Berta Walker Gallery
208 Bradford Street
Provincetown,MA 02657
508-487-6411
For release: Upon Receipt
5/6/07
2007 Season Exhibition Schedule
The 2007 season at Berta Walker Gallery will intensify our commitment to the arts community of the Outer Cape by initiating two new exhibition series: a focus on Provincetown & Outer Cape families who have created music, visual arts and literature through two or more generations, and the "recovery" of the touted "Walker's Wonders" Gallery of fine crafts, folk and artists' jewelry & furniture, originally opened by Walker a dozen years ago in Provincetown's West End.
Berta Walker launched the opening of her modern gallery space at 208 Bradford Street 16 years ago with a group exhibition called “Provincetown Generations in the Arts”, that showed the continuity of over 40 Provincetown families who have worked, from generation to generation, in this unique art colony since as far back as 100 years ago. This new “generations” series will focus on one or two different families each year. Featured this year will be the Nancy Whorf and Norman Mailer families. An exhibition of the paintings of Nancy Whorf, her Father John Whorf, and her daughter Julia Whorf Kelly will open in July; Norman Mailer, his daughters Maggie and Danielle and his wife Norris Mailer will be presented in September which will also include a special reception for the participants of the Norman Mailer Society on Friday, October 12.
Norman Mailer's drawings were discovered by Walker during the original “Provincertown Generations in the Arts“ show and were so exciting that the drawings were featured the following summer to great public response. Mailer used that exhibition as an opportunity to create a benefit for the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, an outstanding artist’s residency program founded in1959 that offers seven-month fellowships to both writers and visual artists. This current exhibition celebrates the publication of Mailer's book of drawings and poems entitled “Modest Gifts”.
Walker's Wonders will stage a return to our current East End gallery location over Labor Day weekend, taking up residence in the large back gallery of the premises. It will remain through the year as an integral part of the Berta Walker Gallery exhibition format.
Two other unprecedented exhibitions will be presented this year. Beginning in May we will feature an exhibition by Salvatore Del Deo of Provincetown Fishermen as well as his mural paintings memorializing fishermen of the Patricia Marie which sank 30 years ago. Celebrated author Sebastian Junger, a long time friend of Del Deo, is writing a special Introduction for the paintings, which will also be exhibited during the Opening Night Ceremonies of the Portuguese Festival in June.
In July, Provincetown's own John Thomas, known and loved for the extraordinary music he writes, as well as for producing the Great Music on Sundays @ 5 concert series at Provincetown's Unitarian-Universalist Meeting House, will be presented in a unique multi-media exhibition that will include photographs he took while in Tibet as well as music he wrote and recorded in Nepal.
Selina Trieff, internationally known artist and important student of Hans Hofmann, will be featured in July in a drawings exhibition at the BWG to accompany her fifteen-year overview exhibition of paintings at the Provincetown Art Musuem. June & July also features one-person exhibitions for Polly Burnell and Iren Handschuh, both of whom were presented recently at the Provincetown Art Museum. Other exciting one-person exhibitions will be those for a series of new, large scale paintings by both Robert Henry and Sky Power and recent constructions by Elspeth Halvorsen.
August brings forward a Memorial exhibition for the great sculptor Dimitri Hadzi, who will be joined by his long-time friends painter Paul Resika and collage/construction artist Varujan Boghosian.
Two group exhibitions for Gallery artists and friends have also been scheduled: “Horizon Revelations” to open Memorial Day weekend, and “Inspirations 2007” to open Labor Day Weekend.
The Gallery will be full of additional excitement on Sundays this season as many of our artists will be giving Gallery Talks on the second Sunday following the opening of their exhibitions.
We are excited by the truly amazing group of artists who are launching the 18th Season of the Berta Walker Gallery.
For further information & photos: please contact the Gallery or go to our WEB page: www.bertawalkergallery.com
208 Bradford Street • Provincetown • MA 02657
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