“Middle Site” Opens Friday, July 6th

(Rockland, ME) Carver Hill Gallery is very pleased to announce the First Friday solo show opening for Megan Hinton: “Middle Site” on July 6, 2012 from 5:00 to 8:00 pm. We feel extremely fortunate to have this incredible artist on board at the gallery this summer. Carver Hill will also host an artist talk the next day, Saturday, July 7th at 1:00 pm The talk will be followed by a reception until 4:00 pm.

(Image: "Tidal" by Megan Hinton)

In Hinton's words about her work, "This recent body of work depicting scenes around my nautical surroundings—swimmers, wharfs, schools of fish, flocks of birds, and fleets of boats—is an expansion of the style I’ve been working on for some years now. It displays the importance I place on depicting my environment in a lyrical, painterly fashion to reposition how we typically see. This work evidences a dynamic surface due to a variety of paint applications: washes of large brushwork, dripping paint, and thick slabs of pigment. These technical applications also create a play of the non-objective versus the real, surface flatness versus illusionary depth, and local versus non-local color. Overall these painting techniques help maintain an emotional tension while still striving for compositional balance.

(Image: "Dune Flock" by Megan Hinton)

These paintings arise from the location between memory and experience; they occupy a chronological and spatial 'middle site,' before the emotional nostalgic memory, but after the experience of seeing. In the studio I, too, occupy the middle site between the original location of conceit and the ultimate location of the work hanging on the wall for viewer interaction. I rely on the experience of the scene and a mental backlog of imagery to tap into a more intuitive painting process. While imagery is still detectable, this procedural distancing allows the subjects to be interpreted broadly, beyond their immediate meaning, and opens up the viewer to a series of multiple interpretations. The viewer is capable of experiencing the middle point between reality and abstraction - materially, spatially, and metaphysically."

(Image: "Regatta I" by Megan Hinton)

Megan Hinton received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Ohio Wesleyan, one of America’s oldest Fine Arts programs at a University. She later enrolled in the Post-Baccalaureate program at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and earned a Masters in Studio Art at New York University.

Carver Hill welcomes this talented new artist to their stable. To read Hinton’s curriculum vitae and see images please click here or stop by Carver Hill Gallery to review her book.

Carver Hill Gallery is located at 338 Main Street in Rockland. Gallery hours for July and August are Monday through Saturday 10:30 am to 5:30 pm and Sunday 11:00 am to 3:00 pm. For more information, please call 207-594-7745 or visit www.carverhillgallery.com.

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