Alison is one of 29 artists included in the 2025 Biennial at Center for Maine Contemporary Art.
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Press in Maine responds to the exhibition Alison Rector: Silkscreen Season on a Maine Farm, presented by Courthouse Gallery Fine Art in May 2025.
The Portland Press Herald writes “Rector's silkscreened chronicle of her homesteading in Maine after moving here in 1990 consists of graphic, colorful and appealingly straightforward scenes of ice fishing, milking cows, splitting wood, beekeeping, etc.”
The Midcoast Villager headlines “35 Years on a Maine Farm” by Willy Blackmore:
“Alison Rector has a familiar story about why she moved to Maine: She and her husband moved to Monroe in 1990, drawn to the Midcoast by the promise of the Good Life as popularized by the Nearings and generations of back-to-the-landers who followed them.
In addition to learning to farm, Rector quickly began a tradition of making one silkscreen print inspired by the year after arriving in Monroe, giving out copies to family and friends around the holidays. While the couple have dabbled in all kinds of gardening and animal husbandry and other homesteading endeavors over the years, trying this and that on for size, the silkscreen habit stuck. In addition to the annual card-like images she printed every winter, Rector started to make some larger prints, too. Now, her entire collection of silkscreens is being shown together for the first time in the exhibition “Alison Rector: Silkscreen Season on a Maine Farm” at the Courthouse Gallery in Ellsworth.
Today, Rector has studios in both Portland and Monroe, where she continues to make prints and paintings, too. The Courthouse show features 43 screenprints made over the last 35 years, depicting various scenes of farm and Maine life — butterflies and beehives and perfectly blue robin eggs tucked into a nest. Screen printing is one of the more commercial of fine-art printmaking processes (it’s how most graphic T-shirts are made) and it can be a very photographic medium, capable of producing full-color, photorealistic images. But Rector’s prints are more painterly than you often see in a screenprint, and it’s a style that’s well-matched to her subject(s).
“Alison Rector: Silkscreen Season on a Maine Farm” is on display at the Courthouse Gallery in Ellsworth, through May 28, 2025.”
New catalogue! "Alison Rector: Silkscreen Season on a Maine Farm" /
Courthouse Gallery Fine Art has published a print catalogue Alison Rector: Silkscreen Season on a Maine Farm. You can order a print copy though the gallery. And you can view the catalogue online at the gallery website.
25 pages of full color images, an essay by writer Carl Little and stories by the artist.
Exhibition Catalog 2025
Alison Rector: Silkscreen Season on a Maine Farm
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Just published: catalogue "Alison Rector: Island Refuge" /
Courthouse Gallery Fine Art has published a 14-page color catalogue of Alison’s paintings. The catalogue accompanies Alison’s solo exhibition “Island Refuge” opening Sept. 13, 2023. Contact the gallery FMI:
Exhibition Catalog 2023
Alison Rector: Island Refuge
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Art review: Maine’s natural beauty masterfully portrayed in 2 engaging Portland shows /
Portland Press Herald’s Jorge S. Arango reviews 'The Painted State' at Greenhut Galleries:
Arango writes, “After a winter that felt unrelentingly gray and erratic (one day 53 degrees, another 7), some of us could use a reminder of why we live in the great state of Maine. Enter the biennial landscape show “Maine: The Painted State” at Greenhut Galleries (through May 27, 2023). “Painted State” features work by a nearly complete roster of Greenhut’s artists, who have been adept at depicting the infinitely variable topographies, moods and seasons of Maine. I know that for me, several of the wintry scenes here would have been helpful to have on my wall in the depths of February’s chill… Alison Rector’s “Beach Rose” concentrates her composition on this familiar coastal flora, which dominates the center of the painting against a seascape rendered in a slightly hazy summer heat that is palpable.”
IF YOU GO
WHAT: “Maine: The Painted State”
WHERE: Greenhut Galleries, 146 Middle St., Portland
WHEN: Through May 27
HOURS: 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday
ADMISSION: Free
INFO: 207-772-2693, greenhutgalleries.com
St. Lawrence Arts features Alison Rector painting /
Alison’s painting of the interior of the St. Lawrence Arts theater in Portland Maine is featured in their December newsletter. Thanks St. Lawrence Arts for providing inspiration!
Zoom talk on YouTube: Alison Rector with Linden Frederick /
Courthouse Gallery Fine Art has released the video of Alison’s Zoom talk. Hear Alison’s conversation with art colleague Linden Frederick as they discuss the paintings in Alison’s exhibition Hours of the Day . Your window into listening to two painters talk about color, light and how they make paintings.
New catalogue published with "Hours of the Day" exhibition /
Courthouse Gallery Fine Art has published a color catalogue as a companion to Alison Rector’s Hours of the Day exhibition. The exhibition catalogue features 20 new paintings and an essay by fiction writer Laurel Davis Huber, author of the novel The Velveteen Daughter.
For more information about the exhibition and catalogue, link here: 2020 Exhibition Catalogue at Courthouse Gallery Fine Art
Or view the catalogue at this link: Alison Rector 2020 Hours of the Day exhibition catalogue
You may order a print copy of the catalogue through Courthouse Gallery Fine Art.