Home and Away: Maine Artists Exploring the World is on view June 2025 to January 2026.

3 paintings by Alison Rector will be on view at Thos Moser Freeport Showroom as part of an exhibition of Maine artists. Images below: Studio Interior, oil on linen, 50” x 40” and Ticking, oil on linen, 48” x 48”.

For more info, contact Thos Moser Freeport Showroom:
207.865.4519

freeportshowroom@thosmoser.com

OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, Dec. 6, 1 - 3 pm

Greenhut's 31st Annual Holiday Show. This exhibition includes new work by our entire roster of artists. With styles ranging from realism to colorful abstraction and everything in between, there is something for everyone! Alison’s painting “Moonrise Picnic”, oil on linen, 12” x 16”, 2025 will be there.

Courthouse Gallery Fine Art offers a rare glimpse into the formative stages of an artist’s creative journey with “What Came Before,” an exhibition of early artworks by a diverse group of contemporary artists, many of whom have been working for five or more decades. These overlooked artworks have remained out of view, overshadowed by an artist’s own productivity, or later periods of maturity and recognition. Placed together, the collective emerges with a fresh vitality, asking collectors and viewers to reconsider the power of a forgotten artwork when it returns into view.

Just as the year turns, “What Came Before” opens on December 3, with an Artist Reception from 5pm–7pm. Poised at a moment between reflection and renewal, the exhibition creates a dialogue about beginnings and the experimentation that shaped each artist’s practice: tentative gestures, tested boundaries, risks, discoveries, bold departures, and the early sparks that anticipated future directions. The show runs through January 10, 2026.

The Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA) is thrilled to announce that 29 artists have been selected to participate in its 2025 Biennial. Alison Rector is one of the artists.

The exhibition will be installed across all 5,500 square feet of the museum’s galleries and be on view from October 4, 2025 to January 12, 2026.

CMCA’s Biennial is the longest-running statewide juried exhibition in Maine and highlights the latest developments in contemporary art by Maine-based and connected artists. The 29 artists were selected from an applicant pool of over 450 artists by distinguished jurors Keith Fox, Tom Keyes, and William Hathaway.

Courthouse Gallery Fine Art presents a retrospective of Alison’s silkscreen prints.

May 1 – May 28, 2025

Alison Rector: Silkscreen Season on a Maine Farm

Artist’s Reception: Wednesday, May 7, 5–7pm

Artist’s Talk: Saturday, May 10 at 2pm
with Alison Rector and Carl Little

Silkscreen Season on a Maine Farm is the first exhibition of Alison Rector’s entire collection of silkscreens to date. Rector created the silkscreens over a 35-year period after she and her husband moved to Maine in 1990. The show and catalog with an essay by Carl Little place Rector’s silkscreens in context with Maine’s longstanding tradition of printmaking, as well as documenting this remarkable record of the back-to-the-land experience. Catalog available.

“The subjects are autobiographical, the artist notes, many of them inspired by an occurrence or encounter in her life on a Maine farm. She and her husband Eric moved from Boston to Monroe in Waldo County, Maine, in the summer of 1990, exchanging urban life for rural. They wanted, she says, “access to land and to grow things and have animals.” Over the next thirty years they embraced the homesteading life, raising sheep, cows and chickens, growing hay, and making apple cider and cheese. “We did a little of everything in a back-to-the-lander kind of way,” Rector recalled.” — Carl Little

For more information, contact Courthouse Gallery Fine Art: https://courthousegallery.com/

Courthouse Gallery Fine Art presents an exhibition of Alison’s new paintings titled Island Refuge. Rector explores the habitat of islands, in landscapes and interiors. View the paintings in the exhibition at this link: Island Refuge at Courthouse Gallery.

The exhibition will be on view Sept. 11 to Oct. 14, 2023. A gallery reception is scheduled for Wed. Sept. 13, 5-7pm in Ellsworth Maine. You’re invited. All are welcome.

“Pause and breathe. Time slows down again. Then it starts up as the wind rustles the marsh grass. Rector has inhabited this spot and looked, listened, and smelled the sea air coming across the marsh.”

