Emily Brown
(painting & drawing)
Emily Brown's earliest memories include formative experiences on Embden Pond in North Anson, Maine. Since 1966, she and her husband have juggled their time between Montville in Maine and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where Emily serves on the faculty of the University of the Arts. She is represented in Philadelphia at Gallery Joe; and in Maine, at Portland’s Aucocisco Gallery and Isalos Fine Art in Stonington, where her drawings and prints will be on exhibit July 3 – 16.
Trained as a painter in Boston and Philadelphia, Emily Brown has consistently drawn from the natural world for both imagery and content. She has had solo shows at the Maine Center for Contemporary Art in Rockport; at The James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Philadelphia International Airport, and Swarthmore College, in Pennsylvania; and Schmidt Bingham Gallery and Kate Ganz USA in New York City. Awards include fellowships from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, Pew Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, MacDowell Colony, Independence Foundation, Leeway Foundation, Philagrafika, Maryland Institute College of Art, Vermont Studio Center, and Artists for Environment Foundation in Walpack, NJ.
In addition to some of the above institutions, her work is in the following collections: Alliance Capital, Tokyo, Japan; Bryn Mawr College Library, Farnsworth Art Museum, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Princeton University Art Museum, Free Library of Philadelphia, and Rutgers Center for Innovative Prints and Paper. This summer, she will teach Drawing at Maine’s Haystack Mountain School of Crafts.
Alison Hildreth
(Mixed media, drawing, painting, printmaking & installation work)
fter graduating from Vassar College with a B.A. in Art History, I worked in New York and went to night school at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Art. I married and we moved to Maine with our four children. When my youngest child was in school, I continued my studies in Studio Art graduating from the Maine College of Art in 1976. Since that time I have had several studios in Portland and I am now at the Bakery Studios at 61 Pleasant Street. My practice includes mixed media drawing, painting, printmaking, and some installation work.
In 2008, Maine College of Art honored Alison Hildreth for Leadership in the Arts. Noting that her work is “inspired by nature and rooted in the state’s iconic landscape,” the award recognized the leadership she has provided for artists and arts organizations throughout the state as a printmaker, teacher, mentor and supporter of the arts.”
Alison has had solo exhibitions at the June Fitzpatrick Gallery (Portland, ME), the Center for Maine Contemporary Art (Rockport, ME) and the Farnsworth Museum (Rockland, ME). Her work has been collected by Portland Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, the Farnsworth Museum, Bates College Museum and the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
Tanja Alexia Hollander
(photographer)
Tanja graduated from Hampshire College with a BA in photography, film, and feminist studies in 1994. Her work has been included in three Biennial Exhibitions at the Portland Museum of Art, most recently in 2009. Her photographs have been featured in recent group exhibitions at the following: the Art Gallery at University of New England, and Two Point Gallery, Portland, ME (2009); Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA (2008); Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME (2007); Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME, and the Juried Biennial at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME (2004); Hampshire College, Amherst, MA (2003); and the Fringe Festival, Recontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France (1999).
Tanja has had solo exhibitions at Bernard Toale Gallery and Miller Block Gallery in Boston; Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York City; June Fitzpatrick Gallery and Zero Station in Portland; and Addison Arts Gallery in Santa Fe, NM. Her photographs are in the collections of: Bates College Museum of Art, Portland Museum of Art, University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, and Sharon, Leary, and Detroy, Lewiston (Maine); Fidelity Investments, Ritz-Carlton, and Repertoire Furniture (Boston); Polo: Ralph Lauren and Elie Tahari (New York City); and various private collections.
Tanja is the co-director and founding member of Bakery Photographic Collective, a nonprofit member-based darkroom facility in Westbrook, ME. She is represented by Carroll and Sons Gallery in Boston, Jim Kempner in New York, and Whitney Art Works, in Portland.
Meg Brown Payson
(painter)
A lifelong resident of the coast of Maine and frequent traveler into the canyons of the American Southwest, Meg Brown Payson uses her delight in these contrasting landscapes as an opportunity to investigate the ongoing intellectual problem of integrating random encounters with the strange into cherished knowledge of the familiar. Her paintings evoke the unfathomable depths of wild woods and waters seen just at the edge of twilight.
Meg’s work has been exhibited widely in New England and New York, including at the Portland Museum of Art (Maine), the DeCordova Museum (Lincoln, MA), and the Hillwood Art Museum (Brookville, NY). She is represented by Walker Contemporary in Boston, Eo Art Lab in Chester, CT, and Monte Azul Contemporary Art in New York; she has had recent solo exhibitions in all three, respectively “Horizon,” “Liquid Space,” and a show of monotypes made during a residency in Costa Rica. Her pictures are in the permanent collections of the DeCordova Museum, Neiman Marcus, L.L. Bean, Marriott Hotels, AstraZeneca as well as numerous private individuals.
Meg has been an Artist-in-Residence in Monte Azul, Costa Rica; Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass Village, CO; Vermont Studio Center, Johnston, VT; Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA. She received a Good Ideas Grant from the Maine Arts Commission in 2004, and a Maine College of Art faculty development grant at the Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM in 2002. She is an Associate Professor of Drawing and Foundation at the Maine College of Art. She lives in a home that she and her husband, Philip, built in Freeport, Maine.
