"Formensprache I" 24x24, 2009, acrylic on stretched paper | price: $500
Artist Statement: "At the beginning of a painting, there is a question, a feeling or a dream. From then on, I trust a process that will reveal the painting. Its emerging is the answer to my initial non-linear intention. In my latest body of work, I start with uncontrolled, liberal motions squirting fluid acrylics right onto the surface, using flexible broad spatulas to spread the paint. The absorbency of the paper acts to grab the moving paint quickly and builds organic shapes with defined edges. In a much more controlled part of the process, negative and positive spaces are formed by covering up shapes. The covering is done by carefully glazing turning the initial chaos into composition of shapes, color and layers. The viewer can meander through the abstract forms remaining free to discover whatever might be hidden in its organic tapestry – perhaps a bird’s eye or feather, a leaf or bud.” --Judith Krischik
Call: (207) 293-2357 or e-mail jkrischik@woodsend.org
Kathleen Florance; Glen Cove, ME (web) | "BB #2"
"Voyager" | 2009 | $15,000
24 carat gold, wood and metal Utilizing IC technology for levitation 7 feet high x 2 feets wide x 2 feet deep
Artist Statement: "In my work I would like to convey the sense of the voyage of ideals, the arrival of a dreamworld. To hover between the real and the spiritual world. To call up ‘stories’ from our collective past, still points around which our private memories revolve.” --James Strickland
Call: (207) 338-5177 or e-mail james@jamesstricklandart.com
Judith Krischik; Mt. Vernon, ME (web) | "Formensprache I"
Abigail Wellman, Portland ME (web) | "Title" | $X
Kerstin Engman, Liberty (email) | "Urban Landscape Number 1 "
"BB#2" Watercolor, Drawing Ink on Mylar, 17x 13
Artist Statement: "I have always treasured my collected fragments of nature – eyeing a beauty even as they rest in their desiccated states. Recently, I read an article about an artist who collects and embellishes small natural objects – turning them into decorative pieces. Clearly my work follows a different path. I love to take the small, the broken, and the often overlooked and turn them into large, expressive and explorative symbols. Sometimes I revel in the structure of the object and how it relates to the struggle of natural existence. Throughout my practice I seek to explore the repetition of patterns and cycles in nature, and the relationship between these cycles and humanity. In this series you will find each of my images pinned inside their own specimen boxes. These “collected” images are my thoughts on the natural world made visible.” --Kathleen Florance
Call Caldbeck Gallery at : (207) 594-5935 or e-mail florka50@yahoo.com
"Urban Landscape (Bas Relief Series No.1)" 2009, Oil on Panel with Wooden Tiles, 12x12
Artist Statement: "After devoting 25 years to sculpting and studying the figure, I set that pursuit aside in order to acknowledge a longstanding interest in color and it’s complex behavior which lead me into the world of painting. At age fifty, due to circumstances in life, a set of new-found observations redirected all artistic energy into examinations which I pleasantly discovered had been dormant for decades - patterned geometries, repetitions, color harmonies, gridded landscapes, bas-relief. What I find curious is how sculptural the work has remained even as its intent moves away from the formal concerns of 3-dimensional relationships. The materials - wax, panels and wooden tiles, have been combined with oil paint to create several different ongoing series of encaustic paintings. Our Maine countryside, in all its seasons, contributes enormously to the color balances found in the paintings.” --Kris Engman
Call: (207) 356-9183 or e-mail kengman@pivot.net
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