Tidal Hours
Movement, light, and the endless summer
New work by Eric Price
Opening reception on June 5, 6:00 PM. On display till June 18th, 2026.
Greg Salvatori Gallery
366 Commercial St, Provincetown, MA 02657
Eric Price’s new oil paintings follow queer life along Provincetown’s tidal flats, dunes, docks, beaches, marsh paths, and open water. Moving from bright midday to rose and violet dusk, the exhibition traces figures crossing, pausing, meeting, and emerging within the coastal landscape. Rooted in Cape Cod light, the paintings explore movement, desire, refuge, friendship, and belonging by the sea.
Three Movements in Light · Oil on canvas · 18 × 29 in
Three Movements in Light. Inspired by Site-Specific Dances’ 2025 performance on Race Point Beach, this painting follows a dancer through three gestures of stillness, release, and return. The beach becomes stage, partner, and score, with birds marking the air like notes against fading coastal light.
Dune Coasting · Oil on canvas · 18 × 24 in
Dune Coasting. A nude cyclist pauses on a sandy dune path, suspended between motion and rest. Seen from behind, he inhabits the landscape with quiet ease—between water and woods, exposure and shelter, solitude and queer belonging.
Afternoon Crossing - Oil on canvas · 16 × 20 in
Afternoon Crossing. Three friends cross a shallow tidal channel on their way to the beach, joined by others in the distance. The painting captures the charged pleasure of arrival before arrival: bodies moving through sun, water, and sand toward a place that already feels like home.
A Tender Landing · Oil on linen · 24 × 32 in
A Tender Landing. On sunlit granite boulders, an older leather-clad figure supports a younger nude man at rest. Drawing on a classical arrangement of protection and surrender, the painting relocates tenderness, trust, and queer iconography to the Cape Cod shoreline.
Exhale into Open Sky · Oil on canvas · 30 × 20 in
Exhale into Open Sky. Two nude men wade across the tidal flats toward the marsh, their matched stride suggesting ease, trust, and release. The open sky offers freedom, while the grasses ahead introduce a note of uncertainty.
Coming In · Oil on canvas · 18 × 24 in
Coming In. A nude man walks through shallow tidal water, his gaze lowered and pace unhurried. Bronze light, rippling reflections, and a distant lighthouse turn the scene into a quiet meditation on arrival, presence, and bodily freedom.
Nothing to Declare · Oil on canvas · 18 × 24 in
Nothing to Declare. Seen from behind, the same figure walks away across the tidal flats toward a lighthouse. His nudity reads not as provocation but as transparency: nothing hidden, nothing justified, nothing to declare.
Above Water - Oil on canvas · 24 × 18 in
Above Water. An older man stands barefoot on a dock while a younger man emerges from the water below. Between them passes a quiet current of attention, suggesting admiration, distance, and a generational encounter along the same shoreline.
Come Together · Oil on canvas · 20 × 16 in
Come Together. Two men approach each other at the ocean’s edge as evening gathers. The encounter remains unresolved: reunion, first meeting, friendship, desire—held in the charged interval before contact.
Caught or Missed? · Oil on canvas · 28 × 21 in
Caught or Missed? A young nude man turns back from the dunes, his expression poised between mischief, surprise, and invitation. With a dog emerging from the grass behind him, the painting balances humor, desire, and the suspense of an unfinished story.