Showing posts with label maine artists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label maine artists. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Aucocisco Group Show




Rachael Eastman’s recent paintings explore a merger of memory, visceral awareness, and an empathetic response to the coastal Maine landscape. Influenced by color field painting, Japanese aesthetics, and Zen concepts alike, her colored abstractions reference nature as condensed for reflection.


Judy O'Donnell's bronze works are inspired by the transformative energies of nature. Daily walks in the woods provide an infinite variety of settings, symbols, textures and elements, such as twisted roots and the filigree of lichen from which to evolve self-portraits and other depictions of man's primitive inter-connectedness to his environment.








My mother’s loss of memory due to the ravages of Alzheimer’s and her recent death prompted me to create this series of drawings, a triptych populated by three major spirits: my mother, my father, and my maternal grandmother. A Girl’s Primer speaks of love, loss, dreams, desire, memory and experience, and the early forces that shaped me.









Tanya Fletcher’s figurative paintings are predominantly oil on birch panel. The artist uses the figure as a metaphor, creating psychological and/or philosophical images.



Michele A. Caron’s current body of work is an exploration of repetitive structure and geometry in pigment-rich industrial enamels. Her work is a progression of drawing techniques with an underlining influence of commercial graphics, show card lettering and automotive pin striping.

All photos courtesy of Aucocisco Galleries.

Friday, May 14, 2010

MECAmarathon!




Room 402, the classroom I where I teach Mixed Media Portraiture, transformed!





Photo by Lynelle Wilson

Photo by Lynelle Wilson

Photo by Lynelle Wilson

Photo by Lynelle Wilson

Photo by Lynelle Wilson

















Candace Karu in a dress of her own design. LOVE it!!!

WHEW! What a night!
I hung my portraits, set up my supplies, had time to click just a few *before the crowds arrived* pics, then started my portrait drawing marathon! Drew straight through the party, from 6:30 - 9:30, non-stop. It was a blast! Didn't get home till almost midnight (I actually slept till 9:00 this morning - unheard of for me! :^)
I'll write more about this event later - I'm heading up the coast to teach a class at the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland this afternoon!

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

It's No Poop Dream! Fame Grabs Greta!

My studio neighbor, artist and mother of two: the hilarious, multi-talented, and spectacularly theatrical Greta Bank!

NOW PLAYING at the deCordova!!!

In costume for a friend's Halloween wedding...



Spring '09 Peep Hole performance at The Artist Studio in Portland...

This is me and Mick Jagger at my summer home.
collage model, 2009
This is me and Britney Spears peeing in the woods.
collage model, 2009

I love how Greta laughs in the face of and reveals the farce of artifice! She is the girl who farts loudly at the Mary Kay party. A true trickster.

Greta and fellow poop polisher, architect, Christopher Campbell...







Works in progress...

Studio as Shrine.

Groovy Greta at the deCordova opening.


My sister Susan and I coined the phrase it's a take it away! when we were little girls. Our mother had a jewelry drawer that was within our reach, and we loved to rake through it, looking at all her necklaces and earrings. But there was one pair of earrings that we found both fascinating and repelling: they were made of ivory and had deep intricate carvings, somewhat like the trails that bugs leave as they eat away at dead branches on the forest floor. Susan and I would stare at these and get an icky feeling in our stomachs, and say, oooh, take it away! Yet this didn't keep us from going back for another look. Every so often we'd say to each other, Let's go find those earrings! There was a delight in being creeped out...

Greta Bank's new sculpture falls into this take it away category - oooh, it makes me feel so icky, yet I want to keep looking! It speaks of the attraction/repulsion capacity of the human form. Greta describes the pieces in her Wallflower project as super gross-out and very pretty.

Indeed.

Read this great interview with Greta, Everybody Poops.

And be sure to visit her fabulous new website, My Secret Studio!