Please join us at our public reception for our artists Heather Pilchard and Alla Zbinovsky on Friday, October 20th, 5 pm-7 pm with refreshments and good cheer.

In our next to last exhibit of “Color Connections 2023” this season, we are presenting the work of these two lower Cape artists who are each superb figurative and abstract artists, whose colorful and inspired work will be featured in our front gallery rooms October 19th-November 22nd. Most recently, Heather received the Juror’s Award at the Falmouth Art Center’s “Abstract Exhibit” and Alla was one of 20 artists profiled in Cape Cod Art Magazine’s annual issue.

Also on display will be the work of other Cross Rip Gallery artists, Ellen C. Davies, Sally S. Fine, Hollis Fortune, John Howard, Leslie Kramer, Suzanne M. Packer, Richard O. Perry, Kate Nelson and Georgene Riedl.

Please stop in the gallery Thursday-Sunday, 1 pm-5 pm or anytime by appointment to see this delightful exhibit.

Heather Pilchard artist statement:

My abstract work is a contemplation on nature. For example, blues are skies, oceans, shadows on a sidewalk. The paintings are intuitively composed with a knowledge of color, texture, line, and shape. Beginning with a foundation of spontaneously painted content, I respond by adding layers and building the surface. The art process is not only a physical exploration of materials and mark making but a reflection of an inner vision experienced in relationship, solitude, and connection to spirit. My aim is not to replicate but to feel my way around with attention and intention. These paintings are the translation of my journey, one in which I sense the harmony found in nature, collective memories, community, and light. I may not know where the piece is headed at the beginning but I am always amazed when the search takes me somewhere new and unexpected.

BIO: Heather Pilchard is a painter, photographer, and bookbinder. She earned her BFA at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in 1995. Heather is a year-round resident of Eastham on Cape Cod and lives in a house just above a salt marsh. She is a volunteer with the Wellfleet Bay Audubon helping to rescue cold stunned sea turtles and monitors diamondback terrapins during their nesting season.

ALLA ZBINOVSKY - Artist Statement

Alla Zbinovsky is a Harwich artist who paints in oil, encaustic and egg tempera. She graduated from Cornell and Columbia Universities, and then spent several decades living and working in Russia and England. She washed ashore a decade ago, and now focuses on painting the Cape Cod landscape and the ever elusive light. Shifting land, water and sky, and the places where they end and meet are the inspiration for her work. Alla also has a long standing spiritual practice of iconography grounded in ancient Byzantine and Russian traditions, as well as forays into ceramic art.

Please join us at Cross Rip Gallery’s opening reception for our “Invitational” exhibit as we welcome Betty Carroll Fuller, Irene Lipton and Michael MacMahon—-three influential and unique Cape Cod artists—— on Friday, September 15th, 5 pm-7 pm as we celebrate their first exhibit with us and their unique creative processes.

We are excited to be introducing these three well regarded Cape Cod artists to our patrons at Cross Rip Gallery as part of our season series “Color Connections 2023” and we will be exhibiting their dynamic work through October 18th. Please take advantage of the opportunity to view their work by stopping by the gallery in person Thursday-Sunday, 1 pm-5 pm or anytime by appointment or by chance ——just “look for the open flag”!

Betty Carroll Fuller received a BA from the University of Maryland, School of Art and Architecture, College Park, MD in 1971. She studied with Joan Snyder in a master painting class in Truro, MA., August 2007. From 2003-2019, she was a professor in the Arts and Communications Department at Cape Cod Community College teaching Painting, Drawing and Visual Fundamentals and is the former Director and Curator of the Higgins Art Gallery at Cape Cod Community College.  

She has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the Northeast, including the Cahoon Museum of American Art, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and the Cape Cod Museum of Art. Her work is in private and corporate collections.

Excerpts from Betty Carroll Fuller’s artist statement:

“I love simple forms, sensitive lines, layers of color, vague space. The fastidiousness of a more formal minimalism escapes me, it's not in my nature, my life is messy.  I like to see the hand of the artist and provoke personal narratives--tender moments, high anxieties, fragmented time, shifting realities--told with simplicity.  The inaccessible nature of working in an abstract way, letting the materials be part of the decision appeals to me.  The sturdiness and drama of charcoal tells one story, the delicate lines from a 9H pencil, oIls, so buttery and rich...tell others. ….. 
Living on the Cape, the colors, geography, atmosphere the various tides, and weather contribute to my visual vocabulary. The Cape is home, a part of who I am, this allows my paintings to be just that: paintings.  I want to strip them of pretense, provide no exacting form. seeing where it all goes, failing often, working it out in my own way, no compromises.  Just painting.  Searching for the unknown, trying to be faithful to the work, hoping for a few good paintings.”

Irene Lipton received her MFA in painting from Hunter College in NYC. Early in her career, Lipton was chosen by Charlotta Kotik to be in two museum shows, Working in Brooklyn/Painting at the Brooklyn Museum in 1987, and On the Cutting Edge at the Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, NY in 1989. She received two consecutive Fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center, from 1988–1990, and later served on the Visual Committee for several years. In 1997, Lipton moved full-time to Provincetown and then to North Truro, where she built a studio and works today. In 2005, she was one of the founding members of artSTRAND gallery, having seven years of solo shows and numerous group exhibitions there, as well as on the Cape and in Boston. Lipton had a mid-career show in 2007 at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. Her work has been written about in the Boston Globe, Art New England, and Provincetown Arts magazine.