        — Lisa Gibbons, catalog excerpt

Catalog available on request from the gallery:

Exhibition Catalog 2023
Alison Rector: Island Refuge
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For more information, visit Courthouse Gallery Fine Art website or phone the gallery 207-667-6611.

Greenhut Galleries is hosting an exhibition celebrating Maine.

Please join the artists for an opening reception on Saturday April 8 from 1pm to 3pm. You’re invited.

Greenhut’s biennial landscape show, Maine: The Painted State, is both a proud nod to Maine’s storied and outsized place in American Art History, and a celebration of the exciting ways the landscape tradition continues. How it is being carried on, and in some cases, reinvented, by contemporary Maine artists.

Maine has been an artist magnet for over 100 years. The allure of its rugged coastline and the romance of the sea, its lakes and islands, its wild beauty and isolation and, of course, the distinctive qualities of its northern light have captivated generations of painters. Our landscape has been celebrated -- mythologized, really -- in classic works by some of the greatest painters in American Art History, from Thomas Cole to Frederick Church to Winslow Homer to Andrew Wyeth, Marsden Hartley, Neil Welliver, and beyond.

But the magic of Maine’s landscape is not a finite quantity, confined to a specific period. It is, in fact, eternal and Maine remains a vital locus of artistic inspiration, coursing with creative energy. Our April biennial, “Maine, the Painted State,” is a celebration of the exciting ways the landscape tradition continues.

FEATURED ARTISTS

Liz Awalt, Joel Babb, Susan Barnes, Chris Beneman, Todd Bezold, Matt Blackwell, Mary Bourke, Jeff Bye, Thomas Connolly, David Driskell, Grant Drumheller, David Estey, Sarah Faragher, Maurice Freedman, Philip Frey, Kathleen Galligan, Roy Germon, Alison Goodwin, Tom Hall, Conley Harris, Maret Hensick, Thomas Higgins, Craig Hood, Jon Imber, Tina Ingraham, William Irvine, Sarah Knock, Marty Kremer, Margaret Lawrence, Jonathan Mess, Dean McCrillis, Daniel Minter, Nancy Morgan Barnes, John David O’Shaughnessy, Colin Page, Tom Paiement, Alison Rector, Glenn Renell, Alec Richardson, Judy Schneider, Kathi Smith, Mike Stiler, Christopher Volpe, Michael Walek, Sean Ware, Neil Welliver, John Whalley, Holden Willard and Tim Wilson.

Cove Street Arts in Portland Maine curates this group exhibition with this original view of winter in mind. The work in this show celebrates this gestational period and combines traditional winter scenes with the season's brighter vision for the future.

Featured artists: Chris Beneman, Mary Bourke, Rachel Burgess, Jeff Bye, Thomas Connolly, David Driskell, Maurice Freedman, Roy Germon, Alison Goodwin, Maret Hensick, Jon Imber, Cade Jarvis, Dean McCrillis, Jonathan Mess, Nancy Morgan Barnes, Tom Paiement, Sandra Quinn, Alison Rector, Alec Richardson, Neil Welliver, Holden Willard, and Timothy Wilson.

You are invited to the opening reception Thursday January 12, 5pm to 7pm.

For more information, visit Cove Street Arts website, social media or phone 207-808-8911

"In a way winter is the real spring, the time when the inner things happen, the resurge of nature.”

– Edna O’Brien

A group show of work by Greenhut Gallery artists for the holidays.

You’re invited to the opening reception with the artists on Saturday Dec. 3, 1pm to 3pm.

All are welcome.

For more information contact Greenhut Galleries 207-772-2693

Greenhut Galleries is hosting a solo exhibition of Alison’s newest paintings in October Studio Daze is a series of paintings made in and about the artist’s studio workspace.

Alison says “I’m currently painting in a studio in Portland.  For the past 18 months, I’ve been watching the light moving through my workspace as time passes.  I’ve made lots of paintings observing what I see.  Hour by hour the light moves across the room through windows and doors.  The view of the city beyond the windows changes.

These paintings are meditations on being in the studio.  My workspace is a retreat and a sanctuary. People live, work, think and rest in these spaces.  The human story is part of the painting.”

