About the artists:

Christina Maile

My family came from Borneo and Trinidad, making my childhood filled with stories about the woman with no face, heedless nature, and the dangers awaiting the living and dead. These stories encouraged me to detect the complex narrative structures which create what everything we see, hidden underneath like roots or veins. Painting for me is a physical thinking process to find the unexpected dialogue between things. This exhibit is expresses received images of mother and child, the lexicon of landscape, and the damage/salvage of Sandy. I would like to dedicate this exhibit to Dan Rice, a second generation Abrstract Expressionist and an extraordinary teacher. I want to thank the Pollock Krasner Foundation and the Joan Mitchell Foundation for their support. Website: christinamaile.com

Parviz Mohassel

I am a painter, an architect and a philosopher. The painted lines and surfaces for me are findings, which are left behind in the process of painting as if they were at a distance, holding on. I am not painting for re-arrangement, re-orientation or composition. Rather I am activating conditions for variations to surface on a canvas. The invisible lurks behind every gestural brushstroke. If the invisible fades in the process, it persists, in variations taking shape on the canvas. Painting is an experience of activated horizonal possibilities, holding on to both the visible and invisible. Website: parvizmohassel.com

Ed Casey

Ed Casey’s works in this show constitute a set of free variations on landscape vistas. They include seascapes seen near Stonington, Maine, where he has painted in the company of Christina Maile and Parviz Mohassel and others during the past two decades. Reversing the usual course of late modern art, their evolution is from mainly abstract motifs to increasingly representational treatments. Casey’s preferred media are acrylic and watercolor, whose fast-drying water base requires rapid execution. He likes to think of his work as offering quick glances into the land and sea worlds: instantaneous takes on whatever catches his eye in those worlds. Website: edwardscasey.com

Megan Craig

Megan Craig’s work in this show relates to gravity and the variable weights of things. Some of the paintings deal with possible ways in which something withstands a pressure, rises, falls, floats, or buckles. Some have to do with ideas about digging or weeding – ways of moving through clutter and getting closer to the ground. Others depict ways of caring for abandoned things – cradling them, holding them up, and giving them a place to stand. Recently Craig has been thinking about painting as a way of learning how to perform seemingly mundane, elemental or automatic actions: how to breathe, how to grow, how to grip, how to eat, how to fall. Website: megancraig.com