Excerpts from Irene Lipton’s artist statement:

“I have always been moved by the idea of image and meaning developing from random marks and gesture. Arshile Gorky, Adolf Gottlieb, Myron Stout, Peter Busa, Elizabeth Murray, and Bill Jensen were some important early influences.
 
I initially began by finding a visual language of hieroglyphics—literally finding—through erasure, using graphite on paper. My process went on to involve layers of spontaneous gesture—paint would build and be scraped away, lines creating edges, edges creating shapes, resulting in a complex interplay of multiple elements.
 
More recently, the focus has been increasingly on the lines themselves and the gesture embedded in them, along with a single unifying figure.
 
There have always been figural components in the abstraction. These have now become overt, with the feeling of a body, a physical presence, made up of many elements within and without, internal and external, forms nesting, weaving, supporting and connecting.
 
Gesture is a core force. I begin a painting as I always have, with marks and blocks of color and random shapes. I have slowed the movement of the gesture, of the line, and am aware of every nuance. A black shape begins to form and grow in scale. The edges define the form and separate it. Within what becomes this figure, the movement of my hand drawing white lines starts to create interior shapes and networks of forms. In the weaving of multiple lines, every edge is considered, the slightest shift in weight matters.
 
The painting finishes when a multi-dimensional building of organism and the ground that contains and supports it feels complete.”

Michael MacMahon:

Was born in Ireland in 1981 and received his Master in Fine Arts at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA/Tufts University 2012-2014; his Bachelors in Fine Arts. 2010-2012 at The University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA, with concentrations in painting and drawing.
He received his Associates in Liberal Arts. 2000-2002 at the Cape Cod Community College, MA.

Michael MacMahon is currently part of the painting Faculty at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, Boston and has exhibited his works widely in the Boston area, Cape Cod and Rhode Island.

A statment about Michael MacMahon’s work:

“Abrupt pairings from the aggregate to Michael MacMahon’s explorations into movement, origin and place. MacMahon utilizes a variety of painting strains while subjecting them to personal systems. Polychromatic grids, methods of communication form a sense of remove with the landscape furthering his long-standing interest in the representation of the American landscape with an exploration of home as proximity, place and state of mind. In combining both geophysical origins and the cultural overlay of human presence, often created over millennia, MacMahon’s work reflect a living synthesis of people and place that is vital to understanding its past, present and future.”

Please join us at our opening reception for Suzanne M. Packer and Kate Nelson on Friday, August 18th at a “Meet The Artists” 5 pm-7 pm. Refreshments will be served outside in the front garden (weather permitting) . Or, please stop in at the gallery for a Preview of the exhibit, on August 18th, 1 pm-4 pm or anytime 1 pm-5pm Thursday-Monday (or by appointment) through September 13th to see the exhibit.

We are thrilled to be showing the work of two highly regarded abstract painters in one colorful exhibit, Cape Cod artists Kate Nelson and Suzanne M. Packer August 17th- September 13th as part of our season series, “Color Connections 2023”.

Also on display will be work by Richard O. Perry, Hollis Fortune, John Howard, Georgene Riedl, Alla Zbinovsky, Leslie Kramer, Ellen C. Davies, Roe Osborn, Heather Pilchard, Barbara E. Cohen and Sally S. Fine in the the other gallery rooms.

About KATE NELSON:

Statement

Color happens in the moment we’re looking at it. It happens in real time. Like music. Like jazz.

Jazz was born in passion, nurtured by musical structure and grown by improvisation. Painting for me is like jazz — disciplined yet free, spare yet full, within a rich tradition yet achingly personal.

I function with minimal premeditation, like a jazz musician. I work from intuition, from impulse, using physi- cal reflexes honed in hard physical labor and senses sharpened by a life in the outdoors, attuned to the mer- curial temperament of Mother Nature. I work to escape the illusion of linear time; color and gesture trans- port me, the way I’m transported by the crashing surf at the shoreline. They have for me the same cleansing meditative power.

Biography

Painter Kate Nelson is drawn to and moved by the outdoor life.

She has studied at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (there influenced by Chuck Close, Keith Hollingworth, and John Grillo), at Massachusetts College of Art, at Haystack Mountain School on Deer Isle, Maine and worked in residence at the Vermont Studio Center. Her work is in the permanent collection of the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, MA; the Cahoon Museum in Cotuit, MA and in numerous corporate and pri- vate collections, including Sony and Pfizer USA, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, and Cape Cod Healthcare.

Nelson creates her lyrical abstract works in her barn-studio in Brewster on Cape Cod in Massachusetts.

ABOUT SUZANNE M. PACKER: :

Suzanne M. Packer, is the recipient of the Cape Cod Museum of Art’s 2018 Artist Muse Award honoree for outstanding contributions to the Museum and art community. Packer was the first Director of the Cape Cod Museum of Art. She now serves as Honorary Trustee and is the Volunteer Archivist.

