Sky Power: Beckoning Color Curated by Christine McCarthy, Chief Executive Officer
Provincetown Art Association and Museum May 5 - June 25, 2023
"Looking at Power’s work over the last decade, we are aware that here is someone at the top of her game.
And now her solo exhibit, Sky Power: Beckoning Color, is on view at PAAM. Christine McCarthy, PAAM’s chief executive officer and exhibit curator, says of Power’s diverse body of work, spanning five decades, “It is driven by strong composition and color-as-form, created in the language of abstraction. Influenced by Hans Hofmann’s students, Power’s paintings seek to show the connection between representational and abstract art.”
- Susan Rand Brown, Art in New England, 2023
SKY POWER: BECKONING COLOR
2023 PAAM Installation
“The Middle Passage was the longest and most dangerous of the slave trading routes between Europe and the Americas between the years 1619 and 1820. Each panel depicts the only view of the outside world a slave would have seen from the ship’s hull: sunset or dawn, midnight, and mid-day viewed through the grate on the deck. The triptych is an attempt to bring awareness to the inhumanity that continues as a result of racism, sexism, and misplaced ideologies”
-Sky Power
"Power can go from the contemplative to the whimsical. She possesses a beautiful light touch that is direct and purposeful. Her brushwork is like an erotic caress of color.”
- John Yau, PAAM 2023 Catalog essay
"Confident yet always questing, (Power) has consistently simplified her means of working on the canvas until what leaves her studio is immediately identifiable as her own: we respond to the purity of the visual language, the absence of gimmickry and easy resolution.”
- Susan Rand Brown, PAAM 2023 Catalog essay
"I commend Sky for her self-discovery—experimenting, studying, teaching and pushing herself to become a master colorist."
- Christine McCarthy, PAAM 2023 Catalog acknowledgement