(Image: "Windbreak" by Mimo Gordon Riley)

Recent paintings by Mimo Gordon Riley.

(Rockland, ME) The Jonathan Frost Gallery presents its first solo show of the season with Mimo Gordon Riley’s exhibition of recent paintings, entitled Entering. The show runs through Saturday, July 30th.

Mimo Gordon Riley, a New England native and member of an extensive and noted family in the arts, spends long summers in Tenants Harbor. “I have been coming to Maine my whole life,” says the artist. “Maine is very much in my core.” Following early art training at Boston’s Museum School, Mimo enrolled in the Portland (Maine) School of Art at the age of 38, and spent four years there, earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. She now lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island, when not in Maine, and exhibits throughout the Northeast.

Mimo’s new work continues her fascination with trees. “Trees are much more grounded than we are. They throw their roots well down into the uncharted territory of the unconscious, while their trunks and branches rise jubilantly to the heavens…I have been painting trees for about four years now, some from observation, some from memory, and some from – what can I say – my soul. I have experimented with various ways to make them mine; colors, shapes, intensity, contrast. I don’t plan. I simply start and they emerge. I push them back and they come out in another place, and then after that happens a few times, we meet in a kind of truce between what I think I want to paint and what they seem to want to be.” Mimo says that the show’s title, Entering, is a metaphor for the experience of exploring a visual theme in such depth: “…walking into a forest and finding your way.”

(Image: "Free Wheeling" by Mimo Gordon Riley)

The show presents thirteen works in oil, ranging from a group of twenty-four-inch square paintings to the centerpiece, a six-foot-square assemblage of thirty-six images, entitled Family Trees 36. The trees explode with uncommon color and vary in mood from the quiet contemplative of birch groves to the closed-for-the-season of snow-laden branches to the delirious dance of spring greens. All capture and express our human desire for permanence and stability, balanced by our wish for growth, change, and unvanquished hope.

Throughout the season, the gallery exhibits work by an outstanding roster of artists in all media, including Joseph Adolphe, Siri Beckman, Barbara Beebe, Susan Beebe, Phoebe Bly, Carolyn Caldwell, Jonathan Frost, Kathryn Frund, Liz Gribin, Gints Grinbergs, Peter Haines, Alison Hildreth, Constance Kiermaier, Richie Lasansky, Mary Lennox, Steve Lindsay, Holly Meade, Gary Milek, Jessie Pollock, Steve Porter, Phil Schirmer, and Gretchen Dow Simpson.

Shows scheduled for later in the season are: Phoebe Bly, New Work, August 5 through August 27; and Siri Beckman, Parks, Prints, and Paintings, September 2 through September 24.

Nan Mulford is the Gallery Director of Jonathan Frost Gallery. Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. For more information, please call 207-596-0800, e-mail the gallery at frostgal@midcoast.com or visit www.jonathanfrostgallery.com.

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