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
Richard E. Smith
Box Constructions
June 19-July 1, 2009
Opening Friday, June 19, 6-8pm
Richard E. Smith, Provincetown Harbor, 1985
I was born in January, 1951, in Corning, New York. From an early age I loved to draw, to build models, to use my Dad's woodworking hand tools, and to play musical instruments. I have continued to do these things my entire life.
My father's ascending career involved moving our family fairly often. I attended 5 different schools before finishing high school. Returning to Buckhannon, West Virginia, a place we had lived while I was in grade school, I attended West Virginia Wesleyan College for two years. I then transferred to The Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore. At best I was always an unenthusiastic student and dropped out after a year and a half.
In the summer of 1976 I came to Provincetown as a scholarship student at The Provincetown Workshop. Leo Manso was the teacher there and he made a big impression on me. The beauty and history of Provincetown made it easy to want to stay at summer's end. I lived there for 18 years. During that time I lived and worked in some wonderful studios, and showed my work in various galleries in Provincetown and Wellfleet. I am pleased to say my work can be found in the permanent collections of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum and the Cape Cod Museum of Art.
In l994 after twice visiting friends in the San Francisco Bay area, I decided to move to California. Although I'm quite content here, in some sense Provincetown was and always will be 'home.'
I have worked a variety of full-time jobs most of my adult life, but always found time and space for creative activities. Drawing, painting, collage, assemblage, woodworking, and home improvement - I guess I'm a guy who makes stuff. Like many artists, I am most content when I am alone and working.
I have always resisted self promotion therefore I have no long lists of educational or artistic achievements, but I stubbornly continue to make "things" with a love of materials, a respect for good craftsmanship, a sense of playfulness and mystery, and a deep seated hope that they will interest someone else.
-- Richard E. Smith
Richard E. Smith, The Flower of the South, 2009, box construction