She exhibited her first work in the San Francisco Museum of Art when she was five years old. Her work has since been exhibited and collected from New England to California, Greece, and Pakistan. She has been honored with numerous one-person exhibitions, including the Cahoon Museum of American Art, 1997, the Sparrow House Museum,1999 and two at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, ”Spanning The Years: A. S. Packer & Suzanne M. Packer, 2007” and “Cape Waters Abstracted, 2018””

Packer served for nine years on the Founding Board of the Cultural Center of Cape Cod, is an active member of TWENTY-ONE IN TRURO and a Past President of the Cape Cod Branch of the National League of American Pen Women. For five years she co-ordinated the Creative Arts Center Festival of the Arts in Chatham. She is a past member of the Printmakers of Cape Cod and for many years taught classes in painting and white-line print making.

Known for her colorful still life oil paintings and white-line woodblock prints, she now shows abstract oil paintings which have been inspired by her association with the TWENTY-ONE IN TRURO artists and their week of retreat in Truro exploring the Outer Cape landscape and water “Once you know the subject well the abstraction follows.”

Her paintings are in private and museum collections including the Cahoon Museum of American Art, the Cape Cod Museum of Art and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum.

For a peek at Suzanne M. Packer in her studio:

https://youtu.be/KVijO-nknb8

We invite you to join us at the opening reception for Roe Osborn & Richard O. Perry on Friday, July 21st either at the Preview: 1 pm-4 pm, or at “Meet The Artists” with refreshments 5 pm-7 pm served outside in the garden.

We are featuring these two well-known Cape Cod artists from July 20th - August 16th, in the second exhibit of our season series, “Color Connections 2023” . The unique combination of Osborn’s & Perry’s artistic talents will present a captivating fusion of relief art, painting and sculpture from the perspective of two of Cape Cod’s most innovative creators.

Brewster artist Richard O. Perry is noted for his masterful ability to create intricate and dynamic three-dimensional artwork. His pieces evoke a sense of depth and movement, drawing viewers with a play of light into an immersive exploration of texture, color, and form.

About: RICHARD PERRY

Richard Ogden Perry has been exploring intaglio relief as an artistic medium since 1975, first in New York City and then on Cape Cod. His interest in relief was inspired by Egyptian reliefs at the Metropolitan Museum and research into visual perception. Richard’s reliefs combine elements of drawing, painting and sculpture to create 3 dimensional "holographic" illusions which change in appearance as the viewer moves and as the light on the reliefs change.

As a teenager, Richard learned photography from his father. Richard graduated from Brown University in 1966 (BS-AB chemistry/philosophy) and then paid his way through University of Pennsylvania law school photographing college graduation ceremonies. He also photographed anti Vietnam war demonstrations in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. and the 1969 Woodstock music festival.

In New York City during the 1970’s Richard studied drawing, painting and sculpture at the Art Students League, the New School and the Brooklyn Museum School and exhibited his initial reliefs at the Green Mountain Gallery in SoHo.

His reliefs are currently exhibited in the Boston Museum of Science and Cape Cod Museum of Art. In his spare time he makes wire sculptures and magnetic mobiles. He exhibits and sells his work through the Cross Rip Gallery in Harwichport, Mass.

Have a look at Richard Perry at work in his studio here:

https://youtu.be/vrFO3tn_lsg

Complementing Perry's relief art, Orleans artist Roe Osborn brings a diverse range of artistic talents to the exhibit. As a painter, builder, sculptor, photographer and musician,  Osborn's paintings on view seamlessly blend traditional and contemporary techniques by melding his familiarity with shapes and interactions of materials into “architectural mini-shapes”.

Roe Osborn’s Artist Statement:

“Since graduating from college with a degree in fine arts nearly fifty years ago, my artistic expression has been mainly through sculpture in the form of abstract constructions. The primary focus of that work has been the process involved in its creation. In a sense the pieces have been performance based, where the goal is not the finished piece, but rather the experience of moving through the creative process.

Recently I rediscovered painting. As with my sculpture, my paintings are abstract, and as with my sculpture, the main focus of the paintings is the process of creating them: Preparing the medium, laying out the shapes and colors to be painted, then masking and painting the colors in a very prescribed regimen. Although most of my paintings are loosely based on real objects, they are not meant to be representational, but merely to depict the result of my creative process.

These paintings have also been a unifying element in my life. In the half century since I last painted creatively, I have been deeply involved in the building industry, both as a contractor, and later as a writer and photographer of construction practices. During that time I was always intrigued by the style and sophistication of joinery, from rudimentary framing to complex finish work. As I searched for a subject matter to use for my paintings, the shapes and interaction of materials from my building experience seemed to be a natural choice.

For each painting, I start with the concept of an “architectural mini-scape,” which could be an actual object from my experience, or a macro-view of a structural element. Next I render that subject matter in an axonometric view that creates a three-dimensional rendering without perspective. From there I further abstract the subject with interacting lines and angles, often including a related object. I assign colors sometimes based on light source, but sometimes completely at random.

I choose the colors for each painting from pre-compiled palettes, with accent colors often added at the end. The paint I use is acrylic interior house paint applied to primed construction-grade plywood panels. The frameless paintings are meant to be mounted parallel to the display plane, and I have devised a stand-off system that allows the paintings to be viewed in any orientation.”

