Don’t miss our biggest exhibition of the season!
The “Alphabet” Exhibition
Letter “M” by Artist Kay Ritter – “Moon, Martini, Mouse and Muenster”, oil on linen on board 10″ x 10″
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Bates/O’Brien – Wonderful World
Artist Jill Bates – “The Weight of Water”, oil on canvas 15 x 30 inches
Artist Susan O’Brien McLean – “Sailing in the Bay”, oil on canvas 36 x 46 inches
“WonderfulWorld” Exhibition
Artists Susan O’Brien McLean and Jill Bates Present Recent Oils and Pastels
Opening Reception Saturday
August 12
5pm – 7pm
Refreshments will be served
Sam Barber – Reflections of my time
“Reflections of My Time” Exhibition
Artist Sam Barber presents Recent Oils and Watercolors
Opening Reception:
Saturday, July 29
5pm – 7pm
Refreshments will be served
15 Artists – The Road Less Traveled
Show Running Through
Wednesday, July 26
Open daily 10am – 6pm
Jim Freeheart – Summer Fun
“Summer Fun”
Recent Painting by Artist: Jim Freeheart
Running Through:
Wednesday July 12th
click here to view more work by Jim Freeheart.
Odin Smith – Local Color
Cape Cod artist Odin Smith – “Bachelor’s Blues,” acrylic on canvas, 30 x 48 inches
“Local Color”
Opening Reception for artist Odin Smith:
5-7 p.m. Saturday, June 17
Join us for the opening and refreshments.
Click here to view more work by Odin Smith.
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.”
Georgia O’Keeffe
American Artist
One person show
A graphic designer as well as a painter, Kevin King designed a postcard for his one-person show that comes complete
with his own mugshot. The suspect stands accused of painting in an exceptionally wide variety of styles.
The verdict is certain: Guilty as charged!
One-Person Show Does Justice to Kevin King’s ‘Many Sides’
“The Many Sides of Kevin King” will open Saturday, May 20, and continue through Sunday, June 4. The show will feature some 20 paintings completed by North Falmouth artist Kevin King over the past two decades, ranging from the highly realistic to the totally abstract.
Pictured at right is his most recent painting, a copy of “La Bella Principessa” (“The Beautiful Princess”), a drawing some experts have attributed to Leonardo da Vinci. The source is clear, but so is King’s stamp of originality. In addition to having a more intense palette than the Renaissance portrait, his version includes a butterfly perched on the girl’s braid. We hope you’ll join us for the exhibition’s opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, May 20. King’s gallery talk at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 25, will offer another opportunity to meet the artist.
“Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy.”
ROBERT HENRI
American Artist and Teacher
Beautiful Inside and Out
Beautiful Inside and Out
Inner beauty, as we know, is the most important thing (and that’s even true of art galleries — inside being where the art is). But as a landscaper, Scott Chapman has always had a vision for his gallery that included an inviting exterior. With the advent of spring, we have urns with geraniums flanking the entrance and sculptural heron among the rhododendron. And Scottie isn’t done yet. “I’m hoping to get some larger sculpture or fountain to add a little life to the outside,” he says. “Something that makes people want to stop.”
‘The Many Sides of Kevin King’
When Kevin King agreed to have a one-person show at Chapman Art Gallery, he joked that visitors might walk in and think it was a group exhibition. And as the actual show will make clear, the North Falmouth artist is indeed an eclectic talent. “The Many Sides of Kevin King,” a lively overview of his approaches, mediums and subjects over some two decades, will run from May 20 through June 4.
- The opening reception will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, May 20.
- Also in conjunction with the exhibition, the artist will give a talk at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 25, at the gallery.
One of King’s trademarks is his rather frequent use of ash in place of more conventional pigments. Mixing it with oil painting medium and resin, he has used cremated fish to paint fish, book ash to paint books, rope ash to paint rope and ash from Ground Zero to paint the American flag. With a painting of daylilies, King painted the entire picture in gray with lily ash before deciding the blossoms themselves demanded to be a true-to-life orange.
King’s reverence for nature is also evident in his “Bio-Logic Leaf” series, where large-as-life leaves float in luminous space, their crinkly, curving forms rendered with sculptural beauty. “Geo-Logic #2,” a somewhat stylized Middle Eastern landscape of arid mountains and ravines, was painted with Red Sea sediment. “Three Stones” features a trio of smooth, blue-green pebbles painted with almost trompe-l’oeil clarity against a glowing field of yellow and red.
Among King’s most recent works is a reproduction of “La Bella Principessa” (“The Beautiful Princess”), a drawing some experts have attributed to Leonardo da Vinci. “It just captivated me,” King says. “He did it in colored chalk and ink, and I’m doing it in oil. You learn so much from copying what someone else has done.” On the other hand, he wasn’t timid about introducing his own touch to the Renaissance portrait. “I added a butterfly on the girl’s braid,” he says.
“You can either buy clothes
or you can buy pictures.“
GERTRUDE STEIN
Author and Art Collector
One More Week to Make ‘Waves’
One More Week to Make ‘Waves’
“Making Waves” — our show of more than 40 paintings by 17 artists — will continue through this coming Sunday, May 7. If you love watching the ocean in all its moods, this is an array of paintings you don’t want to miss. Almost as good as a walk on the beach, without getting sand in your shoes! The works range from Ken Evans’ “A New Season” (at right), a tranquil scene of a Hyannis Port beach, to Jim Freeheart’s “King of Waves,” a painting of a legendary surfing wave off the coast of Maui. Above, gallery visitors Pam Brown and Bob Phear study a pastel painting by Anne Heywood. The Hyannis coupletook in the exhibition at a leisurely pace this afternoon.
