Winter Dreams of Spring
Alison Goodwin, Ice Shanty, acrylic and oil pastel on panel, 16” x 16”
January 12 - February 25, 2023
About The Show
"In a way winter is the real spring, the time when the inner things happen, the resurge of nature.” – Edna O’Brien
We tend to view winter as a period of dormancy, quiet, dead. In Maine, this view is reinforced by the exodus of migratory species and the “transhumance” of sorts of summer residents. Summer's buzz of activity and autumn's brilliant colors are gone.
But are we being unfair to winter? To the Anglo-Saxons, the term "winter" could be synonymous with "year." Your age was measured by the number of winters you had lived. We continue to celebrate the birth of a new year in winter. After all, autumn sees the death of the new shoots of spring, not winter. Instead, winter is responsible for ushering in spring. Winter dreams spring into existence.
We curated this group exhibition with this original view of winter in mind. The work in this show celebrates this gestational period and combines traditional winter scenes with the season's brighter vision for the future.
Featured Artists
Chris Beneman, Mary Bourke, Rachel Burgess, Jeff Bye, Thomas Connolly, David Driskell, Maurice Freedman, Roy Germon, Alison Goodwin, Maret Hensick, Jon Imber, Cade Jarvis, Dean McCrillis, Jonathan Mess, Nancy Morgan Barnes, Tom Paiement, Sandra Quinn, Alison Rector, Alec Richardson, Neil Welliver, Holden Willard, and Timothy Wilson.
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