Artist and gallerist Nick Lawrence was the sole juror for the show “Departures,” currently on exhibit at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis. Lawrence selected 53 works from the 520 submissions for the group show. The museum sent out an international call for artworks that either exhibited a moment of departure from conventional norms and styles in the art world or a departure from the artist’s usual practice.
In 2020, Sarah Dineen unearthed a 19-square-foot painting that she had made as a graduate student at the School of Visual Arts in New York. “I call it my adolescent painting,” she says. “It was an awkward-stage painting that just never worked.”
In May, Lawrence opened the Readymade Gallery in Orleans, where he is showing works by his artists in residence along with local artists, many of whom Lawrence exhibited over a decade ago at DNA Gallery in Provincetown.
“We find small groups of artists with an affinity — whether they’re from New York, the Cape, or other areas — and get a conversation going,” says Lawrence.