I haven’t had time for a longer post, but I have lots going on (in addition to all of the grief processing) and wanted to share a fun upcoming event that includes my art! There are some amazing artists and writers included in this exhibition! I love group exhibitions, and I hope you’ll join us for the opening if you’re in the area.
Above is a sneak peek of the legs I created for the exquisite corpse I worked on with Jordan Kendall Parks and X. Fang. I haven’t seen the full piece yet, so it will be a wonderful surprise at the opening!
Below is more info from one of the curators, Rachael Harkness:
NonSense: Collaboration on Spontaneous Composition will open at 5pm on Friday, October 3rd in the Lewis Gallery. Twelve beautiful visual Exquisite Corpses and nine written Exquisite Corpses will be on display in the gallery from October 3-December 31, 2025. The opening reception will be held during the First Friday Art Walk from 5-7pm in the Lewis Gallery which is on the Lower Level of Portland Public Library’s Downtown Branch - 5 Monument Square, Portland, Me 04101.
This exhibit revisits the idea of “Exquisite Corpse,” created by Dadaist artists in the years after World War I as a playful way to communicate the absurdities of a chaotic time. Those collaborative drawings and writings were whimsical and surreal, with each artist aware only of their contribution of one-third of the overall piece until the unveiling.
With this exhibit, we hope to evoke the illogical, the absurd, and the irrational. We asked illustrators, editorial artists and writers - whose work appears everywhere from children’s books, to novels, to the pages of newspapers and magazines - to create whatever came to mind when the paper, or digital screen was in front of them. Each artist and writer in the exhibit worked off small fragments of where the previous contributor left off or left small fragments for the next contributor to work from.
We like to imagine the community created between Dada artists as they sat around tables late into the night merging their ideas on paper. Although we couldn’t invite everybody to share that same kind of physical space, we saw this as an opportunity to create community amongst artists whose work explores this same terrain.
Participating artists:
Adam Ming
Amanda Petrozzini
Andy Rosen
Anna O’Sullivan
Armando Veve
Barbara Nessim
Calla King-Clements
Clay Hickson
Daniel Minter
Daphne Knouse
Eamon White
Ellie Foreman-Peck
Emily Mae Smith
Hanson Coleman
Haruka Aoki
Izzie Klingels
Jess Esch
Jordan Kendall Parks
Julia Rothman
Kreh Mellick
Liz Long
Lucky Platt
Marc Rosenthal
Mardie Weldon
Melissa Sweet
Mirka Hokkanen
Nick Morley
Patrick Corrigan
Pilar Nadal
Stephen Burt
Tamara Shopsin
Tony Millionaire
X. Fang
Participating writers:
Allison Paige
Arisa White
Betsy Sholl
Bill Roorbach
Dan Koeppel
Dawn Potter
Debra Spark
Desi Van Til
Georgia Hill
Gibson Fay Leblanc
Greg Kesich
Hannah Joyce
Judy Kaber
Jessica Anthony
Kate Christensen
Lewis Robinson
Maya Williams
Megan Grumbling
Meghan Gillis
Michael Colbert
Mike Bove
Monica Wood
Russel Pearson
Rylan Hynes
Samaa Abdurraqib
Sarah Braunstein
Stuart Kestenbaum
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