Amy Pollien and Amy Bernhardt: Color and Composition
May 24 - June 23, 2019
Artists' Reception Saturday, May 25, 4-6 pm
Amy Pollien studied printmaking and industrial design at the Philadelphia College of Art with Michael Lasuchin and William Daley. “Her drawings are subtle, but if you spend a little time with them, they begin to reveal their character. Some of the most striking pieces . . .portray houses, some abandoned, some seasonal, that are being swallowed up by the land and the trees around them.
.They’re a visual record of nature and neglect that is at once wistful and breathtakingly beautiful,” writes Kristen Andresen of the Bangor Daily News. Since 1978 she has exhibited at the Philadelphia Sketch Club, Rutgers University, and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, among others. Her work is included in The Art of Maine Winter by Carl Little and Arnold Skolnick.
The three colors in her palette are permanent yellow light, quinacridone rose, and phthalo blue red, plus ivory black and titanium white. The images are first drawn with a unique charcoal "twig" imported from Italy and then painted with various mixtures of her three-palette colors.
.They’re a visual record of nature and neglect that is at once wistful and breathtakingly beautiful,” writes Kristen Andresen of the Bangor Daily News. Since 1978 she has exhibited at the Philadelphia Sketch Club, Rutgers University, and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, among others. Her work is included in The Art of Maine Winter by Carl Little and Arnold Skolnick.
The three colors in her palette are permanent yellow light, quinacridone rose, and phthalo blue red, plus ivory black and titanium white. The images are first drawn with a unique charcoal "twig" imported from Italy and then painted with various mixtures of her three-palette colors.
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Southwest Harbor
oil on panel 12 x 24
oil on panel 12 x 24
"3 Mason Jars on the Coromandel Coast" oil on panel 24 x 36
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Mason Jars with Mint and Cosmos on Danish Wallpaper diptych oil on panel 24 x 36
"Tropical Fruit with Alexander Marsh Botanical Print of Fritallaria" oil on panel 24 x 36
"Stonington Caress" oil on panel 18 x 36 inches
"Corea Harbor, Low Tide" oil on panel 24 x 36 inches sold-private collection
Amy Pollien is being featured in the June issue of "Maine Homes by Down East." It will be on newsstands May 21.