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Corey Daniels Gallery, Wells, ME • coreydanielsgallery.com • Through October 15, 2024
Life Forms, a series of exhibitions that will take place in different venues across Maine over the next four years, kicks off with this showcase of the twelve artists in the collective: Leah Gauthier, Jackie Brown, Lynn Duryea, Kazumi Hoshino, Elaine K. Ng, Bronwen O’Wril, Ashley Page, Veronica Perez,
Celeste Roberge, Naomi David Russo, Ling-Wen Tsai, and Erin Woodbrey. It’s a diverse and brilliant line-up.
Roberge’s Seaweed Will Be Lapping at Your Doorstep #2 envisions the future by way of a pair of wax cast seaweed-covered Muck boots—“imaginative survival gear,” she calls them. In a like manner, Woodbrey presents single-use plastic containers for surface cleaners and water, covered in ash, plaster, and gauze—effigies of consumer goods (or bads).
By contrast, Russo offers fanciful practical creations, Squiggle Mirror and Coil Lamp, each incorporating curved elements that enhance the wall fixtures. The small white oak pieces in O’Wril’s Pick Me Up also play on curvature, smooth shapes that might be part of a puzzle. Elsewhere, Page’s wire constructions, Black and Porous and Black Seed, are loose and linear.
Duryea’s terracotta Slant #19 and Tilt are soft-toned and en
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Ling-Wen Tsai, “Rising/Sinking Study Chair,” wood and milk paint, 12 x 12 x 5 inches. Photo courtesy of Corey Daniels Gallery and Life Forms
One of the great pleasures of visiting Corey Daniels Gallery in Wells is always the hunt. The rambling spaces are chock-full of interesting art, objects and intriguing juxtapositions of these that one just happens upon by accident. The current hunt Daniels offers us is “Life Forms” (through Sept. 21), the debut show of a new women’s sculpture collective of the same name.
The idea for the collective was hatched a year ago by Leah Gauthier and Bronwen O’Wril, a fellow artist mom who Gauthier met at a summer camp she runs for children. It was largely a response to the isolation of the pandemic, which fomented in both women a deep desire for community. Gauthier and O’Wril assembled a list of artists they admired, and the dozen who now form the collective began meeting over Zoom to plan not one but several shows. Five are in the works, with confirmed stops at Speedwell Gallery in November (all 12 artists), University of Southern Maine (focusing on four of the sculptors) and a yet-to-be-announced final venue that’s just been “penciled in” for 2027.
For this show, many of the women pulled from existing work, though in the future there wil
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Sawyer Street Studios
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