REsidents

bree gant is an artist and thinker from the westside of Detroit. She cultivates a critical, embodied practice that engages art as a form for care and knowledge production.

Don Voisine, in Fort Kent, Me, attended the Portland School of Art and Concept, School for Visual Studies in Portland, ME. He received an honorary BFA from the Maine College of Art in 2000.

Leenda Bonilla is an interdisciplinary artist, arts/cultural producer, and community advocate. Her practice is influenced by her urban/suburban background (born in NYC, raised in The Bronx and Puerto Rico).

Sachiko Akiyama received her MFA in sculpture from Boston University and her work is represented by Tracey Morgan Gallery in Asheville, NC.

Barbara Sullivan is a painter/sculptor and installation artist living in Maine. She works in the age–old medium of fresco, which she learned when she was the head cook at The Skowhegan School of Sculpture and Painting.

Straus works primarily in wood and mixed media, and has most recently been creating site-specific, large scale installations. Inventiveness, humor and narrative are key elements of her sculpture.

Dalia Amara is an American-Jordanian multidisciplinary artist working in photography, video, performance, and sculpture.

Ryan Adams is a Portland Maine artist, born and raised, where he lives with his artist and designer wife and their two daughters. His background in traditional graffiti led him to creating large-scale mural work as well as hand lettered design and signage.

Tempestt Hazel is a curator, writer, artist advocate, and co-founder of Sixty Inches From Center, a Chicago-based arts publication and archiving initiative that has promoted and preserved the practices of BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ artists, and artists with disabilities across the Midwest since 2010.

Ivan Rios-Fetchko (b. 1994) is a painter and photographer currently living and working in Los Angeles, California, where he was raised. In 2018, he graduated from the Brown/RISD Dual-Degree program with a BFA in Painting from RISD and a BA in Comparative Literature from Brown. His work deals with history, memory, and how they appear in the American landscape and mythos.

Lisi Raskin’s creative and curricular practices have become laboratories where they deliberately build anti-architectural bridges between politicized subject matter, queer ontologies, abstraction, collaborative making, non-hierarchical and intersectional interventions into normative systems of power, and engaged pedagogy.

Mariah Garnett (b. 1980, Portland, ME; lives and works in Los Angeles) mixes documentary, narrative and experimental filmmaking practices to make work that accesses existing people and communities beyond her immediate experience.

Jesse Littlefield (b. 1977, Massachusetts) has mounted a solo show at Zieher Smith & Horton (New York) and was featured in a two-person exhibition alongside Sadie Laska at Harper’s Books (East Hampton, NY).

B. Ingrid Olson (b. 1987) lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. In 2022, Olson will have concurrent solo exhibitions, History Mother and Little Sister, at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Isaac Jaegerman is a visual artist working in Portland, Maine. His work centers on drawing and painting, printmaking and cut-paper mediums. Inventing landscapes and pulling natural artifacts into abstract space, Jaegerman explores the way nature can be off-balance, full of near symmetry while falling into disorder, dissonant and alluring.

Kathleen Henderson is a visual artist living and working in the Bay Area. With a tense and energetic line, using oil stick and brush on paper, she creates works that are at once comic, perverse, poignant, and beautiful.

Melissa Levin is an artist-centered curator, values-driven arts administrator, and steadfast advocate for just and equitable practices in the arts. She has over 15 years of experience leading non-profit arts organizations and realizing ambitious public art projects and exhibitions.

Lucy Kim is a visual artist working in painting, sculpture, and biological media. Her work explores visual mechanisms, such as distortion and projection, that are involved in the transition from physical subject to image.

Stephanie Dinkins is a transmedia artist who creates platforms for dialog about race, gender, aging, and our future histories.

Karen moved to Maine in 1987 and taught Printmaking, Drawing, and Bookmaking at the University of Maine @ Augusta until 2017. Her print works have been exhibited nationally and internationally and she has received numerous grants and awards.

Johanna Unzueta (Santiago, Chile, 1974) studied art at the Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago. Lived in New York City between 2000-2020, currently is based in Berlin.

My paintings are usually site-specific and react to the spaces of the exhibition. I recreate utilitarian uses of painting, which alter representational and perceptual planes, to make the painting perform as space and ask the body to assume the role of the figure of the painting.

My work starts with research-based fiction. From existing socio-economic and political conditions, I build fictional worlds, fabricated narratives that speak to contested accounts of the past and present.

Marcia Minter, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Indigo Arts Alliance is a seasoned creative professional, dedicated arts advocate and community leader deeply committed to social and cultural activism.

