Brenton Hamilton

Chinese Could Variant (2019)

Chinese Could Variant (2019)

For over 25 years Brenton Hamilton has created a sustained body of work, largely concentrated within historic process. Employing gum bichromated forms, platinum, the embellished cyanotype, and collodion on black glass, he has produced a unique body of work. A well known teacher on the campus of Maine Media Workshops he is a leading educator and historian. Brenton's work is collected and exhibited internationally and held in the permanent collections of: The Farnsworth Art Museum, The Portland Museum of Art and The University of New England and the Lamar Dodd Art Centers permanent collection in Georgia. The work is represented by TILT Gallery in Scottsdale, AZ. In January, 2017 The University of Maine Museum of Art installed a mid-career retrospective of his decades of practice. In September 2020 Schilt Publishing, Amsterdam, released a 25 year retrospective book: A Blue Idyll, Cyanotypes and Dreams. 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • 2017 (Brenton Hamilton Twenty Years, University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, Maine)

  • 2015 Susan Maasch Fine Art, The Abstractions, Portland, Maine

  • 2015 Brenton Hamilton “In a Nod to My Influences”, TILT Gallery Scottsdale, Arizona

  • 2014 Brenton Hamilton, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, Maine

  • 2012 Relevant Histories, Addison Woolley Gallery Portland, Maine

  • 2010 Brenton Hamilton, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, Maine

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • 2016 LaGrange College, Bring it Back Home, Cochran Gallery, LaGrange, Georgia

  • 2016 “Neurotica” United Maine Visual Artists, CTN Gallery, Portland, Maine

  • 2016 “Rotation” Susan Maasch Fine Art, Gallery Artists, Portland, Maine

  • 2016 Seeing the Unseen, Fernald Gallery, Belfast, Maine

  • 2015 Magic of Light, Penobscot Marine Museum, Searsport, Maine

  • 2015 ‘Gallery Artists’, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, Maine

  • 2015 Celebrating Photography in Maine, Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, Maine

  • 2015 Picturing Maine, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine

  • 2014 Susan Maasch Fine Art, Gallery Artists, Portland, Maine

  • 2014 Maine Media Gallery “Hands On”, Rockport, Maine

  • 2013 Assymetrick Arts, Rockland, Maine.

  • 2013 Focus on Faculty, PhoPa Gallery, Portland, Maine

  • 2013 MENTOR 40, Center of Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine

  • 2013 Rochester Museum Biennial, Rochester, N.H.

  • 2013 “Ancient Light” Elizabeth Moss Gallery, Falmouth, Maine.

  • 2012 Diffusion: “Enchanted” exhibition - Plates & Pixels, Oregon

  • 2012 The Homer Studio Project, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine

  • 2012 ‘Strangers & Others’, Stephen Pace Galleries, Freyburg, Maine

  • 2011 ‘Stable Show’, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, Maine

  • 2011 On The Road/Maison Fine Arts. TILT Gallery Phoenix, Arizona

  • 2011 Gallery Artists, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, Maine

  • 2011 Who’s in the House TILT Gallery Phoenix, Arizona

  • 2011 Out of the Blue, Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ.

  • 2010 Ten Years Later, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine

  • 2010 Who’s in the House, TILT Gallery Phoenix, Arizona

  • 2010 “Capture” Maine Museum of Photographic Arts, Portland, Maine

  • 2010 “Going Forward Looking Back” Maine Media Workshops

  • 2010 “Going Forward Looking Back” UMass/Dartmouth, University Art Gallery

  • 2010 “Going Forward Looking Back” Simmons College, Trustman Art Gallery

  • 2010 “Going Forward Looking Back” University of New England Portland, Maine.

EDUCATION

  • M.F.A. in Photography, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia, 1992

  • B.A. in Art and Design/Magna Cum Laude, LaGrange College, LaGrange, Georgia, 1990

GALLERY REPRESENTATION

  • Tilt Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

  • Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine

  • Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine

  • University of New England, Museum of Art, Portland, Maine

  • Lamar Dodd Art Center, LaGrange Georgia


EVENTS/LECTURES/PUBLICATIONS/REVIEWS

  • 2017 (Artist Lecture- Brenton Hamilton Twenty Years, University of Maine Museum of Art)

  • 2015 We Don’t Take Pictures - Image of the Day, November, 2015

  • 2015 Panel Discussion: Cig Harvey, Joyce Tenneson, Brenton Hamilton, Farnsworth Art Museum

  • 2015 Curator; Silver & Salt Exhibition PhoPa Gallery Portland, Maine 

  • 2015 Lecture “Dan Estabrook” University of Maine Museum of Art Bangor, Maine

  • 2014 Light Leaked - Artists Interview, November, 2014

  • 2013 Haystack Mountain School, Guest Artist Deer Isle, Maine

  • 2013 Rochester Museum Biennial Catalog, Rochester, New Hampshire

  • 2012 Review of: Relevant Histories – by: Phil Isaacson Portland Press Herald

  • 2012 CIRCA Artist Installation, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine 

  • 2012 Scrapped Magazine, NYC

  • 2012 Maine Home & Design– Artist Profile October 2012

  • 2012 Curator; MENTOR 40, CMCA Gallery Rockport, Maine

  • 2012 Review: Strangers & Others – by: Nicholas Schroeder Portland Phoenix

  • 2012 Plates & Pixels, Featured Artist, WA.

  • 2012 The New Yorker – Photobooth Web Blog

  • 2011 Canvas - Maine Home & Design- by: Britta Konau

  • 2010 Achieving American Art Lecture – Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, Maine

  • 2010 University of New England, 19th Century Photographers UNE Portland, Maine

Featured
Brenton Hamilton, Little Face (2019)
Brenton Hamilton, Little Face (2019)

Cyanotype
9.75” x 7.5”
$1000

Brenton Hamilton, A Tempest (2020)
Brenton Hamilton, A Tempest (2020)

Cyanotype and platinum metals collage
13.5” x 9.5”
$1,400

Brenton Hamilton, Chinese Cloud Variant (2019)
Brenton Hamilton, Chinese Cloud Variant (2019)

Cyanotype and toners
13.5” x 9.5”
$1,000

Brenton Hamilton, An Abstraction Study
Brenton Hamilton, An Abstraction Study

Cyanotype, ink, handmade toners
8” x 14”
$1,200

John DanosCyanotype