As part of our “Color Connections 2023” season series we will continue to display work by Barbara Cohen, Ellen C. Davies, Sally S. Fine, Hollis Fortune, John Howard, LESLIE KRAMER, Kate Nelson, Suzanne M. Packer, Heather Pilchard, Georgene Riedl, and Alla Zbinovsky in the the other gallery rooms.

Please join us at the opening reception for Roe Osborn & Richard O. Perry on Friday, July 21st either at the Preview: 1 pm-4 pm, or at “Meet The Artists” with refreshments 5 pm-7 pm served outside in the garden.

Please join us at the opening reception for Ellen C. Davies and Leslie Kramer on Friday, June 30thrd either at the Preview: 1 pm-4 pm, or at “Meet The Artists” with refreshments 5 pm-7 pm served outside in the garden.

You will step into a world of vibrant hues and captivating compositions as we proudly present our season series, “Color Connections 2023” as each one of our exhibits this season will immerse you in a visual journey of imagination and innovation, as we celebrate the powerful impact of color in artistic expression. We will also be displaying work by John Howard Suzanne M. Packer, Kate Nelson, Richard O. Perry, Hollis Fortune, Georgene Riedl, Alla Zbinovsky and Sally S. Fine in the the other gallery rooms. We look forward to your visit!!

Please join us as we kick off 2023 at our opening reception for Cross Rip Gallery artists at The 204, at 204 Sisson Road, Harwich, on January 14th, 3 pm-5 pm. Musicians Roe Osborn and Peter Mann will be providing entertainment and refreshments will be served. Don’t miss this opportunity to see the work of our creative, award-winning artists in this great new space and to get a look at what The 204 has to offer the cultural community on Cape Cod and beyond! For more information about the venue,The 204, please see this link: The 204

Although Cross Rip Gallery on Route 28 in Harwich Port will be closed during regular hours until spring, we are thrilled to be showcasing the work of our artists at The 204 in Harwich, January 12th-March 31st. You will be able to view the work of gallery artists Ellen C. Davies, Hollis Fortune, Leslie Kramer, Kate Nelson, Suzanne M. Packer, Richard O. Perry, Heather Pilchard, Georgene Riedl and Alla Zbinovsky Monday-Friday, 10 am-4 pm in the Library exhibit space at The 204 at your leisure during these hours all winter long!

Please join us on at our Open House, Saturday, November 26th (Small Business Saturday!!) anytime 11 am- 5 pm for refreshments and to view our new exhibit, '‘IT’S A WRAP” . Or, please stop in during the Harwich Port Christmas Stroll, Friday, December 2nd, 5 pm -7:30 pm.

If you can’t visit the gallery in person, please visit our online shop: “Small Works Boutique” on this website to view and purchase small works which are available at the gallery during this exhibit for easy p pick-up or shipping.

Cross Rip Gallery’s last show of our “ COME TOGETHER 2022” season series, “IT’S A WRAP!”, features small works by over 12 of the artists who have exhibited with us this year. With this show, you will be able to view and to purchase small-sized artwork by some of your favorite artists for gifts or for a treat for yourself during the holiday season. You will find a range of oil and acrylic paintings, reliefs, pottery, monoprints and more with work from some of the most talented artists to exhibit their work on Cape Cod! Suzanne M. Packer, Kate Nelson, Richard O. Perry, John Howard, Hollis Fortune, Alla Zbinovsky, Eveline Luppi, Ellen C. Davies, Georgene Riedl, Heather Pilchard, Ralph S. MacKenzie, Leslie Kramer, and Sally S. Fine. We will also have larger works by all these artists available for viewing, too!

We look forward to seeing you soon!

Cross Rip Gallery is pleased to invite you to the closing reception of our “Invitational” exhibit of the unique and diverse talents of Barbara E. Cohen, Rebecca Levitan and Mellissa Morris on Sunday, October 16th, 3 pm-5 pm. Based respectively in Provincetown, New York and Hyannis, these three artists not only bring exciting techniques and concepts to our gallery, but they also bring new perspectives to our artistic community. We hope you can join us to meet them and to see this beautiful exhibit for your 1st or 2nd time. Refreshments will be served.

For more information about these three innovative artists please read below:

BARBARA E. COHEN - PAINTER, WRITER, SCULPTOR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok6wbwe7kaQ

Barbara Cohen received her B.F.A. from Tufts University and the School of Museum of Fine Arts in Boston with earlier studies in art history at Oxford University. She has received numerous grants including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Artists Foundation Mass Fellowship program, Polaroid Artist Support Program, Blanche E. Colman Award and grants from the Emily Harvey Foundation in Venice, Italy and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Barbara has exhibited her paintings and sculptures in numerous galleries and museums across the country. She is traveling to Skopelos, Greece, for a residency this summer.

Barbara’s books to date, Our Provincetown , including 60 writers alongside her painted Polaroids of Provincetown, published by Provincetown Arts Press, 2021, Venezia: Essence, is a series of oil painted Polaroids of Venice, Italy, published in 2013 by the Italian editor, Damocle. She is the author of New York love Affair, 2010, a collection of painted Polaroids of New York City, and Dog in the Dunes Revisited, 2005, published by Fields Publishing. The original Dog in the Dunes, 1998, a series of painted photographs of her black Labrador, Gabe, set in the dunes of Cape Cod, was published by Andrews McMeel. Provincetown East West, a selection of her painted polaroid landscapes of this small seaside town was published in 2002 by University Press of New England. Additional books include Woman’s Best Friend: A Celebration of Dogs and their Women, was published in 1996 by Little Brown and Company, as well as Dogs and their Women, 1989, Cats and their Women, 1992, and Horses and their Women, 1993.