Coming Soon
Our next special exhibition will shine the spotlight on North Falmouth artist Kevin King. Opening Saturday, May 20, and running through Sunday, June 4, “The Many Sides of Kevin King” will explore the varied creative directions of this eclectic talent. If there’s a commonality to his work, it’s a strong tendency to reference the natural world and a philosophical bent. At right is “Naushon Meadow,” inspired by a visit to one of the Elizabeth Islands. Stay tuned for more info!View more of Kevin King’s work
“The collector attempts always to acquire the best, and his knowledge of what is best is always widening. His is the task of judging between degrees of perfection.“
ARTHUR DAVISON FISKE
Poet and Expert on Japanese Art
Ocean Waves and Good Times
John Murelle, from left, Pamela Weiler and well-known food stylist John Carafoli were among those who attended the opening reception for the “Making Waves” exhibition. Paintings by Odin Smith and Jill Bates appear in the background.
Ocean Waves and Good Times
Roll at Opening Reception
Gallery owner Scottie Chapman joins legendary pianist John Salerno .
Megan Elliott, gallery artist Karen Crocker and Steve Long.
We had a lovely turnout for the opening reception of “Making Waves” Saturday evening. It wasn’t the madhouse of our grand opening, but — if anything — that gave everyone the chance to really appreciate the 47 beautiful works in this, our first special exhibition.
Comments were far-ranging. Anne Heywood’s pastel painting “Morning” is just like looking at the wake off the back of a boat as you’re heading out on a fishing trip, one person said. Someone else remarked on the way the luscious brushwork of Sam Barber’s large impressionist canvas “Waves, Sandy Neck” turns into a stunning seascape of incoming rollers when viewed from a short distance. Throughout the evening, people marveled at the artists’ skill at capturing the wetness and movement of water.
“I, along with a few friends, attended the ‘Making Waves’ opening reception Saturday and was not disappointed,” wrote Sandy Scannell in her five-star review of Chapman Art Gallery on Facebook. “We were welcomed with a warm reception, and the gallery had a nice variety of artists. Very enjoyable … and, of course being a seashore girl, I loved all the ‘wave’ paintings especially.”
Thank you so much for your kind words, Sandy! And our thanks to everyone whose presence helped make the evening so enjoyable.
Please visit our Facebook page to view more photos of the opening.
“One of the nice things about owning pictures is that you get to look at them undisturbed. … I look at them when
I’m alone, when I’m with people,
and I can glance at them over someone’s shoulder at a cocktail party,
except, now that I think about it,
I’ve never thrown a cocktail party.”
STEVE MARTIN
Actor, Comedian and Art Collector
Making Waves Exhibition April 22nd to May 7th
Making Waves Exhibition April 22nd to May 7th
“Nobody can give you advice after you’ve been collecting for a while. If you
don’t enjoy making your own decisions, you’re never going to be much
of a collector anyway.“
CHARLES SAATCHI
Businessman and Art Collector
‘Making Waves’ Exhibition to Celebrate Ocean in Motion
Kevin King, TSUNAMI, mixed media with sheet metal and oil on panel, 36 x 24 inches, $2,000
Jill Bates, CAPE ROLLER, pastel on sandpaper, 16 x 12 inches, $700
Lance Walker, QUICKSILVER, oil on canvas, 20 x 24 inches (26 x 30 framed), $3,500
Jason Eldredge, COMMERCIAL STREET, oil on canvas, 24 x 36 inches (30 x 42 framed), $3,000
‘Making Waves’ Exhibition to Celebrate Ocean in Motion
As a newcomer to the Cape’s art community, Chapman Art Gallery certainly hopes to make waves during its first season. It’s fitting, then, that our first special exhibition will do just that — and not just figuratively speaking. Because artists — particularly Cape Cod artists — often “make” waves quite literally, the group show “Making Waves” will celebrate the beauty, excitement, majesty and power of the ocean in motion.
Appropriately, we’ll kick things off on Earth Day, Saturday, April 22, with an opening reception from 4 to 7 p.m. Hors d’oeuvres and refreshments will be served. The exhibition will continue through Sunday, May 7.
The show was inspired by the realization that the gallery represents two artists — Jill Bates and Odin Smith — for whom painting waves is something of a specialty. For many other gallery artists, waves are often a key element in their marine or coastal scenes. To round out this show of some three dozen works, guest artists Ken Evans, Anne Heywood, Susan Hollis, Lance Walker and Lindsay Hopkins Weld have also been invited to participate.
The interpretations are no more repetitive than the ocean itself, as viewed from day to day here on Cape Cod. The works range from paintings of gentle rollers and glittering whitecaps to “Tsunami,” an abstract mixed-media piece by Kevin King that suggests the towering height and destructive force of a tidal wave.
With an unusual take on Provincetown titled “Commercial Street,” Jason Eldredge uses a cascade of exuberant waves rushing by the Lobster Pot and Governor Bradford House as a device to blend the activities of the town’s bustling commercial area and waterfront. A woman sipping from a wine glass as she floats past on an inner tube enjoys the best of both worlds.
