Get to know the Maine artists in Untitled, 2020: Art from Maine in a ________ Time through this conversation series, in which they discuss their works in the exhibition and speak about their backgrounds and artistic practices with the exhibition jurors. The series is live on Zoom webinar and we encourage audience questions.
In this edition of “Conversations with Maine Artists in a ______ Time”, join juror and artist Cody Castle-Stack along with artists Greta Bank, Celeste Henriquez, Gregory Jamie, veronica a perez, and Giles Timms for a conversation on the artwork and artists in Untitled, 2020.
Cody Castle-Stack is an artist and a local arts organizer based in Portland. His artistic practice is an endless painterly exercise, a sandbox to form, and challenge his notions of creation.
Greta Bank’s sculpture, performances, and installations, which she describes as “visual essays,” often use both topical and historical content to provoke social inquiry.
In 2020, Celeste Henriquez reflected on her role as a parent and caregiver in her abstract paintings.layering color and texture to represent her daughter’s two-word sentences.
The watercolors by Gregory Jamie in Untitled, 2020 are part of an ongoing series of paintings that play with folklore as a non-nostalgic, immediate, and dreamlike form.
Sculptor veronica a perez utilizes artificial hair and flowers as well as other kitschy materials that serve as personal and universal commentaries on contemporary Latinx issues.
Digital artists Giles Timms combines media and genres into hybrid art that borrows from current events, specifically the terrific and terrifying absurdities of modern life,
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