Barbara is currently working on a new book of painted photos of Yofi, her 3 1/2 pound year old Morkie, living an Upper West Side life in the famous French one hundred year old building, the Ansonia, in New York. She divides her time between Provincetown, MA and New York. She travels extensively, enhancing her work on the lives of displaced people. Her personal politics are projected throughout her abstract paintings and sculpture from her past and present surroundings.

REBECCA LEVITAN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El7qYYO6Il4&t=2s

Bio & About her Work

Rebecca Levitan is a painter who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She studied art and linguis- tics at Harvard and painting at RISD. After college, she lived, worked, and studied Arabic in the Middle East while on a yearlong travel grant. Her work has been shown at the NARS Foundation, Morgan Lehman Gallery, and Asya Geisberg Gallery among others. Recent activities include a residency at Triangle Arts Association in Brooklyn, and inclusion in the Northeast Issue of New American Paintings.

My work is attempt to distill the contemporary visual world—chaotic and contextless, over- whelming in its variety—and pass it through the low-tech, idiosyncratic filter of my hand, in order to make paintings about the big feelings in small moments. My paintings reference a wide spec- trum of ways of making, but instead of pulling from existing examples, I make the objects and images I depict, designing the deck of cards if I am making a painting that involves tarot, or build- ing a pop-up book if I want to paint one. One day, I may find myself using 3d modeling to create paper models of popular wedding registry items. The next, I am constructing maquettes, taking photos, or collaging. The final paintings themselves employ multiple modes of painting, drawing, and printmaking in a single piece. Together, my pieces form a body of work as disparate as the world that informs them, but linked by an interest in everyday moments and the vernacular image.

MELLISSA MORRIS - ARTIST STATEMENT/BIO

    Currently I am the artist in residence at 46 Pearl St. Studio, located at The HyArts Campus in Hyannis. I am a mixed media artist with a focus in drawing and painting medium. I am inspired by nature, abstraction, and my own sensitive sometimes unbearable tumultuous emotions. Some of my earliest childhood memories include; me being mad and frustrated at the world, running off into the woods to climb up trees, and to stare off at the clouds…..not much has changed over the years.

    I was born on Cape Cod along with my 6 brothers and sisters; we are all a little wild, rough around the edges, passionate people. I have a daughter who constantly delights and challenges me and now I am a recent NEW grandmother. I never really liked cats growing up but coincidentally I ended up with my two babies, Nido and Leo, and they are my most favorite studio helpers/ best furry friends.

  I have a Masters Degree in Fine Arts Painting and Drawing from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. I do consider myself a life time learner/student and I am always taking new classes and learning new things.. I recently became certified in Somatic Movement therapies, Meditation, Yoga, Reiki, and I love to play and write songs on my Ukulele and Guitar.

   I am intrigued by the creative act as a form of spiritual and personal growth. I am as much a magician, mathematician, scientist, alchemist, and healer as a I am an Artist.

Please join us at our opening reception for BARBARA E. COHEN, REBECCA LEVITAN AND MELLISSA MORRIS on Saturday, September 17th, 5 pm-7 pm with refreshments in our outside garden for their exhibit as part of our “Come Together 2022” season series. We are thrilled to have these unique and diverse talents show their work for our patrons at Cross Rip Gallery . Based respectively in Provincetown, New York and Hyannis, these three artists not only bring exciting techniques and concepts to our gallery, but they also bring new perspectives to our artistic community. If you aren’t able to join us at our opening reception please visit us to see their remarkable work during our gallery hours, Thursday-Sunday, 1 pm-5 pm, or anytime by appointment or by chance.

For more information about these three innovative artists please read below:

BARBARA E. COHEN - PAINTER, WRITER, SCULPTOR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok6wbwe7kaQ

Barbara Cohen received her B.F.A. from Tufts University and the School of Museum of Fine Arts in Boston with earlier studies in art history at Oxford University. She has received numerous grants including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Artists Foundation Mass Fellowship program, Polaroid Artist Support Program, Blanche E. Colman Award and grants from the Emily Harvey Foundation in Venice, Italy and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Barbara has exhibited her paintings and sculptures in numerous galleries and museums across the country. She is traveling to Skopelos, Greece, for a residency this summer.

Barbara’s books to date, Our Provincetown , including 60 writers alongside her painted Polaroids of Provincetown, published by Provincetown Arts Press, 2021, Venezia: Essence, is a series of oil painted Polaroids of Venice, Italy, published in 2013 by the Italian editor, Damocle. She is the author of New York love Affair, 2010, a collection of painted Polaroids of New York City, and Dog in the Dunes Revisited, 2005, published by Fields Publishing. The original Dog in the Dunes, 1998, a series of painted photographs of her black Labrador, Gabe, set in the dunes of Cape Cod, was published by Andrews McMeel. Provincetown East West, a selection of her painted polaroid landscapes of this small seaside town was published in 2002 by University Press of New England. Additional books include Woman’s Best Friend: A Celebration of Dogs and their Women, was published in 1996 by Little Brown and Company, as well as Dogs and their Women, 1989, Cats and their Women, 1992, and Horses and their Women, 1993.

