Summer Exhibition: Edge Condition
June 6 - August 23, 2024
Opening: Thursday, June 6, 6-8 PM
Curated by Matt Bollinger
Hudson D. Walker Gallery
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Participating Artists:
Herman Aguirre Ellen Akimoto Taylor Baldwin Matt Bollinger Amy Brener Angela Dufresne Elizabeth Flood Heidi Hahn Ezra Johnson Arghavan Khosravi | Sam Messer Simonette QuaminaAnne Clare Rogers Alexandria Smith James Everett Stanley Agnes Walden Chuck Webster Phil Whitman Lisa Yuskavage |
Edge Condition
On view from June 6 – August 23, 2024, the works in Edge Condition will also be available for acquisition via Artsy, and a portion of all proceeds will support the Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship Program.
Press Release:
Fine Arts Work Center presents “Edge Condition,” group exhibition featuring works from 19 past visual arts fellows
Curatorial Statement
In urban design, an edge condition is a junction where contrasting elements meet—the sidewalk ends in sands and the dunes encroach. When I first arrived at the Fine Arts Work Center, I joined a party of fellows hiking out to a dune shack on the ocean side of the peninsula. The writing coordinator at the time said we had crossed through several distinct ecosystems between the FAWC parking lot and the dunes, where the shack managed, with some seeming precariousness, to hold its ground. In his book, Cape Cod,Thoreau says that the dunes, planted by locals with grasses, grew year by year, sometimes towering up to 100 feet high. Each winter as the northeast wind blew more sands inland in drifts, the grasses were buried just to sprout again in the spring. These thin ligaments filigreed the dunes, holding everything together.
Being in Provincetown at FAWC can feel like living at the end of the world. Year-round residents will help newcomers find their bearings by holding up an arm, flexed as though to show off the bicep, and point to their little finger: you are here. Perhaps it is the remoteness and the time of year (the residency takes place from fall through spring when the summer vacation crowd have gone home), that gives the location some of its special drama. Artists and writers come from all over and live together, sharing their work and their different approaches to making. It’s a space of conversations and intersections.
The works in this exhibition exist in edge conditions, junctions of contrasting elements, ideas, materials, and images. Parts become more than their sum. Past and present, personal and political, organic and synthetic, all join in these works. Some draw attention to the contrast between elements, leaving the seams visible, allowing me to trace back through the history of the object’s making. Others hide their joins under the illusion of continuity asking for a forensic eye. These works create sites where time is condensed, the sidewalk meets the sand, and difference creates dynamic tensions not easily resolved.
Matt Bollinger
Visual Arts Fellow 2009-2010, 2010-2011
All readings and artist talks are held in the Stanley Kunitz Common Room, unless otherwise noted. Our annual summer exhibition, Edge Condition, is on view June 6 through August 23, 2024 in our Hudson D. Walker Gallery. Both venues are located at 24 Pearl Street in Provincetown.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 12 PM-5 PM
The gallery is also open by appointment and during all public events.
The Stanley Kunitz Common Room and the Hudson D. Walker Gallery are accessible facilities in compliance with ADA guidelines.
If you require assistance to access these venues, please call the Fine Arts Work Center at 508-487-9960 ext.101 in advance of your visit.
Sponsored in part by the Wolf Kahn Foundation, Arts Foundation of Cape Cod, Cape Cod 5 Foundation, and Massachusetts Cultural Council