ARTISTS ON VIEW
The focus of our 2 galleries is to showcase a high level of sustainably created, contemporary artwork. Each location features the sustainable work of seasonal artists and the furnishings of Jeff Soderbergh. Every artist is available for site specific commissions.
Please peruse, enjoy and inquire.
JS Wellfleet Gallery / seasonal May – December
11b W. Main St. in Wellfleet, Cape Cod, MA
Our seasonal gallery is located in one of the original homestead barns brought over from Billingsgate Island. Described in New England Home Magazine as a “MUST SEE”, this showroom and sculpture garden features the sustainable work of renowned artists and the furnishings of Jeff Soderbergh. It is a fantastic place to spark a conversation about a custom piece, peruse a mix of contemporary and traditional work or just visit for a quiet place to rest and reflect. Whether you want to come by and discuss a custom piece with Jeff in our Portsmouth, RI showroom or you want to make your vacation on the Cape even better by visiting our Wellfleet showroom, we’d love to have you.
Our Wellfleet location is OPEN for the 2026 season!
Fall Hours
Mon.- Sat. 10-6
Sun. 11-5
Please join us at the gallery for a jewelry pop up with Sailors Valentine during Oysterfest weekend!
Sat. Oct 17th, 10-6 / Sun. Oct. 18th, 11-5
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JS RI Design Studio / Gallery / year round
549 Park Ave. in Portsmouth, RI
We cordially invite you to come for a visit, by appointment, to our main design studio and showroom in the seaside town of Portsmouth, RI. Meet Jeff, see some of our pieces as well as the stunning work of some of the country’s leading sustainable and contemporary fine artists.
Recipient of the 2021 Editor’s pick for Best New Sustainable Gallery by Rhode Island Monthly Magazine and
Best Custom Furniture Designer in Modern Luxury Interiors Magazine.
We are presently booking appointments in our Portsmouth year round studio.
Come by for a visit! Plenty of street parking available.
By appointment only. 401-845-9087
We eagerly await to share our collection of sustainable fine art and furniture with you!
Please reach out with inquiries to: gallery@jeffsoderbergh.com
FEATURED ARTISTS
DUNCAN JOHNSON
ASSEMBLAGE ART – Wellfleet & Portsmouth Galleries
Duncan Johnson is a contemporary assemblage artist best known for his intricate meticulously crafted panels created with scavenged painted and weathered wood. METICULOUS is putting it mildly. Although crafted entirely from vintage “found” boards, his work feels like a pure abstraction of pattern and geometric form. Johnson works intuitively selecting each piece of wood as a painter selects hues of paint from a palette to establish a predominantly muted array of color from which to draw. Although emphatically assembled out of wood, his pieces are composed according to the innate logic of abstract painting.
Aspects of sculpture, drawing and painting are all present within Johnson’s work as strips of reclaimed wood come together to bring their own character to each piece. Patterns of wear, often fastened together with a matrix of fine wire nails laid along a delicate grid, are “unburdened” by any need for rigorous interpretation. Living and working in Vt, Johnson has been exhibiting nationwide since earning his BFA at Pratt Institute in 1987.
I am honored to have his stunning, insightful and architecturally wondrous work in both galleries this season. His work is collected internationally and is available for site-specific commission.
For more information about these available works or commissioning an on-site or specific piece, please contact us at the gallery 508.214.0538. To view more of Duncan’s work, please see an interview with him in his studio here.
Please click on the link below to view Duncan Johnson’s complete collection of available works.
LISA BARSUMIAN
PAINTING & PRINTMAKING – Wellfleet & Portsmouth Galleries
Born and raised in Connecticut, Lisa studied painting and printmaking at the Art Institute of Boston and at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She has been showing her work in group exhibitions and solo shows since 1984 in the US, Canada, France, Greece, and India.
Lisa’s subject matter has a large range, from landscapes to still lifes and studies of people, to intimate observations of everyday objects. She seeks to simplify her images and in so doing brings forth a quiet sense of being. Whether in painting or printmaking, Lisa is inclined to focus on her subject and compose it down to a harmonious minimum. Drawing is fundamental to all aspects of her work.
Captivated by chickens and the sea, these works on cardboard are a perfect fit for my collection of sustainable works at the gallery. For years, Lisa has started many of her paintings and prints with these simple and striking forms developing throughout the process. I hope you enjoy her origin works on recycled cardboard. Lisa and her family now call Jamestown, Rhode Island their permanent home.
