About Life Forms
Life Forms is an experiment in artistic community building, and a series of four exhibitions spanning four years. Participating artists all have strong ties with or are living in Maine. Works will be new, or very recently made, at the time of each exhibition, and must be sculpture, or pushing the boundaries of 3D work. The first three exhibitions will be group shows of four artists each and the final gathering will be a show of all twelve artists. We seek to deepen our relationships with each other and the Maine community over the course of this series.
The artists for the first exhibition, Life Forms Grow, are Jackie Brown, Leah Gauthier, Ashley Page and Elaine K. Ng. Themes of our individual inquiries include, Climate change and interconnectivity, the vulnerability, grace, and complexities of the Black experience, physical and psychological structures of site, the potential of our material environment to hold meaning, and blurring of the real and imagined. Each of us are growing new ideas, bending expectations, and will be encouraging ourselves and our audiences to question assumptions and make new connections.