Glendalys Medina investigates structures such as architecture, character, language, image and culture. Through drawings, sculptures, videos and performance she pulls these structures apart, pieces them together, and makes them hers. Self-improvement and habitual practices such as incantations and mediation activate her work. Medina's artistic practice is a spiritual one in which geometry reveals creative intelligence, where obscurity equals complete presence and daily practices cultivate personal growth.

From my studio overlooking the Androscoggin River in Maine, I make drawings, prints, and paintings. Sometimes these morph into three-dimensional objects.

My creative and intellectual interests as an artist center around the durational and tactile possibilities of process-based painting. By extruding thick oil paint in small systematic marks, I slowly build highly textured surfaces that appear to be woven.

I'm invested in the intersection of archives, blackness and representation. Always looking for reflections of my own identity within visual culture, my approach to projects is research-based, excavating under-recognized or hidden archives of blackness.

Carly Glovinski received her BFA from Boston University in 2003 and is represented by Morgan Lehman Gallery in New York.

Crystalle Lacouture is an artist based in Boston and North Adams, MA. She received her BFA in Painting/Printmaking from Skidmore College in 2000.

Mary Mattingly is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work explores issues of sustainability, climate change and displacement. Mattingly combines photography, performance, portable architecture and sculptural ecosystems into poetic visions of adaptation and survival.

The way material is or isn't used creates margins of value, usefulness, awareness, and habit. I'm launching an investigation into these margins and intervening with ritualized labor and body intervention.

Like many painters before me, I’m interested in the confines of the canvas, a necessarily restraining space. I ask questions of this historically masculine rectangle: in what ways can the femme figure occupy the frame? Is this relationship inevitably a sadomasochistic one, with its preconditions of boundaries and control?

Erin Johnson's video installations blend documentary, experimental, and narrative filmmaking devices, and foreground the ways in which individual lives and sociopolitical realities merge.

Dennis RedMoon Darkeem is inspired to create artwork based on the familiar objects he views through his daily travels. He discovers elements in existing architecture and among everyday items found within the home.

Yevgeniya Baras is an artist living and working in New York City. She is represented by Nicelle Beauchene Gallery in NY and the Landing Gallery in LA.

Susan (Suzy) Delvalle is a fierce advocate for art and artists. With over 20 years of leadership experience in the cultural sector, she has committed her career to enhancing the impact of mission-based organizations and building opportunity and equity in the arts.

Meghan Brady, a painter, is based in Midcoast Maine. Through painting, printmaking, and drawing-installations, Brady explores the possibilities of a wide-ranging practice.

Shannon is a multidisciplinary artist making work about accessibility and disability culture. They have done projects with Banff Centre, the High Line, MCA Denver, Tallinn Art Hall, and Nook Gallery.

Julia (b. 1980 in Salisbury, MD) received her MFA from American University in Washington D.C. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include…

Dr. Carrie Cushman joins Surf Point for a residency during the third week of December. Carrie joined the Davis Museum at Wellesley College in September of 2018 for a three-year term appointment as the Linda Wyatt Gruber '66 Curatorial Fellow in Photography.

Elaine K. Ng explores the physical and psychological structures of site. Her multi-disciplinary practice uses material investigation, writing, and research to examine collective knowledge of place.

Daniel AnTon Johnson is an artist with a diverse practice based in photography, language, film, and video. His work examines how technology shapes notions of identity within popular culture and contemporary visual media.

Anna Hepler is a sculptor based in Greenfield, MA. She comes from a family of botanists and beekeepers who structured their lives around the unpredictable movements and challenges of the natural world.

Kathleen Kolb is interested in the action and meaning of visual light on everyday surroundings and in the intersection of emotional experience with what we see.

Jibade-Khalil Huffman’s practice encompasses writing, image making and where these two meet somewhere in the middle.

Cynthia Barton makes both policy and textiles. She is trained as an architect, and much of her work deals with post-disaster housing and community recovery.

ShiaoPing Wang immigrated from Taiwan and has a MFA from Queens College, City University of New York. Using various painting media, Wang aims to invent her own language from different cultures to bridge intuition and knowledge.

Born in Indianapolis, Caleb Cole is a former altar server, scout, and 4-H Grand Champion in Gift Wrapping. Their work addresses themes such as belonging and loneliness, unrealized desires, and imagined queer histories and futures.

Bryan Graf received an MFA from Yale University in 2008 and a BFA from the Art Institute of Boston in 2005. His work has been exhibited internationally; most recently at Atlanta Contemporary, where his solo exhibition, Landlines, is on view through December 22, 2019.

Welcome to Daisy Nam, pilot curator in residence at Surf Point.