Exhibits in the building are on view Tuesday - Friday 10am - 4pm, or by appointment. Hours are subject to change - please call ahead to confirm at 508-349-1800.

Great art produced on the Outer Cape and beyond finds its way onto the Hall walls - lucky us! Below are upcoming shows planned for 2025 and past shows we’ve hosted. You can also check out our Artist Talks at the Hall YouTube channel HERE, and see what local artists are doing on our Instagram @wellfleetpreservationhall.

Current, Upcoming Exhibitions (dates subject to change)

CURRENT: André van der Wende

Artist Statement:

In the over 40 years that I’ve been painting, this work represents a creative breakthrough I had at the end of 2023. Using a largely monochromatic palette influenced by black and white photography, I found a satisfying blend of the formal and the gestural as it relates to the memory of experience, and how we frame a story around that experience that exists outside of reality, outside of time. I’ve always been an abstract painter but my work is informed by the natural world around me, particularly the movement of water — clouds over the ocean, or the bounce of light across a pond and the roll of the landscape around it. I’m not interested in painting what I see, but I am interested what it feels like to be immersed in nature — the sounds, the smells, the temperature of the air —and how that experience is specific to a sense of place, both here on Cape Cod and my spiritual home back in New Zealand.

May 2025: Lee Sullivan

Artist Statement:

“Over the years, I have always been drawn to the Cape Cod landscape. Having a vacation home and now my permanent residence have given me ample opportunity to hunt for and explore the many faces of the landscape. The dunes and marshes are a strong draw for me, especially in the late day light with all its cast shadows and strong lights and darks. For me the late day light on the Cape is magical. It’s as if the spaces between the layers of the landscape seem to expand and often glow. Over the years I have found inspiration from Falmouth to Provincetown. A show at Preservation Hall in the heart of the lower Cape seems most appropriate for my oil paintings. Mostly self-taught, I studied with Jessie Pollock and Jeanne Duval in New Hampshire, and with Joe McGurl, Bill Davis and Ed Chesnovitch on Cape Cod."

APRIL: G. Love

Graffiti style art from musician and artist Garrett Dutton, aka G. Love.

His art sprung out of the Graffiti/HipHop culture of Philadelphia in the late 80’s where he was an aspiring graffiti writer. The Philadelphia Graffiti writers used a “tagging style” – they would choose a “tag” that would become their name or alias and then repeat it all over the city. “The style of Philly graffiti writing was deeply embedded into my hand after countless hours as a teenager and adult, practicing over and over, thousands of times” explains Dutton. He chose LOVE as his tag and he repeats it constantly. “My repetition of LOVE celebrates both the cultures of HipHop’s Street Art and Contemporary Art as a whole. Repeating the word LOVE acts like a mantra bringing forth the intention of both my art and music – which is to spread the message and feeling of and inspiration from LOVE.”

Opening Reception: April 4th 5-7pm

“Love Paintings” will be on display until April 28th.

UPCOMING: Lenora Sullivan, May 2-29th. Opening Reception: May 9th, 4-6pm

Andre van der Wende, June 4-30th. Opening Reception: June 7th, 5-7pm

Visual Arts Committee

• Robert Johnson

• Kate Ryan

• Heather Pilchard

• Lee Wootherspoon

• Anne Suggs

Past Exhibitions

Nauset Regional High School Honors Portfolio Work: March, 2025

Thirteen different honors art students showcased different mediums of art throughout the Hall.

Special thanks to Nauset art teacher Ryan Campbell for her assistance and collaboration in this effort.

Small Art Works: December, 2024

The Hall welcomed many, many talent artists for a group showing of several different mediums and forms. It was one of the best curated shows, all thanks to members of our visual arts committee for putting in a lot of hard work to organize and structure the multilayered show!

Opening Reception: December 5th, 4-6pm

Antonia DaSilva, November 2024

Antonia DaSilva is a painter, mixed media printmaker, writer, and educator. Her work explores the permeable spaces between indoors and out, imagination and reality, the natural world and the man-made. DaSilva uses images to tell stories and prompt questions inspired by the world she sees around her every day, and the world in her head. Her work has been shown throughout the Cape and Western Massachusetts. DaSilva lives and works in Truro.

Opening Reception: November 7th, 2024 5-7pm

Artist Talk: November 12th @ 6pm.

Sheryl Jaffe, October 2024

“Made With Water"

Prints, sculptures, pulp paintings and installation with artist made paper of local, exotic and invasive plant fibers.

Sheryl Jaffe has been exhibiting her artwork throughout New York and New England for over 30 years. She works with organic materials, handmade paper from local and exotic plant fibers, and found objects to create 2 and 3 dimensional works that are reminiscent of the human body and the strength and frailty of skin. Her work includes installations, sculpture, artist books, once alive and continue to “breathe”: fibers absorb moisture from the air, the paper “remembers” the process it went through in becoming paper.

Opening Reception: Thursday, October 5th, 4-6pm

Artist Talk: October 16th @ 6pm

The Hall was honored to host Wellfleet artist Peter Watts as the first Artist in Residence exhibited in our new addition. A well-loved and widely respected longtime fixture in the Cape Cod arts community, Peter passed away on Monday August 17th, 2020. Peter’s show is no longer hanging at the Hall, but you can enjoy it here virtually by scrolling through the images below. His work is represented by the Berta Walker Gallery. Read about Peter and his work HERE.