Opening reception is Thursday Oct. 6, 5 to 7pm at the gallery. You’re invited.

Alison has 2 new paintings on view as part of this lovely group exhibition of works by Maine artists. Stop by to see some beautiful work in a lovely setting if you’re near Ellsworth Maine.

Gallery reception open to the public will be held on Wed. May 18, 5pm to 7pm. You’re invited.

Greenhut Galleries celebrates the city of Portland Maine with a exhibition of work by many artists.

Alison’s new painting “Hay & Bay”, oil on linen, 20” x 20” will be included in the show.

You’re invited.

For more information: Greenhut Galleries Portland Biennial Exhibition 2022

A group exhibition at Cove Street Arts in Portland Maine. Opening reception at the gallery on the evening of Feb. 10. You’re invited.

Wintry Mix is a group exhibition composed of winter-themed work by 17 Maine artists at various stages of their careers (emerging to estate) working in a variety of media. Their separate voices come together in a gorgeous and full-throated ode to the breathtaking beauty of the winter season.

Featured Artists: Kathleen Galligan, Susan Barnes, Matt Blackwell, AlexiAndrea Borden, Thomas Connolly, David Driskell, Grant Drumheller, Ingrid Ellison, Maurice Freedman, Roy Germon, Jon Imber, Dean McCrillis, Sandra Quinn, Alison Rector, Kathi Smith, Neil Welliver, Holden Williard

For more information: A Wintery Mix at Cove Street Arts

Alison Rector’s painting Dusk Engine, 64” x 36”, oil on linen will be on view in Wintery Mix.

An exhibition of works by Maine artists for the Holidays includes several new works by Alison Rector.

You can view the show on line at this link: Greenhut Galleries Holiday Show

On the 40th anniversary of its founding, Waterfall Arts hosts an exhibition celebrating Belfast’s cooperative art gallery Artfellows. Alison Rector was an artist member of the cooperative in the early 90’s. Her works will be included in the exhibition along with the work of many other Artfellows artists.

Stay tuned for more details.

A community-wide celebration of breaking the silence of domestic abuse hosted by Finding Our Voices in partnership with Waterfall Arts and the Belfast Free Library in Belfast Maine. Art and poetry will be displayed in business windows and the Belfast Free Library as well as an online gallery.

Alison is contributing her painting “Easter”, oil painting on linen, 28” x 28” to this event.

For more information visit FindingOurVoices.net

PARTNERS FOR WORLD HEALTH and Elizabeth Moss Galleries HAVE PARTNERED ON AN ONLINE ART AUCTION WITH PROCEEDS SUPPORTING THE MISSION OF PWH.

THE AUCTION ITEMS WILL BE ON VIEW AT MOSS GALLERIES IN FALMOUTH, MAY 3-7, 2021.

Alison is contributing her painting “Twins”, oil painting on linen, 21” x 24” to the exhibition.

Alison Rector is exhibiting new paintings in this group exhibition at Greenhut Galleries in Portland Maine.

This show celebrates the landscape of Maine as seen by a large group of Maine artists. "Greenhut’s biennial landscape show, “Maine, the Painted State,” is both a proud nod to Maine’s storied and outsized place in American Art History, and a celebration of the exciting ways the landscape tradition continues. How it is being carried on, and in some cases, reinvented, by contemporary Maine artists.”

The gallery is open to the public with social distancing observed. You’re invited.

For more information: Greenhut Galleries "Maine: The Painted State"

Greenhut's 26th Annual Holiday Show. This exhibition includes new work by our entire roster of artists. With styles ranging from realism to colorful abstraction and everything in between, there is something for everyone.

A new painting by Alison Rector will be included in the exhibition.

The Portland Show is back and celebrating its 10th anniversary at Greenhut Galleries

Help us honor our great little city of Portland Maine. This group invitational never fails to deliver quality art by local Maine artists.

You can view the exhibition on line by clicking on this link: The Portland Show 2020

Alison Rector’s been painting in a studio workspace in Portland this winter; 5 of her newest paintings are this show.

When we get past the shelter-in-place and the gallery reopens, the work will be on view up close and in person.