The Wrong Sea
Sachiko Akiyama, Jared Buckhiester, Cathleen Clarke, Lynne Mapp Drexler, Marley Freeman, Jerrell Gibbs, Bambou Gili, Dylan Hausthor, Danielle Mckinney, Jesse Mockrin, Catalina Ouyang, Eric Palgon, Lily Stockman, Owen Westberg, Coco Young
in collaboration with 
August 3 – October 5, 2024
This collaboration was motivated by the two galleries' mutual desire to celebrate Maine's place within art history. Beginning in the late 1800s, Maine became known for its artist communities, including Ogunquit, Haystacks and Skowhegan among others. Many of their founding artists studied in Europe; they brought back to the States a romanticized vision of the pastoral and an emphatic rejection of modern life. These artists were deeply influenced by the Barbizon and post-impressionist painters who sought unmanicured nature as a subject. And so the lush forests and jagged coasts to the north of New York and Boston became in many ways the American Fontainebleau, attracting Edward Hopper, Frederic Edwin Church, Robert Henri, Margaret Jordan Patterson and countless subsequent followers to the landscape. Throughout 'The Wrong Sea' contemporary artists from both gallery programs echo the sentiments of this history.