Lisa’s work is collected and shown internationally and she works with only the finest materials available.
Interior applications/commissions are welcome
For more information about commissioning an on-site or specific piece, please contact us at the gallery 508.214.0538.
Please click on the link below to view Lisa Barsumian’s complete collection of available works.
DAVID GONVILLE
MIXED MEDIA PAINTINGS – Wellfleet & Portsmouth Galleries
David Gonville is a contemporary artist inspired by the ocean and its convergence with surf, weather, landforms, and contemporary human interaction. He begins his process by creating multiple large wood panels of different colors, textures, and mediums, varying layers of oil paint, encaustic, plaster, and found raw materials to make each unique in its process. He then deconstructs and reconstructs the panels using common carpenter’s tools to build a sculptural painting; a new abstract form. The intuitive process of painting, cutting, sorting, and constructing is integral to its final form.
The compositions that emerge in his work reference personal experiences in the ever-changing coastal environment. David transcribes these experiences of shifting weather patterns, open space, peaceful surroundings, and odd beach Americana into his work. He paints to convey this connection with the ocean and the natural world around him.
His work is collected internationally and he proudly lives with his family and best friend/ wife in his native Rhode Island.
For more information about commissioning an on-site or specific piece, please contact us at the gallery 508.214.0538
Please click on the link below to view David Gonville’s complete collection of available works.
JEMISON FAUST
MIXED MEDIA COLLAGE – Wellfleet & Portsmouth Galleries
Jemison Faust, a Rhode Island native, who received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, mixes media from a wealth of materials and mementos left behind by people from this century and past centuries. A personal organizer at heart, Jemison has compiled a collection of mementos and relics spanning 200 years of America’s long history of life, relationships and societal circumstances. This collection, comprised of personal letters, bank notes and bills from the 1800’s, stock records from the 1920’s, current To Do lists, discarded paintings, photos and fruit labels has become the fodder for two series represented here at the gallery; “Span of Time” and “Dedicated Journey”.
Jemison’s methodical layering of original letters, ledgers and obscure labels into works of art is an exploration of an emotional and anthropological terrain of societal and personal developments. Highlighting bits of letters discussing slavery, women’s movements, and stories of love and heartbreak, Jemison weaves history and human circumstance into her paintings, creating beautiful witness to time and humanity.
With her love of gardening, allowing Jemison to experiment with shape and color, studio time and the experience of seeing what begins in her imagination take form on paper, Jemison brings a lightness and joy to her art.
Jemison has exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the country and is the recipient of many awards including a Fellowship in Painting from the RI Council on the Arts.
Jemison’s work combines sustainable practice and a tactile aesthetic that works beautifully to illustrate my gallery’s mission statement, helping to share fine sustainable art with our local communities and beyond. Highlighting an example of these works of art in the gallery this season is our absolute pleasure.
Commissions welcome / Shipping available worldwide
For more information about this season’s available works please contact us at the gallery 508.214.0538.
Please click on the link below to view Jemison Faust’s complete collection of available works.
PAUL MENESES
METAL SCULPTURE – Wellfleet Gallery
Paul Meneses is a very talented and versatile metal artist working at a high level in all types of metal.
Trained as a fine artist, Paul approaches his work from the perspective of a sculptor, but with the many decades of technique and skill honed as an architectural metal worker. With this incredible backbone of creativity and skillset, any piece is a possibility. Weathering and stainless steel, aluminum, bronze, brass and copper, the materials and outcomes are endless. Paul is best known for his surprise mixing of straight and curves and impeccable technique.
His work is collected nationwide and is available for site-specific commission.
For more information about commissioning an on-site or specific piece, please contact us at the gallery 508.214.0538.
Please click on the link below to view Paul Meneses’s complete collection of available works.
BERNHARD DESSECKER
LIGHTING DESIGN – Wellfleet & Portsmouth Galleries
I am honored to add the insightful work of Bernhard Dessecker to the stable of sustainable artists at the JS Gallery. Bernhard Dessecker has enjoyed more than thirty years of professional experience in lighting planning, interior architecture, and developing and designing lighting fixtures.
