Category: Waldoboro
Jean Kigel reflects on changing seasons at Waldoboro gallery
Jean Kigel Studio + Gallery in Waldoboro is featuring “There Is a Season,” a watercolor depicting a sailboat skimming across Penobscot Bay, as part of its October exhibition. The work reflects on the passage of time and the idea of closure, a theme that extends throughout art history. Art movements emerge, evolve and eventually give […]
Jean Kigel reflects on the fall harvest
Jean Kigel Studio + Gallery in Waldoboro celebrates the fall harvest season this October with “The Harvest,” a painting of wooden ladders set against apple trees. The old-fashioned ladders represent the precariousness of farming in an era when more migrants than locals harvest Maine’s apples. A dark path leads ominously out of the orchard. Kigel […]
‘Briny’ explores oyster farming along the Damariscotta River
Jean Kigel Studio + Gallery in Waldoboro presents “Briny,” an exhibition inspired by the oyster farms thriving in Midcoast Maine. Oyster farms float in the clean, briny waters along the Damariscotta River, where workers harvest 2- to 3-year-old oysters for restaurants and seafood markets. Using Asian brush techniques, Kigel captures the harvest on absorbent rice […]
Jean Kigel Studio + Gallery presents ‘Turbulent Times’
Jean Kigel Studio + Gallery in Waldoboro presents “Turbulent Times,” a selection of images chosen to unsettle the mind. Featuring “The Point,” a cold wax and oil painting, the exhibition includes images addressing global warming, the death of the shrimp fishing industry and the Irish potato famine. Kigel specializes in watercolors, oils and gyotaku fish […]
Jean Kigel opens 26th annual ‘Eastern Views’ in Waldoboro
Jean Kigel Studio + Gallery in Waldoboro presents Kigel’s 26th annual “Eastern Views” from Aug. 7 to 9. The solo exhibition features recent paintings in a range of subjects and media. Kigel’s prismatic seascapes include work that will also appear in an exhibition at Craignair Gallery on Clark Island later this month. Her underwater oil […]
Jean Kigel features ‘Patchwork’ at Waldoboro studio
Jean Kigel Studio + Gallery in Waldoboro is currently featuring “Patchwork,” an oil painting by Jean Kigel. A few years ago, Kigel was one of 11 artists chosen to spend a day painting on Allen Island, six miles off Port Clyde. “I had passed this bleak island many times en route to Monhegan and had […]
Jean Kigel Studio + Gallery features ‘Entente’
Waldoboro’s Jean Kigel Studio + Gallery features “Entente,” a watercolor by Jean Kigel depicting two red-hot lobsters sedately shaking claws. “Now more than ever we need Entente,” Kigel wrote. “The world is at war, political parties can’t work together, and some neighbors are loath to talk to each other.” Kigel described the painting as symbolic […]
Beloved Art Box vending machine moves from Blue Hill to Waterfall Arts in Belfast
The Art Box — a beloved vintage vending machine stocked with original small-format artwork by local artists — has found a new home at Waterfall Arts in Belfast after more than a decade on the Blue Hill peninsula. The project was founded by Michele Levesque, who was inspired by Art-O-Mat machines she encountered around the […]
Jean Kigel Studio + Gallery lends work to ‘Emotional Currents’ exhibition in Waldoboro
Jean Kigel Studio + Gallery in Waldoboro will loan paintings to “Emotional Currents: Between Survival and Freedom,” an exhibition opening June 19 at Open House of History — the Waldoboro Custom House — at 908 Main St. The show runs through Aug. 9. Curated by Michael Amico, the exhibition explores how the relationship between ocean […]
Jean Kigel Studio + Gallery presents ‘Artifacts’ in Waldoboro this May
Jean Kigel Studio + Gallery in Waldoboro is showing “Artifacts” this month, a collection of watercolors and oils depicting everyday tools and household objects — machining tools, drills, sad irons, rolling pins and bean pots, many from Kigel’s own family. The featured work is “Blue Oil Can,” a 1930s garage item that, like the other […]
