PARTY LINE
A GROUP SHOW BY THE COMMONS STUDIO ARTISTS:
WYLIE BURRELL
CASSANDRA LEVINE
FRAN O’NEILL
MARY GALLAGHER
CAROLINE CARNEY
ON EXHIBIT FROM APRIL 4TH - APRIL 16TH
OPENING RECEPTION: APRIL 7TH 5-7PM AT THE COMMONS
The Commons
46 Bradford Street
Provincetown, MA 02657
ptowncommons.org
Since opening our Art & Design Studios in March 2019, we’ve seen the positive impact of accessible and affordable artist work spaces have made for Outer Cape artists.
The Commons artist studios are designed to host a diverse spectrum of artists as part of our mission to support the creative economy of our community.
The mission is to foster the growth of local artists, engage our art community through educational programming, and make art accessible. We prioritize first time local emerging artists while celebrating more seasoned artists as well.
WYLIE BURRELL
My creative work takes the form of an endless repetition of simple shapes combined in endless ways to create monsters of all kinds. My work is fundamentally about intersecting patterns and forms in the name of an idealized perfection akin to the work by Keith Herring, who I think of as having created a perfect simplicity. I have always been interested in the macabre and the morbid, and have been drawing monsters avidly since I was 7. In 2016 I began painting the drawings in my notebook and became obsessed. My work is compulsive and constant. The creatures I spawn are not intended to be frightening nor comical, rather they are a demonstration of control and creation. All are borne from a single expressive shape, usually the mouth, around which I impose rightness and order. The aim of my work is to captivate and hypnotize viewers and to expand peoples conception of fine art. My work is all about a soothing finality and solidness found in color and shape that I hope to extend to others.
https://www.instagram.com/wyliecoyoter/
FRAN O’NEIL
“Simillimum”
Simillimum is an Art Show based on the Homeopathic Principal of “Like Curing Like”.
The Artist, Fran O’Neill is currently studying Homeopathy at the New York School of Homeopathy. He is combining his Abstract Shapes in an intersecting composition. These paintings on wood are made from vintage frames, up cycled plywood and oil stains and oil sign paints. Fran has a BFA in Illustration and was a Freelance Illustrator for over 15 years.
Fran has been creating these Calder-like Graphic Paintings on wood for over 20 years.
“Simillimum” is part of the Party Line Studio Show at the Provincetown Commons running from April 4, 2023 through April 16, 2023.
https://www.instagram.com/franionptown/
CASSANDRA LEVINE
My work is the telling of my history, using a lexicon of iconography that I am constantly generating. When I work it is with an immediacy, energy, and urgency. It is the same sense of improvisation and the capturing of the fleeting ,that excites me about working from observation.I make paintings and drawings every day, the consistency of daily working is very important to me. I enter the studio each day make my “warm up” work,and then I begin working on the paintings.My mindset is “make what I want to make as though I am going to die that day”. My work is autobiographical, with the belief that the personal is the most universal of languages. I’m making bridges to connect to others, not working in shadow. I want the work to be generous.The work is not just autobiographical of my life; it’s subject is life—life lived with the constant awareness of death.
https://www.instagram.com/cassandra_levine/
MARY GALLAGHER
My work is mostly hand carved in wax using traditional methods and recently I have learned 3d modeling programs to create more mechanical and precise models. I also create custom engagement jewelry working closely with clients to create pieces that are representative of their individual style.
In 2013 I took an intro to metalsmithing class my senior year at Parsons Design school and have beenmaking jewelry since. I became full time in 2016 focusing on sculptural silver jewelry and custom engagement rings.
I am a jewelry designer and maker where I create pieces in silver and gold by either wax carving or 3d modeling- sometimes a combination of the two. My pieces are often inspired by vintage works and the natural land formations that surround us.
https://marygallagherjewelry.com/
CAROLINE CARNEY
Behind the scenes glimpses, views from walks at odd hours, compositions seen from a bicycle inspire me: in restaurants, side streets, early in the morning at a beach or in the dunes. I learned to paint in classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and completed my undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania. Growing up in Philadelphia, I spent my time after school looking, wandering, and taking photos all over the city or at my parent’s workplaces, an antiques auction house and an architecture firm. These contexts developed my sensibility for composition, understanding of space and objects, and picture making. After visiting Provincetown almost every summer of my life, I moved here in 2020 to broaden my painting practice amidst the exceptional light, architecture, and natural landscape of this area.
https://www.carolinecarney.com/