About
Alison Rector is a painter and printmaker.
She lives and makes artwork in 2 studios in Maine, one on a farm in the mid-coast and the other in Portland.
Alison earned an undergraduate degree from Brown University in Providence RI, including coursework at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Alison in her Portland studio workspace 2025
Alison Rector painting
CV/Resume:
ALISON RECTOR
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Silkscreen Season on a Maine Farm, Courthouse Gallery Fine Art
2023 Island Refuge, Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, Ellsworth, Maine
2022 Studio Daze, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, Maine
2020 Hours of the Day, Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, Ellsworth, Maine
2019 Train Journey, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, Maine
2017 The Value of Thought, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, Maine
2016 Shared Quiet, Greenhut Galleries, Portland Maine
2015 In Celebration of Libraries, Kramer Gallery, Belfast Free Library, Maine
2014 Shared Quiet, Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, Ellsworth, Maine
2010 Remembering Summer Camp, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, Maine
2007 Inside Portland, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, Maine
2005 Summer Shelter, Ten High Street, Camden, Maine
2003 Interiors, Ten High Street, Camden, Maine
2001 Introducing Alison Rector, Diane Nelson Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA
selected GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 CMCA Biennial, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland Maine
2024 The Portland Show, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, Maine
2023 Winter Dreams of Spring, Cove Street Arts, Portland, Maine
2022 Wintery Mix, Cove Street Arts, Portland, Maine
2018 CMCA Biennial, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, Maine
2017 How the Light Gets In, a 2 person show, Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, Ellsworth
2017 Interiors, Waterfall Arts, Belfast, Maine
2014 Inside Out- Interiors, Rogers Gardens Art Gallery, California
2012 Invitational Exhibit, Deer Isle Art Association, Deer Isle, Maine
2010 Biennial Juried Exhibition, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine
2008- 2012 Senator Olympia Snowe’s office in Washington DC
2008 Painting as Presence, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
2006 Maine Printmakers, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine
2003 Biennial Exhibition, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine
2002 & 2000 Biennial Juried Exhbition, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine
REVIEWS/ PUBLICATIONS
2024 Art of Penobscot Bay by Carl Little & David Little, Islandport Press
2019 Artist Alison Rector, Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors Magazine, March issue
2018 Paintings of Portland by Carl Little & David Little, DownEast Books
Oct. 2017 Alison Rector’s Literary Art by Bob Keyes, Portland Press Herald
2016 Art of Acadia by Carl Little & David Llttle, Rowman and Littlefield publisher
2014 Alison Rector Artist’s Talk, a video on YouTube courtesy of Courthouse Gallery
Nov. 2008 Alison Rector: The Eye of the Poet, Maine Home+ Design Magazine
Fall 2008 Embodiment and Emptiness: Alison Rector’s Interior Images, The Gettysburg Review quarterly literary journal
2006 More Paintings of Maine by Carl Little, DownEast Books
Jan. 2006 Alison Rector at Ten High Street by Carl Little, Art New England Magazine
Summer 2005 Artist Conversations, MaineArts Mag, Maine Arts Commission Magazine
HONORS/ AWARDS
2016 Arts Envoy Program artist, U.S. State Department, Doha, Qatar
COLLECTIONS
2017 Museum Purchase, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Maine
2017 Maine Supreme Court, Judicial Branch, State of Maine
EDUCATION
1982 B.A. Studio Art, Brown University, Providence, RI, including coursework at the Rhode Island School of Design
Alison Rector painting in a gravel pit 1991 by photographer Peggy McKenna