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[Catherine Callahan](http://www.catherinecallahan-painter.com) studied painting at the State University of New York at New Paltz. She is the recipient of several awards including the Individual Artist Award from the Cornell University Council on the Arts and various Special Opportunity Stipends from the New York Foundation on the Arts. Her work has been shown in galleries and nonprofit venues and she is the founder of the bi-annual Byrdcliffe Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, held on the grounds of the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony in Woodstock, NY. She lives and works in Portland Maine. 

“Athena offers her wisdom and guidance to Odysseus's son while disguised as a man - her true beauty and radiance is too much for humans to gaze upon directly. Her full self lies behind the scenes.”


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Catherine Callahan, "Athena Disguises Herself As An Old Man And Appears To The Suitors" - acrylic on canvas, 30" x 30" - $850

[Laurie](https://www.lauriefisherstudio.com) is a Brooklyn native who obtained her BA from Bucknell University and her MA from Boston University. Painting is her personal, visceral response to the world. She uses paint to evoke something aesthetically raw and authentic. Color and form are her subjects, and each painting emerges from a path of its own. She works to build and balance the painting's architecture using color, lots of white, lines, organic shapes, straight edges, and layers. 

“My work explores stillness, and the purity and immortality of the present moment. What will it take for a painting to empty the viewer’s mind for even a split second, to receive an undiluted experience of color and form?”



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 Laurie Fisher, "Kings Blue and Navy" -  oil on canvas, 49" x 37" - $3200

[Jenny La Macchia Campbell](http://jennylamacchia.com/index.html ) hails from Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, NY, where she lived all of her life before moving to Cape Elizabeth in 1994 with her husband and 3 sons. She received a BS in art and photography from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York (CUNY) in 1982 and an MFA in painting from Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY) in 1986. She studied with George McNeil, Mercedes Matter, David Reed, Frederic Thursz, Michael Lowe and Estaban Viscente at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture from 1982-1984 and received a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Colony in 1984. She attended Maine College of Art Continuing Studies classes from 2012-2015 and is a member of "7", a collective of seven Maine-based abstract painters who emerged from Maine College of Art.

“My work embodies many different intuitive experiments and processes in my studio. The paintings show diverse concerns along the way in my artistic progression without necessarily focusing on an end result in my mind. I like how my paintings intuitively emerge and for me often conjure up feelings of a seemingly remembered location, but the places remain mentally abstract spaces and are hard to pin down as other than being reveries or daydreams.  I like the idea that my work is ambiguous and open to interpretation.”

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Jenny La Macchia Campbell, "Ambiguity" - mixed media on paper mounted on canvas, 56" x 43" - $1900

[Elijah River](https://www.elijah-river.com) was born and raised in the urban areas of Southern New Hampshire. He is a candidate for a BFA in Painting with minors in Art History and Drawing from the Maine College of Art in 2019, was nominated for the Yale Norfolk Summer Program, and attended the Summer Undergraduate Residency Program at the New York Academy of Art in Manhattan. Elijah has received awards in juried exhibitions including the Merit Competition at the Maine College of Art and the Joseph A. Fiore Painting Prize at the Joseph A. Fiore Art Center in Jefferson, ME. Elijah’s painting’s have been included in numerous galleries around Maine including the Institute of Contemporary Art as well as a group exhibition at the Wilkinson Gallery in the lower east side of New York City. 

“The moments in between 
our shallow interactions 
always fall on deaf ears 
and impenetrable masks
These moments of nothingness
and everything at once
They silently scream
to pay attention
On the verge of
true Empathy
and the void”


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Elijah River, "Hello, Friend" - oil on canvas, 47" x 72" - $2000 

[Lin Lisberger](https://linlisberger.com/home.html) is a sculptor who taught sculpture, drawing, and design part-time in the USM Art Department from 1981 until her retirement in 2017. Her exhibition experience is widespread and her work has been included in many exhibits, most recently at Chazan Gallery in Providence, RI, and the University of Rhode Island Art Gallery. In March 2019 she will exhibit in ON BOOKS: Sculpture that References Literature at the Portland Public Library. Lin has been making art for over forty years, and over time her sculptures have incorporated many images, always resonating with the attributes of wood. She has also made woodblock prints and monoprints over that time. Each sculpture and print is a sketch of a moment in time and space and the life of the tree. 

