It’s not too soon: Reflections on the pandemic time so far are among the artwork being showcased in new area exhibits.
One display in South Yarmouth hails the COVID-19 heroes; another in Falmouth takes a look at ordinary people living through extraordinary times. And creators of a Dennis exhibit seek to offer comfort just when a lot of us might need it.
Two other new art exhibits on the Lower Cape offer a look at memories and stories, personal ones and those reflecting a town.
Here’s a look at six new art exhibits to visit in person or virtually, to escape from the everyday world or to enrich it:
Two shows opened this month at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis.
âPaper Talks: The Life of Miroslawa Pissarenko artist, horticulturist, teacher and friendâ will be on view through April 4.
Miroslawa Grabowski Pissarenko (1909-2006) believed that paper talked. She told this to her good friend Peter Michael Martin as she created Polish paper cuttings called wycniaki in her own intricate style, using only a pair of cuticle scissors. On Cape Cod Ms. Pissarenko is remembered for her paper cut-decorated eggs, which she demonstrated and taught to children in the schools and libraries. But that was just one example of her artistic touch.
Ed Chesnovitch was unfamiliar with the terrain of a salt marsh when, 12 years ago, he bought a “run-down cottage” on the banks of Scorton Creek in East Sandwich. Scorton became his backyard, and he soon began kayaking to his working studio at the nearby historic “Bird Barn” he also bought.
Chesnovitch has since constantly walked and explored the marsh, both in person and in painting. In an artist’s statement with his new exhibit at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis, he describes the marsh as “both invigorating and peaceful, mysterious and magnificent, placid yet teaming with energy and life.” He says he is fascinated by that juxtaposition.