Please join us for a conversation between Artist - Grace DeGennaro, Art Historian and writer- Amy Rahn. About Grace’s process and the installation of work here at Zero Station.

Continuum, an installation of paintings that are rooted in geometrical forms and the process of accretion by Grace DeGennaro. Connected by pattern and mathematical proportions, each work presents a matrix of color beads set against shifting color fields. Carefully executed, countless rows of stipples suggest strands of sacred beads that provide aid in prayer as fingers move along to count each invocation. Informed by the Slow Art movement, the Continuum series looks to the act of art making, as well as its inherent rituals and meditative qualities. 

Curators Statement:

I’m fascinated by the archetype of the witch: healer, menace, doula of life and death, keeper of wisdom and arcane knowledge, seducer, oracle, fury, helper…whichever role the witch embodies (and sometimes it is a mixture of many), it is one of otherworldly power. Having grown up in Switzerland where folklore is infused into all manner of daily life, I feel deep kinship with the witch. Much of my work is focused on fairy and folklore that feature the classic Western Germanic archetype of the lone witch at the edge of the woods who might heal your ailments or devour your children depending on the day. I’m drawn to the mixture of fear and fun between which the witch balances. 

For Hex, Hex! I’ve invited three artists to join me in exploring how incarnations and powers of the witch show up in contemporary art. 

Annika Earley, joined by Julia Arredondo, Siri Kaur, Maria Molteni

Hex, Hex!

Julia Arredondo, Annika Earley, Siri Kaur, and Maria Molteni

opens October 26th, 2023

We have invited Lauren Fensterstock to join Stephen Burt to have a conversation about maelstroms, the cosmos, beauty, nature, drawing and more…. Seating is limited please arrive early to be assured a seat.

Please Join us to celebrate the work of Stephen Burt. Sign up for our email to receive more updates!

June 20- August 4th

opening reception June 22nd 5-7 PM

work by : Jennifer Brou, Juliet Karelsen, Liz McGhee, Mitchell Rasor, Emily Leonard Trenholm

Eric Stark, architect and basket maker/artist and Jeannet Leendertse, designer and textile artist both have impressive careers in architecture and design. Both are passionate about process and materials related to their current work.

HOLDFAST

featuring work by Sarah Faragher, Molly Haynes, Jeannet Leendertse, Amy Ray & Eric Stark. Encompassing a refreshing look at rich textures of our meandering Maine coastline. The exhibition will run from April 27th through June 8th. The gallery will host an opening reception with several of the the artists present on April 27th from 5-7:00 PM and a gallery talk the following week, see events page for May 5th.

M U M U R A T I O N

an exhibition of women artists exhibiting work from the folio files at Zero Station

Please join us Wednesday the 28th at 6 PM to hear the three artists in conversation with curator J.E. Paterak

Work by Jarid del Deo, Meg Hahn and Mali Mrozinski

Two painters and one multi-media artist, each follow their own intuition giving this exhibition a sense of fresh curiosity, as well as sophisticated skill. Sharing an archeological precision to carefully extract ideas which are just below the surface, each ever so careful as to not dig too deep or too fast. A slow methodical sweeping of sands, reveals what is previously unknown and somewhat dreamlike, occurring before us in their most recent work.

Five of the Exhibitions featured in Seeds of Light, gather to talk about the night sky and process. We could say so much more but really it is all about what the artists have to say! Come listen in. This is an in person event.

This event takes place after sunset so that we may (in clear skies) see how Ara can control his remotely accessed telescope to hold a camera lens for a very long exposure (between 5-20 hours) to be able to achieve the photographs seen in our exhibition. Come learn about the night skies with Ara at Zero Station.

Doors will open at 8:00, presentation begins at 8:30 PM to see the exhibition before we project Ara’s telescope images in the dark on a screen. This is an all ages event. Masks recommended unless we are outside. This event will be rain or shine. In the event of rain a simpler presentation (minus the projection of that evenings sky) will take place at 8:30 with Q & A to follow.

to read more about Ara Jerahian click on this heading.

photo credit Ara Jerahian image taken in Cape Elizabeth Maine

Stars have been represented by humans as early as the cave drawings, throughout every period of the history of fine art and craft, through the invention of long exposure photography and now with astrophotography from terrestial set ups such as Ara Jerahian’s here in Maine, to the precision of the Hubble and Webb telescopes. Please join us with a small group of artists whose work portrays the night sky in various iterations.

Suggested donation $15

This performance at Zero Station is an opportunity to present the drum set on its own, this uniquely American creation: a collection of individual percussion instruments, grouped together and played with both hands and feet. The drum set (drum kit, trap kit, traps, tubs...) is always evolving, incorporating sounds from wherever the practitioner finds them, becoming part of this drum language. Primal and universal to all humans, rhythm and the drumʼs evolution is displayed by incredibly sophisticated expressions throughout the worldʼs cultures. Michael, a skilled and creative drummer will sound like an entire orchestra.

On this last day of the exhibition we will be open for First Friday through 6:00 PM

Whether we are thinking of our work as its own Sanctuary or seeking out museums and galleries to go for a place of calm introspection and collective observations. In times of rapid change and discomfort it is human nature to seek out Sanctuary. We also look to nature and or architecture to hold us in a place of Sanctuary. Sometimes holding a thing can be related to a reliquary within a place of Sanctuary. We have invited a small group of artists to present their work in which have a connection with these ideas.

Please join us for a reception for the artists 5-7 PM Saturday

In addition to screening An Un-Still Life we will have a conversation centered on art, activism, the impacts and complicated role of military and war on our cultural, economic, environmental and psychic landscape. We will call this conversation “The Loaded Brush” Please join us,

Guests include: Natasha Mayers, the Artist/activist and founder of ARRT (Artist Rapid Response Team) whose work is currently on view in the gallery in the exhibition Tell It Slant. Robert Shetterly, Artist who is best known for his portrait series Americans Who Tell the Truth and Doug Rawlings, Author and current President of Veterans for Peace

Riffing on the line of Emily Dickinson’s “Tell all the Truth, but Tell it Slant” which is about the acceptance of the truth. Dickenson’s poem was published in 1890 but written at some point between 1858 and 1865 during the years leading up to and including the civil war.

From Natasha Mayers on her War Chests:

“This current War Chests series started in November 2019 during the impeachment hearings, when it was easy to visualize the President as an emperor, with or without clothes. The war chests are decorated with an array of medals, bars and stripes, epaulettes, braids, sashes, and tattoos. They are often headless, intoxicated with their own power, dangerous, blind, in a world full of violence toward one another and the planet, with men, historically, at the center of the problem. The work reflects anger, frustration, a sense of the absurd, and analysis of what masculine power, white privilege and tradition have wrought. I talk about what is scary and threatening to me/ us with a touch of irony, humor, pattern, exuberant color, and eccentricity.”

This particular exhibition features photography, painting and printmaking. All the artists draw from the rich well of daily life lending their own particular lens of interest or beauty to whatever framing device or mood they are seeking at the time. While at first glance it may appear there is not a theme or similarity between the artist’s work, a happenstance rhythm presents itself as relationships of color and form moments frozen in time, beginning a conversation on the walls waiting for the listener/viewer to catch on.