Provincetown
Gallery Ehva
Contemporary & Early Provincetown Art
Ewa Nogiec, Director
Gallery hours:
Mon-Tue 11am-6pm
Wed-Sun 11am-8pm
provincetown
contemporary artists
James Bakker
Cid Bolduc
Rachel Brown
Daniel Cleary
Barbara Cohen
Didier Corallo
Daniel Dejean
Donna Dodson
Rob DuToit
William Evaul
Jenny Fragosa
Lorrie Fredette
Edward Giobbi
Wendelin Glatzel
Julie Gorn
Iren Handschuh
Myrna Harrison
Alicia Henry
Jenny Humphreys
Leslie Gillette Jackson
Zehra Khan
Jane Kogan
René Lamadrid
MP Landis
Bill Liebeskind
Jay McDermott
Kevin McDermott
Andy Moerlein
Ewa Nogiec
Fawn Potash
Meg Shields
Richard E. Smith
Sterck/Rozo
Lisa Ventre
Michael Walden
Rob Westerberg
Special Collection:
Richard Baker
Sculpture Garden (outside):
A Boat for the Impossible Journey: Andy Moerlein
Elevation: Andy Moerlein
Listening for Lightning: Andy Moerlein
Wind: Donald Gerola
74 Shank Painter Road
P.O. Box 1426
Provincetown, MA 02657
508-487-0011
www.galleryehva.com
art@galleryehva.com
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Fawn Potash
2010
Cape Cod Topographies
Flying over a forest, did you ever notice how the terrain might remind you of the lichen growing inches from the ground? The ponds like round rocks found in a riverbed? The way rivers look like our central nervous system? The way wind on the water looks like plywood?
These multimedia pieces use satellite photographs of Cape Cod, its myriad land and water configurations as an abstract ground for multi-media paintings. Layers of translucent encaustic allow me to incorporate images from land, drawing lyrical relationships between heaven and earth.
My friend Deborah has generously served as my eyes on earth, walking her dog along the beach, she picks up rocks, leaves, a bit of rope, a popped birthday balloon still attached to it's ribbon. She carries my camera and records textures and subjects I might be able to connect with the view from space.
The beeswax and resin material invites collage and layering, fused with oil drawings inscribed in the surface. Nature instructs me in the line and palette, how elements cooperate and in the careful balance of order and chaos. --Fawn Potash
2009
Visceral Landscapes
Fawn Potash
Rhodie, 20" x 16", 2005
Crack in the Ice, 10 ¼" x 15 ½", 2005
Kiskatom Pond ,11" x 15 ¾", 2005
Waterlily, 9 ¾" x 15 ¾", 2005
Thornbush, 11 1/2" x 15 1/4", 2006
Grapevine, 10 3/4" x 24", 2006
Fire Landscape 2, 14" x 11", 2009
Equinox, 7" x 25", 2006
Thumbprint, 6" x 19", 2006
Fawn Potash is an artist, arts administrator and art educator whose work is represented by Gallery Ehva in Provincetown MA, the Anne Reed Gallery in Sun Valley and Gallery B in Stone Ridge, NY. Her work is in collections worldwide including the Sony, Dow Jones, Standard and Poors Asia, the Bibiliotech National and Sheraton Hotels, Montreal.
Potash's work has received grant support from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Puffin Foundation, the Bell Atlantic Foundation, Fuji and Ilford Inc.
For fifteen years, she has been an instructor at the School of Visual Arts in NYC, leading a criticism seminar for photography majors.
She pioneered a series of photography workshops for 6-18 year-olds at the Catskill Community Center, teaching camera and darkroom skills as well as conceptual and visual literacy. Other art education experiences include multimedia workshops co-sponsored through the Center for Photography and R&F Handmade Paints, intensive classes at Penland School of Crafts, Art School of the Berkshires, Peters Valley Craft Center as well as art classes for Catskill's Summer Recreation Program and after-school art activities. She shaped the workshops at the Center for Photography at Woodstock over a twelve-year tenure. Other arts administration accomplishments include three years as curator of the fledgling Catskill Mountain Foundation's galleries as well as three years at the Greene County Council on the Arts' galleries in Catskill and Windham, NY.
She has recently completed a commission for the Ulster County Area Transit, five portraits of bus riders and their stories.
[Statement] I think of the earliest works here as Visceral Landscapes, land that embodies the emotional terrain. Hopes and wishes appear in the light and in the drawings of plants reaching with out-of-season blooms. Barrenness and fertility seem to be elemental themes. The tides and swirling energetic forces join the atmosphere of the landscape and its emotional sweep. In later works nature and the body begin to overlap in more literal ways showing my interest in the relationship between botanical and human anatomies. As global warming becomes a part of our everyday consciousness, I see the plant realm and ours becoming one. I am combining anatomical elements with the leaves and weeds flourishing around me. These pieces are a combination of photographs and oil drawings inscribed in an encaustic surface. The encaustic medium has seduced me with its fleshy skin, buttery color and delicious smell. It seems perfect for a dialogue about our co-existence with nature.
[Notes on the medium] The encaustic medium is made from beeswax and tree resin, an ancient painting technique first used by the early Romans, Greeks and Etruscans. It is a durable, archival surface capable of surviving two thousand years (at least). Please install these works away from direct sunlight. Surfaces can be buffed with a soft cotton rag.