Barbara is currently working on a new book of painted photos of Yofi, her 3 1/2 pound year old Morkie, living an Upper West Side life in the famous French one hundred year old building, the Ansonia, in New York. She divides her time between Provincetown, MA and New York. She travels extensively, enhancing her work on the lives of displaced people. Her personal politics are projected throughout her abstract paintings and sculpture from her past and present surroundings.

REBECCA LEVITAN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El7qYYO6Il4&t=2s

Bio & About her Work

Rebecca Levitan is a painter who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She studied art and linguis- tics at Harvard and painting at RISD. After college, she lived, worked, and studied Arabic in the Middle East while on a yearlong travel grant. Her work has been shown at the NARS Foundation, Morgan Lehman Gallery, and Asya Geisberg Gallery among others. Recent activities include a residency at Triangle Arts Association in Brooklyn, and inclusion in the Northeast Issue of New American Paintings.

My work is attempt to distill the contemporary visual world—chaotic and contextless, over- whelming in its variety—and pass it through the low-tech, idiosyncratic filter of my hand, in order to make paintings about the big feelings in small moments. My paintings reference a wide spec- trum of ways of making, but instead of pulling from existing examples, I make the objects and images I depict, designing the deck of cards if I am making a painting that involves tarot, or build- ing a pop-up book if I want to paint one. One day, I may find myself using 3d modeling to create paper models of popular wedding registry items. The next, I am constructing maquettes, taking photos, or collaging. The final paintings themselves employ multiple modes of painting, drawing, and printmaking in a single piece. Together, my pieces form a body of work as disparate as the world that informs them, but linked by an interest in everyday moments and the vernacular image.

MELLISSA MORRIS - ARTIST STATEMENT/BIO

    Currently I am the artist in residence at 46 Pearl St. Studio, located at The HyArts Campus in Hyannis. I am a mixed media artist with a focus in drawing and painting medium. I am inspired by nature, abstraction, and my own sensitive sometimes unbearable tumultuous emotions. Some of my earliest childhood memories include; me being mad and frustrated at the world, running off into the woods to climb up trees, and to stare off at the clouds…..not much has changed over the years.

    I was born on Cape Cod along with my 6 brothers and sisters; we are all a little wild, rough around the edges, passionate people. I have a daughter who constantly delights and challenges me and now I am a recent NEW grandmother. I never really liked cats growing up but coincidentally I ended up with my two babies, Nido and Leo, and they are my most favorite studio helpers/ best furry friends.

  I have a Masters Degree in Fine Arts Painting and Drawing from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. I do consider myself a life time learner/student and I am always taking new classes and learning new things.. I recently became certified in Somatic Movement therapies, Meditation, Yoga, Reiki, and I love to play and write songs on my Ukulele and Guitar.

   I am intrigued by the creative act as a form of spiritual and personal growth. I am as much a magician, mathematician, scientist, alchemist, and healer as a I am an Artist.

For more information about these three innovative artists please read below:

BARBARA E. COHEN - PAINTER, WRITER, SCULPTOR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok6wbwe7kaQ

Barbara Cohen received her B.F.A. from Tufts University and the School of Museum of Fine Arts in Boston with earlier studies in art history at Oxford University. She has received numerous grants including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Artists Foundation Mass Fellowship program, Polaroid Artist Support Program, Blanche E. Colman Award and grants from the Emily Harvey Foundation in Venice, Italy and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Barbara has exhibited her paintings and sculptures in numerous galleries and museums across the country. She is traveling to Skopelos, Greece, for a residency this summer.

Barbara’s books to date, Our Provincetown , including 60 writers alongside her painted Polaroids of Provincetown, published by Provincetown Arts Press, 2021, Venezia: Essence, is a series of oil painted Polaroids of Venice, Italy, published in 2013 by the Italian editor, Damocle. She is the author of New York love Affair, 2010, a collection of painted Polaroids of New York City, and Dog in the Dunes Revisited, 2005, published by Fields Publishing. The original Dog in the Dunes, 1998, a series of painted photographs of her black Labrador, Gabe, set in the dunes of Cape Cod, was published by Andrews McMeel. Provincetown East West, a selection of her painted polaroid landscapes of this small seaside town was published in 2002 by University Press of New England. Additional books include Woman’s Best Friend: A Celebration of Dogs and their Women, was published in 1996 by Little Brown and Company, as well as Dogs and their Women, 1989, Cats and their Women, 1992, and Horses and their Women, 1993.

Barbara is currently working on a new book of painted photos of Yofi, her 3 1/2 pound year old Morkie, living an Upper West Side life in the famous French one hundred year old building, the Ansonia, in New York. She divides her time between Provincetown, MA and New York. She travels extensively, enhancing her work on the lives of displaced people. Her personal politics are projected throughout her abstract paintings and sculpture from her past and present surroundings.

