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[Titi de Baccarat](https://www.titidebaccarat.com/) (Portland) is a multi-dimensional artist. Dedicated to justice in a hostile political context, he was forced to flee his home country of Gabon, and his work since arriving in the United States celebrates the beauty and struggle of people around the world standing to face their oppressors.His upcoming works will describe his experiences as an immigrant in the United States: his pain, fear, uncertainty, and hope. 


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Titi de Baccarat, "Mvett" - wood and leather, 66" x 53" x "7 - $1500

[Stephen Walsh](https://www.stephenpeterwalsh.com/about) (Portland) received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the University of Southern Maine in 2010. He finds an alluring pull to live on the coast and enjoys the walkability of Portland, which allows him to interpret his surroundings with introspection to create a more meaningful experience. It is this emotional response that he attempts to express through the process of painting. 


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Stephen Walsh, "February" - mixed media on canvas, 42" x 48" - $1800

[James Chute](https://www.instagram.com/jameschute/) (Freeport) has exhibited throughout Maine and New England in both juried and invitational exhibitions, and has had solo exhibitions in Portland at Rose Contemporary, PhoPa Gallery, and the Institute for American Art. His minimalist work conveys depth and feeling with sophisticated simplicity. 


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James Chute, "untitled" - acrylic and sumi inks on paper, 34" x 26" - $700

[Cooper Dragonette](https://cooperdragonette.com/index.html) (Cape Elizabeth) was born and raised in Easton, Connecticut, and graduated from Prescott College with a focus in fine art. After completing his education, he moved to Maine where he taught for nearly 20 years before becoming a full-time artist. He is drawn to the everyday scenes along the shores of Casco Bay. 


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Cooper Dragonette, "Plow" - oil on panel, 24" x 36" - $2700

[Jim Flahaven](http://www.jimflahaven.com/) (South Portland) grew up in South Dakota, Kansas, and Texas. He received his BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of North Texas and his MFA in Painting and Drawing from Ohio State University. He spent twelve years teaching art at Clarion University before moving to Maine, where he now teaches drawing and painting at the University of Southern Maine. His current work is inspired by Elizabeth Murray, Terence LaNoue, and mid-century abstractionism. 



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Jim Flahaven, "Deputy Dog" - acrylic & mixed media on panel, 40" x 48" - $9000

[Graham Wood](https://www.grahamrwood.com/) (Cape Elizabeth) attended Earlham College and the School of Visual Arts. He has exhibited at Chestnut Street Lofts, Running with Scissors, and Art House Picture Frames in Portland. He is the owner of Ocean House Gallery & Frame and works as a preparator at the Portland Museum of Art. Graham is a member of the Ogunquit Art Association. 


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Graham Wood, "John Cove with Richmond Island" - acrylic on wood, 20" x 48" - $2200

[Debbie Schmitt](https://www.debbieschmittart.com/) (South Portland) has been making prints since the mid’80s and received a degree in printmaking from Maine College of Art in 2004. She began drawing knitting to understand the mechanics of the stitch and how individual stitches interlock to become a larger whole. She continues to explore the symbolism within the opposing tension of the fibers and the duality of the resulting fabric.


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Debbie Schmitt, "Fabric I" - drypoint, 27" x 22" - $375

[Dave Berrang](https://daveberrang.com/) (Portland) earned his MBA from SUNY-Binghamton. He has been exhibiting his artworks in New York and Portland since 1997. This piece is inspired by the Maine coast with the interplay of ocean, sky and land and is intended to capture the power and beauty of these elements, as well as their indifference to the people inhabiting the coastline. 


Dave Berrang, "Ocean at Night" - mixed media: acrylic and paper on canvas, 20" x 20" - $550

[Amy Kustra Barksdale](https://www.amykustra.com/) (Freeport) is an oil and gouache painter who works out of Running with Scissors. As a former family physician, the figure is a major theme in her work. She loves seeing the soul and spirit of the person emerge as a work progresses. This print was inspired by her love of Japanese art and the color prints of Mary Cassatt. 


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Amy Kustra Barksdale, "Woman in repose" - oil on paper with board support, 15" x 20" - $500

[Kelly Moeykens](https://kellymoeykens.com/) (Portland) is a lifelong Mainer who creates mixed media artworks, paintings, and drawings. She finds the tactical and intimate experience of working with small components to be transformative and appreciates how viewers can concurrently experience details and the big picture. She draws inspiration from Chuck Close and the detail, abstraction, and realism at play in his works. 


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Kelly Moeykens, "Bloom" - hand-cut paper collage on canvas, 50" x 62" - $3500

[Roland “Salazar” Rose ](http://www.salazargallery.com/) (Biddeford) returned to Maine in 2012 after three decades of residing in Mexico. His goal is to paint Maine’s true essence: at once unforgiving, uncompromising, demanding daily awareness, and testing the ability to live with nature as a constant in one’s life. He was the founder of Portland’s now-closed Danforth Gallery and has exhibited nationally and internationally and his work resides in museums and personal collections.


