Kwesi Abbensetts' work is tightly bound to his identity. Consequently, his work and subjects become a rendered celebration of his culture. His work is concerned with what he calls “Revisionary Self Appropriation.”
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Henry Austin is a visual artist living and working in Portland, ME. In the spring of 2018, Austin founded, and now co- directs, New System Exhibitions - an alternative project space and exhibition venue for emerging, local, and regional artists.
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Throughout thirty years of abstract humming, the nail has never failed me. Anchored only by its form and materiality, I reveled in the nail’s infinite possibilities.
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Samantha Butler is a multidisciplinary artist and designer based out of Portland, Maine and Kearny, New Jersey.
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Sara Cannon was raised on Peaks Island, Maine. She received her BFA in animation from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2012.
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Alice Jones lives in Portland, Maine and is a current artist in residence at the Gardenship at Kearny Point in Kearny, New Jersey.
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Isaac Jaegerman was born and raised in Portland, Maine. He works in mixed media to examine dual natures: things that are simultaneously fragile and strong, meditative and vibrating with activity, representational and abstract.
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Born and raised in rural New Hampshire, Jim Larson is a sculptor whose work synthesizes traditional craft with our contemporary, digital, cultural practice.
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Elijah Ober was born in New Hampshire and grew up in Southern Maine. His work combines found materials with his own fabrications to create objects with basic functional aspirations and fugitive presence.
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Tom Ryan was born and raised in Portland. His work often unites representational and non-representational visual elements to arrive at images with unexpected narratives and distorted, unclear meanings.
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Kenny Shapiro has spent the past two years working as a sculptor and studio assistant for John Bisbee after graduating from Bowdoin College in 2018. He makes formally and materially simple objects through redundant, rote, and ritualistic processes.
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Cody Stack was raised in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. Currently, his primary artistic focus is painting; his recent work utilizes fundamental dualities to focus on the inherent contradictions that underlie his artistic decision-making.
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Emilie is an interdisciplinary artist, working in painting, video, and sculpture. In 2019, she received my MFA in painting from RISD.
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Nevan Swanson is a photographer and filmmaker. As a 2018 Thomas J. Watson Fellow, he embarked on a self-designed project outside the US, wherein he explored the relationship between documentation and experience.
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