Lance Walker gives the masterful Provincetown marine artist Frederick Judd Waugh a nod as the inspiration for “Quicksilver,” where a large translucent wave explodes into a billow of frothy spray against an enormous flat boulder. But he also credits his days as an avid surfer. “I constructed the painting based on a series of sketches and studies and knowledge of waves and water from 30 years of surfing,” Walker says. “Sitting on my board for hours, studying the development of swells, waiting for the next set, I learned how waves formed.”
As an artist, Jill Bates is drawn to the ocean because of its ever-changing color and because the waves themselves are so many colors, she says. “The color is fabulous. There are a million different blues and greens, and sometimes there’s brown in there. Waves are so different from one another, and they’re always moving. They’re never boring.”
See our complete inventory of works by gallery artists
“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.“
C. S. LEWIS
British Novelist
Festive evening puts the GRAND in Grand Opening
Gallery artist SAM BARBER, center, gets some love from his wife, JANIE, and artist ALFIE GLOVER photos by Kara Ryan
AMIT RAKHIT and BRAD SENATORE photo by Kara Ryan
Gallery artist BILL DAVIS and his wife, JUDY photo by Kara Ryan
Festive evening puts the GRAND in Grand Opening
Jeff Urquhart is used to crowd scenes: He’s photographed such venues as the Kentucky Derby, rock concerts, and the Super Bowl. While Chapman Art Gallery’s Grand Opening didn’t rise to quite that level, he — and others — estimated Saturday evening’s event may have drawn as many as 400 people.
As owner Scott Chapman notes: “It was three hours of people coming and going.” And Scotty — from beginning to end — kept a watchful eye on the whole affair, making sure everyone was having a marvelous time. “It was wonderful to see so many people smiling, everyone feeling like they were in the middle of a happening place where nobody felt left out,” he says.
Friends came from as far away as New York and Connecticut as well as from all over Massachusetts and Cape Cod. A lovely, well-timed story by Joanne Briana-Gartner in the Enterprise newspapers had caught a number of guests’ attention. Twelve of the 14 artists the gallery represents were also at the party. “Each and every one of them was sought after by their followers,” Scotty says. “And many guests — as they discovered new artists to admire — were asking, ‘Is this artist here?’ It was a star-studded evening.”
There was also live music, with the legendary John Salerno on keyboards. “He was a hit,” Scotty says. “He played whatever was asked. We had people singing.”
Not only was the evening festive, it was safe. “All the workers that were here pulled their weight to make it an extremely successful opening,” Scotty says. “Believe it or not, I haven’t had one complaint,” he adds with a laugh.
See our Facebook page for more pictures of the Grand Opening
“If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.”
MICHELANGELO
Ode to an Opening (Or, The More the Merrier)
The gallery is ship-shape for our Grand Opening! Visible here are paintings by, from left, Carole Chisholm Garvey, Jim Freeheart and Susan O’Brien McLean. Verde Floral Design kindly gave us the striking arrangement for our recent business social. Another bouquet has been ordered for this Saturday night. See the complete inventory of works by our gallery artists.
Ode to an Opening
(Or, The More the Merrier)
Our Grand Opening’s approaching
And all through this place,
Scotty Chapman’s been busy –
A grin on his face.
Chapman Art Gallery
The paintings are hung
In the galleries with care,
From beautiful seascapes
To still lifes with pears.
With Salerno on keyboards
And hors d’oeuvres on platter,
With flowers on table,
It’s the details that matter!
We’re so proud of our gallery –
Friends, share our delight!
Come celebrate with us
This Saturday night!
“The art one chooses to collect becomes a self-portrait.”
DENNIS HECKLER
Mississippi Artist
Hoping to ‘Make Waves’ with 2017 Exhibitions
Odin Smith, BREAKING, acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48 inches, $4,600 See more paintings by Odin Smith
Hoping to ‘Make Waves’ with 2017 Exhibitions
Our exhibition schedule for 2017 has solidified over the past two weeks, and — imagine trumpet fanfare here — we’re very excited to tell you about it! We’ve been delighted by how many of our gallery artists have agreed to a one-, two- or three-person show this year. We’ve also scheduled several group theme exhibits, with each to include work by gallery artists as well as invited guest talents. Most shows will run for two weeks. All opening receptions will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. on the first day of the show (always a Saturday). We hope to see you at a lot of them!
April 22- May 7: “Making Waves,” a group show featuring everything from whitecaps to tsunamis. (Unbelievably, we already have a work titled “Tsunami” lined up!)
May 20-June 2: Works by Kevin King
June 17-30: Paintings by Odin Smith
July 1-14: Jim Freeheart paintings on the theme of “Summer Fun”
July 15-28: “The Road Not Taken,” will take us down country paths and “winding roads that seem to beckon you …”
July 29-Aug. 11: Impressionist paintings by Sam Barber
Aug. 12-25: Work by Jill Bates and Susan O’Brien McLean, two artists known for their range of imagery
Sept. 16-29: “The Alphabet Show” will involve 26 artists, each randomly assigned a letter as the basis for an artwork. F might be for flower, field, forest, fruit or Falmouth. Should be Fun and Fascinating!
Oct. 7-20: “Night Music,” a series of paintings by Kay Ritter illustrating a charming story poem she wrote for children
Oct. 21-Nov. 3: Karen Crocker, Carole Garvey and Mary Moquin, three artists who seek to express the essence in landscapes
Nov. 4-17: Paintings by Jason Eldredge and Theodore Ladd
Dec. 2-31: “Good Things in Small Packages” is — you guessed it! — the inevitable, but always popular small works holiday show.
