2012 season exhibitions
Opening Saturday February 11th, 5 - 9pm, Feel the Love is a group show exploring themes of process, craft, sexuality, and gender. Made up primarily of men who knit, we have invited knitters from Provincetown and beyond to submit swatches for yarn bombing the town, the gallery and for the creation of a Love blanket. The Love blanket will feature the word “LOVE” pieced together from swatches and be mounted on a fishing net, tying together love, fiber, and craft by men. Also featured in this exhibit will be the interactive performance knitting piece titled Sheep to Shore. Come be a part of the transformation of the gallery space and enjoy some delicious soup at our cozy opening or “happening”. All about the Love in Provincetown! See you there!
Four Eleven is pleased to present The Colorists, a group show including artists Rachel Robinson, Alison Williams, Nettrice Gaskins, Joanna Tam, Liz Carney, Mimi Gonzalez and Bob Bowers. All the works in this show touch on themes of racial identity and the exhibit has been timed to coordinate with Women of Color and Allies Week. Featuring a large scale sculptural installation by New Zealand native Alison Williams, the autobiographical video performance piece based on Chinese artist Joanna Tam's experience in an accent reduction class, iPad self portraits by African American artist Nettrice Gaskins; the works in show explore the issues of race and gender while also pushing boundaries of explorative, new media art forms. Gallery owner Liz Carney, know mostly for her paintings and curatorial works, will be debuting three autobiographical portrait photographs about interracial relationship which were created with Mimi Gonzalez. This collaboration between Carney and Gonzalez, a well known Cuban American performer, marks Gonzalez's first show in a commercial art gallery. Artist Rachel Robinson's stunningly sensitive and simple graphite works depict the African American female figures, some of which were subversively created on the job while working as a security office for the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Four Eleven Studio is pleased to present our 2012 opening exhibit Memorial Mandala. Kimberly Carmody's Urban Mandala Project has toured cities across the eastern seaboard and I am excited to bring her to Commercial Street for a second year in a row. A Mandala is a spiritual map from the Tibetan tradition created by monks usually using colored sand. Inspired by Kimberly's vision of taking found objects and creating a Mandala, I reached out to other artists engaged in recycling and transforming trash into treasure. Included in this show are intricate found-object sculptures by Colombian artist Camilo Cardenas and Provincetown native Donald Edwards and Paul Hansen. For her first show in a commercial gallery, and in an accidental act of synergy, Naya Bricher delivers a stunning large-scale masterpiece in oil depicting plastic bags and trash. The Provincetown Urban Mandala is an interactive installation created by visitors to the gallery over the course of Memorial Day weekend. Its creation and dismantling are a community effort. No money is required to make the piece, and no one person is responsible for its creation. The only materials used have been collected, found, recycled, and then transformed into the colors and textures of the Mandala by visitors. This project engages and encourages participants of all ages, abilities and cultures to access their own creativity. It strives to raise awareness about where garbage comes from, where it goes when we“throw it away”and how it can be transformed to create new meaning. In Provincetown in particular, the effects of climate change and environmental damage are palpable, this exhibit is a reminder of the conscious role we play as stewards of this beautiful part of the world.
On the studio side of Four Eleven, we feature paintings by gallery regulars Helen Grimm, Janine Evers, and Janine Carney-Savage.
Liz Carney curates and hosts a show with Russell LaMontagne of LaMontagne Gallery, Camilo Alvarez of Samson Projects, and Steve Zevitas of Steve Zevitas Gallery.
Featured artists will include:
Jeff Perrott | Joe Wardwell | Alexia Stamatiou | Kim Faler | Tory Fair | Summer Wheat | Suzannah Sinclair | Todd Pavlisko | Steve Locke | Julie Miller
Opening Reception is on Friday, August 17th, 7 - 9pm
Den – An Exhibit Exploring Themes of Bear Culture
July 10 – July 18,
Opening Reception Friday July 13, 6 – 9 pm
Four Eleven Studio happily presents the works of Erik Benjamins, David Nasca, Liz Carney, Rebecca Levi, Frank Vasello, Judith Brassard Brown, Nathan Butera, in the Carney and Butera co-curated group show entitled Den, an exhibition exploring themes of bear culture for Provincetown’s Bear Week. The Bear show embodies the raw, sensual, sensitive, and masculine identities of bear culture with suggestive and gestural imagery.
BOSTON CONTEMPORARY August 17 - September 4th
DEN - BEAR WEEK July 10 - July 18th
HELEN GRIMM - NEW PAINTINGS July 19 - August 16th
THE COLORISTS June 1 - June 11th
MEMORIAL MANDALA - May 25 - May 28th
Throughout her career Helen has been drawn to the color, texture and repetition of abstracted forms. Her most recent works in oil explore the landscapes of the Outer Cape. Grounded by their influence in the natural world, her paintings are a joyful expression of color and rhythm. Her palette, layering and brushstrokes feel very much alive in these new works of the dunes, forests and harbor.
FEEL THE LOVE; The Knitney Biennial- Feb 10 - March 10 2012