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pinkstarlightcomputer · 8 months

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Breehan James

#Breehan James #american artist #flower art

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huariqueje · 2 years

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Night Red Rock Lake - James Breehan

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Oil on canvas , 24 x 30 in.

#James Breehan #american artist #night lake landscape #starry night

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steliosagapitos · 2 years

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“Red Rock Lake” by James Breehan.

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myfairynuffstuff · 4 years

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Breehan James - Bass Lake (Norb’s Cabin). Oil on canvas.

#Breehan James #American #Lake #Cabin #Reflection #Trees

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lagaleriapopurri · 3 years

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James Breehan

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phibetakappa · 6 years

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Wisconsin-native Breehan James has spent the past 10 years depicting her home state and the Boundary Waters of Minnesota. A professor at @bostonu, James says the works of 19th-century Nordic #landscape painters have greatly influenced her own compositions. She discusses how #painting from life is liberating, the benefits of immersing oneself in #nature, and why the wilds of #Wisconsin always refresh her spirit at theamericanscholar.org . . . #TheAmericanScholar #AmericanScholar #AmScho #artist #painter #art #paints #painting #colorful #colors #🎨 #BreehanJames

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nofomoartworld · 7 years

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Portland's Able Baker Lets Artists Cook Up Their Own Shows | #50StatesofArt

Even as it continues to attract visitors for its history and reputable dining options, Portland, Maine could not sidestep the same vanishing act of art scenes occurring worldwide. Almost overnight a few years ago, key Portland venues and galleries that artists relied on as outlets—including The Hay Gallery, June Fitzpatrick, and Aucocisco—shuttered, and a close-knit arts community was left with a clear message: adapt, or face the same swift decision.

Able Baker Contemporary is a new, artist-run space that, alongside lasting staples like SPACE Gallery and Institute for American Art, aims to subvert conservative gallery practices and offer a more experimental approach (New Fruit, Border Patrol, and art walks on Peaks Island are others). Co-founders Stephen Benenson and Hilary Irons opened Able Baker last spring on Forest Ave. in the city's Arts District, and as local painters who felt the void when venues started closing, they operate their new venture with an inviting perspective in mind.

Photo courtesy of Able Baker Contemporary.

"The focus on providing a space by and for artists on all levels was a major motivating factor [in opening the space], during a time when the old standard Portland white cube seemed to be disintegrating," Irons explains to Creators. "We're also fairly traditional in the way that we present the work. This has led to many collaborations—planned and spontaneous—with artists, artist-curators, artist-art-handlers, etc."

Mounting their inaugural exhibition You Yes You under the curation of Camden painter Meghan Brady, who then invited nine of her contemporaries to display their work, Able Baker's approach gives visitors a chance to enjoy an artist's catalogue as well as that artist's taste in others. Support from the Maine visual arts community at large—including interns, artists, and word of mouth from the Maine College of Art (MECA)—also allows Able Baker access to classic pieces to show as context for their shows, such as Andy Warhol's soup-can dress or one of Cy Twombly's lithographs.

Left to right: Andrea Santos (floor pieces), Ryan Travis Christian, Ryan Browning, Bill Donovan, Christopher Forgues (C.F.), Emilie Stark-Menneg.

Recent shows at Able Baker have played into an ideal aesthetic that Irons describes as "the weird and the lovely, manifesting simultaneously." These include the landscapes of Breehan James and Estaban Cabeza de Baca, the painted pattern work of Tamara Gonzales and EJ Hauser, or a number of young abstract artists featured in the Jimmy Viera-curated Periscope, currently showing in the space. Next month, Able Baker will put on Sometimes times: Prints and Poems, which presents twenty new screenprints from artist Terry Winters, each accompanied by a poem from Maine-based poet Mark Melnicove.

With its one-year anniversary approaching and seven exhibitions to show for it, Able Baker Contemporary has so far made good on its promise of returning Portland's art scene to its past vibrancy. But while the venue is there, Irons pinpoints the maritime climate as one major element to still face down.

Andrea Santos, Prism,wood, plaster, duct tape; Anne Buckwalter, gift of the web, oil on paper.

"We have had so many big snow storms and insanely cold days this winter, it really makes a (very understandable) dent in attendance and motivation on the part of visitors," she says. "Summer provides a similar but opposite problem: the ocean, lakes and mountains are so tempting that a lot of people are out of town instead of wandering around the Arts District peering in windows."

Left to right: Emilie Stark-Menneg, Andrea Santos, Michelle Fleck, Christopher Forgues (C.F.)

Christopher Forgues (C.F.), STAGE, graphite and paint, 2016 (detail).

Click here to visit Able Baker Contemporary's website.

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theamericanscholar-blog · 6 years

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“I also like to go up to our family’s cabin in northern Wisconsin. My grandfather built it in the 1960s, and it’s a magical cottage. Now, my whole family shares it. There’s a sense of our family’s history because the cabin never changes. When you go there with family, you feel that people are present—telling stories, cooking food together, and making fires. The experiences I’ve had there with people feel raw and rich. That’s why I go to the wilderness: to look for that and to be refreshed.”—Breehan James for Portrait of the Artist

#Breehan James #artist #painting #landscape #Wisconsin #art #cabin #woods

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nycartscene · 12 years

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Opens Tonight, Feb 23, 6-8p: "Wise Blood” curated by Keri Oldham Field Projects, 526 W26th St., NYC (#807) The works in this exhibition consider historical tracking, mapping, hunting, solitude, and backcountry self-reliance. Wise Blood draws on various histories; from mass-produced Americana to personal connections with cabins and nature. The title of the exhibition refers to Flannery O'Connor's 1952 novel Wise Blood, which highlights eccentric self-reliance and exposes the disparities between rural and modern worlds.

Artists: Christine Gedeon, Abraham McNally, Breehan James, Elissa Levy, and Matthew Craven.