Paul Kelly and Mike Wright—Friday, July 11-24
Provincetown, MA: The Alden Gallery will present a two-person show of new work by Paul Kelly and Mike Wright, opening Friday, July 11, 2025 at the gallery at 423 Commercial St. The artists’ reception will be on Friday, July 11 from 7 to 9 p.m. The show will be on view through July 24.
Provincetown artist Paul Kelly has been showing at the Alden Gallery since 2010. “My paintings have evolved over the years from townscapes, using a basic understanding of architectural forms from my professional background as an architect and city planner, to imaginary forms and locations using unidentified vantage points,” Kelly says. “I look for impossible perspectives on well-known images to trigger my curiosity and re-examine our built environment. My approach and preparation for creating oil paintings include my love for notebook pencil sketching, quick watercolor studies, and weekly access to figure drawing to keep my eye in check. The art of Hopper, Thibaud, Diebenkorn, and Nicholas De Stael are significant influences.”
Mike Wright is a Provincetown artist who has for decades been creating sculptures made of painted wood that she finds locally and shapes into new forms. This year she is continuing her series of “shanties,” crudely built shacks, except that the new work is constructed out of local artists’ palettes, signaling the way that art is always influenced by the work that preceded it. “I’ve been thinking about the houses, cottages, and dwellings we have in Provincetown, and how we lack those that are affordable, especially for artists and other working people, and how they are threatened by the rising seas.” Wright has received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, an Artist’s Residency Award at the Vermont Studio Center, and has had solo shows of her work at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Cape Cod Museum of Art, and St. Botolph Club in Boston.
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, 2026. 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 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