Art
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Les Seifer - 2000
$200Les Seifer - mixed media piece, 2000
Les Seifer's work has always generated a terrific buzz and his group of collectors has expanded across the country. Seifer, originally from Westchester County, New York now lives in Brooklyn where his passion for painting often shows up on canvases, wood panels or drawings that relate most often to 'Old Brooklyn' industrial sites, wharfs, and neighborhoods. A graduate of Syracuse University with a degree in Art, Les has dedicated himself to a career in painting. He has representation in New York City and Provincetown and his work is in the collection of private individuals in the USA and Europe.
Seifer's work is well thought out and deliberate. He spends a great deal of time internalizing images he wishes to produce on canvas and frees himself to express each piece individually. This process can take a long period of time, usually months, before completion. He speaks openly about the process and says, "It isn't so much that I labor over [these paintings] continuously: rather I tend to see new things and my instincts tell me different paths to follow from week to week. I'm letting time contribute to them."
His mediums include oil paint, acrylic paint, charcoal, lacquer-based inks and cut paper collage on paper, canvas or Masonite. With this mix of mediums, he creates vibrant paintings that engage the viewer and tell a story. He continues to play with vibrant color to create collage/paintings of mixed media that exude a high degree of accuracy and an eye that looks onward to endless development. Les uses geometrical imagery by juxtaposing triangles, rectangles, and squares in his work and there will be the occasional person, bird or horses that will appear in his images. He says of his own work, "I think [my] work is much more figurative than the past couple of years, though I still walk that line between figuration and abstraction. I would say that line has shifted slightly back towards figuration this year, with birds, and horses and even people popping up here and there.", all of which adds to the three-dimensionality of his work.
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Portrait - By Jo Hay
$100024x 30 inches
Jo Hay is a contemporary British American portrait painter. Born in 1964 in Newcastle Upon-Tyne, England, she received her BA from Middlesex University, London, UK in 1983 and her MFA from the New York Academy of Art, NY, NY, 2012.
Hay was the first recipient of the Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Foundation Grant 2010 sponsored in part by the Provincetown Art Association and Museum and the recipient of the New York Academy of Art Portrait Scholarship 2011. Her portrait from the Benders series entitled Dodger was a semi-finalist in the BP Portrait Award 2015 at the National Gallery in London and was a finalist in Art For Freedom A Global Initiative curated by Madonna.
Hay was also the main subject of a documentary She is Juiced by British director Lois Norman. It was screened at Tate Modern in 2017 as part of the ground-breaking Queer Britain exhibition and the London Pride launch 2017. The film has received outstanding reviews and won the best documentary at both the New Renaissance Film Festival in Amsterdam and Brighton Rocks film festival in Brighton, UK.
Her work has been featured in numerous publications including Charlestown City Paper, Provincetown Arts Magazine, The Boston Globe, Time Out NY, Provincetown Banner, Provincetown Magazine, and Artists of the South.
She Is listed in The Top 100 Figurative Painters Working Right Now, 2018 by Didi Menendez, BuzzFeed.
Hay currently lives and works in Provincetown MA.
Founded in 2013, CAROLYN KRAMER GALLERY is a contemporary art gallery located in Provincetown, MA. Carolyn Kramer, Founder and Gallery Director, has a clear vision and bold approach to the art scene in Provincetown. The gallery's mission is to exhibit current, provocative art that motivates conversation and progressive thought. Exhibitions are propelled by the art and it's message creating an open and inclusive space to delve into contemporary issues.
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"Tangerine" - Curtis Speer
$900"Tangerine"
Edition 1/11. 24" x 18" x 2.25". Pigment print on cotton rag, linden, raw walnut, and brass.
Donation from Curtis Speer for CUSP GALLERY
Value $1500
ABOUT CURTIS
The artist behind the art. I would consider myself an artist that uses a camera, as opposed to a photographer. Visual Storytelling is the focus of my work, since "anyone can take a picture these days," as it was explained to me by a gallery in the Pacific Northwest. Changing perspectives is something I continue to open myself up to in regards to conversations, processes and moreover, my artistic approach.
CUSP GALLERY is a fine art photography gallery in the heart of Provincetown, MA which I opened in May of 2017. Down to $27 the day I opened the door to the public, I had no option but to trust the next step. What followed would be one of the most successful summers of my creative career. CUSP is a space for showcasing limited edition fine art photographs which ebb and flow from works of beauty to those of an evocative nature to images which provoke...provoke the viewer to see and feel and, more often than not, ask questions.
Photographs which take on the nature of a painting tend to create dialogue with me and the viewer. My technique generally expresses a sensuality about whatever subject I capture; my work is visual, tactile, aural...and in some, what can be smelled and tasted. One cannot fully experience any work of art (visual, musical, or performing) without using most, if not all, of the senses through our visual, aural, tactile, and olfactory capacities.
Education:
Attended Cameron University on a 4-year scholarship for Drawing. Pursued a BFA in Drawing, Painting, Sculpture.
Awards & Nominations:
Images from the concentration camp, Theresienstadt, have been included in the permanent collection of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