See our current inventory of works by our gallery artists!
“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature
into his pictures.“
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Clergyman/abolistionist
Getting to Know Our Business Neighbors
Laurie and Stephen Hayes came over from Sow’s Ear Antiques on the other side of Route 28.
Lori Pimental, owner of Cotuit Fresh Market, and Liz Thomas, a vice president of Citizens Bank.
Getting to Know Our Business Neighbors
Last Thursday evening, we held a casual open house for neighborhood businesses and interior designers — our first real event at the gallery. It was a lovely evening, and we were so pleased by how many good folks turned out to wish us well. View more pictures from the event on our Facebook page
“To say of a picture, as is often said
in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.”
JAMES McNEILL WHISTLER
Expatriate American Artist
X Is for X-hibition X-citement
Kay Ritter, TULIPS AND WATERMELON, oil on linen, 20 x 24 inches framed, $5,500.
We knew that Kay paints apples, but that led to another idea …
One thing we haven’t told you about Chapman Art Gallery is that we plan to hold special exhibitions. Quite a number of them! We want to keep the gallery lively. With that in mind, we’ve been chatting individually with our gallery artists to see what appeals to them. We’ve asked them if they could be ready for a solo or two-person show this year. We’ve also sought their reactions to ideas we’re batting around for group theme exhibitions. And we’re thrilled and grateful to find them enthusiastic at the prospect of participating in the fun.
We’re not quite ready to announce our schedule for 2017, but — just to give you an idea — a sampling of the themes we’re discussing includes “Pet Project,” paintings of our animal companions; “The Path Not Taken,” scenes with country lanes and roads; and “Tribute,” works honoring other artists.
Another idea had a working title of “A Is for Apple.” In talking to Rhode Island artist Kay Ritter, we figured she’d fit right into that because she paints still lifes. But she wondered if it would be an apple show or an alphabet show and that got us thinking: An alphabet show was a great idea! Assign each of 26 artists a letter and see how they interpret it! The word wouldn’t even have to be a noun (such as Q — one of the trickier letters — could be for “quiet” or “quaint”). But I is for “information” — as in, be expecting more of it! View more of Kay Ritter’s work
“Treat a work of art like a prince:
let it speak to you first.”
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
German philospher
Visitors the Icing on Our Cake
William R. Davis FISHERMEN AT SUNSET Oil on panel
Susan O’Brien McLean SWANS IN NORTH BAY Oil on canvas
Opening a Cape Cod art gallery in the depths of winter isn’t as foolhardy as one might think: For one thing, it’s allowing us ample time to get everything up to speed before the summer rush. And we’re delighted by those of you who’ve already stopped by, sometimes in the rain or snow. Not hoards, by any means, but a pretty steady trickle of folks curious about the Cape’s newest art gallery. We’ve been so pleased to meet all of you and hear your reactions. You told us you love the space: the old wide-board floors, the good lighting, the casual atmosphere. And we’ve heard so many glowing comments about our selection of artists. We had to laugh when one visitor said, “It’s a real art gallery!” But we took it for what it was: a lovely comment on the level of talent.
We also confess to being excited about making our first sale last week (at least the first since the gallery opened for business in mid-January). This very nice gentleman had been coming in fairly regularly, always gravitating to “Fishermen at Sunset,” a marine sunset by William R. Davis with a strikingly high horizon line. Then, last week, he spent a long time pondering a group of paintings by Susan O’Brien McLean, the artist most recently added to our roster. He was particularly taken with “Swans in North Bay.” Long story short, Scotty Chapman helped him decide where to hang the paintings in his home, and he purchased them both. Maybe this is how people at the MSPCA feel when a dog or cat goes to a good home! In any case, we hope the paintings bring our friend a great deal of enjoyment.
“Painting is a mystery to me.
Not only do I not understand it,
I’m not convinced I am supposed to.”
KENNETH LAYMAN
Nantucket artist and gallery visitor
We have works with HEART, Valentine!
We have works with HEART, Valentine!
Ralph and Martha Cahoons and original Jim Dine prints special attraction at gallery
Ralph Cahoon (1910-1982), LOVE, oil on masonite, 19 x 21 inches (framed 24 x 26)
Jim Dine (1935- ), A HEART AT THE OPERA, 1983,
lithograph on Arches paper 45/50, signed,
50 x 38 inches (58.5 x 44.75 framed)
Prices on both works are available upon request.
These two works seem appropriate for wishing you a happy Valentine’s Day! They do, after all, have hearts in them. Coincidentally, they’re also both for resale from private collections (as opposed to coming to us directly from the artists).
Three of the five large-scale Jim Dine prints we have on view are from his heart series, where the heart is massive, dominating the surface. Like robes and Venus figures (of which we have one each), hearts are one of the artist’s signature images. Dine — who made his mark with happenings and the Pop Art movement in New York in the 1960s — has been an avid printmaker his entire career. His hearts take on a great variety of personalities. The hammer and saw in “A Heart at the Opera” seem to speak of the vulnerability of the human heart. See our full inventory of Jim Dine prints
We’re also proud to have three Cahoon paintings on view — two by Ralph, one by Martha. “Love” is a bit of a departure for Ralph — his witty take on hippie era attire, culture, and romance. As his sailor and mermaid ride past a landmark fountain on Nantucket, we suspect there’s some smoke from their wacky tobacky mingling with the island fog. While Ralph normally set his paintings in the 1800s, he did take a brush at current trends from time to time. Visit our website for more Cahoon charm
“You can either buy clothes
or buy pictures.”