REBECCA LEVITAN

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Bio & About her Work

Rebecca Levitan is a painter who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She studied art and linguis- tics at Harvard and painting at RISD. After college, she lived, worked, and studied Arabic in the Middle East while on a yearlong travel grant. Her work has been shown at the NARS Foundation, Morgan Lehman Gallery, and Asya Geisberg Gallery among others. Recent activities include a residency at Triangle Arts Association in Brooklyn, and inclusion in the Northeast Issue of New American Paintings.

My work is attempt to distill the contemporary visual world—chaotic and contextless, over- whelming in its variety—and pass it through the low-tech, idiosyncratic filter of my hand, in order to make paintings about the big feelings in small moments. My paintings reference a wide spec- trum of ways of making, but instead of pulling from existing examples, I make the objects and images I depict, designing the deck of cards if I am making a painting that involves tarot, or build- ing a pop-up book if I want to paint one. One day, I may find myself using 3d modeling to create paper models of popular wedding registry items. The next, I am constructing maquettes, taking photos, or collaging. The final paintings themselves employ multiple modes of painting, drawing, and printmaking in a single piece. Together, my pieces form a body of work as disparate as the world that informs them, but linked by an interest in everyday moments and the vernacular image.

MELLISSA MORRIS - ARTIST STATEMENT/BIO

    Currently I am the artist in residence at 46 Pearl St. Studio, located at The HyArts Campus in Hyannis. I am a mixed media artist with a focus in drawing and painting medium. I am inspired by nature, abstraction, and my own sensitive sometimes unbearable tumultuous emotions. Some of my earliest childhood memories include; me being mad and frustrated at the world, running off into the woods to climb up trees, and to stare off at the clouds…..not much has changed over the years.

    I was born on Cape Cod along with my 6 brothers and sisters; we are all a little wild, rough around the edges, passionate people. I have a daughter who constantly delights and challenges me and now I am a recent NEW grandmother. I never really liked cats growing up but coincidentally I ended up with my two babies, Nido and Leo, and they are my most favorite studio helpers/ best furry friends.

  I have a Masters Degree in Fine Arts Painting and Drawing from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. I do consider myself a life time learner/student and I am always taking new classes and learning new things.. I recently became certified in Somatic Movement therapies, Meditation, Yoga, Reiki, and I love to play and write songs on my Ukulele and Guitar.

   I am intrigued by the creative act as a form of spiritual and personal growth. I am as much a magician, mathematician, scientist, alchemist, and healer as a I am an Artist.

Please join us at the opening reception for HOLLIS FORTUNE, RICHARD O. PERRY and ALLA ZBINOVSKY on Saturday, August 20 th, either at the Preview: 1 pm-4 pm, or at “Meet The Artists” with refreshments 5 pm-7 pm served outside in the garden as we continue our season series, “COME TOGETHER 2022. We will also be displaying work by Barbara E. Cohen, Ellen C. Davies, Sally S. Fine, John Howard, Leslie Kramer, Eveline Luppi, Suzanne M. Packer, Heather Pilchard, Kate Nelson and Georgene Riedl in the the other gallery rooms.

We are pleased to feature three Cape Cod artists: Hollis Fortune, Richard O. Perry and Alla Zbinovsky, August 18th-September 12th. These diverse talents work respectively in acrylics, hyrdrocal epoxy and oils to create beautiful, unique artwork. Hollis’s works range from semi- abstract landscapes to pure abstract with each creation indelibly imprinted with her imaginative style. Richard Perry creates innovative sculptural reliefs that fascinate the viewer whether they be purely figurative or abstract expressions . Alla Zbinovsky’s figurative work reflects her intense study of Russian Icons as well as her frequent plein-aire excursions which evolve in to beautiful, colourful creations in oil and encaustic.

RICHARD PERRY - About

Richard Ogden Perry has been exploring intaglio relief as an artistic medium since 1975, first in New York City and then on Cape Cod. His interest in relief was inspired by Egyptian reliefs at the Metropolitan Museum and research into visual perception. Richard’s reliefs combine elements of drawing, painting and sculpture to create 3 dimensional "holographic" illusions which change in appearance as the viewer moves and as the light on the reliefs change.

As a teenager, Richard learned photography from his father. Richard graduated from Brown University in 1966 (BS-AB chemistry/philosophy) and then paid his way through University of Pennsylvania law school photographing college graduation ceremonies. He also photographed anti Vietnam war demonstrations in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. and the 1969 Woodstock music festival.

In New York City during the 1970’s Richard studied drawing, painting and sculpture at the Art Students League, the New School and the Brooklyn Museum School and exhibited his initial reliefs at the Green Mountain Gallery in SoHo.

His reliefs are currently exhibited in the Boston Museum of Science and Cape Cod Museum of Art. In his spare time he makes wire sculptures and magnetic mobiles. He exhibits and sells his work through the Cross Rip Gallery in Harwichport, Mass.

Have a look at Richard Perry at work in his studio here:

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ALLA ZBINOVSKY - Artist Statement

Alla Zbinovsky is a Harwich artist who paints in oil, encaustic and egg tempera. She graduated from Cornell and Columbia Universities, and then spent several decades living and working in Russia and England. She washed ashore a decade ago, and now focuses on painting the Cape Cod landscape and the ever elusive light. Shifting land, water and sky, and the places where they end and meet are the inspiration for her work. Alla also has a long standing spiritual practice of iconography grounded in ancient Byzantine and Russian traditions, as well as forays into ceramic art.

