Category: Waldoboro
Asian brushwork in Maine
As August continues, Jean Kigel will feature her Asian brush paintings at her Back Cove Gallery, 1396 Back Cove Road in Waldoboro. Kigel has established herself as a dedicated artist, blending Asian brushwork with the roughness of the Maine Coast. The late critic Philip Isaacson wrote, “Kigel is a master of the oriental brush. Her […]
Open house at Back Cove Gallery
During August, a salon-style exhibit at Back Cove Gallery, 1396 Back Cove Road in Waldoboro, features new work by Jean Kigel in watercolor, Asian brush and oil. “During this past year of relative isolation, I first created a series of abstract ink paintings depicting sun-bleached pieces of desert wood found in Utah’s Canyon Land National […]
‘Les Animaux’ at Jean Kigel Gallery
Jean Kigel Gallery, 1396 Back Cove Road, Waldoboro, presents “Les Animaux” on July 16 through the end of the month. This show features paintings of animals we live with and must protect. Kigel’s larger than life, detailed watercolors of lobsters have been exhibited in Woodward Gallery in Manhattan, Archipelago in Rockland, and the American […]
‘Walking with Trees’ at Jean Kigel Gallery
Jean Kigel Gallery will present the exhibit “Walking with Trees” during the first two weeks of July at 1396 Back Cove Road in Waldoboro. Her signature piece, “Wildlife Preserve at Martin Point,” is one of three of her paintings to be recently selected for the Art in Embassies Program of the U.S. Department of State […]
Jean Kigel Gallery presents ‘The Buzz about Bees’
Jean Kigel Gallery, located at 1396 Back Cove Road in Waldoboro, will host “The Buzz about Bees” from June 18 to 30. This show focuses on close-ups of Asian brush and watercolor florals, as well as their many pollinators. Look closely at Kigel’s Asian brush peonies, lotus and lilies, and you’ll see their pollen-laden stamen. […]
Jean Kigel Gallery in Back Cove Gallery presents ‘Glory of the Flower’
In June, Jean Kigel Gallery in Waldoboro is featuring watercolors and Asian brush florals inspired by Maine’s bulbs, tubers and trees. The “hosts of daffodils” that ushered in the season have now been followed by columbine, dogwood, lupine and apple blossoms. As usual, seasonal blooms, like iris and rhododendrons, direct her palette and her hand. […]
Jean Kigel Gallery in Back Cove Gallery presents ‘The Thaw’
We have set our clocks forward. The equinox has come and gone. We are stripping off layers. And the roads have been posted. But we must endure the thaw. During April, Jean Kigel Gallery, at 1396 Back Cove in Waldoboro, presents “The Thaw,” a series of paintings depicting that transitional season often dubbed Mud […]
Waldoboro’s Back Cove Gallery presents Jean Kigel’s ‘The Year of the Ox’ exhibition
Jean Kigel’s new Back Cove Gallery opens with a show of Asian brush paintings titled “The Year of the Ox.” This exhibit will take place online and at the gallery, located at 1396 Back Cove Road in Waldoboro, throughout March. Over the past decades, Kigel’s Asian brush paintings have received an overwhelming response both locally […]
‘Tools of the Trade’ at Jean Kigel Studio
Jean Kigel’s final biweekly virtual theme show for the season is called “Tools of the Trade.” If you are drawn to old stuff, you’ll appreciate this series of keepsakes. The show runs Sept. 25 through Oct. 9. Kigel has amassed personal artifacts for these paintings. Appropriately, this collection starts with her favorite tools for Asian […]
‘Back Yard Hens’ at Jean Kigel Studio
From Aug. 21 to Sept. 4, Jean Kigel Studio returns with Kigel’s bird series, this time with oil paintings of backyard hens. These paintings weigh in on the current impulse to provide for oneself as much as possible, by raising backyard hens for meat and eggs. Having grown up on a poultry farm, Kigel found […]
