Join us for one of our 2024 Tuesday Talks, conversations with fascinating artists, curators and others who provide further insight into our exhibitions, the historical Ogunquit art communities, and more. Talks will be held in person, from 5-7pm, unless otherwise noted.
Tuesday Talks are free with admission, and always free for members. Click here to join as a member.
Details of speakers coming soon!
May 14 – Emilie Stark-Menneg, Sascha Braunig, and James Parker Foley.
A panel on the figure in Contemporary Maine Painting with Emilie Stark-Menneg, Sascha Braunig, and James Parker Foley moderated by Devon Zimmerman, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.
Emilie Stark-Menneg is a Maine-based artist. She received her MFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Art and Design in 2019 and her BFA in combined media from Cornell University in 2007. Her show, “Thread of Her Scent” is currently on view at the Farnsworth Museum of Art through September 22nd 2024. Her recent show, “Supernatural,” at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art was a multi-media installation, which included works from their collection. Her work belongs in the collections of the Farnsworth Museum of Art and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
June 11 – Tessa Greene O’Brien, Kate Bickmore and Leon Benn.
A panel on the nature in Contemporary Maine Painting with Tessa Greene O’Brien Kate Bickmore, and Leon Benn, moderated by Devon Zimmerman, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.
Tessa Greene O’Brien is a Maine native, artist & curator based in South Portland. She received a BS degree in Fine Art from Skidmore College and an MFA from Maine College of Art and Design. O’Brien has shown throughout the United States, including recent exhibitions at Platform Project Space, Brooklyn; Vardan Gallery, Los Angeles; Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland; Buoy Gallery, Kittery; Sears Peyton Gallery, NYC; Studio E Gallery, Seattle; and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art. She was a 2022-2023 Residential Fellow at The Lunder Institute for American Art at Colby College; other residencies include Surf Point, Tides Institute, Monson Arts, Haystack, Hewnoaks, Vermont Studio Center, Joseph A Fiore Art Center, and Stephen Pace House. Grants and awards include the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, The Ellis Beauregard Foundation, the Maine Arts Commission, the Joseph. A. Fiore Painting Prize, St. Botolphs Emerging Artist Award, and the Kindling Fund at SPACE Gallery.
Kate Bickmore (b. Albany, NY 1993) is a British-American artist currently living between London, UK and Rockland, ME. She is represented by Andrew Reed Gallery. Her practice focuses on creating colorful, immersive paintings of large scale flowers inspired by her experiences of awe as a highly sensitive queer woman. She graduated from the MA painting program at the Royal College of Art in 2019, during which she received the Chadwell Award. She completed her BA from Hamilton College, Clinton, NY in 2015 (honors, summa cum laude), following a semester studying abroad at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. Bickmore has presented a solo exhibition at Andrew Reed gallery in Miami, and two solo exhibitions at AnnkaKultys gallery in London. She has participated in group exhibitions with Andrew Reed gallery, Miami, Double Q gallery, Hong Kong, Hannah Barry gallery, London, and PM/AM gallery, London. In 2021 she collaborated with international fashion brand Karen Millen on two capsule collections that printed her paintings on textiles. She has also been an artist-in-residence at Rotation Works, New York City, NY, the Anderson Center at Tower View, Red Wing, MN; Brydcliffe Art Colony, Woodstock, NY, and Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, Nebraska City, NE.
Leon Benn (b. Philadelphia 1981) attended the Rhode Island School of Design to study Illustration and art history. He worked in New York City as both a commercial and residential muralist and scenic painter then received an MFA in painting from UCLA. Benn’s ongoing painting practice combines ideas around human evolution, modernity, climate change, good+bad science, and the sublime in nature. He currently lives in Portland, Maine with his wife, two children, two cats, and lots of plants.
July 9 – Anthony Cudahy.
Anthony Cudahy in conversation with Devon Zimmerman, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art in conjunction with the exhibition Anthony Cudahy: Spinneret.
August 13 – Scott Bane.
Author and historian Scott Bane on the work and lives of Russell Cheney and F.O. Matthiessen in conjunction with the exhibition Domestic Modernism.
September 10 – Devon Zimmerman.
Devon Zimmerman, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art on Lee Krasner: Geometries of Expression
October 8 – Sarah Humphreville.
Sarah Humphreville, Lunder Curator of American Art at the Colby College Museum of Art on women and abstraction at mid-century in the United States.
