ECHOES OF THE PROVINCE LANDS BY PAUL CUNNINGHAM
Opening Reception: Friday, August 22 from 5 - 7 PM
On Exhibit through September 1
The Commons
46 Bradford Street, Provincetown
@Paul-Cunningham-39
paulcunninghamart.com
I began working on three-dimensional art in a metal sculpture class, becoming enamored with the shapes I could conjure up using wire mesh. I relied initially on a serendipitous construction process, creating random forms and experimenting with new materials, surfaces and color. The Covid years impacted my practice in two significant ways: the free form construction of earlier work gave way to very structured rhythmic curves, while playful color choices were replaced by a palette inspired by ‚place‚primarily the colors of Provincetown and the marshes where we spent a good part of our time before moving here permanently two years ago.
My dog Bond and I walk the stretch of Province Lands Road from the breakwater to Herring Cove Beach at any given time of the day, at any given time of the year. As tides change and one season’s palette gives way to another, it is a landscape that can be lush and green, or cold and desolate, but always beautiful and calming. I try to capture the rhythm of that change and the echos of that landscape in the new work presented in this exhibition.