Gallery
Each month, the COA Gallery exhibits the works of different local artists. The Gallery is under the direction of Eleanor Meldahl and coordinated by Girard Smith. This month's artists are highlighted below.
JULY
Tina Tarantal
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Elsa (Tina) Tarantal is a graduate of The Cooper Union in NYC and The University of Pennsylvania, where she earned an MFA in sculpture. She is a Professor at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, where she teaches Three-Dimensional Design and Figure Modeling. She has also taught portraiture at the New York Academy of Figurative Art. Her sculpture and painting can be seen at the Kendall Gallery in Wellfleet, where she has exhibited her work for over twenty-five years. She is a member of the National Sculpture Society.
Opening Reception is Sunday, July 3, 2-4 p.m. |
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AUGUST
Ray Elman - Sunday, August 7 to September 3
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Ray Elman has been making large scale portraits of people in the Outer Cape art community since 1989. The COA Gallery will exhibit Elman’s portraits of some of the artists and writers he met during the 1970s, his first decade living in Truro. Included in the exhibit will be portraits of Sydney Simon, B.J. Lifton, E.J.Kahn, Jr, Lee Falk, Walter Bingham, Varujan Boghosian, and Anne Bernays. Elman’s portraits of Pulitzer Prize winning poets Alan Dugan (Truro) and Stanley Kunitz (Provincetown) are included in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. The Kunitz portrait is on display at the National Portrait Gallery until November, 2011. Elman’s portrait of U.S. Ambassador Alan Solomont and his family (Truro summer residents), is currently on display at the embassy in Madrid. Elman moved to Truro in September, 1970, and has made it his home base ever since. He started the Outer Cape Repertory Film Society in 1971, ran the To Be Coffeehouse from 1972 to 1973, and he served for many years on the board of directors of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, the Provincetown Group Gallery, and the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater. Elman and Chris Busa cofounded Provincetown Arts magazine in 1985 (Ray left the magazine in 1989, when his son, Evan, was born). Ray is married to Lee Elman, who until recently served as President of Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill. Their son Evan, who attended the Truro Central School, is a senior at the University of British Columbia, but still considers Truro his home base. For more information see www.rayelman.com |
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