GERTRUDE STEIN, author and art collector
When Scotty Met Cindy …
Scott Chapman met Cindy Nickerson last spring, when he and his spouse, Dr. Steve Tjoe-Fat, loaned one of their Ralph Cahoon paintings for an exhibition she was guest-curating for the Cahoon Museum of American Art. Then, this fall, Cindy was one of many people he spoke to about his plans to open a new art gallery in Cotuit. Fast-forward to this winter and Scotty has hired Cindy as the gallery’s director of marketing, with the intention that she will also curate some shows. Cindy is a former director/curator of the Cahoon Museum and also served as interim director at the Cape Cod Museum of Art. She also knows marketing from the media side, having been a feature writer, copy editor and page designer for the Cape Cod Times in the 1980s and ’90s. Visit our website
“Art should not be purchased to fill a space on a wall
nor to match the color of your drapes, but to fill
an emotional space in your heart.”
TOMMY THOMPSON, artist
Our Gallery
Scotty Chapman thought Cotuit would be the perfect spot to open Chapman Art Gallery because there aren’t many art galleries on the south side in the mid-Cape area. Yet, Cotuit is already something of a cultural center, being home to the Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit Center for the Arts and a surprising number of artists. And as our visitors are discovering, Scotty couldn’t have found a more perfect location than 5 Main St. The building started life as a late 18th-century barn and still has the wide-board pine floors and exposed beams to prove it. Bay windows and skylights were added much later – possibly when Barbara and Richard Sparre had a shop here in the 1970s and ‘80s, showing her needlework designs and his paintings. The main floor was already tailor-made for showing artworks, but the basement was unfinished before Scotty took it in hand. Now it’s a lovely finished area with works by impressionist Sam Barber, local folk art legends Ralph and Martha Cahoon, and Pop Art pioneer Jim Dines hanging on the walls. We don’t call it the basement anymore. It’s the Lower Level, or even – when we’re feeling especially good about everything – the Museum Room! Meet our artists
To appreciate a work of art is it okay to like what you like, and the heck with the art critics and experts? Absolutely.
THOMAS HOVING
Former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Art Gallery a Dream Come True
Scott Chapman is an entrepreneur by nature. He has launched several businesses over the course of his career, including King and Queen Landscaping, which he founded after moving to Cape Cod permanently in 2001 and continues to own and operate. His latest venture, Chapman Art Gallery, is born from years as an ardent collector and a desire to support the efforts of talented artists. In the process of building his own collection, Scotty developed a passion for discussing art with artists, dealers and other collectors. “I opened the gallery because I found comfort and serenity in the world of art and the world of creativity,” he says. “I want people to visit and stay a while and enjoy what they see at their own pace and not feel they have to rush. We don’t have to talk about buying and selling art: We can talk about art. It’s about the experience.”
Art Gallery a Dream Come True
The longer you spend working on something — loving it into being, almost — the more you get attached.
It’s silly, but you do hope they go to good homes.
ANNE DESMET, British Artist
Bates/O’Brien – Wonderful World
Artist Jill Bates – “The Weight of Water”, oil on canvas 15 x 30 inches
Artist Susan O’Brien McLean – “Sailing in the Bay”, oil on canvas 36 x 46 inches
“WonderfulWorld” Exhibition
Artists Susan O’Brien McLean and Jill Bates Present Recent Oils and Pastels
Opening Reception Saturday
August 12
5pm – 7pm
Refreshments will be served
Sam Barber – Reflections of my time
“Reflections of My Time” Exhibition
Artist Sam Barber presents Recent Oils and Watercolors
Opening Reception:
Saturday, July 29
5pm – 7pm
Refreshments will be served
15 Artists – The Road Less Traveled
Show Running Through
Wednesday, July 26
Open daily 10am – 6pm
Jim Freeheart – Summer Fun
“Summer Fun”
Recent Painting by Artist: Jim Freeheart
Running Through:
Wednesday July 12th
click here to view more work by Jim Freeheart.
Odin Smith – Local Color
Cape Cod artist Odin Smith – “Bachelor’s Blues,” acrylic on canvas, 30 x 48 inches
“Local Color”
Opening Reception for artist Odin Smith:
5-7 p.m. Saturday, June 17
Join us for the opening and refreshments.
Click here to view more work by Odin Smith.
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.”
Georgia O’Keeffe
American Artist
One person show
A graphic designer as well as a painter, Kevin King designed a postcard for his one-person show that comes complete
with his own mugshot. The suspect stands accused of painting in an exceptionally wide variety of styles.
The verdict is certain: Guilty as charged!
One-Person Show Does Justice to Kevin King’s ‘Many Sides’
“The Many Sides of Kevin King” will open Saturday, May 20, and continue through Sunday, June 4. The show will feature some 20 paintings completed by North Falmouth artist Kevin King over the past two decades, ranging from the highly realistic to the totally abstract.
