Making Space, Painting Place

Jim Broussard, Karen Cappotto, John Clayton, Salvatore Del Deo, John Dowd, Jerome Greene, Kenneth Hawkey, Jim Holland, Peter Kalill, Steve Kennedy, Joan Cobb Marsh, Simie Maryles, Anne Packard, Nick Patten, Paul Schulenberg, Abraham Storer, Paul Suggs & Carlie Trosclair

Making Space, Painting Place brings together artists whose work considers the relationship between painting, architecture, memory, and lived space on the Outer Cape. Co-curated by Jerome Greene and Sean Horton, the exhibition explores how artists have used representation to preserve spaces, atmospheres, and ways of living shaped by the singular conditions of Provincetown and the surrounding region.

Rather than approaching the Cape primarily through landscape, the exhibition focuses on interiors, exteriors, studios, porches, storefronts, cottages, and everyday built environments marked by habitation, observation, weathering, and time. Across generations, these artists have documented the textures and emotional resonances of lived space: light moving across walls, salt air wearing down surfaces, rooms filled with accumulated memory, and structures standing at the edge of continual environmental and cultural change.

The exhibition reflects on painting as a form of cultural preservation, holding onto places and experiences increasingly vulnerable to erosion, overdevelopment, displacement, and reinvention. Many of the works engage the tension between permanence and impermanence that defines the Outer Cape itself, where architecture exists in constant dialogue with exposure, isolation, tourism, artistic mythmaking, and the Atlantic environment. Bringing together artists associated with Provincetown across multiple generations, Making Space, Painting Place highlights distinct but interconnected approaches to depicting lived environments and the psychological dimensions of place.

Making Space, Painting Place was curated by C. Sean Horton and Jerome Greene for the Fine Arts Work Center / Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown.