Jane Paradise
Artist Statement:
My work captures the profound and intimate connections between people and their environments worldwide. Whether momentary or permanent, the images reflect a deep felt longing for “home.”
Over the past decade, I have captured the dune shacks on the wild back shore of Provincetown, MA. Writers, artists, and families made summer homes in the early 1900’s, including Eugene O’Neill, Tennessee Williams, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Jackson Pollack, Willem de Kooning, Jack Kerouac, e.e. Cummings, and Hazel Hawthorne. A cluster of these original shacks exists today – some restored, some bandaged, some dilapidated – all loved. Each shack is unique with its own personality and its own name.
My work captures the profound and intimate connections between people and their environments worldwide. Whether momentary or permanent, the images reflect a deep felt longing for “home.”
Over the past decade, I have captured the dune shacks on the wild back shore of Provincetown, MA. Writers, artists, and families made summer homes in the early 1900’s, including Eugene O’Neill, Tennessee Williams, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Jackson Pollack, Willem de Kooning, Jack Kerouac, e.e. Cummings, and Hazel Hawthorne. A cluster of these original shacks exists today – some restored, some bandaged, some dilapidated – all loved. Each shack is unique with its own personality and its own name.
Artist Bio: Paradise is represented by Alden Gallery in Provincetown, Massachusetts and Galatea Fine Art in Boston. Her photographs have been featured and exhibited in solo shows at the Griffin Museum of Photography, Art Space in Raleigh, Gallery Ehva in Provincetown, Simmons College, Galatea Fine Art in Boston and Houston Center for Photography. Internationally, Paradise has shown at the International Biennial of Fine Art and Documentary Photography (Argentina, Spain and Germany), and the Gallery of Photography in Ireland. Paradise was a 2017 and 2014 Photolucida finalist.
Paradise’s work has been exhibited and has received honors in numerous juried shows at the New Britain Museum of American Art, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Southeast Museum of Photography, Danforth Art New England Photo Biennial, Cambridge Art Association National Prize Show, the Center for Fine Art Photography, the Worldwide Photo Biennial and RayKo Gallery in San Francisco.
She has curated shows at Galatea Fine Art and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, including the 2016 “Elman+ Holt: The Outer Cape Art Colony,” as well as the 2015 “After Images” show by Amy Arbus.
Her photographs are published in the book Strength and Grace: Elegy for Love and in Summertime, a Chronicle book. Her Provincetown dune shack portfolio was featured in Still Points Arts Quarterly. A softcover catalog featuring some of the images of The Dune Shacks of Provincetown was published in March of 2017 in conjunction with a solo exhibit at Galatea Fine Art in Boston.
Her photographs are in the collection of the Southeast Museum of Photography and in many private collections in the United States and Europe.
Paradise’s work has been exhibited and has received honors in numerous juried shows at the New Britain Museum of American Art, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Southeast Museum of Photography, Danforth Art New England Photo Biennial, Cambridge Art Association National Prize Show, the Center for Fine Art Photography, the Worldwide Photo Biennial and RayKo Gallery in San Francisco.
She has curated shows at Galatea Fine Art and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, including the 2016 “Elman+ Holt: The Outer Cape Art Colony,” as well as the 2015 “After Images” show by Amy Arbus.
Her photographs are published in the book Strength and Grace: Elegy for Love and in Summertime, a Chronicle book. Her Provincetown dune shack portfolio was featured in Still Points Arts Quarterly. A softcover catalog featuring some of the images of The Dune Shacks of Provincetown was published in March of 2017 in conjunction with a solo exhibit at Galatea Fine Art in Boston.
Her photographs are in the collection of the Southeast Museum of Photography and in many private collections in the United States and Europe.