Pictured at right is his most recent painting, a copy of “La Bella Principessa” (“The Beautiful Princess”), a drawing some experts have attributed to Leonardo da Vinci. The source is clear, but so is King’s stamp of originality. In addition to having a more intense palette than the Renaissance portrait, his version includes a butterfly perched on the girl’s braid. We hope you’ll join us for the exhibition’s opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, May 20. King’s gallery talk at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 25, will offer another opportunity to meet the artist.
“Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy.”
ROBERT HENRI
American Artist and Teacher
Beautiful Inside and Out
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One More Week to Make ‘Waves’
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Ocean Waves and Good Times
John Murelle, from left, Pamela Weiler and well-known food stylist John Carafoli were among those who attended the opening reception for the “Making Waves” exhibition. Paintings by Odin Smith and Jill Bates appear in the background.
Ocean Waves and Good Times
Roll at Opening Reception
Gallery owner Scottie Chapman joins legendary pianist John Salerno .
Megan Elliott, gallery artist Karen Crocker and Steve Long.
We had a lovely turnout for the opening reception of “Making Waves” Saturday evening. It wasn’t the madhouse of our grand opening, but — if anything — that gave everyone the chance to really appreciate the 47 beautiful works in this, our first special exhibition.
Comments were far-ranging. Anne Heywood’s pastel painting “Morning” is just like looking at the wake off the back of a boat as you’re heading out on a fishing trip, one person said. Someone else remarked on the way the luscious brushwork of Sam Barber’s large impressionist canvas “Waves, Sandy Neck” turns into a stunning seascape of incoming rollers when viewed from a short distance. Throughout the evening, people marveled at the artists’ skill at capturing the wetness and movement of water.
“I, along with a few friends, attended the ‘Making Waves’ opening reception Saturday and was not disappointed,” wrote Sandy Scannell in her five-star review of Chapman Art Gallery on Facebook. “We were welcomed with a warm reception, and the gallery had a nice variety of artists. Very enjoyable … and, of course being a seashore girl, I loved all the ‘wave’ paintings especially.”
Thank you so much for your kind words, Sandy! And our thanks to everyone whose presence helped make the evening so enjoyable.
Please visit our Facebook page to view more photos of the opening.
“One of the nice things about owning pictures is that you get to look at them undisturbed. … I look at them when
I’m alone, when I’m with people,
and I can glance at them over someone’s shoulder at a cocktail party,
except, now that I think about it,
I’ve never thrown a cocktail party.”
STEVE MARTIN
Actor, Comedian and Art Collector
Making Waves Exhibition April 22nd to May 7th
Making Waves Exhibition April 22nd to May 7th
“Nobody can give you advice after you’ve been collecting for a while. If you
don’t enjoy making your own decisions, you’re never going to be much
of a collector anyway.“
CHARLES SAATCHI
Businessman and Art Collector
‘Making Waves’ Exhibition to Celebrate Ocean in Motion
Kevin King, TSUNAMI, mixed media with sheet metal and oil on panel, 36 x 24 inches, $2,000
Jill Bates, CAPE ROLLER, pastel on sandpaper, 16 x 12 inches, $700
Lance Walker, QUICKSILVER, oil on canvas, 20 x 24 inches (26 x 30 framed), $3,500
Jason Eldredge, COMMERCIAL STREET, oil on canvas, 24 x 36 inches (30 x 42 framed), $3,000
‘Making Waves’ Exhibition to Celebrate Ocean in Motion
As a newcomer to the Cape’s art community, Chapman Art Gallery certainly hopes to make waves during its first season. It’s fitting, then, that our first special exhibition will do just that — and not just figuratively speaking. Because artists — particularly Cape Cod artists — often “make” waves quite literally, the group show “Making Waves” will celebrate the beauty, excitement, majesty and power of the ocean in motion.
Appropriately, we’ll kick things off on Earth Day, Saturday, April 22, with an opening reception from 4 to 7 p.m. Hors d’oeuvres and refreshments will be served. The exhibition will continue through Sunday, May 7.
The show was inspired by the realization that the gallery represents two artists — Jill Bates and Odin Smith — for whom painting waves is something of a specialty. For many other gallery artists, waves are often a key element in their marine or coastal scenes. To round out this show of some three dozen works, guest artists Ken Evans, Anne Heywood, Susan Hollis, Lance Walker and Lindsay Hopkins Weld have also been invited to participate.
The interpretations are no more repetitive than the ocean itself, as viewed from day to day here on Cape Cod. The works range from paintings of gentle rollers and glittering whitecaps to “Tsunami,” an abstract mixed-media piece by Kevin King that suggests the towering height and destructive force of a tidal wave.
With an unusual take on Provincetown titled “Commercial Street,” Jason Eldredge uses a cascade of exuberant waves rushing by the Lobster Pot and Governor Bradford House as a device to blend the activities of the town’s bustling commercial area and waterfront. A woman sipping from a wine glass as she floats past on an inner tube enjoys the best of both worlds.
Lance Walker gives the masterful Provincetown marine artist Frederick Judd Waugh a nod as the inspiration for “Quicksilver,” where a large translucent wave explodes into a billow of frothy spray against an enormous flat boulder. But he also credits his days as an avid surfer. “I constructed the painting based on a series of sketches and studies and knowledge of waves and water from 30 years of surfing,” Walker says. “Sitting on my board for hours, studying the development of swells, waiting for the next set, I learned how waves formed.”
As an artist, Jill Bates is drawn to the ocean because of its ever-changing color and because the waves themselves are so many colors, she says. “The color is fabulous. There are a million different blues and greens, and sometimes there’s brown in there. Waves are so different from one another, and they’re always moving. They’re never boring.”
