My artwork is characterized by experimental abstraction using reclaimed ceramic materials and referencing natural land forms, constantly pushing my materials and processes into new territory. I have developed a low-waste making system by collecting discarded ceramic materials and recycling them into new forms.
Read MoreBorn in Cape Town 1966. Judy Woodborne obtained her B.A.F.A from Michaelis School of Fine Art in 1988 and an advanced Diploma in Printmaking awarded with Distinction in 1989.
Read MoreSarah McRae Morton’s paintings are invented portraits of her ancestors and historical figures – people from her own life, from books and paintings, and from her travels and stories learned.
Read MoreHighly regarded as an artist, scholar and curator, David Driskell was one of the world’s leading authorities on African American Art.
Read MoreIn her paintings and monoprints, Joan Busing expands upon the legacy of Abstract Expressionism in the 1980s.
Read MoreIn Blackwell’s inspired vision of America, he works within a variety methods, at times raw and spontaneous, and at others analytical, but always delivered with driving authority a touch of absurdity.
Read MoreElise Ansel’s work references historical masterpieces, transforming their visual language into a fresh iteration of Abstract Expressionist sensibility.
Read MoreMy paintings and sculpture depict psychic or metaphysical dramas rather than events that take place in time and space.
Read MoreZopp finds inspiration in geological processes and cultural histories of place.
Read MoreGreg Jamie is a musician and visual artist living and working in Portland Maine.
Read MoreArt (making, studying, traveling-to-see, teaching) has been at the center of my life for more than thirty years.
Read MoreThe paintings of Portland-based artist Timothy Wilson capture the dramatic aspects of the Maine landscape, expressing his deep connection to the state’s stark strength and beauty.
Read MoreI have been painting the landscape on the coast of Maine and the deserts of Southern California for years. I am, in every moment, in awe of the dance between earth, water and sky.
Read MoreDavid Row is an abstract painter and object maker interested in the complex relationship between the viewer and the painted object and in the object’s relationship to the architecture it inhabits.
Read MoreBell’s is a kind of darkly romantic vision, often northern in nature. Employing acrylic, photomontage and other means and mediums, over the years she has created a body of work that embraces enigma even as it represents the truth of her perceptions... Bell’s paintings are all about light and they are romantic in that regard, at times almost Luminist…
~ Carl Little
Hyperallergic
New York-based Katherine Bradford (b.1942) paints luminous fields of color filled with people in action or in repose–often swimming, diving or floating. Bradford paints with a formal inventiveness and a shifting sense of figure and ground, giving narrative weight to her characters who may appear as heroes or lovers, families or couples, Her chromatic scenes, painted in many transparent layers of acrylic, transmit a light-filled quality and offer metaphorical possibilities as they veer between humor, pathos and abstraction.
Read MoreI am trying to construct some things that, when you look at them, you begin to see a very complex interactive space where you’re not really sure what’s happening, where things are changing in front of you and you’re not really sure why….flip and flop on you.
~ William Conlon
Read MoreWhile Greenleaf’s work is sophisticated and tips its historically savvy hat to modernist pioneers such as Kazimir Malevich (the Russian best known for his iconic “Black Square”), Greenleaf’s work is primarily dedicated to the viewer’s immediate experience….Greenleaf’s work always does something. Sometimes his geometrically abstract forms flutter. Sometimes they set your eyes to follow their crackling circuits. And sometimes they fold and furl with the pulsing rhythms of intimate mental engines.
~ Dan Kany
Portland Press Herald
Charlie Hewitt is nationally known for his dynamic, imaginative paintings, sculpture, prints, and neon constructions. His work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Library of Congress, Portland Museum of Art, and Bates College Museum of Art.
Read MoreJacquette has been painting landscapes from extreme elevations for decades. A native of Pittsburgh raised in Stamford, she settled in New York City in the 1950s. She has been exhibiting in solo shows ever since. Like her late husband, the artist and filmmaker Rudy Burckhardt, she is captivated by the variability of the metropolis as well as the vacancies glimpsed even within its crowdedness. She remains dedicated to viewing moments of incompleteness from unusual and wide-ranging angles.
~ Tim Keane
Hyperallergic
