Carol Sloane
“Water: Salt/Unsalted”
About the Show
The work will be oil stick on paper, framed images of the Monhegan and Matinicus Coasts, and oil paintings on canvas from my Floating Series, about kayaking the St George River.
Artists Bio
Carol Sloane studied painting at Skidmore College and graduated with a BS in Art in 1967. She wanted to live in the country more than she wanted a career in art and settled in Midcoast Maine to farm in 1972.
She raised sheep, had a large garden, and worked in Camden, sewing at the Leather Bench until she started her own business making and selling fabric handbags. She spent 23 years marketing her work, in Perspectives, a fine crafts gallery in Camden, and at wholesale and retail craft shows around the country until, in 1994, she became obsessed with a desire to paint again.
For six consecutive winters, she took classes at the Art Students League of New York and became an active member of the Maine art community. She was fortunate to attend a number of artist residencies, including a 6-week stay on Monhegan Island in 2002. She was a founding member of the Downtown Gallery in Washington Maine, and an active member of the Gibbs Library Art Committee, hanging shows and showing her work around the state.
In 2017 she moved to Rockland, where she gardens on a smaller scale but with great enthusiasm, and she continues to follow her muses, gardening and painting.
ONE PERSON SHOWS
2022 “Fabric as Vehicle”, Gibbs Library, Washington, ME
2019-2022 “ Deck the Walls”, Art at Bartlett Woods, Rockland ME
2018 “Contemporary Scrolling, Maine Jewish Museum, Portland, ME
2013 ‘Water and Wood’, Elizabeth Moss Gallery, Falmouth ME
2013 ‘Marking the Water’, Betts Gallery, Belfast, ME
2011 ‘Domestic Partners’, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME
2011 ‘Walking the Woods’, Elizabeth Moss Gallery, Falmouth, ME
2011 ‘Tidal Rocks/Canyon Walls’, Betts Gallery, Belfast, ME
2008 ‘Mixed Greens’, Downtown Gallery, Washington, ME
2007, 2008 ‘Winter Paintings, Black Duck Gallery, Lunenburg, NS, Canada
2006 ‘Domestic Partners’, Downtown Gallery, Washington, ME
2004 ‘Walking the Dog’, Downtown Gallery, Washington, ME
2003 ‘New Work’, Elan Gallery, Rockland, ME
2002 ‘Waking up in Sacred Places’, Washington, ME
2002 ‘Reflecting on Reflections and Patterns’, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
2000 ‘Moving Parts’, Round Top center for the Arts, Damariscotta, ME
2000 ‘Walking Time’, Railroad Square, Waterville, ME
1999 ‘Passing Time’, Camden Library, Camden, ME
1998 ‘Gourd and Shellscapes’, Downtown Gallery, Washington, ME
1995 ‘Childhood Friends’, Gibbs Library, Washington, ME
GROUP SHOWS, partial list
2023 Landing Gallery, Rockland, ME
2021 ‘Art Matters’, Belfast Salon, Portland and Belfast, ME
2017 ‘Paperwork’, Yvette Torres Gallery, Rockland, ME
2015 ‘Brushwork’, Betts Gallery, Belfast, ME
2014 ‘All Too Brief’, Jonathan Frost Gallery, Rockland, ME
2014 ‘Monhegan Artist’s Residency 25 Years’, Thos Moser Gallery, Freeport, ME
2014 ‘Monhegan, Unfailing Muse’, Archipelago Gallery, Rockland, ME
1995 – 2012 Downtown Gallery, Washington, ME
2005 – 2012 Elizabeth Moss Gallery, Falmouth, ME
2006 ‘Into the Woods’, Maine Art Gallery, Wiscassett, ME
2005 ‘Portland Biennial’, Portland Museum, Portland, ME
2004 ‘Where Land and Water Meet’, Tignish Cultural Center, PEI, Canada
2003 ‘Drawing on Ideas: 10 Artists’, Greenhut Gallery, Portland, ME
2003 ‘Six Women Engaging in the Maine Landscape’, CMCA, Rockland, ME
2002 ‘Downtown Gallery at the Blaine House’, Augusta, ME
2002 – 2013 ‘Art Makes a Difference Invitational’, CMCA, Rockport, ME
RESIDENCIES
2006 Cill Railaig Project, Ballenskelligs, Ireland
2005, 2010 Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Residency, Taos, NM
2002 Carina House Residency, Monhegan Island, ME
2000, 2001, 2002 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Find out more about Carol Sloane at carolsloanemaine.com