Abstract Photograpy A nine-artist exhibit presented by the Union of Maine Visual Artists (UMVA)  featuring: J im Kelly, Ann Tracy, John Ripton, Dave Wade, Mark Barnette, CE Morse, Lesley MacVane, Greg Mason Burns, and  Jan Pieter van Voorst van Beest . Curated by Greg Mason Burns. For this exhibit, abstract photography is defined as digitally or otherwise manipulated such that the subject is obscured enough to not be considered realist or documentary photography, for example. Photography outside the “realist” or “object” world, so to speak. To learn more about the UMVA and to join, please visit out website at TheUMVA.org . If you would like to purchase a piece from this exhibit, please contact the artist first. Alternatively, you can email Greg Mason Burns at gmburns@gregmasonburns.com and he will inform the artist of your interest. Mark Barnette Website Instagram Photography is my preferred method for skirting despair. Beauty without sentimentality is a primary goal of all my work.

Since the pandemic is raging more here in Maine, we asked  artists to create postcard-sized mail art and photograph them for this on-line show,  But you will get an opportunity to see it physically in December of 2021 (cross your fingers).  Not only that, but you can help raise funds for UMVA as  with each piece of mail art being sold for $5 each.     Y ou won't have an opportunity for this until December of 2021. We'll have more details once this year shakes out a bit more.  But at this point in time, we envision a fundraising sale with these postcards happening in the gallery this coming December.  Of course this all hinges on the pandemic and if it's safe to gather.  That's why we're being rather vague with any details.   It was decided to go with a mail art show since the January 2021 show couldn't go forward at the last moment and because one of the founders of the Union of Maine Visual Artists was also a renowned Mail Artist - Carlo Pittore.   (https://