TEN YEARS. ONE EXTRAORDINARY CHAPTER.

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After ten remarkable years, CUSP Gallery is closing its doors. Not because the work is finished, but because sometimes the most courageous thing an artist can do is know when it is time to turn the page. For a decade, CUSP has been a place for art that demanded to be seen, conversations that needed to happen, artists who deserved a platform, and collectors who believed deeply in the power of original work.

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We built something together.

We celebrated extraordinary artists.
We took risks.
We created exhibitions.
We filled walls with beauty, provocation, history, humor, and imagination.
We gathered people around art and, in the process, built a community.

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From Provincetown to Newport, CUSP became far more than a gallery. It became a home for ideas, a meeting place, a creative laboratory, and a stubborn reminder that art still matters and after ten years, I am profoundly proud of what we made.

There is sadness in closing a door that has meant so much, but there is also enormous gratitude and an unmistakable sense that this is not an ending...it is a transition.

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I am taking everything we built into whatever comes next with deeper conviction, greater clarity, and an even bigger appetite for what is possible.

 

To every artist who trusted CUSP with your work: thank you.

To every collector who took something home: thank you.

To every person who walked through our doors, came to an opening, bought a piece, raised a glass, started a conversation, told a friend, or simply stood quietly in front of a work that moved you: thank you.

You made these ten years matter.

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So we close this chapter not with regret, but with a raised glass.

Ten years. Hundreds of artists. Countless works. Thousands of conversations. One extraordinary ride.

CUSP was never just about the walls, it was about what happened inside of those walls.

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With enormous gratitude,

Curtis Speer
Founder & Principal Artist
CUSP GALLERY

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Artists & Organizations I have worked with in no particular order;

Robin Reynolds, Michael McConnell, Brandon Reese, Ken Sloan, Darla Jackson, Chris Brown, Ron Amato, Marc Martin,

Alyssa Fortin, Daniel Hammond, Bobby Alexander, Hank Whitin, Jill Palese, Rachel Hidari, Newport Restoration Foundation, Susan Auriemma, Whitney Overlocker, Brendan Flynn, Mia Campopiano, Lauretta Converse, Wendy Loughlin, Sylvia Hampton,

The Newport Photo Guild, The Newport Art Museum, The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Mati Kestenberg,

The Newport Artists Collective, The Brenton Hotel, Chip Haggerty, Tracy Weisman, Mark Schianca, Juniper Rag & Ptownie.