A Glorious Gallimaufry, an exhibit featuring the works of painters Scott Conary, Steve Bowersock, and sculptor Jeanne' McCartin, is a marvelous mashup of styles, themes, and genres both within individual collections and collectively.
The show opens Friday, August 30th, 2024 at Bowersock Gallery, 371 Commercial Street, Provincetown, MA, with a reception from 7-9p and runs through September 11th.
Conary's Contemporary Realism which melds expressionistic, ethereal, and painterly styles into a distinctive aesthetic, will be taking center stage. The artist's dramatic colors create imposing images, softened by brush strokes that break edges, alter boundaries, and range between illustration and hazy filter. His subjects, whether exterior settings, figurative, or still-life works of single or select items, are always marked by a slightly melancholic, contemplative mood.
Conary (RISD, BFA ’93) explores relationships through everyday objects, stories of the arbitrary nature of beauty, melancholy, fleeting triumph, and the camouflage of time. His works are filled with movement and uniquely inviting. A deceivingly simple object is transformed into an emotional flashpoint, something our mind reaches to understand, or a memory long forgotten where there’s a sense of so much more waiting to be uncovered.
Two additional artists who are known for their narrative images that challenge the viewer are also featured. Bowersock, (Granite State College and Sanctuary Arts, Maine) whose work is exhibited nationally, will present the latest works from a number of his ongoing Surrealist series, including the popular Tempest Series, which depicts allegorical wind-spirit figures, in addition to an introduction of never-before-seen themes.
His contemporary representation of dreamscape oils is a manifestation of the explorational mind freely connecting images with emotions. Bowersock says it’s about looking for answers that defy words, with the hope that others feel the connection. For him, it’s all about the process of sitting in the moment, in a feeling, and then following wherever it might go.
Sculptor Jeanne's McCartin (Vesper George School of Art and Sanctuary Arts, Maine), who creates three-dimensional wall-mounted oratory shrine boxes will present several pieces from both ongoing and past series, addressing social and cultural subjects. Jeanne's work is out of the ordinary sculpture as painting, tackling social issues. Art, with a creatively expansive vision.
The underlying common denominator with these three artists, in the presentation of A Glorious Gallimaufry, is the desire to touch another's soul, to find a way to ignite a feeling, and to share with another human, whether it's nostalgia, humor, or gravitas. A show, not to be missed!
