“My paintings aim to capture a moment in time. It is through painting that I discover, experiment and enjoy leaps of faith that land onto the canvas and become unique objects of their own.”
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A photographer, painter, printmaker and lifelong educator, Beverly Hallam was a key member of Ogunquit’s art community in addition to being internationally known as a pioneering postwar female artist. Her career was distinguished from that of her peers in several important ways. In the early 50's she pioneered and researched the use of Polyvinyl Acetate as a painting medium, now used extensively internationally and known simply as "Acrylic.” She exhibited and demonstrated its use throughout the East. Known for her distinctive, extraordinarily detailed, larger-than-life airbrushed flowered canvases, her work was featured in 45 solo exhibitions in museums and galleries, and in 280 group shows. Her work is in the permanent collections of many museums and corporations as well as in private collections in the U.S.A., Canada, France, Belgium and Switzerland — including those of the Harvard Art Museums, Farnsworth Art Museum, Ogunquit Museum of American Art and National Museum of Women in the Arts.
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“The first piece I created in the Flowers Past and Present series was The Past Will Always Be There. The initial painting was a white phlox in the center of the paper. I started the painting in July of 2019. four months after my mother had died.”
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Mark making and the nuances of color and light in nature are highlighted in this body of work involving the close observation of aspects of landscape and the amplification of these images.
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Kwesi Abbensetts' work is tightly bound to his identity. Consequently, his work and subjects become a rendered celebration of his culture. His work is concerned with what he calls “Revisionary Self Appropriation.”
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Henry Austin is a visual artist living and working in Portland, ME. In the spring of 2018, Austin founded, and now co- directs, New System Exhibitions - an alternative project space and exhibition venue for emerging, local, and regional artists.
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Throughout thirty years of abstract humming, the nail has never failed me. Anchored only by its form and materiality, I reveled in the nail’s infinite possibilities.
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Samantha Butler is a multidisciplinary artist and designer based out of Portland, Maine and Kearny, New Jersey.
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Sara Cannon was raised on Peaks Island, Maine. She received her BFA in animation from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2012.
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Alice Jones lives in Portland, Maine and is a current artist in residence at the Gardenship at Kearny Point in Kearny, New Jersey.
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Isaac Jaegerman was born and raised in Portland, Maine. He works in mixed media to examine dual natures: things that are simultaneously fragile and strong, meditative and vibrating with activity, representational and abstract.
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Born and raised in rural New Hampshire, Jim Larson is a sculptor whose work synthesizes traditional craft with our contemporary, digital, cultural practice.
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Elijah Ober was born in New Hampshire and grew up in Southern Maine. His work combines found materials with his own fabrications to create objects with basic functional aspirations and fugitive presence.
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Spanning painting, sculpture, installation, and print media, Tom Ryan’s practice examines the flaws, incompleteness, and incoherence of human sensory perception.
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Kenny Shapiro has spent the past two years working as a sculptor and studio assistant for John Bisbee after graduating from Bowdoin College in 2018. He makes formally and materially simple objects through redundant, rote, and ritualistic processes.
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Cody Stack was raised in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. Currently, his primary artistic focus is painting; his recent work utilizes fundamental dualities to focus on the inherent contradictions that underlie his artistic decision-making.
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Emilie is an interdisciplinary artist, working in painting, video, and sculpture. In 2019, she received my MFA in painting from RISD.
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Nevan Swanson is a photographer and filmmaker. As a 2018 Thomas J. Watson Fellow, he embarked on a self-designed project outside the US, wherein he explored the relationship between documentation and experience.
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Since 2001, Marc Leavitt has lived and worked in Belfast, Maine. His multilayered abstract paintings and works on paper have been placed in U.S. and international collections and featured in Architectural Digest, Boston Common, The Boston Globe, and other publications.
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