See our complete inventory of works by gallery artists
“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.“
C. S. LEWIS
British Novelist
Festive evening puts the GRAND in Grand Opening
Gallery artist SAM BARBER, center, gets some love from his wife, JANIE, and artist ALFIE GLOVER photos by Kara Ryan
AMIT RAKHIT and BRAD SENATORE photo by Kara Ryan
Gallery artist BILL DAVIS and his wife, JUDY photo by Kara Ryan
Festive evening puts the GRAND in Grand Opening
Jeff Urquhart is used to crowd scenes: He’s photographed such venues as the Kentucky Derby, rock concerts, and the Super Bowl. While Chapman Art Gallery’s Grand Opening didn’t rise to quite that level, he — and others — estimated Saturday evening’s event may have drawn as many as 400 people.
As owner Scott Chapman notes: “It was three hours of people coming and going.” And Scotty — from beginning to end — kept a watchful eye on the whole affair, making sure everyone was having a marvelous time. “It was wonderful to see so many people smiling, everyone feeling like they were in the middle of a happening place where nobody felt left out,” he says.
Friends came from as far away as New York and Connecticut as well as from all over Massachusetts and Cape Cod. A lovely, well-timed story by Joanne Briana-Gartner in the Enterprise newspapers had caught a number of guests’ attention. Twelve of the 14 artists the gallery represents were also at the party. “Each and every one of them was sought after by their followers,” Scotty says. “And many guests — as they discovered new artists to admire — were asking, ‘Is this artist here?’ It was a star-studded evening.”
There was also live music, with the legendary John Salerno on keyboards. “He was a hit,” Scotty says. “He played whatever was asked. We had people singing.”
Not only was the evening festive, it was safe. “All the workers that were here pulled their weight to make it an extremely successful opening,” Scotty says. “Believe it or not, I haven’t had one complaint,” he adds with a laugh.
See our Facebook page for more pictures of the Grand Opening
“If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.”
MICHELANGELO
Ode to an Opening (Or, The More the Merrier)
The gallery is ship-shape for our Grand Opening! Visible here are paintings by, from left, Carole Chisholm Garvey, Jim Freeheart and Susan O’Brien McLean. Verde Floral Design kindly gave us the striking arrangement for our recent business social. Another bouquet has been ordered for this Saturday night. See the complete inventory of works by our gallery artists.
Ode to an Opening
(Or, The More the Merrier)
Our Grand Opening’s approaching
And all through this place,
Scotty Chapman’s been busy –
A grin on his face.
Chapman Art Gallery
The paintings are hung
In the galleries with care,
From beautiful seascapes
To still lifes with pears.
With Salerno on keyboards
And hors d’oeuvres on platter,
With flowers on table,
It’s the details that matter!
We’re so proud of our gallery –
Friends, share our delight!
Come celebrate with us
This Saturday night!
“The art one chooses to collect becomes a self-portrait.”
DENNIS HECKLER
Mississippi Artist
Hoping to ‘Make Waves’ with 2017 Exhibitions
Odin Smith, BREAKING, acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48 inches, $4,600 See more paintings by Odin Smith
Hoping to ‘Make Waves’ with 2017 Exhibitions
Our exhibition schedule for 2017 has solidified over the past two weeks, and — imagine trumpet fanfare here — we’re very excited to tell you about it! We’ve been delighted by how many of our gallery artists have agreed to a one-, two- or three-person show this year. We’ve also scheduled several group theme exhibits, with each to include work by gallery artists as well as invited guest talents. Most shows will run for two weeks. All opening receptions will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. on the first day of the show (always a Saturday). We hope to see you at a lot of them!
April 22- May 7: “Making Waves,” a group show featuring everything from whitecaps to tsunamis. (Unbelievably, we already have a work titled “Tsunami” lined up!)
May 20-June 2: Works by Kevin King
June 17-30: Paintings by Odin Smith
July 1-14: Jim Freeheart paintings on the theme of “Summer Fun”
July 15-28: “The Road Not Taken,” will take us down country paths and “winding roads that seem to beckon you …”
July 29-Aug. 11: Impressionist paintings by Sam Barber
Aug. 12-25: Work by Jill Bates and Susan O’Brien McLean, two artists known for their range of imagery
Sept. 16-29: “The Alphabet Show” will involve 26 artists, each randomly assigned a letter as the basis for an artwork. F might be for flower, field, forest, fruit or Falmouth. Should be Fun and Fascinating!
Oct. 7-20: “Night Music,” a series of paintings by Kay Ritter illustrating a charming story poem she wrote for children
Oct. 21-Nov. 3: Karen Crocker, Carole Garvey and Mary Moquin, three artists who seek to express the essence in landscapes
Nov. 4-17: Paintings by Jason Eldredge and Theodore Ladd
Dec. 2-31: “Good Things in Small Packages” is — you guessed it! — the inevitable, but always popular small works holiday show.
See our current inventory of works by our gallery artists!
“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature
into his pictures.“
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Clergyman/abolistionist
Getting to Know Our Business Neighbors
Laurie and Stephen Hayes came over from Sow’s Ear Antiques on the other side of Route 28.
Lori Pimental, owner of Cotuit Fresh Market, and Liz Thomas, a vice president of Citizens Bank.