Salazar, "Dancing On!" - mixed media on Stonehenge paper, 29" x 21" - $1400

[Greta Grant](http://gretagrant.com/) (Portland) is a photographer and visual artist. Grant was born and raised in Connecticut and attended Maine College of Art, graduating with a BFA in May 2016 and returning to earn her Master of Arts in Teaching. Her work explores human impermanence and mortality through a diaristic lens and a variety of media, primarily color photographs made with medium format film. 


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Greta Grant, "Peter’s Pond" - archival pigment print, 21" x 17" - $550

[Tabitha Barnard](http://www.tabithabarnard.com/) (Portland) is a photographer who grew up in rural Maine. Her work is influenced by her upbringing in a Christian female-dominated family. She obtained her BFA from Maine College of Art in 2016, where she currently works as a media technician. 


Tabitha Barnard, "Poppies and Burnt Knees" - archival pigment print, 16" x 20" - $500

[Will Sears](http://www.willsearsfineart.com/) (South Portland) received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Syracuse University. Sears works primarily in assemblage, drawing upon a rich Maine tradition, and utilizes imagery of hand painted typography and abstract geometry. He uses the visual chaos of deconstructed and rearranged signage, found materials, and painted elements to comment on the overwhelming nature of contemporary visual culture. In addition to his fine art pursuits, he is the art director for Oxbow Brewing Company and owns and operates Better Letter Hand Painted Signs. 


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Will Sears, "The High Road" - oil enamel on wood assemblage, 42" x 42" - $3750

[Carter Shappy](https://www.studioshappy.com/) (Portland) is an emerging printmaker and installation artist who received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Maine College of Art. Shappy’s work is inspired by his interests in natural phenomena, perception, psychedelia, and everyday, mundane experience. He is drawn to the printmaking process and its sculptural potential in multi-sensory installations. He is the print shop manager and maintains a studio at Running with Scissors. 


Carter Shappy, "The Fall" - screen print & gouache on paper, 50" x 74" - $2500

[David Wade](http://www.davewadephoto.com/) (Portland) is an award winning photographer who spent over twelve years working in Asia before coming to Maine in 1997. Wade has exhibited nationally and internationally as well as at Portland’s Oak Street Lofts, 3Fish Gallery, Akari, and at the Portland Museum of Arts Biennial. He is a member of the Union of Maine Visual Artists and hosts a weekly jazz radio show on WMPG Community Radio. 


David Wade, "Fog Truck" - archival pigment print, 24" x 29" - $680

[Haley Nannig](https://www.haleynannig.com/) (Portland) is a painter who grew up in Rhode Island and has lived in numerous locations, most recently returning from a residency in Taos, New Mexico. Her work is full of aquatic imagery and symbols drawn from nature, and it reflects the constantly changing horizon and new faces from a life full of constant motion. Her paintings are process-based and allow her to regurgitate her experiences and moments and layer them on top of one another. 


Haley Nannig, "Solar Eclipse" - acrylic & oil paint, spray paint, oil pastel on canvas, 36" x 36" - $1200

[Larinda Meade](http://www.larindameade.com/) (Portland) is a printmaker who has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her imagery focuses on the New England landscape with an emphasis on the textures and shapes of the Maine landscape. She seeks to give shape and sense to the experience of being out in the natural world. She is a member of Portland’s Peregrine Press.



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Larinda Meade, "Near the Edge" - aluminum etching, 34" x 21" - $340

[P. Colby Myer](https://pandofineart.com/artist-works.php?artistId=203392&artist=Peter%20Colby%20Myer) (Portland/Brunswick) graduated from the painting program at the University of Utah. After many years of teaching and traveling abroad Colby went on to get his master's degree at Laguna College of Art and Design in Laguna Beach California. Nature is his greatest inspiration. This piece was painted from a tree along the Wolf Neck estuary and from a series in which he was trying to distill nature down to its truest form using chiaroscuro technique.


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P. Colby Myer, "Portal" - oil on board, 50" x 58" - $4500

[Annie Lloyd Witte](https://annielloydwitte.com) (Cumberland) is a graduate of Portland School of Arts. Witte’s work encompasses multiple mediums: printmaking, bookmaking, collaborative mixed media project, sewing and drawing. Her works seem connected to a story, a feeling the artist wishes to convey. Her drawings occupy an artist’s middle ground between concrete and spiritual, the actual and idealized.



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Annie Lloyd Witte, "Balance" - pen and ink on paper - $1400

[Mary Anne Cary](https://www.dailypaintworks.com/artists/mary-anne-cary-1477) (Cape Elizabeth) obtained her BFA in visual design from Southeastern Massachusetts University. A former graphic artist, she now devotes her time to painting and draws inspiration from the Maine coast and landscape, striving to capture everyday scenes with a fresh vision and energy. 
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Mary Anne Cary, "Casco Bay Reflection" - oil, 24" x 24" - $750

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