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On Display now at #riverarts member show through August 15th in #Damriscotta open Wed – Sat 10 am to 4 pm ~ closed Sun – Tues . Gallery is located at 36 Elm St Plaza. #maineartistsofinstagram #maineart #mainegalleryguide #deborahchapin #womenmarineartists #pemaquidpoint #seascapepainting (at Pemaquid Point, Maine) https://www.instagram.com/p/CC4V-DLnPdZ/?igshid=1rskmhrif6m2d

Featured artist, Michelle Leier, Michelle is an oil painter who finds magic in ordinary, everyday scenes and objects. When she is painting, she is excited by the interplay between surface and depth, and chaos and structure. Michelle spent many years living in central Europe before and after college, and was strongly influenced by the amazing variety of painting she saw there. She finds Baroque art to be especially inspiring, and loves how the whirling, circling, energetic use of light and space in this style of art expresses a celebratory feeling. Michelle aims to capture some of that energy with her own art. She grew up in an isolated wilderness near the Superior National Forest in Minnesota, and studied oil painting and art history at Northwestern University, and Studio Arts College International in Florence, Italy. She received her M.F.A from the Massachusetts College of Art at the Fine Arts Work Center. She currently lives and works in Portland, Maine. 🎨 When 443 Congress Street Gallery opens you’ll be able to view Michelle’s paintings throughout @portlandregionalchamber gallery walls. 👁 #maineartist #maineartistsofinstagram @michelle.leier #portland #maine #oilpaintings #expressivebrushwork #brighthues #candydish #art #supportlocalartists #buyart DM #curator @camtheartist65 to inquire about prices. ❤️ (at Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_iES44g257/?igshid=15ftb14itb291

Great Zoom Instagram Q&A meeting today! Thank you to all the #443artists that attended... @missusjudy @louisa_wickard @chrisrfineart & @dorothymccrumphotography ....the rest I’ll see you soon! #artistsupportartists @443congress_maineartists #supportlocalartists #buyart #maineartistsofinstagram #curator #instructor #camtheartist @camtheartist65 (at Cape Elizabeth, Maine) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_Xyy6MHZ3f/?igshid=t96793xhoibf

👉🏻 Feature artist: Kelly Ufkin☀️ My paintings have taken on a more personal significance as I explore content that has importance to me; moving beyond the figure and still lifes. I am striving to obtain composition, balance and color relation while experimenting with textures. Even though my intuitive responses occasionally stray from color accuracy, I want to maintain precision with perspective and proportion. I have come to the realization that I am not a narrative artist, but would like my viewers to experience a sense of escape. My work has taken on new directions through the inspiration and study of artists that have made an impact on me; especially from the Impressionist era. Monet, Renoir and Corot have enlightened me on how to really capture a moment in time in a simplistic manner. They give just enough indication and detail to portray a mood. Caravaggio and Artemisia Gentileschi’s realism and extensive technique have helped me enhance my style and progress as an artist. Modern painters such as the Wyeth family have provided me with motivation and insight. My more recent paintings contain elevated complexities with composition, lighting and contrast. The main focus is the distortion of images within water that converses with the concrete physicality of its surroundings. Rather than being inclusive of the standard formula of distribution between sky and land, I prefer to mostly deny the sky to allow water to be the primary element. 🎨 #maineartist #maineartistsofinstagram #oilpainting #largework #realism @kellyufkinpaintings ❤️ (at Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_WJcm8gCAR/?igshid=ej0xmhhipowj

Finished and titled! “Eye-witnessing breakthroughs” 24” x 24” 1.5” deep stretched canvas. ❤️ Thank you all for helping me with a title. I combined a few suggestions and came up with this one. 👁 hope you like it. This is an oil on canvas with iridescent medium (shimmer & shine granular overlay paste) placed the paint on the tree. 🎨 Please DM for price of original or signed prints. The next post I’m going to try showing you just how amazing this abstract painting looks in low light...wait till you see! ‼️ #abstractexpressionism #maineartist #maineartistsofinstagram #fillyoursoul #fillyourwhitespace #oilpainting #winsorandnewton #medium #irridescent #camtheartist #expressyourself #supportlocalartists #buyart #curator @443congress_maineartists (at Cape Elizabeth, Maine) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_VlrTgHwkv/?igshid=1l75rbo2h943

👉🏻 featured artist: Tracy Ginn, Tracy was born in Old Greenwich Ct, and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree at the Portland School of Art and Masters of Science degree from the College of New Rochelle. Traveling from Maine, Tracy discovered widely that urban inspirations were her creative passion and focus in her many moves from San Francisco onto Brooklyn and Manhattan. It was here in the city she found herself drawn to recreate the questions behind the arcane scenarios within big city life; just how to encapsulate the pathos, irony and humor permeating the everyday. Continuing art studies In New York City at the School of Visual Arts, Tracy expanded her art concepts studying painting, photography and illustration with Joo Chung and photography with Barbara Nitke. Returning to Maine in 2001, Tracy turned her focus on the Maine landscape with oil paintings incorporating a thick impasto technique. The lure of the city was not to be long vanquished and in 2007 she began a series of small oil paintings inspired by Indian miniatures which involved rendering from Polaroids of city people she took randomly in San Francisco and New York City. Using a glazing technique inherent from the old masters, Tracy creates a look to her work that is many layered and luminous with expansive color vibrancy. Paintings in oil are her focus, however her ideas involve several mediums including graphite, colored pencils, pastel, watercolor, and printmaking. Tracy has exhibited her work in local group shows, Aucocisco Gallery, The Maine Art Educators Showcase and the MECA Alumni printmaking workshop. Tracy's artwork is represented in art collections all over New England and California. She lives presently in Portland, Maine where she teaches art education to young students. Tracy’s exhibiting along side 30 Maine artists in the Portland Regional Chamber at 443 Congress Street Gallery. View hours 11am to 3pm Monday- Friday We will not be participating in the upcoming February First Friday Art Walk...mark your calendar for April 3rd. 🎨 #maineartistsofinstagram #maineartist #groupexhibition #portlandmaine @portlandregionalchamber curator #camtheartist @camtheartist65 #oilpaintings (at Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce) https://www.instagram.com/p/B73oTgqAY2x/?igshid=1mj8zyw61nc3y

On exhibit @443congress_maineartists #oilpainting #abstractexpressionism @portlandregionalchamber in the front entrance. 11am to 3pm stop in and see over 30 #artists #artistsoninstagram #maineartistsofinstagram #portlandmaine #groupshow #oilpainting #acrylicpainting #sculpture #fabricart #mainescenery #supportlocalartists #whitewalls #buyart #photocredit @oneseestudio Harold Barnard🎨 (at Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7Gs7gaHjQD/?igshid=srpxtlefmepz

443 is so excited to announce the next show “Still LIGHT” This creative exhibition is almost finished...soon you’ll seeing over 35 Maine artists works. You can’t miss this moving rebirth bronze sculpture titled: “Chrysalis” by Judy O’Donnell This sculpture is in the front entrance hallway @portlandregionalchamber #portland #maine 🎨 #artstrong #maineartist #maineartistsofinstagram #oilpaintings #acrylicpainting #fabricart #watercolorpainting #sculpture #mainescenes #photography #officeart #interiordecorating #buyart #buylocalart #groupexhibition #curator @camtheartist65 assistant curator @dorothymccrumphotography (at Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7CZiyJg_V7/?igshid=xzf211dzpv4d