Claire Seidl works in oil on nubby linen with a kind of all-over compositional approach. The deep saturation of her color is elaborated by the deep sensuality of her material, as the luscious oil is massaged, scraped and pressed into the linen creating a pervasive tension between surface and color. Her configurations evolve out of this process -- organic amalgams of lines and shapes that vibrate and absorb into the resonance of the whole.
~ Steven Alexander Journal
Read MoreBeginning in 2012, Peter Soriano’s work became dominated by large-scale, graffiti-like wall paintings made of acrylic and spray paint, carried out on the basis of written instructions, as well as related drawings made on pleated Japanese paper. In poet and art critic John Yau’s words: “Simply put, Soriano has become a sculptor who doesn’t make objects.”
Read MoreVoisine has spent decades refining a personal language with striking compositions of color and geometry that are more than the sum of their parts.
~ Lori Ortiz
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Alison Hildreth incorporates ideas from research in cartography, astronomy, environmental studies, history, philosophy, and literature as a launching pad into her work, but many of her ideas come from walking and daydreaming.
Read MoreAs a pioneer painter, Freedman is identified with a loosely knit school of artists in New England in the late 20s and 30s that included Marin, Hartley, Knaths and Avery. Maurice Freedman was one of the most accomplished practitioners of an American Art that attempted a synthesis of certain aspects of modern European art and native American subject matter.
Read MoreLegendary songwriter, manager, producer, and recording star turned visual artist
Read MoreI was born in Boothbay Harbor Maine and am the daughter of florists. Early memories are playing hide and seek in our maze of greenhouses where rows of pots were poised to root, sprout, or bloom and where the air was moist, lush, and fecund. I liked making things from the materials and supplies in our floral shop: frilly lacy ribbons, shiny foil, rolls of brown packing paper, carbon slips, cardboard scraps, discarded flowers, glue, pens, thick pencils, floral foam, staplers, scotch tape, scissors, and a pencil sharpener that worked like a charm.
Read MoreStuart Kestenbaum is the author of six collections of poems, most recently Things Seemed to Be Breaking (Deerbrook Editions 2021), and a collection of essays The View from Here (Brynmorgen Press). He was the host of the Maine Public Radio program Poems from Here and the host/curator of the podcasts Make/Time and Voices of the Future. Stuart Kestenbaum has written and spoken widely on craft making and creativity, and his poems and writing have appeared in numerous small press publications and magazines.
Read MoreJung Hur grew up in Seoul, South Korea. He studied traditional Korean brush technique and earned BA and MFA degrees in painting from Hongik University. Hur later opened and operated his own painting school in Seoul. In 1998, Hur moved to New York City. In 2008, he moved to Portland, Maine.
Read MoreMy work has been influenced by abstract expressionism, and minimalist artists, mostly from New York.
~ William Zingaro
Read MoreWhat language do I speak? The language of the Baltic Sea, Lake Superior, the North Atlantic (as spoken by rocks and stones…trees, leaves, bird’s nests…bones…) All the things and beings which have known deep Northern winter and can tell the stories contained in their very souls.
~ Marlene Ekola Gerberick
Journal Entry, Vol. 60, 2014
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Read MoreTo defy erasure and to build archives, simultaneously, Khan reveals the often invisible labor and mastery of the disregarded. To inscribe the denied into global and local multi-visual cultures, she researches and documents the lives of ordinary people who are extraordinary.
Read MoreAfter graduation, Drewal joined the Peace Corps, taught French and English, and organized arts camps in Nigeria. During his two years in Nigeria he apprenticed himself to a Yoruba sculptor—a transformative experience that led him to interdisciplinary studies at Columbia University in African art history and culture.
Read More“For me, the northern New England landscape is charged with both deep family history and memories of shared adventures. From the beginning, I have wanted my art to reflect my sense of this place as integral to my sense of self.”
Read MoreEd Douglas, the retired Chair of the art department at the Maine College of Art, is known for beautiful color combinations academically and thoughtfully laid to surface, deriving inspiration from classic Impressionist masterpieces.
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