Artists Mildred Bachrach and Andre Benoit show how two
artists convey their personal messages to an audience in completely different styles. Mildred’s show It is Not So Simple deals with
generational trauma caused by the history of the Cherokee Nation of which she is a member.
Andre restores a life to wood remote from its previous use in warship construction as a backdrop for whimsical and
interpretative paintings and assemblages. His part of the show is Sandblast, Distressed Wooden Assemblage.
Please join us Saturday Jan 1 2022 from 1 to 4pm and on each
Friday, Saturday and Sunday in January from 1 to 4pm , except on Jan 7th for our formal
opening during the First Friday Art
Here is a peak at Bachrach's work in the show. Be sure to see it in person as well at the UMVA Gallery inside the Portland Media Center (PMA), 516 Congress St., Portland ME.
For more timely details, please visit the UMVA website: www.theumva.org
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Trail of Tears, 30 x 40", mixed media on wood, NFS
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| Heritage, 80 x 30" acrylic on wood, NFS |
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| Shelter 11, mixed media |
Mildred Bachrach lives and works in the West End of Portland, Maine. She shows her current works at the Brackett Street Show Case in Portland, Maine. All current work is rotated monthly for viewing to the community. Bachrach is a member of the Cherokee Nation. Her direct descendent Little Turtle died on the Trail of Tears.
***********************************************************************************Andre Benoit has been involved in art as an avocation since his college years when he was an art minor. He has moved sequentially from watercolor to plein air oil painting and now to assemblage work using weather and saltwater exposed repurposed furniture remnants and driftwood. Although he has retired from 35 years of work as a family practitioner, he now dedicates almost the same amount of time to his present pursuits with this medium.
"The opportunity to exhibit at the gallery of the Union of Maine
Visual Artists has allowed me to present, in a single venue, a portion of
my assemblage work of the past seven years," Benoit said. "The work is staged on high
quality three-quarter inch Douglas fir plywood discarded by Bath Ironworks, after it was used to shield painted surfaces from the scouring
of sandblast being directed at a joining steel surfaces being prepped
to receive final protective coatings.
Because of the variability in what portion of the tree the
individual laminations of the plywood have been harvested and the
directness and intensity of sand blast exposure, the unintended sculpting
of the wood is quite variable and often lends itself to further
definition by paint or attachment of small pieces of wood ,working off
artist perceived representations that the silhouettes in the wood
provide. Much of the work is whimsical and certainly a departure from it’s earlier purposed use."
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Waiting to Turn Her Eggs - Assemblage - 24 x 17" - $325 |
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| Woodland Menagerie - Assemblage - 22,25 x 18,25" - $500 |
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| Conjoined - Assemblage - 34 x 25" - $450 |
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