shapes and position them. Regarding details, similar to a children's book, I add more and more until just right, and the story is complete.
May Old Aquaintance Be Forgot, 3-D paper construction, 8x10, $275
True Love, 3-D paper construction, 8x10, $275
Date with a Cupcake, 3-D paper construction, 8x10, $275
Aunt Jemima's distraction, 3-D paper construction, $600