In 1984, he became a member of the design team at Ingo Maurer, a top international lighting design company based in Munich, Germany. As the “right hand of Ingo”, Dessecker contributed his own designs to the collection and developed many of the technically challenging and complex light fixtures. All the while, Dessecker managed his own project planning and design office, where he realized products and projects in Germany and elsewhere. Collaborating with BMW in 2014, Bernhard was commissioned by the Bavarian National Museum in Munich, Germany to create a dramatic chandelier featuring BMW headlamps. This piece is prominently displayed in the lobby of the museum. Other projects include subway stations, luxury restaurants, and fashion boutiques, and bespoke hotels throughout Europe and Asia.
Throughout the past thirty years of professional practice, Dessecker has acquired a wide technical knowledge in the field of semiconductor technology (LED and OLED). In this context, he has held lectures and workshops around the world at conventions, universities, and museums. He also edited a book about Ingo Maurer in 2008. Dessecker is a practical designer who has always pursued optimum results in collaboration with the client, owner, architect, engineer, and craftsmen without losing sight of the financial, technical, and human requirements and needs.
To Dessecker, the design journey is as important as the end result. His mission is to bring to life his client’s vision in the most thoughtful and practical, yet beautiful, way possible. His many projects — from large-scale metropolitan subway stations to private jobs to “one-off” hand-made products — all maintain an innovative, and sometimes quirky, elegance that are his signature style.
The limited collection at the JS Gallery represents small, one-of-a-kind originals crafted from found objects. Commissions are welcome.
For more information about commissioning an on-site or specific piece, please contact us at the gallery 508.214.0538
Please click on the link below to view Bernhard Dessecker’s complete collection of available works.
DANIEL DENTON
STONE SCULPTURE – Wellfleet Gallery
Daniel Denton is an extremely talented self-taught, multi-discipline artist hailing from Woodstock, NY. As a sculptor, Dan primarily works with found stone and other organic materials like wood, fiber, metal objects, but his fascination with materials more generally provides constant inspiration. With a background in architectural design, his work blurs the line within form, space, color and texture. Dan describes himself as a “materialist with minimalist tendencies” who is inspired by the conceptual side of architecture and sculpture. All of the pieces in this season’s collection were carved and shaped entirely by the use of handheld tools. This work is poignant, thoughtful, and incredibly skillfully crafted. His work is collected nationwide and is available for site-specific commission.
For more information about commissioning an on-site or specific piece, please contact us at the gallery 508.214.0538.
Please click on the link below to view Daniel Denton’s complete collection of available works.
TOM DEININGER
ASSEMBLAGE ART – Wellfleet & Portsmouth Galleries
Tom Deininger is right out of his mind and is one of the most talented artists of our generation. The artwork at this gallery represents a very small focus of the grand scale of his work and is an introduction to his newer focus on smaller “flat” work. For over two decades, and utilizing only recycled materials from the generous waste stream of America, Tom has created thoughtful, bold and beautiful pieces. This present collection of materials might include: industrial wrappers, junk mail, catalogs, plastic flotsam, magazines, phone books, rental guides, children’s toys, lunch wrappers, newspapers, and clothing remnants too damaged to sell.
Give yourself the opportunity to get lost in one of his wall pieces as you put together just what exactly it contains. What can’t fit into this space for sustainable art are his large scale assemblages and I invite you to see more of his work at the gallery or better yet, start your own collection.
For more information about commissioning an on-site or specific piece, please contact us at the gallery 508.214.0538
BETTINA EGLI SENNHAUSER
ENCAUSTIC WORKS – Wellfleet Gallery
Bettina creates her narratives and vocabulary through innovative surfaces abstracting from what and who is around her and how she relates to it. She uses natural materials and issues for intimate and personal poetry.
Bettina’s artistic approach is a unique blend of process and intuition. She allows the properties of sustainable materials to guide her, approaching each painting with a childlike curiosity. In a dialogue with her work, she remains nonjudgmental, focusing on the potential of each piece. This process grants her the freedom to explore her creative curiosity, allowing her personal narratives to resurface and deepening her understanding of herself and her societal role.
Egli Sennhauser is a self-taught artist, author, and R&F Artist Instructor, teaching encaustic, cold wax, and fresco workshops in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, USA, and Ireland, as well as online. In 2023, she published the Cold Wax Workbook “Der IdeenFänger zum Kaltwachs 1×1” (ISBN 978-3-9525943-7-7, in German). Bettina is a member of the Swiss Society of Women Artists (SGBK), the International Encaustic Artists (IEA), and a Co-Chair of the European Chapter of the International Encaustic Artists. Her works have been shown in group shows in Switzerland and Italy and in exhibitions in the US.