About HOLLIS FORTUNE:

Hollis Fortune is a contemporary, abstract artist who works in acrylic , oil and mixed media.  Her artistic journey has taken her from realism to the abstraction she revels in.  The freedom she experiences placing paint on canvas has resulted in a body of work which invites the viewer to share her world of movement, vibrant color and abundant joy.  Her inspirations include Jeanne Bessette, Mary Moquin and Brian Rutenberg.

Please join us as we continue the theme of our 2022 Season, “Come Together” at our reception on Friday, July 15th, 5 pm-7 pm. “Meet & Greet” volunteers and D. J.’s from WOMR as we help our community radio celebrate their 40th Birthday Anniversary. Music and visual arts are a wonderful way to facilitate all the good feelings generated when people get together , so “Come Together” with us and WOMR in our outside garden, with refreshments and music provided by “Slightly Tooned”—Nick Beltremini on saxophone and Abe Gold on keyboard. Celebrate with Cross Rip Gallery artists and their imaginative works in oil, acrylic, gouache, encaustic, and monotype. Enjoy the diversity of talent of exhibiting Cross Rip Gallery artists Suzanne M. Packer, Kate Nelson, Barbara E. Cohen, Ellen C. Davies, Eveline Luppi, Leslie Kramer, John Howard, Richard O. Perry, Hollis Fortune, Heather Pilchard, Sally S. Fine, Alla Zbinovsky and Georgene Riedl . We look forward to seeing you!!

As part of our 2022 Season Series, “Come Together”, lease join us at the opening reception for Ellen C. Davies, , John Howard and Leslie Kramer on Friday, June 17th either at the Preview: 1 pm-4 pm, or at “Meet The Artists” with refreshments 5 pm-7 pm served outside in the garden. Brewster artists JOHN HOWARD & LESLIE KRAMER and Chatham artist, ELLEN C. DAVIES, will be our featured artists June 16th-July 11th, as we kick-off our 2022 Season Series: “Come Together”. We will also be displaying work by Suzanne M. Packer, Kate Nelson, Richard O. Perry, Hollis Fortune, Georgene Riedl, Alla Zbinovsky, Eveline Luppi and Sally S. Fine in the the other gallery rooms.

Stop in during the Harwich Port Christmas Stroll on Friday, December 3rd, 5 pm-7:30 pm for refreshments and to view the new exhibit of wonderful small works, “Small Works, Big Ideas” which is the last show of our season series, “Coming Out 2021” . (Masks and Social Distancing required inside the gallery).

Cross Rip Gallery’s last show of our “Coming Out 2021” season series is “SMALL WORKS, BIG IDEAS”, featuring small works by 14 of the artists who have exhibited with us this year. With this show, you will be able to view and to purchase small-sized artwork by some of your favorite artists for gifts or for a treat for yourself during the holiday season. You will find a range of oil and acrylic paintings, reliefs, pottery, photography, monoprints and more with work from some of the most talented artists to exhibit their work on Cape Cod! Suzanne M. Packer, Kate Nelson, Richard O. Perry, John Howard, Hollis Fortune, Alla Zbinovsky, Eveline Luppi, Ellen C. Davies, Georgene Riedl, Mary Doering, Heather Pilchard, Leslie Kramer, Dick McGarr and Sally S. Fine. We will also have larger works by all these artists available for viewing, too!

Or we hope you canjoin us on at our Open House, Saturday, November 27th (Small Business Saturday!!) anytime 11 am- 5 pm for refreshments and to view this new exhibit. (masks and social distancing required in the gallery).

If you can’t visit the gallery in person, please visit our new online shop: “Small Works, Big Ideas” on this website to view and purchase the small works which will be available at the gallery during this exhibit for pick-up or delivery.

Please join us on at our Open House, Saturday, November 27th (Small Business Saturday!!) anytime 11 am- 5 pm for refreshments and to view our new exhibit, '‘SMALL WORKS, BIG IDEAS” (masks and social distancing required in the gallery). Or stop in during the Harwich Port Christmas Stroll, Friday, December 3rd, 5 pm -7:30 pm.

Or, If you can’t visit the gallery in person, please visit our new online shop: “Small Works, Big Ideas” on this website to view and purchase the small works which will be available at the gallery during this exhibit for pick-up or delivery.

Cross Rip Gallery’s last show of our “Coming Out 2021” season series, “SMALL WORKS, BIG IDEAS”, features small works by 14 of the artists who have exhibited with us this year. With this show, you will be able to view and to purchase small-sized artwork by some of your favorite artists for gifts or for a treat for yourself during the holiday season. You will find a range of oil and acrylic paintings, reliefs, pottery, photography, monoprints and more with work from some of the most talented artists to exhibit their work on Cape Cod! Suzanne M. Packer, Kate Nelson, Richard O. Perry, John Howard, Hollis Fortune, Alla Zbinovsky, Eveline Luppi, Ellen C. Davies, Georgene Riedl, Mary Doering, Heather Pilchard, Leslie Kramer, Dick McGarr and Sally S. Fine. We will also have larger works by all these artists available for viewing, too!

We look forward to seeing you soon!