The Union of Maine Visual Artists is pleased to host the upcoming group exhibition Polychroma at its Portland Chapter Gallery in the Portland Media Center, 516 Congress Street, Portland Maine, February 4 – 27, 2022.
Polychroma features works from Becky Jane Rosen’s recent experimental quilting project, Matrilineal, alongside a new collaborative video installation by Dani Robbins, Zachary Taibi, and Poorva Singh, NEST.
“Matrilineal”
Becky Jane Rosen
Works from Becky Jane Rosen’s Matrilineal will be on display Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays February 4 – 27. Her work comprises colorful quilted artworks with messages of financial empowerment and personal finance concepts in paint and embroidery, stemming from lessons about money the artist learned from her mother. The works draw on themes of comfort, physical and financial security, and financial literacy. Rosen hopes to use the gentle familiarity of the tradition of quilting to ignite sometimes difficult conversations about money and plant seeds of action. Matrilineal was funded in part by a grant from the Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.
About the artist:
Becky Jane Rosen (she/her) is an artist based in Portland, Maine. Rosen graduated from Bowdoin College in 2013 and received her MAT in Art Education from Tufts University in 2014. In 2018, she completed her MFA in Painting from Hunter College, and her work was featured at the 2018 Center for Maine Contemporary Art’s Biennial and the 2018 MFA issue of New American Paintings. In 2021, Rosen was awarded the Springboard Grant from the Maine Arts Commission to help develop her experimental quilting project, Matrilineal. Rosen’s work is in the Wheaton College Permanent Collection as well as several other private collections.
Fabric, thread, embroidery, batting
90" x 90"
2021
Foundation
Faceted
Fabric, thread, batting, acrylic paint
39" x 28"
2021-2022
Text featured: Why does talking about the most important things have to be so fucking hard?
NEST, a collaboration of choreographer Dani Robbins, projectionist Zachary Taibi, and video and musical artist Poorva Singh, will be on display February 4-6 and February 12-13. NEST is a video installation that uses projection, object installation and sound to deliver a haptic audio- visual experience. Layered frames of moving bodies fitted with blocks of color draw the viewer toward a fragmented sensory perception. The piece works to interrupt corporeal logic and stitches together an impossible body.
About the artists:
Dani Robbins (they/them) is a Maine-based dance/media artist. Their collaborative and solo works have been shown in Vermont, Maine, Boston, New York, and Berlin, Germany. They have been hosted as an Artist-in-Residence by Acadia National Park (2019), Lake Studios Berlin (2017, 2018), and Bennington and Middlebury Colleges. They currently offer special topics in contemporary dance as adjunct faculty at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine.
Poorva Singh (she/they) is an interdisciplinary multi-media artist working primarily with sound and image design to create portals into intimate spaces of human experience. Their primary creative project is releasing music under the solo project Attaniya that attempts to decode territories of RnB, experimental pop and trap with a lo-fi bedroom aesthetic. Raised in New Delhi, India, currently based in Maine, they are finishing their B.A. senior thesis at College of the Atlantic.
Zachary Taibi (he/him) is an arts & culture administrator with a particular interest in live events and the technologies that make them possible. His work background includes performing arts venues and museums, and he is currently providing advancement and technology services to the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, ME. In addition to his administrative work, Zachary has experience with animation and projection technology. He holds a B.A. in Human Ecology from College of the Atlantic.
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