Robert Glisson, Linda Reedy, and Anne Salas—June 27-July 10, 2025
Provincetown, MA: The Alden Gallery presents its first show of the summer season, featuring new work by Robert Glisson, Linda Reedy, and Anne Salas, opening Friday, June 27, 2025 at 423 Commercial St. The artists’ reception will be at the gallery on Friday, June 27, 7 to 9 p.m. The show will be on view through July 10.
Robert Glisson lives in Syracuse, New York, and often paints landscapes in plein air in the majestic Finger Lakes region. “To have my paintings shown in Provincetown, with its remarkable arts heritage, is a privilege,” Glisson says. “Though most of my paintings start out as plein air works, I’m less concerned with an exact depiction of a scene than with the emotional response. I will add or subtract shapes, push spatial planes, break down an object into abstraction, and exaggerate color in order to best represent that emotion.”
Linda Reedy’s landscapes and feathery brushwork are both joyful and haunting. Reedy, a former weaver who studied painting at Massachusetts College of Art and at the Fine Arts University of Hanoi, Vietnam, now lives in Fort Worth, Texas, but continues to return to Provincetown each summer to capture images for the Alden Gallery, where she first started showing her work in 2008. “I aim to reveal quiet paintings,” Reedy says, “that reflect a sense of time, place, and, above all, tranquility.”
Anne Salas is a Cape-based artist who worked as a glass blower and studied painting with such Provincetown legends as Selina Trieff and Robert Henry for years before exhibiting on her own at the Alden Gallery. Her floral compositions, which she paints in her Marstons Mills studio, have grown in complexity and depth (including 23 karat gold leaf backgrounds and splatter underpaintings) since her first show at the Alden Gallery in 2008. “It is my intention,” Salas says, “to create a connection, which is perhaps instinctive, with a viewer’s own inner energy.”
The Alden Gallery is open daily, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., and Wednesday through Saturday evenings, 6-9 p.m., through mid-September, after which it will be open weekends through New Year’s Day, 2024. It is free and open to the public. During gallery hours, call 508-487-4230; off-hours, call 646-483-8164.
Press contact: aldengallery@gmail.com or 646-483-8164.
Upcoming shows at the Alden Gallery:
Friday, July 11 through July 24: Paul Kelly and Mike Wright
Friday, July 25 through August 7: Chris Firger and Cathleen Daley
Friday, August 8 through August 21: Joerg Dressler and Kevin Cyr
Friday, August 22 through September 4: Jim Broussard and Robert Morgan
Friday, September 5 through September 25: Jane Paradise and Larry R. Collins
Friday, September 26 through January 1, 2026: Autumn Group Show