Meg Brown Payson

La Napoule #21 (2009)

Meg Brown Payson earned her BFA from the College of Fine Art at Boston University followed by an MFA from Vermont College. She was an Associate Professor of Drawing and Foundation at the Maine College of Art until she left teaching in 2011.

Her work has been exhibited widely in New England, including at the Portland Museum of Art, the deCordova Museum, and the Ogunquit Museum of American Art. It is included in collections at the Portland Museum of Art, the deCordova Museum, Neiman-Marcus, Duke Energy, Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, and more.

Payson has been awarded residencies at the La Napoule Foundation in France, Anderson Ranch Art Center in Colorado and the Vermont Studio Center.

Devoted to time outside, Payson has traveled widely throughout the wild places of the American Southwest and the North Woods of Maine and Quebec.

Payson lives and works in coastal Maine.

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020.  

• Stele, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay, ME

2019.

• Shift, The Cube Gallery, Naropa University, Boulder, CO

2014.

• Chiasm: New Work by Meg Brown Payson, McCoy Gallery, Merrimack College, North Andover, Ma.

2010.

• Hydrostatic Pressure, Eo Art Lab, Chester, Ct.

• Paper Works, Walker Contemporary, The Back Room: Boston, Ma.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019.

• Psych Out!!!, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, NY

• Living With Art, June LaCombe Sculpture, Pownal, ME
  

2018.

• Reflection, June LaCombe Sculpture, Pownal, ME

2017.

• That Third Thing, Speedwell Projects, Portland, Me.

• Power of Place, Wells Reserve at Laudholm, Wells, Me.

• Expanding Abstraction: New England Women Painters, 1950 to Now, deCordova Museum, Lincoln, Ma

2016.

• The Retrieval of the Beautiful, The Painting Center, New York City, NY
  Autumn, June LaCombe Sculpture, Hawk Ridge Farm, Pownal, Me.

2015.

• DiCarta/Papermade 2: etica/estetica, Biennale Internatzionale Opere di Carta, Palazzo Fogazzaro, Schio, Italia

• The Art as Science, The Science of Art, Mary Cosgrove Dolphin Gallery, Worcester State University, Worcester, Ma.

2014.

• Unhinged, Pierogi, New York, NY

• Prints: Breaking Boundaries, Portland Public Library, Portland, Me.

2012.

• Pressing On, Landing Gallery, Rockland, Me.

2011.

• Contemporaries: Artists of La Napoule Art Foundation, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, Me.

2010.

• Sacred and Profane: Eye of the Beholder, Portsmouth Museum of Art, Portsmouth, NH

• Mirare, Chapel Art Center, St. Anselm College, Manchester, NH