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Release: October 17, 2006
Portland Museum of Art Announces Artists Chosen for the 2007 Biennial
(Portland, Maine) After receiving 920 entries for the 2007 Portland Museum of Art Biennial exhibition, the Portland Museum of Art is pleased to announce that 98 works by 61 artists have been selected for the show. This past summer, artists submitted 3,680 images to be considered by a panel of three jurors: Ellen Miller, founder of Miller Block Gallery in Boston; Johnnie Winona Ross, nationally recognized artist and former faculty member of the Maine College of Art; and Judith Stein, freelance curator, art critic, and author. The jurors spent a weekend in September viewing images and selecting the work for next year’s Biennial. Of the 61 artists chosen, 17 have exhibited in previous Biennial exhibitions. The 2007 Biennial will be on view from April 12 through June 10, 2007.
As a series, the Biennial exhibitions create a visual record of Maine’s evolving contemporary art scene and testify to the profound influence that the landscape, traditions, and people of Maine continue to have on living artists. Maine has nurtured artists for centuries, and its influence reaches far beyond its borders; although the majority of Biennial artists are residents, a number are part-time residents or recent graduates of Maine’s many prestigious art programs. This blending of influences and experiences enriches the state’s artistic community and helps to define its art scene as one that benefits from a diversity of traditions both established and new.
A full-color catalogue will published in conjunction with the exhibition and will be available in the Museum Store next spring.
List of 2007 PMA Biennial Accepted Artists:
Stats:
920 applicants
61 artists selected
98 works
17 artists have exhibited in previous Biennials*
*Mary Aro (Grosse Pointe Park, MI, Sedgwick, ME) (1998, 2001)
Christopher Becker (Kennebunkport, ME)
Ian Blethen (West Gardiner, ME)
Catherine Bowen (Portland, ME)
*Astrid Bowlby (Philadelphia, PA) (2003, 2005)
*Alan Bray (Sangerville, ME) (1998)
*Elizabeth Cashin McMillen (Marlboro, ME) (1998, 2001)
Monica Chau (Warren, ME)
Tillman Crane (Camden, ME)
Daniel E. Davis (Portland, ME)
Angela Devenney (Portland, ME)
Eirene Efstathiou (Portland, ME)
Melanie Fiander (Portland, ME)
Virginia Fleck (Austin, TX)
Denise Froehlich (Kennebunkport, ME)
Jennifer Gardiner (Portland, ME)
Simon Harling (New Castle, NH)
Ethan Hayes-Chute (Freeport, ME)
Adriane Herman (Portland, ME)
Marcy Hermansader (Putney, VT)
*Duncan Hewitt (Hollis, ME) (2001)
Tom Hibschman (Kittery Point, ME)
Tanja Alexia Hollander (Auburn, ME)
Peter Holzhauer (Los Angeles, CA)
A. D. Jacobson (Newton, MA, Lewiston, ME)
*Yvonne Jacquette (New York, NY, Searsmont, ME) (2001)
Penelope Jones (Portland, ME)
*Christopher Keister (Portland, ME) (2003)
Jeff Kellar (Falmouth, ME)
*Joe Kievitt (Portland, ME) (2001, 2003)
Joe Klofas (Bridgton, ME)
Luke Lamborn (Colorado Springs, CO)
Robert Lieber (Peaks Island, ME)
*Lynda Litchfield (Cape Elizabeth, ME)
(2001, 2003)
Sandy Litchfield (Amherst, MA)
Allan G. Macintyre (Somerville, MA)
*Sarah Malakoff (Roslindale, MA) (2003)
James B. Marshall (Brunswick, ME)
*Frank Meuschke (Brooklyn, NY) (2003)
John Meyers (Portland, ME)
Thomas Peter Michelena (Camden, ME)
*Elke Morris (Lewiston, ME) (2005)
Yeshe Parks (Winthrop, ME)
Meg Brown Payson (Freeport, ME)
*Scott Peterman (Hollis, ME) (2001, 2005)
Tina Rath (Portland, ME)
*Justin Richel (Portland, ME) (2003)
Benjamin Rush (New York, NY)
Joel Seah (Portland, ME)
*Robert Shillady (Brooklin, ME) (2005)
Lynn A. Simmons (Worcester, MA)
*Robert Solotaire (Portland, ME) (1998)
Gail Spaien (Kittery Point, ME)
Martin Steingesser (Portland, ME)
Cynthia Stroud (Brooklin, ME)
Ling-Wen Tsai and Nathan Kolosko (Portland, ME)
Sam Van Aken (Syracuse, NY)
*Nancy Romines Walters (Wilton, ME) (2005)
Gilbert Welch (Ellsworth, ME)
Henry Wolyniec (Portland, ME)
Jessica Yankura (Norwalk, CT)
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