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Maine Masters News
DAVID DRISKELL DVD now in distribution with a DC premiere scheduled at the National Gallery of Art, April 20, 2013 (see below). See preview here.
Moving ahead…
JOE FIORE in post production through the generosity of the Falcon Foundation.
JON IMBER just selected by Maine Masters Project for documentary portrait. Foundation and individual grants raised reaches $21,000.
Production for YVONNE JACQUETTE, J. FRED WOELL and CARLO PITTORE now completed. Completion funds being sought.
ASHLEY BRYAN project moving ahead. The Islesford School has been renamed the Ashley Bryan School. The Islesford Congregational Church is receiving installation of Ashley Bryan stained glass windows. Fund raising for film has begun. Painter Henry Isaacs will collaborate with Richard Kane and Robert Shetterly. See footage in production here.
ABBY SHAHN documentary to be made in collaboration with Maine filmmaker Ben Levine.
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Maine Masters Archives
| Why should hours of interviews sit on our shelves? So we have started the Maine Master Archives and have begun posting virtually full length interviews starting with Ashley Bryan and Abby Shahn. |
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David Driskell: In Search of the Creative Truth
Now on DVD
premiered at the Maine International Film Festival on July 13, 2012 and was featured at the Camden International Film Festival on October 1, 2012. Will premiere in DC at the National Gallery of Art, April 20, 2013, as part of the Washington, D.C. International Film Festival (FilmFest DC). See preview here.
DAVID DRISKELL: In Search of the Creative Truth, is a story about one of today’s most important artists and leading authorities on African American art. The film captures Driskell making collages inspired by his mentor Romare Bearden, documents him in conversation with National Gallery curator Ruth Fine, and painting at his easel in his Falmouth, Maine studio. The film also explores the give and take of his creative relationship with master print maker, Curlee Holton. It all results in powerful works that pull from abstract expressionism, African art/masks, Coptic art, modernism, cubism—the history of all art in the works of this wise and gentle man.
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Review of Maine Masters series in Yankee Magazine
by Edgar Allen Beem |
Maine Masters Nominated for Emmy Award
April 12, 2011 Boston Stephen Pace: Maine Master was nominated for an Emmy Award by the Boston/New England Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in the Outstanding Arts/Entertainment category. It was broadcast as part of the MPBN Community Films series in 2010 and premiered at the Sony Wonder Technology Lab in New York City in 2009. |
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Beverly Hallam: Artist as Innovator
Now on DVD
premiered at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art on August 23, 2011.
The latest episode of the Maine Masters series is now available on DVD. See preview here.
Beverly Hallam: Artist as Innovator highlights this artist’s brilliant career, including her
 current passion, computer graphics (which she took up in her 80s). Filmed at her studio in York, Maine, this intimate Maine Masters portrait by director Richard Kane and art author Carl Little includes interviews with Vicki Wright, director of collections and exhibitions at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, gallerist John Whitney Payson and art patron Mary-Leigh Smart.
From a family of inventors, engineers and artists, Beverly Hallam began exploring art as a teenager, washing her photos in the bath tub of her home in Lynn, Massachusetts. She studied at the Massachusetts College of Art, Cranbrook Academy and Syracuse University becoming a full-time artist and moving to Ogunquit, Maine , in the 1960s .
Hallam pioneered acrylic paint, mastered monotype and collage, and created large-scale airbrush portraits of flowers that astonished the critics and were coveted by collectors. Her work is in the Fogg Art Museum, Farnsworth Art Museum, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Evansville Museum, and National Museum of Women in the Arts.
“This extraordinary body of images, nasturtiums, poppies, Japanese irises, freesias and other palpable flowers, confronts a reality that is in fact comprised of reflections, and that turns out to be magical rather than photographic.”
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–Robert Taylor, The Boston Globe, 1986 |
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Upcoming Events
April 20, 2013
4 PM
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David Driskell: In Search of the Creative Truth will screen at the National Gallery of Art
as part of the Washington, D.C. International Film Festival (FilmFest DC).
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David Larson: Maine Master
Now on DVD
| Broadcast premiere to be announced. |
The
latest episode of the Maine Masters series 
is now available on DVD.
See a preview here.
David Larson was born in 1931 and discovered at an early age that it was only in the arts–painting, music, poetry–that he felt truly alive and authentic. He chose, however, to use his artistic talents in a successful, New York advertising career until he was 40–realizing then that he had to make good on his desire to be an artist.
He moved his family to an old canning factory in Penobscot, Maine, and began painting & sculpting full time. He rapidly developed one of the most distinctive (and little known) artistic visions in the state. David said his mission was to “articulate the mystery.”
His paintings make no judgments as they explore issues of belief, doubt, angst, suffering, identity, and love. He worked from a place of rigorous integrity, loving the quest, agonizing in the unknowing. He often chose to work in long series of paintings investigating as many aspects of a story, myth, or belief system as he could. Two of these series, the story of Moby Dick and the politics of the Last Supper, are central to this documentary.
A deeply felt tribute to a great American artist by his son, Soren Larson, a television news producer and filmmaker in New York. Directed by Soren Larson, produced by Soren Larson, Richard Kane and Robert Shetterly.
Sponsored
by the Union of Maine Visual Artists, an educational organization promoting
Maine art.
© UMVA
/ Maine Masters Project 2009
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