An interview with photographer Michael Childers, introduced by Greg Salvatori

There is a photograph that exists of David Hockney swimming in a pool in the Hollywood Hills. It is not the kind of photograph Hockney would have permitted with just anyone. That it exists at all is a testament to something rarer than access: trust built over nearly six decades of friendship.

There is a version of Greg Salvatori's story that goes like this: he grew up in poverty on the French-Italian border, put himself through school, worked his way to Ferragamo's headquarters in Florence, opened a studio in London, then New York, then a gallery in Provincetown. A photographer published in over thirty countries. A painter whose work radiates color and joy with the deliberate intensity of someone who has earned both.

That version is true. But it leaves out the part where he started making things with his hands.

Odd Socks, opening Friday, July 3 at Greg Salvatori Gallery, 366 Commercial Street, Provincetown, is his only solo show of 2026 — and its most surprising revelation is not on the walls. It's on the shelves, the plinths, the pedestals: handbuilt ceramic sculptures that Salvatori has been making quietly, in private, while the gallery hummed around him. This is their first public showing.

On Friday, June 5th, Greg Salvatori Gallery opens Tidal Hours: Movement, Light, and the Endless Summer — nine new oil paintings by Eric Price. The opening reception begins at 6:00 PM at 366 Commercial Street, Provincetown. The exhibition runs through June 18th. Admission is free.

Price is a Provincetown-based figurative painter and graduate of the New York Academy of Art (MFA) whose work centers on the male figure within the luminous coastal landscapes of the Outer Cape. His paintings move through a summer day — from bright midday crossings to the rose and violet of dusk — finding in Provincetown's tidal flats, dunes, docks, and open water an ongoing conversation between place, body, memory, and belonging.

Ahead of the opening, Price wrote a beautiful essay about how Provincetown shaped him as a painter — and what he found here that he had been looking for long before he arrived.

“This exhibition is the perfect embodiment of what Provincetown represents: a collision of heritage and innovation, vulnerability and boldness, beauty and provocation,” says artist and curator Greg Salvatori. “We are thrilled to open the season with these extraordinary new works from such a talented collective. Each artist brings a unique voice to a shared celebration of creativity and human connection.”