In Dialogue

George Marshall Store Gallery

York, Maine

Aug. 12 - Oct. 1, 2023

In Dialogue is a conversation between seven Maine artists. The show arranges five individuals and one collaborative duo into pairs, exploring formal and conceptual overlaps in their varied works.

Grace Hager and Dean McCrillis toe the line between magic and mundane in vividly colored representations of encounters with the natural world. Hager’s ceramic works locate nature as a realm of possibility and transformative experience. Her use of oscillating color combined with landscape subjects positions magic within the observable, giving form to feelings of awe. Born and raised in western Maine, McCrillis pulls inspiration from the intensity of the state’s dense wilderness. His paintings reinterpret the tradition of sporting art, sourcing imagery from direct observation, memory, vintage family photos, and sporting ephemera. Skillfully rendered in wild palettes, his constructed scenes project an air of mystery and hover just beyond reality.

Exhibition text and installation documentation by Kate Rasche and George Marshall Store Gallery