‘COASTING’ at Landing Gallery features artist Sarah Faragher

Landing Gallery opens a new solo art exhibition of 28 paintings by Sarah Farager, “COASTING,” on June 2. The exhibition runs through June 28, with an opening reception from 5 to 8 p.m. June 2 during First Friday Art Walk.

Sarah Faragher was born and raised on the coast of Maine, studied art history and painting at Colby College and the University of Maine, and now lives and works as a professional painter in midcoast Maine. She has attended residencies at Weir Farm National Historic Park, Acadia National Park, Monson Arts, and on Great Spruce Head Island.

Faragher’s work is featured in “Drawing New Audiences, Expanding Interpretive Possibilities: Artist-in-Residence Programs of the National Park Service” (U.S Department of the Interior 2009), was selected for the 2011 Portland Museum of Art Biennial, is included in the book “Art of Acadia” by David Little and Carl Little (Down East Books 2016, 2023), and will be in the Littles’ forthcoming book “Art of Penobscot Bay” (Islandport Press 2023). In 2021 Faragher published a memoir about painting on Bear Island in Penobscot Bay, titled “Autobiography of an Island.”

“My paintings are memoirs of my experiences with nature. Through painting, I participate in the landscape, recognize transcendent moments in nature, honor the integrity of natural forms, and describe where my heart lives. I often feel as if the places I paint have commissioned me to tell their autobiographies, at the same time that I tell my own.”

Landing Gallery is at 409 Main St. in Rockland. Hours are noon to 5 p.m. Thursday through Sunday. The gallery is closed Monday through Wednesday. For more information, call 207-239-1223, or email [email protected].