SAND DUDES
New paintings by Joshua Wilmoth

Wilmoth created paintings using traditional New England window panes salvaged from local homes undergoing renovation. Each piece of glass carries its own history — of rooms, of light, of lives lived behind it. Wilmoth paints directly onto that surface, layering his figures into the old material until they seem less painted than revealed.

Those figures are unmistakably his: beautiful men who dissolve at their edges into dune grass, sand, and shoreline — half human, half landscape, wholly of this place. Sensual and unhurried, they are rendered in acrylic with a brushwork that is among the most distinctive in his generation. His strokes are directional and restless, chasing each other across the surface with an almost choreographic energy that gives even still figures the feeling of motion, of wind, of something about to change. The work is sexy without apology, painterly without pretension, and specific to Provincetown in the way that only comes from truly living here.

In conjunction with the exhibition, Wilmoth created an original mural wrapping the exterior of the gallery — a large-scale public work without precedent on Commercial Street. It is the first time a Provincetown gallery has united an interior exhibition with a continuous outdoor mural by the same artist, dissolving the boundary between the work inside and the street outside. The mural is conceived as a living extension of the show — the same figures, the same landscape, the same restless brushwork, scaled to the building and offered freely to the town that has always known him.

Joshua Wilmoth, classically trained Provincetown resident (Tufts University and School of the Museum of Fine Arts), explores motion, stillness, and deep connection to place through multifaceted work that extends from figure and landscape to public and wearable art.