For more information on these available pieces or to commission a specific piece, please contact us at the gallery 508.214.0538
Please click on the link below to view Bettina Egli Sennhauser’s complete collection of available works.
CARL DIMITRI
MIXED MEDIA PAINTING – Wellfleet Gallery
Carl Dimitri has received fellowships in painting from the Vermont Studio Center and the RI State Council on the Arts. Carl is an accomplished musician, writer, and artist.
A Providence native, Carl Dimitri moved to Los Angeles to pursue a passion for music in the 90s. After his time in California, he moved to England to return to school and study for a doctorate in literature. In 2000, Carl returned to Rhode Island, where he taught, wrote, and worked. Shortly thereafter, painting became more than just a hobby. Carl Dimitri’s work tends to be raw and expressionistic, incorporating satire. A staff illustrator for The Rumpus and a cartoonist for Entropy magazine, Carl has contributed drawings to the Kenyon Review, Bomb Magazine, and the streets of Providence, RI. Two of his climate change graph paintings are in the permanent collection of the Boston Public Library. Carl Dimitri’s background in literature as well as philosophical and aesthetic modernity informs his work.
Experimental modernism is a primary influence. Carl’s work is currently represented in NYC, Cape Cod and RI.
For more information about commissioning an on-site or specific piece, please contact us at the gallery 508.214.0538
Please click on the link below to view Carl Dimitri’s complete collection of available works.
KATE BARBER
MIXED MEDIA WORKS – Wellfleet & Portsmouth Galleries
Kate Barber began her creative process by handweaving, her first textile love and focus for many years, while working as a weaver in Vancouver, British Columbia. Kate then studied textile techniques at Capilano University in Vancouver.
Textile materials and techniques are the foundation of her creative process. As Kate weaves, stitches, prints and paints, she uses a variety of sustainable materials such as thread, fabric, buckram, wax, metal leaf and wire. Earth pigments on linen have become her latest focus and passion.
Kate Barber’s process is best described as “practiced play”. “Practiced” references skill developed over time; “play” references a looser way of working where freedom to experiment with materials and techniques brings creative breakthroughs. For Kate, both are crucial to making art that is well constructed, innovative and fresh.
Kate’s work combines sustainable practice and a tactile aesthetic that works beautifully to illustrate my gallery’s mission statement, helping to share fine sustainable art with our local communities and beyond. Highlighting an example of these works of art in the gallery this season is an honor.
For more information about commissioning an on-site or specific piece please contact us at the gallery 508.214.0538.
Please click on the link below to view Kate Barber’s complete collection of available works.
JOSHUA RUDER
SCULPTURE – Wellfleet Gallery
Joshua Ruder is primarily a figurative sculptor living and working in Greenfield, MA. He studied Visual Art at Brown University where he graduated with honors. Joshua creates sculptures using stone and metal that are considered beyond useful, looking beyond their cracked facades to imagine the beauty contained within, and then working to bring that out.
His journey as an artist has been a process of constantly exploring both the possibilities and limitations of different materials. Steel, stone, ceramics, plaster, wood, and glass all find a place in different ways within Josh’s work.
After earning a degree in Visual Art from Brown University, Josh went on to study at RISD as well as successfully completing a sculpture course in bronze casting and welding along with ceramics and metal casting with sand molds. During two formative summers at The Carving Studio and Sculpture Center in West Rutland, VT, he began carving marble combining it with metal, wood, and glass that he salvaged from the former quarry site.
Joshua’s work is evocative, delicate, thoughtful and is a wonderful addition to the JS Galleries.
For more information about commissioning an on-site or specific piece, please contact us at the gallery 508.214.0538
Please click on the link below to view Joshua Ruder’s complete collection of available works.
MIKE HANSEL
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SCULPTURE – Wellfleet & Portsmouth Galleries
Mike Hansel is an incredibly talented and diverse sculptor based in Newport, RI. For more than thirty years, Mike has been creating intelligent and thoughtful large scale art steeped in humor and irony. His work has been described as contradictive, organic, sexual, playful and satirical.
After earning his MFA, Mike has been an active art educator since 1990. Mike is presently the Chairman of the Art Department at St. George’s School in Newport, where he instructs studio art and continues to produce contemporary work. The shapes and construction methods hover between the industrial and natural worlds.
Mike’s work from the last several decades has utilized high content recycled or naturally occurring materials, making him a perfect fit for the gallery.
All materials are of the highest interior/exterior grade available.
