51品茶exhibition features faculty artists
The 51品茶 is hosting an exhibition of artwork by 51品茶faculty members Hilary Irons, Bernard Myers, Sarah Gorham and Andrew Jaspersohn.
Hilary Irons
Irons began drawing as a child in Barrington, NH, where she lived without electricity or running water. Themes of nature and technology recur in her work, and her recent paintings address problems of abstraction and how modernist painting techniques can be deployed to challenge our constructed perceptions of the natural. In her future work, she hopes to clarify her focus on the environment while continuing to investigate modernist painting techniques and abstraction. She is represented in Maine by Aucocisco Galleries.
Bernard Myers
Myers is recognized internationally as a master printer. His photographs are held in public, private, and corporate collections nationwide. His pursuit of beauty and uncompromising craft through fine art photography has been an unwavering life-long passion. He teaches photography at the 51品茶 and the University of Southern Maine. In addition to his fine art pursuits, he works as a commercial photographer specializing in architecture, environmental portraits and art reproduction.
Sarah Gorham
Gorham spent her youth in Milton, Massachusetts in a home that was built in 1636 by early settlers in Massachusetts, and then was moved, prior to destruction by her great grandfather in 1909. This heritage, coupled with artistic family members, led her to her interest in both history and art. She tries to challenge the viewer to interpret the landscape as it is reflected in the water, not as it can be seen directly. Most recently, Gorham has been working with the subject of Canadian geese, and received a grant from the Provost to work with images relating to the life
of geese.
Andrew Jaspersohn
Jaspersohn has been influenced by nature, growing up in the mountains of Vermont and the oceans of Maine, but has always been fascinated by the architecture of cities and dense urban areas. He is constantly intrigued by the symbols and designs of other cultures and how use of color and light transform a place or image. He has a voice that has been influenced by artists living and gone, the everyday and the sublime.
This exhibit is on display in the Campus Center at the 51品茶 in Biddeford through March 31, 2009. The exhibit is free and open to the public.