Provincetown
Provincetown was a season of openness, experimentation, and creative freedom. The town became both studio and laboratory—a place where exhibitions, collaborations, and daily life shaped my artistic voice. Between 2013 and 2016, I explored text, abstraction, identity, community, and color through a series of exhibitions and projects that continue to influence my work today.
Kobalt Gallery • 2013
Jo Hay Open Studio • 2014 - 2016
Gay Soup Project • 2014
DeLuca Gallery • 2015
ocean light • exhibitions • experimentation • community • creative freedom
Kobalt Gallery
Testing...123
Provincetown, Massachusetts • 2013
Kobalt Gallery marked an important period in my Provincetown years, exhibiting work that explored abstraction, layering, memory, and place. The exhibition Testing...123 brought together abstract expressionist paintings alongside the Peer series, inspired by evening walks through Provincetown.
The Peer paintings emerged from the experience of walking Commercial Street at night and catching glimpses through illuminated cottage windows. Layers of paint were built up and partially revealed, creating small openings into underlying colors and forms.
Together, the work explored what is seen, what is hidden, and how memory accumulates through layers of experience.
Jo Hay Open Studio
Provincetown, MA 2014-2016
Jo Hay Open Studio was part gallery, part laboratory, and part community gathering place. It was where ideas became exhibitions, paintings became conversations, and experimentation became practice. During these years I created and exhibited projects including #ARTRULES, Gay Soup, TEXT ME, and Let It Go, a painting that became my first sale to an international collector.
DeLuca Gallery
Provincetown, MA • 2015
At DeLuca Gallery, many of the ideas that began at Jo Hay Open Studio continued to grow. Alongside the Gay Soup project, I exhibited larger text paintings and works inspired by bear culture, identity, humor, and community. Provincetown gave me the freedom to experiment, and these paintings became an extension of those conversations.
