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Member Show Runs Through December

 

Sculpture by Clara Cohen

The Union of Maine Visual Artists is presenting its semi-annual Members Exhibit opening at the gallery, this November 1, 2021.  It is an Open Theme exhibit that showcases current Members’ talents and expressions through photography, mixed-media collage, sculpture and painting.

This year’s exhibit was hung by UMVA Members, Jim Kelley, Dave Wade, Milly Bachrach and Andrew Chulyk.  Member artists showing are: Adeline Goldmic-Tronzo, Amy Bellezza, Andre Benoit, Andrew Abbott, Andrew Chulyk, Anita Loomis, Ann Tracy, Anne Schutz, Anne Strout, Brooke Lambert, Catherine Gibson, Christine Sullivan, Clara Cohen, Dave Wade, Diane Dahlke, Diane Hudson, Jane Page Conway, Janice L. Moore, Jean Noon, Jim Kelly, Joyce Ellen Weinstein, Karen Bushold, Kimberly Bentley, Laura Waller, Leslie Woods, Lesley MacVane, Loretta Turner, Mary Barnes, Mary Brooking, Maryellen McCone, Merrill Aharonian, Michael Corden, Norma Johnsen, Pat Gerkin, Pete Gorski, Rabee Kiwan, Robert Gibson, Roland Rose Salazar, Russell Aharonian, Sally Stanton and Tracy Ginn.

Photo by Dave Wade taken at November Reception

Brooke Lambert presents us with a collagraph with gouache, explore the world of light within water: reflections, light coming through cracks and crevices between darker areas in tidepools or on the ocean floor.

Pat Gerkin shows us an image uses paint sticks, encaustic and metal leaf on panel.  The Earth prompts her to examine the space between the physical world and the inner world. Inspired by our greatest teacher, the natural world, Life Cycles reveals itself through the cycles of life/death/rebirth and the ephemeral nature of all living things.

Peter Gorski painting is narrative in nature. It may have been inspired by a lyric from a song, a quote read or overheard or, as is often the case, a concept or character that I just needed to get down in paint.  This painting is a portrait done in reverse, with the genesis of the character being a conjured or known soul, and a physical being created from that.

Kimberly Bentley explains with her sculpture that as an adult she has found out that monsters really do exist. Monsters are not hiding in the attic but they are out in the open as politicians, your neighbor next door, or father figures.  From her series called “The Monsters in My Attic”.

Amy Bellezza exhibits a portrait of an egg and says, "It is what it is:  A very mature, adult egg making a living in a circus."

The Union of Maine Visual Artists is an artist-run, non-profit organization, dedicated to upholding the dignity of artists and creating positive social change through the arts.  The UMVA represents visual artists statewide in all fields of endeavor and welcomes those who support contemporary artists in Maine.

 

For more information, please visit - http://www.theumva.org

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