Visiting Artists

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JAMES WOLF 

James Wolf grew up in a semi-rural township just outside of Detroit, Michigan.  Nature and his father’s industrial commercial art studio, and formal courses at Cranbrook Academy formed his earliest artistic experiences.  He closely studied the French Impressionists and Chinese and Japanese painters while at Oakland University, although his sculpting instructor, the renowned European artist, Morris Brose, most acutely influenced his studies.  During the late 1970’s and early 1980’s he traveled throughout Central America, where his time in Honduras and Panama most directly influenced the color, light and representational elements of his work.  Soon after his move to Boston in 1982 and throughout the 1980’s, he exhibited in various Boston galleries.  In 1990 he moved to the Cape Cod village of Cotuit with his wife and two sons, where he opened the James Wolf Gallery in 1992.  In 1993 he organized and performed in two World Music Concerts held at Freedom Hall in Cotuit to test the idea of a community arts center.  In 1994 he founded Cotuit Center for the Arts, an artist’s work and exhibit space, offering workshops in various 2 and 3 dimensional art media, writing, photography, and computer graphics.  In 1995 he was invited to sit on the board of DIFFA (Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS) Boston chapter, and to direct and curate their two galleries at the Boston Design Center.  In 1995, he closed the James Wolf Gallery and established a formal exhibit space at the art center.  Cotuit Center for the Arts, which became a non-profit corporation in 1995, continues to be a primary art focus, where he is now the Senior Artistic Director. In August 2009 James joined forces with artists Jackie Reeves and Richard Neal to create a new painting studio at the Old Schoolhouse in Barnstable Village. This vibrant, new setting is where he creates all of his new abstract and figurative work.

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JORDAN WOLFSON

Jordan Wolfson returned to the United States in 2002 after living abroad for ten years in Israel. He was born and raised in California and did his graduate studies at Yale University School of Art. Since beginning to exhibit in 1991, Wolfson has received numerous awards including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, the Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant and a Purchase Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; he was a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA and the Ballinglen Art Foundation in Ireland. He currently lives in Louisville, Colorado.

HONORS & AWARDS :

2002         The Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowship
1998          Israel-Tennessee Artists Exchange Program
1998          Purchase Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters
1993-94    Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
1993          Ish-Shalom Fellowship
1992          Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant
1991          Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship
1990-91    Yale University School of Art Scholarship
1985          College Honors, University of California at Santa Cruz
1985          University of California Regents Scholarship

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JULIA HIGGINS O'CONNELL
 
Julia Higgins O'Connell by way of  the Bay Area of California and Cape Cod, has studied with numerous sculptors and painters and now focuses primarily on clay and bronze sculptures from solar powered fountains to figurative work.  She incorporates decorative designs in functional, decorative ware and garden sculpture.    Julia wood fires many of her pieces using a special process that entails stoking a specially made kiln with wood 24/7 for 3 to 7 days.  She is an avid mushroom "hunter" and currently serves as the Correspondence Secretary of the southwestern Pennsylvania Mushroom Club.  Julia sees art as a medium for promoting social change, through self awareness and a greater appreciation of the beauty within and around us.

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LESLIE KRAMER

Leslie Kramer received her MFA in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design and she studied printmaking for one year at Stanley Hayter’s Atelier 17 in Paris, France. One-woman shows and group shows have been in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania and New Mexico. Her prints are in the collections of The DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, the Boston Public Library,  the Albuquerque, New Mexico Public Library, and numerous private collections. Her monoprints and etchings incorporate her interest in nature and the man-made as she employs innovative and sophisticated techniques. For 26 years, she taught printmaking and was gallery director at Elmira College in Elmira, NY. She has also taught at Smith College, Northampton, MA and The Rhode Island School of Design.  During the summer of 1999, she was Artist in Residence at Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France. She has received awards from The DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Mass., and several Elmira College Faculty Development Awards. She has taught printmaking workshops at several colleges and museums in the Northeast and at Atelier du Livre in Montolieu, France.  She currently lives and works out of her studio on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

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KARYN KLOUMANN

Karyn Kloumann was born in Englewood, Colorado in the ’70s. When she was nine years old she used her allowance to buy a dusty hardback copy of “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” from a surprised thrift shop owner as tumbleweeds rolled by the store window. She spent important  formative years on Cape Cod and moved to New York City after graduating from Bard College, where she studied Fine Arts and Film. Moving to New York was less of a conscious decision and more of a magnetic inevitability, possibly presaged by reading “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”. She has had a tendency to work at companies with symbolic names: Pearl (paint), Nile (architectural design), Tiger (temps) and Lucky (magazine) She currently lives in Brooklyn Heights with her spouse and two moggies, and she tries to visit the Cape four times a year to experience the beauty of each season.

New York City can be an assault on the senses: the layers of traffic, from the whirring helicopters above to the grumbling subways below; the enormous buildings and bridges; and the seemingly endless parade of fascinating people. Karyn Kloumann edits the visual noise and records portraits of people that are both compelling and recognizable; like the guy openly reading Spanish comic book porn on the 4 train, the Japanese fashionista gadding about in high-heeled shoes that were engineered without heels, or the unaccompanied blonde tykes walking an enormous white borzoi dog down the street. That such a cast of characters co-exists elbow to elbow gives credence to E.B. White’s assertion that New York City is without doubt the greatest human concentrate on earth. Ms. Kloumann celebrates that greatness with an overlay of wit and compassion.
 
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EVON & AEVA WHEET



Artistic powerhouse couple Evon & Aeva Wheet live on Cape Cod with their beloved Westies.  Evon is an internationally commissioned decorative and Fine Arts artist.  His work has been featured in magazines, decorator showhouses, galleries, and the finest private collections all over the world.  Some of his creations include watercolor portraits, hand cut out and muraled decorative screens, hand painted broadloom rugs, floor cloths, hand cut out and painted window treatments, and much, much, more.  Museum quality hand restoration of anything wood is also a passion.  Evon has been working as a "Jack of all Trades" Fine Artist 30 years.

Aeva Wheet is an internationally acclaimed researcher, writer, lecturer, practitioner and pioneer of Color and Sound Attunements . Since 1987 she has been using Color and Sound as healing modalities and has a thriving practice using color and sound for healing.  She is also an internationally commissioned decorative and Fine Arts artist.  An award winning jewelry designer she creates hand made, one of a kind Artisans Jewelry which incorporates her healing work by including the information regarding what the gemstones are used for energetically.  She partners in a Fine Art finish work business with her husband.  Aeva specializes in Angel window toppers, hand cut out and muraled furniture, hand painted furniture, and Fine Artisans Jewelry for the Connoisseur of the Unique and Elegant.


Cape Cod Contemporary / Fine Art / Abstract / Modern / Abstract  
Prints / Paintings / Monotypes