Includes Collaborative Work from: Paul Bowen, M.P. Landis, Bert Yarborough (AKA: Triage); Hayoon-Jay Lee & Bert Yarborough; Vicky Tomayko & Yvette Drury Dubinsky; Vicky Tomayko & Bert Yarborough
Artists Reception: Weds. Sept. 30th, 4-6pm
(Please note: Due to COVID safety guidelines, a limited number of visitors will be allowed in the Hall at a time, and the reception will be refreshment-free.)
In a Forward to the 2005 exhibition by the group Triage, which consists of Paul Bowen, M P Landis and Bert Yarborough, the poet/artist Nick Flynn states:
“Collaboration, as I see it, is aleatoric by definition (no map, no blueprint, no instruction manual), relying (if that word can be used) on chance, on randomness.”
Collusion: Collaborative Work from Six Artists presents a variety of artistic pairings from a group of accomplished individuals, all of whom have created significant, individual bodies of work for decades. Their singular accomplishments have resulted in numerous national and international gallery and museum exhibitions. They have all taught in colleges, universities or workshop programs, where the spirit of collaboration is essential.
The work in this exhibition presents a variety of techniques and mediums including monotype, silkscreen, lithographic transfer, drawing, painting and collage. The working processes vary widely as each pairing devised its own method of collaboration. Bowen, Landis and Yarborough worked primarily through the mail sending pieces back and forth in their more than 20 years of collaboration. They meet at various intervals where all have to be in agreement before a work was deemed finished.
Vicky Tomayko and Yvette Drury Dubinsky work together in Dubinsky’s Truro studio where she houses a press that can accommodate work up to 40”x 70”. Creating monoprints with a multitude of stencils, their large, layered, and richly colored works are rooted in place, evocative of land and sea. Tomayko and Yarborough, partners, live and work together and produce work that melds the deliberate and thoughtful with the gestural and spontaneous. Lee and Yarborough started working together during a Maryland Institute College of Art summer residency Lee received at the Fine Arts Work Center. They worked together and through the mail on circular pieces all of which started as monotypes.
Collusion presents a fusion of sensibilities that results in, to paraphrase the poet, Karen Fish, a new singular voice, altogether individual and compelling. Here the spirit of creative play is alive and well.
About the artists:
Bert Yarborough
Bert Yarborough has a degree in Architecture from Clemson University and an MA and MFA in Photography from the University of Iowa. He held the Sonia C. Davidow ’56 Endowed Chair in the Fine and Performing Arts at Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH, where he also served as the Director of the William and Sonja Carlson Davidow ’56 and Marian Graves Mugar Art Galleries and taught Drawing and Painting. A former two-year Resident Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, he served as Visual Arts Program Coordinator for four years and is now serving as Chairman of the Visual Committee. He has received two NH State Arts Council Grants in Painting, an NEA Fellowship in Sculpture, a Fulbright Fellowship to Nigeria, also in Sculpture, and a Visual Arts Residency Fellowship from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Umbria, Italy. He currently resides in Truro, MA.
Vicky Tomayko
Vicky Tomayko is an artist and teacher, and a former fellow of the Fine Arts Work Center. She uses silkscreen, lithography, and stencils, combined with monoprinted layers of transparent color to create one-of-a-kind works on paper. Her work at once, narrative, humorous, and edgy, can be seen at the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown and at A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.
Paul Bowen
Paul Bowen, who grew up in a seaside town in Wales, lived and worked near the waterfront in Provincetown, MA, on Cape Cod, for 30 years. He has always been interested in material with a history--wood he has scavenged that was once part of ships, houses, salt works, barrels, cable drums, or crates. He has also worked with ships’ flags, tar, canvas, rope, and other marine detritus. His drawings and prints derive their imagery from his environment, and he has created his own inks from squid, Xerox toner and walnuts. Since moving to southern Vermont with his wife in September 2005, Paul's work reflects his new environment as well as that of the Cape—images of covered bridges merge wharf-like in many of his drawings and his sculptures combine sea-worn wood he has gleaned from beachcombing on Cape Cod with wood from wood he has scavenged or found in the surrounding rivers and woods of Vermont.Bowen has been a recipient of fellowships from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Artists’ Resource Trust, and the Fine Arts Work Center. His work in many private and public collections abroad including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, the Solomon Guggenheim Museum in New York, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. He is represented by Albert Merola in Provincetown, MA.
M P Landis
M P Landis has been working in various visual media since childhood. In 1989 he moved to Provincetown, MA to concentrate on painting and began exhibiting almost immediately in galleries there and was awarded a solo exhibition at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum in 1995. Soon after he moved to Brooklyn, NY where he lived and worked until 2015 when he and his family moved to Portland, Maine. Since 1990 he has been in over 30 solo exhibitions and many 2-person and group exhibits and is included in many public and private collections.
Hayoon-Jay Lee
Born in Daegu, South Korea, Hayoon Jay Lee obtained a BFA in sculpture from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in 2007, and an MFA degree from the Rinehart School of Sculpture at MICA in 2009.Among her many honors and awards, Lee has received a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship award (2008) from the U.S. Department of Education, a Full Fellowship Artist in Residency Award (2012) from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, a best in show distinction award (2008) at the 14th International Exhibition at the SoHo 20 Gallery in Chelsea, New York City, and a Dapu International Art Award (2011) from the Northern Art Museum, Daqing China. Lee has participated in various artist residency programs: 99 Museum (Beijing, China: 2014), Gwangju Museum of Art (S. Korea: 2012), the Fine Arts Work Center (Provincetown, MA: 2009), the Vermont Studio Center (Johnson VT: 2009), Sculpture Space (Utica, NY: 2011), Art Farm (Marquette, NE: 2016), Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence Program (Woodstock, NY: 2012), and the Beijing Studio Center (2010) in Beijing, China. Her work may be found in the collections of the Gwangju Contemporary Museum of Art (Gwangju, Korea: 2017), the Henan Museum (Zhengzhou, China: 2010), the QCC Art Gallery (Queens, NY: 2015), the Community School of Maryland (Brookville, MD: 2004), Sculpture Space (Utica, NY: 2012), the Dapu International Art Center (Daqing, China: 2011), the FAWC (Provincetown, MA: 2009), and many private collections. She has exhibited her work widely, both nationally and internationally. Lee is known for working with rice, rice-related motifs and biomorphic vital organ-like forms, and incorporating this imagery in paintings, sculptures, installations, performances, and videos. Her artwork appeals to individual sensibilities and susceptibilities, while also encouraging reflection upon human dilemmas and global issues. She currently lives and works in New York City.
Yvette Drury Dubinsky is known for her innovative and intuitive combinations of drawing, print, alternative photography, and found objects. She makes drawings, one of a kind prints, collages, sculpture and installations, skillfully integrating works on paper with other materials. Recently she has enjoyed collaborating with other artists, especially Vicky Tomayko and the two have taught a workshop on collaboration and printmaking at the Fine Arts Work Center. A second workshop was scheduled for June 2020 and postponed until 2021. Yvette’s work is shown at A.I.R.Gallery in New York, Bruno David Gallery in St. Louis and Farm Project Space in Wellfleet. For more information please visit her website,http://yddstudio.com/.
