Viewfinder
Curated by artists Ashley Page and Meg Hahn, each selected artist draws inspiration from our constructed world, natural environment, and social structures by transmuting their daily experiences into playful new perspectives. Through various creative processes that include painting, sculpture, photography, and interdisciplinary practices, these artists use the mundane human experience as a point of departure, to create work that displays optimistic truths and transportive new worlds. Viewfinder is an invitation to step into the creative process and experience the world through the artists’ lens that merges worlds, identities, cultures, environments, truths, and more. The hope is for viewers to leave with a renewed sense of what is possible. On view: July 28th - September 23, 2023 at the Portland Public Library Lewis Gallery in Portland, ME.
[image on the left: Haley Nannig, Ode to Wyeth's Pentecost, Dye on Silk Habotai 5mm, 2023]
A special thank you to:
Co-Curator Meg Hahn for the collaboration, snack times, thought partnership, and incredible company ❤️
Participating Artists:
Elana Adler
Julia Arredondo
H. Boone
Anna Hepler
Hector Nevarez Magaña
Haley Nannig
Mika Obayashi
Brian Smith
Ben Spalding
Richard Takita
Jimmy Viera
Portland Public Library
Rachael Harkness
And everyone who visited, listened, asked quetions, and spent time with this show- thank you.