Gerald Auten
(painting & drawing)
Gerald Auten was educated at The University of Iowa (BFA Drawing and Painting), Washington University-St. Louis (MFA Painting) and The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (M. Arch). As Senior Lecturer in Studio Art he teaches drawing, painting, architecture and senior seminar at Dartmouth College. He is also the Director of The Studio Art Exhibition Program there.
Jerry’s work has been exhibited widely in the United States (New York and Chicago) and abroad (Teheran, Mexico City, and Vancouver.) Recent exhibitions include The Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire; The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York; The National Academy Museum, New York; The Park Avenue Armory Work on Paper Exhibition; and Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York.
He is the recipient of the Ralph Fabri Prize from the National Academy, a Purchase Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an Andrew Mellon Foundation Grant and the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding Faculty Travel and Research Grant for travel to the Georgian Republic. Collections include the Albright Knox Gallery of Art, Booz Allen Hamilton and The Hood Museum of Art.
Katherine Doyle
(painter)
Katherine Doyle has worked as an artist for over 25 years, after studying fine art and English literature, graduating from American University magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, and going on to post-graduate studies in studio art in Florence, Italy. She has exhibited in multiple solo shows in New York as well as London, San Francisco, Munich, Dublin and New England, most recently in Portsmouth, NH, at the Tredwell Foundation. Her work has been exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art, Verona, Italy; Museum of Modern Art, Ostende, Belgium; Frye Art Museum, Seattle; Arkansas Center for the Arts; Museo Palazzo della Ragione in Mantua, Italy; Naples Museum of Art; Mississippi Museum of Art; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; Portland Museum of Art; Long Beach Museum of Art; MICA; Orlando Museum of Art; Ogunquit Museum of American Art; Fitchberg Museum of Art; South Bend Museum; the Paine Art Center; the Burpee Art Museum.
She has participated in many group exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, London, Ireland, New England, among them shows at the Universities of Princeton, New England, Florida State, Southern Maine, St Anselm, Southern New Hampshire, as well as The New York Academy of Art, Savannah College of Art and Design, New England College, Albany Institute, and the Manchester Institute of Art. Her work has also been featured in multiple art fairs in the US and England, and gallery group shows across the US. Her paintings and drawings are owned by museums and public collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, Verona, Italy; Arkansas Center for the Arts; Mississippi Museum of Art; Southern New Hampshire University; Bank of New York; Fidelity Investments: Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison, NY; United Technologies; Conrail; Chemical Bank, among others. Awards include Fellowships from the Peabody Essex Museum; New Hampshire State Council on the Arts; National Endowment on the Arts; New Hampshire Community Foundation; Greenshields Fund, and others.
Simon Harling
(painter)
Simon Harling has been an artist for more than thirty years, and during his career he has exhibited his work in London, Munich, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Washington and Seattle. His paintings can be found in the collections of major US corporations and institutions, such as Fidelity Investments, AT&T, Exxon, Delta Airlines, United Technologies, Tyco, Midlantic Bank, Bank of Illinois, Queens City Bank, Washington University Medical Center and Harvard University Business School.
In 2005 he was awarded a Fellowship at the Peabody Essex Museum and has been included in museum shows at Portland Museum Biennial, Long Beach Museum, Albright Knox Museum, Columbus Museum of Art, McNay Arts Institute and Museum of Santa Cruz, as well as various exhibits at the Universities of New England, Southern Maine, and Southern New Hampshire.
His work has been reviewed and reproduced in the New York Times, ArtNews and other publications, and also featured in the BBC arts program Omnibus, and in the books ‘Isles of Shoals', ‘Visions in Granite' and ‘Exactitude; Hyperrrealist Art Today' - by John Russell Taylor, published by Thames and Hudson.
He has always been interested in writing, and during the 1970's he reviewed Science Fiction for The London Times Literary Supplement. He has completed two feature length screenplays, several short stories, an allegorical children's story and is working on a novel. He has written and directed two short films "Under The Hood" and "Drawing From Life".
Rebecca Litt
(painter)
Rebecca Litt received her MFA from Indiana University in 2007, having earned a BFA in painting and BA in political science (combined degree program) from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She taught drawing and painting at Indiana University School of the Arts, including the University’s Study Abroad program in Florence. From 2007-2009, she taught drawing and painting at the University of New Hampshire.
Rebecca has exhibited at Prince Street Gallery (Off the Wall) in New York City, the George Marshall Store Gallery (Figuratively Speaking) in York, Maine, SoFA Gallery and Prima Gallery in Bloomington, Indiana, and at the University of New Hampshire. She has had solo exhibitions at Artstream Gallery in Rochester, NH and Yellow Barn Gallery in Glen Echo, Maryland. Her work has also been part of juried exhibitions at the Cambridge Art Association, in Cambridge, MA and the National Society of Arts and Letters in Bloomington, Indiana.
Rebecca grew up in Chevy Chase, Maryland and now lives in Portsmouth, NH. Prior to graduate school, she worked in Washington, DC as a Legislative Assistant for Senator Barbara A. Mikulski.
