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Artist Dialogue | Bronlyn Jones + Robert Bauer

August 13, 2024 | 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm EDT

Tuesday, August 13 | 5-6pm | In-person at CMCA

Please join us at the CMCA on Tuesday, August 13th at 5pm, for an in-person conversation with exhibiting artists Bronlyn Jones and Robert Bauer and artist and curator Annika Earley. The Summer exhibition, Bronlyn Jones & Robert Bauer features drawings and paintings by Jones and Bauer who are based in Thomaston, Maine. 

Jones and Bauer’s paintings and drawings share deep formal and conceptual connections. Powerful yet subtle movements, focused observations, and a slowing down of time come together to create an atmosphere of reverence for the subject, for the material, and the process.  

Attendees will be walking through the exhibition as Jones, Bauer, and Earley discuss how these two artists address chance, choice, and control in their works. 

About the artists:

Bronlyn Jones works with particularities. Graphite (various gradations), paper (Basingwerk) and frames (designed by her) are the physical materials she uses to make her works. Drafting tools are valued for both what they do right and what ‘happens’. Mistakes, smudges and blemishes are engaged with as much as the minute choices of proportions, weight and presence. What is actively applied may be selectively removed. What is mistakenly added may not be entirely erased. Absence is hinted at and presence is held in check. Active, passive and the meeting of the two are key for Jones, both in the individual works and in daily life.

Bronlyn Jones’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. Her work is included in numerous private and public collections including; Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, RISD Museum, Providence, RI, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA among others. She lives in Mid Coast Maine. Jones is represented by Krakow Witkin Gallery in Boston, MA. 

Robert Bauer’s realist portraits and landscapes are noted for their sensitive and introspective portrayals. There is a palpable sense of life in each of these intimate works, stemming from Bauer’s lengthy painting process and keen attention to subtle detail. These contemplative and pensive faces are drawn directly from the subject as well as from pencil studies and photographs. His landscapes offer plenty of rich detail to take in: they are simultaneously intimate and vast, still and vibrant. 

Robert Bauer is the recipient of three Massachusetts Cultural Council grants, two Pollock-Krasner Foundation grants in Painting (1998 and 2014), and he was a finalist in the 2006 Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition.  Bauer’s work is represented in public and private collections throughout the United States, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, AR; and the Janss Collection of American Realism, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID. Bauer is represented by Forum Gallery in New York, NY and lives in mid-coast Maine.

About the curator:

Annika Earley is an artist and curator. She holds an MFA from Maine College of Art as well as an M.Phil from College of the Atlantic and has been a resident at the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation in Rockland, ME, Hewnoaks Artist Colony in Lovell, ME,  Monson Arts in Monson, ME, Pace House Residency in Stonington, ME, and the Walkaway House in North Adams, MA. Earley has been supported by the St. Botolph Foundation in Boston, MA, the New York Foundation for the Arts, The Albert K, Murray Fund, and SPACE Gallery’s American Rescue Plan Grant. Earley’s work is in the collections of the University of Southern Maine and the College of the Atlantic and has been most recently exhibited at THIS Gallery in Vancouver, Canada. She has curated exhibitions at Able Baker Contemporary, Speedwell Contemporary, and Zero Station in Portland, Maine. Originally from rural Switzerland, Earley now lives in mid-coast Maine.


Header image: Robert Bauer, Untitled, 2017, gouache, 6.25″ x 8.5″.

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Date:
August 13, 2024
Time:
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm EDT
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Venue

CMCA
21 Winter Street
Rockland, ME 04841 United States
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Phone:
207-701-5005

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