The PINE TREE STATEment
Type
Exhibition
Category
Conceptual, Drawing, Installation, Intervention, M...
Status
Archived
Deadline
October 15, 2015
Application Fee
Not Available
Host
MIKE LEWIS
Location
Biddeford, United States

AUTUS Collective, in conjunction with Engine Gallery in Biddeford, Maine is inviting artists to submit proposals for work, or work already in completion (2d, 3d, video, or performance) for consideration for our first juried exhibition.

Maine is widely known as a tourist destination—a land of lighthouses, sailboats and seafood. From Thoreau’s idyllic Maine Woods, the noir scenes of Stephen King’s Shawshank Redemption, and Robert McCloskey’s wholesome Blueberries for Sal, Maine is often portrayed as a bucolic destination for visitors near and far. Maine, deemed Vacationland, in its catering to appeal to the seasonal tourists, has become the lobster caricature, the pot buoys on the side of the garage, and all the moose-themed paraphernalia available for sale.

The PINE TREE STATEment exhibition invites all Maine artists (and artists with a connection to the great state) to re-imagine, re-assign, re-invent and take ownership of Maine’s iconography. How do you represent all that Maine has to offer: the ocean, forests, lighthouses, animal life, and culinary treats? How can we paint lighthouses and seascapes in a new, more progressive way? How do you represent Maine’s iconographic imagery?