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Newport Photo Guild
Members' Show
May 1- May 30, 2026
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TRACY WEISMAN
Solo Exhibition
June 27 - July 19, 2026
​I've always loved a good story. A lifelong communications professional and speech writer, I was always instinctively drawn to metaphors and employed them in my written work to make ideas really 'stick' with an audience.
Today as a visual artist, I'm telling my own stories. I'm intrigued by the past lives of found objects and my practice involves collecting, sorting, and manipulating materials to discover patterns and meaning, and rearranging them into works of social commentary and autobiographical themes.
By harnessing the non-verbal communication power of quotidian objects, I aim to create metaphorically and emotionally dense visual stories that reflect our shared humanity and stop viewers in their tracks.
MARK SCHIANCA
Solo Exhibition
August 5 - 30, 2026
​When Schianca is creating one of his bold interpretations of vintage swimwear — a favorite subject — the painter purposely seems to blur the line between the fine art of painting and the careful thought processes found in graphic design. The result might be intense bilateral symmetry or the virtuoso use of saturated colors, mixed with Schianca’s signature paint drips... but almost universally, the work is instantly uplifting and playful.
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His paintings of the built environment specific to New England are equally exacting, yet more wistful. In these canvases, Schianca has managed to capture not only the spirit of his subject, but the incredible light. “Having spent most of my summers on Cape Cod and in Provincetown,” Schianca told us, “I’ve always been fascinated with the simplicity of coastal New England architecture and the effect light has on these simple structures.” As Schianca sinks deeper into painting each year, his work brilliantly captures the character of his subjects in a realistic, yet simple, graphic style.
CURTIS SPEER
Final Exhibition
October 2026
After a decade at the helm of his own gallery, artist Curtis Speer closes this chapter of his career with a poetic return to where it all began. By bookending his ten-year tenure with the original exhibition, “It Was Hopper All Along,” Speer creates a full-circle moment that is both reflective and declarative. The show, which first signaled his commitment to psychological realism, American solitude, and a quiet reckoning with interior life, now re-emerges as a summation of everything the gallery stood for—discipline, atmosphere, and moral inquiry through paint. In revisiting this inaugural exhibition, Speer does not simply repeat the past; he reframes it, honoring the foundation he built while stepping forward into his next evolution as an artist unbound by walls.