Provincetown, at the very tip of Cape Cod, has always enjoyed worldwide recognition for having a very successful Art Colony that has fostered a whole school of art of its own. Its traditions are firmly rooted in the remarkable landscapes in PTown’s exceptional light that seem to be the focus of so much of the art here.
In the past few years, there has been a change afoot, in this very diverse community, we can finally see the emergence of a few more forward-thinking groups of queer artists whose sexuality is an important aspect of their art. This in particular so perfectly reflects the aspirations of the vast majority of a younger more contemporary generation that fills the Town each year now.
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One of the very first of this new wave was Christopher Sousa, who moved here bearly 20 years ago. Sousa insists that he loves the solitary life here (we’re assuming he means the winters when the town shrinks dramatically). As isolated as he tries to be Sousa still beautifully captures the essence of all the diversity and constant change that make this piece of unreal heaven that we call PTown such a mecca for our LGBTQ community.
Sousa calls his latest body of work “Invocation”. He told Queerguru he was trying to sort of distill what he has been doing for the past 20 years into simple figure paintings, focusing more on form, color, and light than narrative. He told us that it” is an homage to the late Kenneth Anger’s 1968 film “Invocation of My Demon Brother.” that he recently revisited
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Christopher Sousa William Scott Gallery 439 Commercial St, Provincetown,
Labels: 2023, Christopher Sousa, Innovaction, new exhibit, queer art, William Scott Gallery
