During these strange and unprecedented days, everything feels on edge. At times overwhelmed with world news and extraordinary challenges facing family and friends, the very act of painting, for me, has served as a lifeline. The root influences informing my paintings, namely the ingenious cycles of the natural world and our relationship within it, remain as profound as ever. The starts to my current series of work, The Everyday, were/are at times gestural and spare and alternately dense and layered. Some have remained this way, finished in the their nebulous movement. Others find more concise form and imagery. Flowers particularly seem to want to be the last to speak. Initially I thought to disregard their power, as if flowers and light presenting themselves through my hands and marks, in this time, was not enough. Yet when I allow myself to center, I realize, this is the real work. To trust the resurgence of hope that finds its way through the layers that have come before.
With gratitude for the privilege and ability to create, these last few months have seen a flurry of production. Galleries have stretched to do what they can to support artists. As well as current exhibition preparations, I recently compiled a selection of fictional short stories for a chapbook contest, and submitted video work for a different contest, incorporating various art forms with poetry. I’m excited to share a link for viewing this project in the near future! The following is a list of places where my work is presently or soon to be featured, both in person and virtually.
Art for Right Now
Through Dec. 28
gallery b, 5 Main Street, Castine
213-839-0851
Small Works Show: 2 Sizes 2 Prices
A show comprising two groups of artists making art at two small sizes for two fixed prices.
https://www.gallerybgallery.com/smallworks
The Everyday, New Paintings
December 2020
The Blue Hill Public Library
5 Parker Point Road, Blue Hill
207-374-5515
www.bhpl.net
info@heididaub.com
This is a solo exhibit of my new work. I hope to create a visual tour, for those not able to visit, which I will be posting to Instagram and FB, as well as a featured rotation of the paintings, which are all for purchase, with a portion of the proceeds to benefit the library. The library limits their number of patrons, practices covid protocols and is a safe place for viewing work.
Artemis Gallery
Online through the month of December
http://artemisgalleryme.com/featured-artists/heidi-daub
Thomas Moser Showroom in Freeport
Through the end of December
https://www.thosmoser.com/showroom/freeport-me
Celebrating Maine’s bicentennial with the exhibit “The Pine Tree State at 200: The Art of The Maine Woods.”
Learn more at www.heididaub.com.
Harbor Square Gallery in Camden is showing new work by Thomas O’Donovan, the jeweler and artistic director who founded the gallery more than four decades ago. On view is “Revelation,” from his series The Offering, crafted in 18k gold and bronze with antique coconut heishi beads. Harbor Square Gallery is at 37 Bay View St., […]
The Deer Isle Artists Association gallery welcomes North Carolina-based painter Tony Griffin as artist-in-residence for April. Griffin’s work — deeply rooted in the tradition of the Renaissance masters — spans portraiture, figure painting and plein air landscape. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia and has exhibited throughout North Carolina […]
Waterfall Arts in Belfast opens “Make Your Mark,” an immersive, community-driven exhibition transforming the Clifford Gallery into an interactive space inspired by street art, April 18 through May 29. An opening reception is April 18 from 1 to 3 p.m. and is free and open to the public. The exhibition features participatory installations including doodle […]
Local Color Gallery in Belfast welcomes fiber artist Sarah Leighton as guest artist April 21 through May 17. Leighton will speak about her work during Fourth Friday Gallery Night on April 25 from 4 to 7 p.m., with her talk beginning at 5 p.m. Leighton grew up in Midcoast Maine, where her French-Canadian grandmother — […]
The Union of Maine Visual Artists presents “Bodies in Motion,” an exhibition of work in various media at Zoot Coffee in Camden, running April 1 through 30. The show features 19 artists: Hillary Steinau, Cynthia Motian McGuirl, Jess Lauren Lipton, Charlie Newton, Maryjean Viano Crowe, Mackenzie Martin, Jorge Pena, Rachel Robbins, Shanna McNair, Kristi Marsh, […]
Three artists are currently featured at Dowling Walsh Gallery in Rockland, spanning painting, assemblage and works on paper. Robert Hamilton (1917-2004) thought of his paintings as “a place for something to occur — little pictorial events, little plays.” In “Come Back Sweet Mama (Boy in Museum)” (1990), the avid recreational tennis player imagined a museum […]
Maine Art Gallery in Wiscasset has shaped its 2026 exhibition season around the ways artists respond to the natural world and Maine’s place in the sustainable agriculture movement. The season opens with “Art to Table: Visual Sustenance,” a juried show examining individual and communal relationships to food through works that elevate ingredients, meals and rituals. […]
Meetinghouse Arts kicked off the season with a creative conversation featuring artist Charlie Hewitt on March 18, partnering with Freeport Community Services for the evening event. Hewitt is known for his Hopeful Project, a glowing installation originally commissioned by Speedwell in 2019 that has since spread to dozens of sites. The gallery also hosted a […]
George Marshall Store Gallery in York opened “Block Party!” on March 15, bringing together artists living, working or with ties to York, Kittery, Eliot, South Berwick, Ogunquit and Wells. The open-call exhibition featured a wide variety of mediums, experimental approaches and interpretations of local landmarks. The show included work by Karen Adrienne, Marena Bach, Todd […]
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