Getting to Know Our Business Neighbors
Last Thursday evening, we held a casual open house for neighborhood businesses and interior designers — our first real event at the gallery. It was a lovely evening, and we were so pleased by how many good folks turned out to wish us well. View more pictures from the event on our Facebook page
“To say of a picture, as is often said
in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.”
JAMES McNEILL WHISTLER
Expatriate American Artist
X Is for X-hibition X-citement
Kay Ritter, TULIPS AND WATERMELON, oil on linen, 20 x 24 inches framed, $5,500.
We knew that Kay paints apples, but that led to another idea …
One thing we haven’t told you about Chapman Art Gallery is that we plan to hold special exhibitions. Quite a number of them! We want to keep the gallery lively. With that in mind, we’ve been chatting individually with our gallery artists to see what appeals to them. We’ve asked them if they could be ready for a solo or two-person show this year. We’ve also sought their reactions to ideas we’re batting around for group theme exhibitions. And we’re thrilled and grateful to find them enthusiastic at the prospect of participating in the fun.
We’re not quite ready to announce our schedule for 2017, but — just to give you an idea — a sampling of the themes we’re discussing includes “Pet Project,” paintings of our animal companions; “The Path Not Taken,” scenes with country lanes and roads; and “Tribute,” works honoring other artists.
Another idea had a working title of “A Is for Apple.” In talking to Rhode Island artist Kay Ritter, we figured she’d fit right into that because she paints still lifes. But she wondered if it would be an apple show or an alphabet show and that got us thinking: An alphabet show was a great idea! Assign each of 26 artists a letter and see how they interpret it! The word wouldn’t even have to be a noun (such as Q — one of the trickier letters — could be for “quiet” or “quaint”). But I is for “information” — as in, be expecting more of it! View more of Kay Ritter’s work
“Treat a work of art like a prince:
let it speak to you first.”
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
German philospher
Visitors the Icing on Our Cake
William R. Davis FISHERMEN AT SUNSET Oil on panel
Susan O’Brien McLean SWANS IN NORTH BAY Oil on canvas
Opening a Cape Cod art gallery in the depths of winter isn’t as foolhardy as one might think: For one thing, it’s allowing us ample time to get everything up to speed before the summer rush. And we’re delighted by those of you who’ve already stopped by, sometimes in the rain or snow. Not hoards, by any means, but a pretty steady trickle of folks curious about the Cape’s newest art gallery. We’ve been so pleased to meet all of you and hear your reactions. You told us you love the space: the old wide-board floors, the good lighting, the casual atmosphere. And we’ve heard so many glowing comments about our selection of artists. We had to laugh when one visitor said, “It’s a real art gallery!” But we took it for what it was: a lovely comment on the level of talent.
We also confess to being excited about making our first sale last week (at least the first since the gallery opened for business in mid-January). This very nice gentleman had been coming in fairly regularly, always gravitating to “Fishermen at Sunset,” a marine sunset by William R. Davis with a strikingly high horizon line. Then, last week, he spent a long time pondering a group of paintings by Susan O’Brien McLean, the artist most recently added to our roster. He was particularly taken with “Swans in North Bay.” Long story short, Scotty Chapman helped him decide where to hang the paintings in his home, and he purchased them both. Maybe this is how people at the MSPCA feel when a dog or cat goes to a good home! In any case, we hope the paintings bring our friend a great deal of enjoyment.
“Painting is a mystery to me.
Not only do I not understand it,
I’m not convinced I am supposed to.”
KENNETH LAYMAN
Nantucket artist and gallery visitor
We have works with HEART, Valentine!
We have works with HEART, Valentine!
Ralph and Martha Cahoons and original Jim Dine prints special attraction at gallery
Ralph Cahoon (1910-1982), LOVE, oil on masonite, 19 x 21 inches (framed 24 x 26)
Jim Dine (1935- ), A HEART AT THE OPERA, 1983,
lithograph on Arches paper 45/50, signed,
50 x 38 inches (58.5 x 44.75 framed)
Prices on both works are available upon request.
These two works seem appropriate for wishing you a happy Valentine’s Day! They do, after all, have hearts in them. Coincidentally, they’re also both for resale from private collections (as opposed to coming to us directly from the artists).
Three of the five large-scale Jim Dine prints we have on view are from his heart series, where the heart is massive, dominating the surface. Like robes and Venus figures (of which we have one each), hearts are one of the artist’s signature images. Dine — who made his mark with happenings and the Pop Art movement in New York in the 1960s — has been an avid printmaker his entire career. His hearts take on a great variety of personalities. The hammer and saw in “A Heart at the Opera” seem to speak of the vulnerability of the human heart. See our full inventory of Jim Dine prints
We’re also proud to have three Cahoon paintings on view — two by Ralph, one by Martha. “Love” is a bit of a departure for Ralph — his witty take on hippie era attire, culture, and romance. As his sailor and mermaid ride past a landmark fountain on Nantucket, we suspect there’s some smoke from their wacky tobacky mingling with the island fog. While Ralph normally set his paintings in the 1800s, he did take a brush at current trends from time to time. Visit our website for more Cahoon charm
“You can either buy clothes
or buy pictures.”
GERTRUDE STEIN, author and art collector
When Scotty Met Cindy …
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“Art should not be purchased to fill a space on a wall
nor to match the color of your drapes, but to fill
an emotional space in your heart.”
TOMMY THOMPSON, artist
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