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
Rob Westerberg
Paintings
July 3-15
Opening Friday, July 3, 6-8pm
Rob Westerberg, Floating, oil on canvas, 12 x 31, $1,500
Rob Westerberg, Recline, 2009, oil on board, $2,000 SOLD
What some people see as beautiful may completely escape the attention of others. That's what interests me. I like to take impressions of people and bend them further, utilizing the most beautiful aspects of form and gesture and adding contrasting elements of distortion and abstraction; shifting the commonplace into the strange.
I've always been drawn to bizarre characters. Whether it was watching cartoons and movies or looking at record covers and listening to music. The eccentrics like The Wicked Witch, Dracula, Bowie and the New York Dolls fascinated me the most. It was the drama and exaggerated features that set me off filling school binders and sketchbooks.
Many years later, living and working on Cape Cod, I am still fascinated by what makes people stand out from each other. It is our odd shapes and mannerisms; how we laugh and converse, work and lounge. Rather than conventional beauty, it's the different ways we carry ourselves and how the light falls on our features that sets people apart as forms of interest and sometimes desire.
Rob Westerberg received a bachelor's degree in art from Utah State University. He relocated to L.A. to pursue a career as an illustrator. Eventually he landed in Manhattan and stayed for 11 years. During those years he did illustrations for clients such as: The New York Times, Forbes Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, People and Sports Illustrated For Kids. Corporate clients include: Coca Cola, Frito Lay and Barnes and Noble. He moved to Provincetown in 2001 and has been vigorously pursuing his vision through painting.