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A Virtual Gallery Talk, Acadian Seas, Acadian Seeing
Christine Lafuente shares how a decade of painting seascapes on Mount Desert Island has inspired an evolution in her still life compositions.
In her paintings of harbors, rocky coasts, and the islands of Acadia, light plays through varying atmospheres of fogs, mists, and clear sunny days. Lafuente writes, “Looking into water changes how I see nature. It becomes abstracted and mysterious, as in the way form falls apart and coalesces again in a reflection on the water. As I begin to express this transformation in paint, I also seek to recreate this visual experience in my still life compositions. Inside a glass water-filled vase is a microcosm of how the world reveals itself in paint.”
Christine Lafuente grew up in Poughkeepsie, NY and was influenced by the Hudson River School of Painting at a young age. She holds an A.B. in English from Bryn Mawr College, a Certificate in Painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and an M.F.A. in Painting from Brooklyn College. An award-winning artist, Lafuente has received an Adolf and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant, been included in the Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and most recently received a Medal for Achievement in Visual Arts from the Philadelphia Sketch Club. Her work is part of many public and private collections. She has exhibited in New York, London, and extensively along the east coast. Lafuente lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Rocky Point On The Sound, Oil on linen, 14 x 14 inches
Carl Little is the author of more than 25 art books, including Paintings of Maine, The Watercolors of John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer and the Sea, and Edward Hopper’s New England. He has written books on Dahlov Ipcar, Joel Babb, Jeffery Becton, Beverly Hallam, and Philip Frey. His book Eric Hopkins: Above and Beyond won the first John Cole Prize from the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance in 2012. He edited his brother David Little’s Art of Katahdin and co-authored with him Art of Acadia and Paintings of Portland. Little writes for Art New England, Working Waterfront, Hyperallergic, Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors and Ornament. He has helped produce several Maine Masters films, including the award-winning Imber’s Left Hand. Born and raised in New York City, Little holds degrees from Dartmouth, Columbia, and Middlebury. He directed the Ethel Blum Gallery at College of the Atlantic before becoming director of communications and marketing at the Maine Community Foundation in 2001.
Photo: Erin Little