Wellfleet Adult Community Center

Monthly exhibit of Outer Cape Contemporary Artists

June - Jane Paradise “Here Today”

Curated by Robert Rindler

Opening Reception: Sunday, June 1, 4:00-6:00 pm

On Exhibit throughout June

ARTIST’S STATEMENT       

HERE TODAY celebrates the lives and challenges of daily rituals of four “older” women, all nearing 100 years old, who lived diverse lives. These are the most invisible people in our culture, and the exhibit is an attempt to shine a light on their existence, their values, and their beauty.

My photography is a lens through which the viewer can glimpse the lives of elder women.

HERE TODAY depicts my photographs of 4 women in particular: photographer Norma Holt with her own words, my aunt with her own words, my mother and my mother-in-law.  Through these photographs I am hoping to demonstrate that a meaningful life can, and often does exist even within a deteriorating body, and that our culture renders these women invisible at its own loss and peril.

ARTIST’S BIO:                                                          

JANE PARADISE is an internationally recognized photographer who photographs the profound and intimate connections between people and their environments.

Paradise is represented by Alden Gallery in Provincetown and Galatea Fine Art in Boston. She has had solo exhibitions at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, the Griffin Museum of Photography, Art Space in Raleigh NC, Gallery Ehva in Provincetown, Simmons College, and the Houston Center for Photography. Paradise has also shown internationally.

In 2023, Schiffer published DUNE SHACKS OF PROVINCETOWN, which is in its second printing.  It features Paradise’s photographs alongside quotes by those who have lived in and cared for shacks. Her photographs of elder women (in this exhibit) are prominently featured in the poetry book OF STRENGTH AND LOVE: ELEGY FOR LOVE ARTIST’S BIO: