Paul Bowen, Tilted House, wood, 2006

RECENT Work by Paul Bowen

Paul Bowen will exhibit new wood and plaster sculptures and drawings, which were made when he was Artist-in-Residence at Dartmouth College. Many of these sculptures consist of plaster sphere from which wood structures, like simple houses, or sticks and organic debris, project out- as if emerging from a shell. The ink and watercolor works-on-paper represent a new direction for Bowen. Although his familiar dark fishing draggers are still visible, they are almost overwhelmed by bursts of bright color and forms reminiscent of the swirling currents in a river.

Daniel Ranalli, Lachan Strand #1, 18x30 (Raked Sand Series)

RAKED SAND SERIES by Daniel Ranalli

Daniel Ranalli will be showing his Raked Sand series at artSTRAND in
Provincetown, MA opening August 11th. Ranalli's work typically has a
strong conceptual -environmental vein and this show is no exception.
Raking large temporary Zen Gardens in the dunes and beaches of the
Outer Cape and in Ireland during travel there this spring he has made
a series of photographs that are both tranquil and attentively integrated into the environment.

Ranalli's work is in the permanent collections of over 25 museums including the Museum of Modern Art, Smithsonian National Gallery of
Art and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and he has had over 120 solo
and group shows. Daniel Ranalli is the founding Director of the Graduate Program in Arts Administration at Boston University where he is a Professor of Art. He has lived seasonally on the Outer Cape for over 25 years.

Bert Yarborough, Two Suns, acrylic and ink on wood, 54"x13", 2006

RECENT WORK by Bert Yarborough

For the past decade I have been incorporating figurative images into a
body of work that, for the previous two decades, was primarily abstract and iconographic. I had developed a language of mark-making and a group of forms and passages that dealt with time spend in the landscape of making site-specific sculptures and images that came from living and working in Nigeria, West Africa.

The current work continues the fusing of the language I had developed
with the desire to make the figure anew. In this manner I hope to extend and deepen the possibilities that the figure can hold. I try to treat the figure as I would treat any mark or gesture. I attempt to stretch the definition and its meaning through the process of painting and drawing - through touch. The image of the human figure can be the repository for everything that we know and feel. My work is part of this continual search to make that possible..