DECEMBER 2 -31, 2011

Jane Banquer
Paintings and Prints

Diane Hudson
Photographs

NOVEMBER 4 - 26, 2011

Holly Meade, “at Work and Play”

Guest-Curated by Jon Edwards

Opening reception - November 4th, 5 - 8 p.m.
Gallery hours - Thursday through Saturday, 12 - 5:00 p.m.
Closed Thanksgiving Day
Please note schedule change for November - no Wednesday hours.

Holly Meade, who lives and works in Sedgwick, was recently featured in Maine Home and Design, with Dahlov Ipcar and Holly Berry (http://www.mainehomedesign.com/the-canvas/1686-beasts-of-print.html).  Meade is well known for her imaginative and magical animal images and children’s books, but the Addison Woolley exhibition, entitled “at Work and Play” will instead feature her human figurative images of ice cutting, farming, and logging, as well as swimming, skating and jump roping. 

Meade earned a BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1978, and began printing from woodblocks ten years ago after working with printmaker Hester Stinnett at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts on Deer Isle.  Several of Meade’s prints are in the collection of the Portland Museum of Art.  She has illustrated more than thirty children’s books, and the Heliker-LaHotan Foundation has awarded her two residencies on Great Cranberry Island.

Meade describes her artistic inspiration as “the desire to uncover the life beneath our lives, that dimension of spiritual integrity that I believe lives in each of us—an uncovering that will never end and never really uncover.”  Most of her images are centered on a single activity, scene or theme, but she will, for instance, leave traces of the block carving process to add texture, intentionally let the image roam outside the frame, or combine words and images to create pieces that are vibrant.  Her work is strong and bold; her compositions animated and fluid.

Each of Meade’s prints begins with a drawing that she transfers in reverse onto a woodblock. Areas that the she does not want to print are carved away. To produce the print, the block is rolled with ink, a piece of paper is placed over it, and pressure is applied by hand or through a printing press to transfer the image. Once the edition is produced, Meade scars each block so that no more prints can be made, an ancient Japanese tradition followed by many modern printmakers.  The Artist uses oil-based inks, and prints primarily on handmade Japanese papers made of fibers from mulberry trees. Meade uses both wood and linoleum blocks, and in some prints she combines both.  In most cases, she uses fine-grained plywood from Japan for her blocks, but she has also been known to use old pastry and ironing boards, or old wood planks.

Holly Meade

Holly Meade

 

OCTOBER 7 - 29, 2011

THREE PERSON EXHIBIT

Alan Sockloff
Photographs

Norm Proulx
Paintings

Beth Mitchell
Photographs

In his The Shape of Water, silver gelatin photographs, Sockloff explores the random processes of nature's precious resource, water.  He looks for patterns & texture; its tremendous force and its power to soothe.  One can almost hear the sounds of a water fall, a trickling brook ...

Norm Proulx explores the play of light through windows, on objects in a still life, on surfaces.  In his paintings a pear can become animated, expressing emotions and sensuality; a flower appears to dance.

Our special guest, Bethany Mitchell, explores her world with a palpable sense of joy. 
She works in a variety of techniques to create photographs which exude her wonder and excitement, her unique perspective, as she travels around the globe
or just along highway 295.

Alan Sockloff

Norm Proulx

Beth Mitchell

JUNE 3 - 25, 2011

TWO PERSON EXHIBIT

"Digital Detour Ahead"

Dave Wade
Photography

Jim Kelly
Mixed Media

MAY 6 - 28, 2011

TWO PERSON EXHIBIT

Fran Vita-Taylor
"EPHEMERAL NATURE"
Large-scale still life photographs (34" x 22 3/4")

Darrell Taylor
"SURREALLEGORIES: THREE FROM 2010"
Photocollage Murals, 2' x 9' print size

Darrell Taylor, Detail from "The Transfiguration, Assumption, and Apotheosis of
High-End Luxury Consumables" (2010)
Photocollage Mural, 24" x 108"

Darrell Taylor, "Big Gallery Séance: chacun à son goût" (2010)
Photocollage mural, 24" X 108"

"APRIL FOOLS!"
APRIL 1 - 30, 2011

Please join us in a high spirited celebration of all things spring for the opening of a light-hearted exhibit that features photographs, paintings and mixed media by Addison Woolley artists and guests; Denise Froehlich, Rene Braun and introducing Amy Hagberg. 

Addison Woolley artists include; Alan Sockloff, Andrea van Voorst van Beest, Arunas Bukauskas, Dan Dow, David Wade, Diane Hudson, Fran Vita-Taylor, Jane Banquer, Jeanne O'Toole Hayman, Jim Kelly, Karen Bushold, Norm Proulx, Ronnie Wilson and Ruth Sylmor.

The folk, jazz, blues sounds of Ronda Dale and Kevin Attra will keep the magic and joy flowing throughout the evening!

Melonie Bennett

Barbara Goodbody

Diane Hudson

Diane Hudson

"New Work for a New Season"
April 2 - 9,2010

Works by Victor Romanyshyn, Diane Hudson, Alan Sockloff, Andrea van Voorst van Beest, Jan Pieter van Voorst van Beest, Norm Proulx, Jane Banquer, Arunas Bukauskas, Darrell Taylor, Dave Wade, Dan Dow, & Ronnie Wilson

March 5 - 12, 2010

Places in our Memories

Arunas Bukauskas – Photographs
Black and white photographs made on Munjoy Hill, Portland

Norm Proulx – Paintings
Paintings of mills

December 4 - 11, 2009 

              ARTFUL GIFTS!