Current exhibition

                                                                     Kimberly Curry
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                           'Stampila'

                                                                                            'Buoyed by Hope' Kimberly Curry

 
Kimberly Curry is a Maine artist.  She works in mediums of watercolor, encaustic paint, and mixed media. Twenty years ago, she left Maine for a stint in the Peace Corps in Romania. The Romanian artists she met while she lived there, helped her find her own artistic voice.
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Today, she finds inspiration in everyday objects and the landscape around her. In this collection, Stampila, a Romanian postage stamp kicked off a whole series. 
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Curry visually translated images from the stamp into biomorphic, playful pieces. She stitched color-aid to handmade paper, mounted on small panels and build up layers of encaustic paint in certain sections of the panels. This joyous series shows that in everyday objects, there is fun to be found. 

Please visit her website www.kimberlycurry.com or on Instagram @Queen_Kimba


All work 5”W x 7”H is $100 each. 

Hashtags:

#kimberlycurry #maineart #romania #peacecorps 

hi@kimberlycurry.com
www.kimberlycurry.com
 

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​you may contact the artist directly to purchase any work!

Past Shows

March 2021
​Sally Wagley
    

                                         'Body Electric'

                                            “I sing the body electric…. If the body were not the soul what is the soul?”
                                            --Walt Whitman
 
Most of my artwork is about the human body.  I’m interested not only in the surface of the body but also what’s inside, drawing on technical illustration and medical imaging.  While I work in a variety of media, this pieces in this show are all embroidered images.   Needle and thread lend themselves well to the depiction of muscles and other issue because muscles, like thread, twist, stretch, become lax, knot and tear. 
I worked for many years as a lawyer focusing on the legal needs of older people and people with disabilities, returning in recent years to my art practice.  I am currently studying art and art history at the University of Maine at Augusta.  I live in Brunswick, Maine. 
Sally Wagley
www.sallywagleyart.com
sallywagley@gmail.com
​All the work is for sale and can be purchased directly from the artist

February 2021

Debra Claffey
Debra Claffey Fine Art
email: debra@debraclaffey.com www.debraclaffey.com​

“My experience in horticulture and organic land care has led me to focus in on the plant world and the assaults on the soil, biodiversity of plant species, and the protection of native flora. I feel that all these assaults arise from age-old and widely-held beliefs. One is that all the earth and its resources are ours as humans at the top of a hierarchy to use as we will. Another is that the other forms of life on this planet are lesser than we are, thus less deserving of respect or care.
I celebrate plants: their great age and history on the planet, their intelligence and successful adaptions, their beauty of form, shape, and infinite color. I marvel in our new knowledge of their ways of communication, of making themselves attractive to us and other species, and the trading of “goods and services” that goes on between plants, fungi, bacteria, insects, birds, and even us mammals. My aim is to help my viewers appreciate plant life a bit more when they enjoy my work and in a hopeful and positive way.”
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January 2021
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Posters of Quotes by William Sloane Coffin(curated by Nan March)
art talk about William Coffin by friend and artist Robert Shetterly
​Today January 18th at 4:00

​November 2020
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Jess Beer and Morgain Bailey 'Watershed'
https://jessbeer.com
https://morgain.photoshelter.com/

October 2020
Arielle Cousens 'Herd Bound'

October 2020
Benjamin Stoodley 
​'Practice makes Perfection' (watercolor studies)
http://www.metalsculptureplus.com

​September 2020
​Cynthia Ahlstrin
'Out of Lines'
​cynthiaahlstrin.com

August 2020 (two solo shows by two different artists)
​Chris Olson
​Mélange 

All the work is for sale! Contact The Gallery or the artist directly if you are interested in owning a piece of art. All the money goes directly to the artists.

August 2020
Lola Baltzell
​'The Ocean's Shine'
LOLART.COM

             

The Oceans shine 1 encaustic

Break the Line encaustic

The Oceans shine 2 encaustic

July 2020
Camille Davidson
'Towards light'
Inspired by the woods and the seasonal shifts in nature
​camilledavidsonart.com

June 2020
Meredith Cough
​Bouquets from Maine: a mini series
​meredithcough.com

Helene Farrar and Nancy Keenan Barron ​'Around Heya'

Nancy Barron                                                                     Helene Farrar                                                     Nancy Barron

https://helenefarrar.com    https://nancykbarron.wordpress.com

April 2020
​David Matson
​Found Object Esoterica
davidmatsonart@gmail.com
A virtual showing of works by David Matson of his April exhibition  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCZYeMz7K5I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqtpYJ41WEY Virus-free. www.avast.com
My pieces sort of assemble themselves, like Ezekiel's dry bones.
It is your interaction with them that brings life.

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         Sin Eater  by David Matson

   November 2019

As a painter, what I find most interesting is the dialogue between perception and the act of painting, how a gesture of paint can become the equivalent of what is observed and subjectively transformed.
J. Thomas R. Higgins ​

I am drawn to the color, texture, and light of the natural environment.   References to these elements in my art are purposely kept somewhat abstract to allow the viewer their own personal reactions.  I strive to balance the intuitive process, cubliminal memory and tactile experience.
Christine Higgins     cmjh@megalink.net

2019 October

                                                                                                                                                                My fine art photography is still and direct, and closely parallels my meditation practices.  All sense of time and place is set aside when I focus on a photograph's creation.  Although much of my time is invested in commercial photography, my fine art work is grounded in my passion of photography, painting, design and color.

J. Felice Boucher

September 2019

The natural world is filled with repetition, patterns dancing in space, inhabiting our vision.  We have all passed through places that grab us with their beauty, New England has many.  While interpreting visual harmony I think about what I can do without.  Painting is about making choices, what to include and what not to include, bringing the artwork into focus.  This process of distillation becomes the artistic voice.
-Meredith Cough

'Smith firmly Tom Higgins                                                 Chris Olson

                           

'Neptune by Arielle Cousens.                    'Barn Swallow Way' Benjamin Stoodley

August 2019
The Artists in your neighborhood

A group show of local artists living in Readfield in honor of Readfield Heritage Days
Arielle Cousins
Benjamin Stoodley
Tom Higgins
Chris Higgins
Camille Davidson
Chris Olson
Jean Scudder

July 2019
​Camille Davidson
A year in the woods from a treehouse

 I paint from a treehouse in the woods near my home. I am surrounded by forest and I am constantly aware of the shifting seasons, lights and moods of the woods. Encaustic and cold wax are the mediums I use to layer, scrape back and uncover these veils.

The Gallery in photos