Commissions welcome / Shipping available worldwide
For more information about this season’s collection, please contact the gallery at 508.214.0538
Please click on the link below to view Mike Hansel’s complete collection of available works.
Mike Hansel Current Collection
GENE SCHMIDT
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ASSEMBLAGE ART – Wellfleet & Portsmouth Galleries
Gene Schmidt, a South East Pennsylvania native who received his MFA from The School of Visual Art in New York, is an artist focused on themes of love, time as a concept and measurement as a statement. Schmidt’s Untitled Measurement series assemblages, using wooden rulers, cloth and metal measuring tapes secured beautifully over wooden forms, pay homage to the conceptualization of time and place. While subtle in their physical presence, Schmidt’s Untitled Measurement series makes way for new life using old materials, a theme close to our hearts here at the gallery.
“…Schmidt would like these works to reflect other possible meanings of measurement, of time and mortality, of truth and ethical standards, of a “fitting” amount or an action taken to solve a problem. To measure is to go slowly or mete out. It is consideration or choice with care, as well as restraint or moderation…” Dr. Elizabeth Joyce – Bruce Gallery, Edinboro / University of Pennsylvania
In Schmidt’s words, “The pieces also offer a sort of measurement of time. Not in a very specific way, but the measuring tools show evidence of a long history of use. Sometimes I wonder about all the miles of measuring that each tape measure has done in its working life. Multiply that by the number of tape measures used and you realize these pieces, in one way, represent an enormous distance. These pieces also contain a measurement of time for me as the artist. Any work of art is a measurement of the time spent making it.”
Gene Schmidt’s passion for creating work that has a life beyond the materials’ initial purpose falls beautifully in step with our sustainable fine art mission statement. Showcasing these gorgeous creations in the gallery this season is an unexpected delight.
Commissions welcome / Shipping available worldwide
For more information about this season’s collection, please contact us at the gallery 508.214.0538
Please click on the link below to view Gene Schmidt’s complete collection of available works.
Gene Schmidt Current Collection
GILLIAN CHRISTY
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SCULPTURE & ASSEMBLAGE ART – Wellfleet Gallery
Commissions welcome / Shipping available worldwide
For more information about this season’s collection, please contact us at the gallery 508.214.0538
Please click on the link below to view Gillian Christy’s complete collection of available works.
Gillian Christy Current Collection
ARRAN PASKAUSKAS
WOOD SCULPTURE & VESSELS – Wellfleet Gallery
Arran Paskauskas is an artist of many mediums however his closest connection is to wood. It is a connection that has been with him since childhood as he became more serious about his artistic passion after moving from England to America in 2012.
The fresh cut of a young cedar tree exposed him to the inner beauty that hides behind the bark of trees. From that day on he was able to see more than just a tree, Arran could look past the exterior and visualize the hidden potential within. He takes wood that would usually be thrown to a brush pile or burned and collaborates with mother nature to manipulate its natural form and prolong its life. She can spend decades to create the beginning and Arran completes the process within a couple months to years.
It brings Arran such pleasure and peace to work with plants and trees that are so important to us as humans and it is his hope that we may share the same peace, acknowledgment of importance with all who welcome it through his creations.
For more information about commissioning an on-site or specific piece, please contact us at the gallery 508.214.0538
Please click on the link below to view Arran Paskauskas’s complete collection of available works.
ROB LORENSON
SCULPTURE – Wellfleet Gallery
For over 30 years, renowned sculptor and art educator Rob Lorenson has been honing and perfecting his craft. Possibly known best for his large scale brilliantly colored metal sculpture and his “hand’s on & dive in” teaching approach.
“Being an artist is simple – do what you love and love what you do…
Working with metal has been for me an odyssey in the expression of form, space, and place-making. Fine metal craft excites me in any form, but is elevated within the medium of sculpture. My work is evidence of endless experimentation with metals, processes, and a love of making well-crafted objects.” – R.L.
Lorenson received his BFA from the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls and an MFA from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. Since 1999 he has lived and worked in southeastern Massachusetts. His works have been included in a number of Exhibitions including Pierwalk in Chicago, The Sarasota Season Of Sculpture and the Convergence International Arts Festival in Providence, RI. His work is included in over 200 public and private collections.
We are thrilled to add Rob’s expressive and dynamic work to our stable of talented artists at the JS Gallery.
Rob’s work is collected nationwide and is available for site-specific commission. For more information about these available works or commissioning a specific piece, please contact us at the gallery 508.214.0538.