Exhibitions Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:14:06 -0400 1440 Exhibitions Yvonne Jacquette: Aerials Yvonne Jacquette’s “AERIALS: Paintings, Prints, Pastels” emphasizes the theme for which she is renowned: elevated views of cities and landscapes begun most commonly as watercolors, drawn sketches or photographs taken from skyscrapers (including the World Trade Center, the Conde,Nast Building in Times Square and rented hotel rooms), or airplanes and helicopters (often rented) to expand upon in her studios in New York City and Searsmont, Maine. The majority of the more than 40 works in the exhibition include lesser-known pastels which serve as direct studies for larger paintings as well as five sizable black and white editioned woodcuts published by the Mary Ryan Gallery in New York City. The pastels and paintings have been made available through the courtesy of the D. C. Moore Gallery in New York and private collectors.

Jacquette first exhibited in a group exhibition in 1962. Seven years later on a flight to San Diego she became interested in aerial views with combined offerings of cloud formations, weather patterns and landscapes below. Her first major aerial landscape done in Maine near her home happened in 1975 when she chartered a private plane. Since then, she has painted aerial landscapes from Chicago to San Francisco and from Vancouver to Tokyo.

Nocturnal views offering a dramatic use of contrasting colors and an increasing move toward abstraction coupled with dots of color are a Jacquette trademark. Spatial configurations often coupled with multiple perspectives become ever more inventive and often create in the viewer a sense of balance and imbalance and even floating free through space.

Jacquette has taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and at the world-renowned Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and has enjoyed many solo exhibitions from Tokyo to “Under New York Skies: Nocturnes by Yvonne Jacquette,” a major exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York shown concurrently with an extensive exhibition of photographs by her late husband, Rudy Burckhardt. Her work is included in all major museums in Maine, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City as well as the Yale Univerity Art Gallery, the Staatliche Museum in Berlin, Germany, the Library of Congress and the Hirshhorm Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C among many, many others.


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]]> Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0400 249 Will Barnet--Master Printmaker Will Barnet--Master Printmaker: Selected Prints from Five Decades combines 14 widely known representational prints of family and personal memories with a series of very rare, less well-known abstract prints from the 1950s and '60s that appeared at the Lieber Museum on Long Island, New York, in 2009. Together the exhibition offers a strong cross-section of Barnet’s interest in printmaking, which reaches back to his early days as a student at the Boston Museum School and continues when he was a student specifically chosen by his mentor, Reginald Marsh at the Art Students League, beginning in 1931. Five years later, Barnet became the official printer for the Art Students League in New York, where he taught printmaking and painting for four decades. His own teaching -- there as well as at Cornell University, Cooper Union in New York City, Yale University, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art -- influenced many famous American artists, including the late Bob Blackburn, an African American artist whose legendary fine art print shop got underway thanks to his mentor, Will Barnet.

While Barnet’s work is largely representational, his interest in abstraction, begun in the late 1940s, can be gleaned in more recent work from his elegant figures depicted as flat surfaces. At the time, Barnet experimented both in painting and printmaking with eliminating realistic space by substituting a painting space based on the rectangular horizontal and vertical forms. Yet, his choice of colors, abstracted shapes, and interlocking forms resulted from the artist’s deep responses to the natural world around him. Last May, Barnet, now 99 years of age, exhibited abstract paintings accomplished over the past four years at the Alexandre Gallery in New York City. By combining significant examples of both representational and abstract prints in two adjoining galleries, viewers of Barnet’s exhibition will discover how closely aligned both bodies of work are.

The Colby College Art Museum is presenting a series of drawings and prints never before exhibited entitled “Will Barnet: New York Drawings and Prints, the 1930s” through October 17. Together, these exhibitions celebrate an American iconic artist who continues to travel from New York City to spend several weeks each summer near Bath, Maine.

Will Barnet has received many of the most prestigious awards available to artists. Among them are the first Artist’s Lifetime Achievement Award Medal from the National Academy of Design; the College Art Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award; the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Art’s Lippincott Prize; an honorary doctorate of fine arts from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston; and a Medal of Honor from the National Arts Club in New York. He was also elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in London, England, in 1978. His works are in many of the foremost museums in the United States, including New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art, as well as in many of Maine’s top museums. He has enjoyed more than 80 solo exhibitions.


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]]> Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0400 248 <![CDATA[Dozier Bell: Momenta--Paintings & Drawings]]> Dozier Bell, a Maine native and Waldoboro resident, presents Momenta, a combination of large, beautiful, brooding paintings and drawings accomplished over the past decade. This work marks a shift for Bell, from a long-standing interest in reflecting an inner spiritual and psychological life to reflections upon her experiences in eastern Germany a few year ago coupled with more specifically recognizable images from that experience. As always, the past persists in the present and Bell references more universal issues of family, racial, and national memories.

Bell graduated magna cum laude from Smith College in 1981. She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1985 and earned an MFA at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied with Neil Welliver. She also has studied with Yvonne Jacquette. Bell received an honorary doctor of fine arts degree from Maine College of Art in 1997, as well as a Rockefeller Foundation residency fellowship in Bellagio, Italy; a residency at the Millay Colony for the Arts in Austerlitz, NY; a Fullbright Fellowship at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany; and two MacDowell Colony residencies in Peterborough, NH. She also received two Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants and, in 2009, an Adolph and Ether Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant.

Since 1987, when Bell first exhibited in Six Young Maine Painters curated by Neil Welliver at Maine Coasts Artists (now CMCA), Bell has participated in 55 group shows nationwide and 27 solo exhibitions (including ten in various New York City galleries). She has a solo exhibition at the Aucocisco Gallery in Portland beginning October 1.


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