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David Dupree
David Dupree has been drawing and painting since he was a young child. He decided on painting as a career during his last two years of college. Since then he has worked as a ranch hand, truck driver, welder, oil field worker, mechanic, gold miner and cutting shingles. These jobs exposed him to many locales across the United States. He moved to Maine in 1986 and has lived here longer than anywhere else.
His jobs and travel experiences throughout the country have been his inspiration and they supply much of the subject matter for his paintings. The paintings are modest in size averaging about 20” x 24” but large in scope and massive in terms of his sense of color and design. His work evokes images of American activity some what reminiscent of Grandma Moses and his use of color and pattern rivals that of Vincent Van Gogh.
David Estey lives in Belfast, Maine. He holds degrees from Rhode Island School of Design and George Washington University. He has lived, worked, exhibited and taught art in Maine, the Mid-Atlantic States and North Carolina. He has produced over 10,800 pieces of art and has had numerous juried and solo exhibitions in museums, colleges and galleries over the past twenty-seven years of exhibiting. His work can be found in public and private collections in much of the US and Canada, as well as Belarus, Paris, Rome, Tokyo, Vienna and undoubtedly many more places we have yet to discover. Maine Home + Design Magazine named him one of Maine’s most collectible artists. He was recently chosen to be a part of the U.S. State Department’s Art Bank collection.
Nancy Wilkoff
Nancy Lawrence was born in Youngstown, Ohio, graduated from Ferry Hall in Lake Forest, IL and attended Youngstown State University. Prior to attending YSU, she studied privately for five years with Margaret Evans upon her retirement as Head of the Art Department at YSU. Nancy is a signature member of the National Collage Society. Since then in Youngstown, in Ann Arbor, Michigan for seven years and in Tucson for the last forty years, she has explored on her own various mediums, participated in critique sessions and generally followed her curiosities wherever they led. Collage/Assemblage has been her chosen medium for many years. Work is developed primarily from handmade paper and/or found organic materials and evolve with no pre-conceived idea or preliminary sketches; one object will suggest the next, allowing for inspired accidents. The boxes (three-dimensional collages) also evolve with no preconceived idea. Choices can be spontaneous or well "edited"; the only criterion is that these shapes contribute to the development of a new entity. If this is successful, recycled parts become simply formal elements - a vocabulary to describe positive and negative space.
A few corporate collections are: Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, Ohio; Motorola Inc., Chicago, IL; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; IBM Kingsbridge, Montvale, NJ; Herman Miller, Inc., World Headquarters, Zeeland,
A few corporate collections are: Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, Ohio; Motorola Inc., Chicago, IL; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; IBM Kingsbridge, Montvale, NJ; Herman Miller, Inc., World Headquarters, Zeeland,
Donald Everett Josephson
“Brought up in a dory,” Josephson a native son of historic Gloucester, Massachusetts, grew up in a town proclaimed to be the first summer art colony in America. At an early age, nudged by the energy of writers, sculptors, and painters, that abound on this shore line, Josephson went to work first in commercial art, then as a student of fine art at The Institute of Boston, now part of Leslie College. Upon graduating from AIB Don moved to Edgecomb, Maine where he now works. For the last decade he has divided his time between Maine and Mexico, keeping a studio in Oaxaca during winter months. Previous to Mexico, he spent seven years in the jungles of the Atlantic coast of Costa Rica, followed by another stint on the wild side in Los Angeles and sojourns to France — a few of the locales which ignite his spirit. Josephson’s painting is more about the sensation, rather than the scenes of his journeys, a reverie, sired through spectacular places and people, abstracted from things removed. Thoughts of distance, the jolts of time and climate, the excitement of color and culture, are seminal aspects of his work.
“When working on a painting I may step outside to take from nature the ambiance of light. I’ll refer to my sketch books for shapes or design, or perhaps recall an earlier work of mine. Essentially I’m putting together or building an assemblage into a unifying whole. I’m not always painting a particular place that exists in fact. This departure feeds my passion, it puts me on the edge with my thoughts, my awareness and actions as an artist.”
“When working on a painting I may step outside to take from nature the ambiance of light. I’ll refer to my sketch books for shapes or design, or perhaps recall an earlier work of mine. Essentially I’m putting together or building an assemblage into a unifying whole. I’m not always painting a particular place that exists in fact. This departure feeds my passion, it puts me on the edge with my thoughts, my awareness and actions as an artist.”
Heidi Seidelhuber
Heidi paints from the vantage point of the water line, learning intimately about her subject and the paint. She utilizes subjects common to the world of work, developing strong compositions and a sense of light.
Heidi knows about work viscerally, and it shows. She has managed steel fabrication jobs since 1975. She recently followed up on ideas she crafted in steel circa 1980 by collaborating with steel workers Vasiliy Melguy and Miklos Toth.
"Got my home in my hand" refers to the stress and resignation of putting down roots in more than one place. Originally it referred to Chicago and Seattle; currently it refers to Seattle and Boothbay Harbor ME.
Heidi has a B.F.A from Rhode Island School of Design, M.F.A from Art Institute of Chicago, has studied at Cooper Union and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She was a founding member of Artemisia Gallery in Chicago.
Heidi knows about work viscerally, and it shows. She has managed steel fabrication jobs since 1975. She recently followed up on ideas she crafted in steel circa 1980 by collaborating with steel workers Vasiliy Melguy and Miklos Toth.
"Got my home in my hand" refers to the stress and resignation of putting down roots in more than one place. Originally it referred to Chicago and Seattle; currently it refers to Seattle and Boothbay Harbor ME.
Heidi has a B.F.A from Rhode Island School of Design, M.F.A from Art Institute of Chicago, has studied at Cooper Union and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She was a founding member of Artemisia Gallery in Chicago.
H. Lane Smith