“Breath/Blue is a woodblock print from a large woodblock carved only with a chainsaw. The immediacy of the carving method and the energy of a triple registration give a sense of vibrancy and potential. It is hard to know if the breath is explosive or retractive, but it is on the verge of something.”


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Lin Lisberger, "Breath/Blue" - woodblock print on pang pi paper, 46" x 46" - $800

[Diane](https://dianedahlke.com/Diane/Welcome.html) received her MFA in Visual Arts from Vermont College of Norwich University and a BFA from Syracuse University. She has exhibited nationally in both juried and invitational exhibitions and shows regularly in Portland at Casco Bay Artisans. She has been teaching painting through the Continuing Studies Program of Maine College of Art since 2000.

“When I heard ‘on the verge,’ what immediately came to mind was the idea of transition; of being on the verge of changing from one state to the next. In the case of ‘Smelt’ it is from life to death. The fish is ready to be eaten and the whole process starts again.”


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Diane Dahlke, "Smelt" - acrylic on canvas, 47" x 35" - $3800 

Larry is a visual artist exhibiting as a painter since 1979 and as a photographer since 2014. The 1980 Island Artists show at the Avenue House Gallery, Peaks Island, was his Maine debut. Subsequently his work has been included in the All Maine Biennial, where it was awarded the Purchase Prize, many shows at Maine Coast Artists Gallery, as well as the landmark exhibition, On The Edge; 40 Years of Painting in Maine. In 2002, he was honored by a ten-year retrospective exhibition of his figure drawings at the Colby College Museum of Art. His work was included in the landmark publication Maine Art Now by Edgar Allen Beem. For three years he served on the Maine Arts Commission’s Artists’ panel for the Percent for Art program. More recently, his work was published in Design Language by Tim McCreight and Intuition Painting by Dean Nimmer. In 2010 he exhibited his 136 ft long Continuous Drawing in a one person installation at The June Fitzpatrick High Street Gallery. In 2014, in collaboration with Scott Vile, The Ascensius Press published PULLUM, a book of his photographs of chickens accompanied by Latin language text. In 2015 his photographs were used to illustrate the deluxe centennial edition of Robert Frost’s North of Boston. 

“On the Verge, as a theme for this exhibition, struck me as amusing and appropriate relative to my submission, Nine Foot Passage / Continuous Drawing. During the three months I worked on the project, which ultimately resulted in a continuous 84 foot long drawing, I often said to myself that I was always teetering on the verge of some kind of disaster or some kind of miracle. I think I landed somewhere between the two extremes.”



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Larry Hayden, "Nine Foot Passage / Continuous Drawing" - sumi ink on rag paper, 72" x 108" - $2500

[Roland “Salazar” Rose](http://www.salazargallery.com) returned to Maine in 2012 after three decades of residing in Mexico. His goal is to paint Maine’s true essence: at once unforgiving, uncompromising, demanding daily awareness, and testing the ability to live with nature as a constant in one’s life. He was the founder of Portland’s now-closed Danforth Gallery, has exhibited nationally and internationally, and his work resides in museums and personal collections. The Maine Arts Commission recently awarded Salazar a Media Project Grant (2018-19) for the production and publication of an e-pub titled Solar Flares, Our Cosmic Life on 'Spaceship Earth.’

“My painting, ‘Along the Mighty Saco River’ is appropriate for Creative Portland’s call for work ‘On the Verge’ because Biddeford’s motto Resurgam, Latin for ‘I Rise Again’ is an apt expression of the past and the future for this river-side community: Along the Mighty Saco River.”



Salazar, "Along the Mighty Saco River" - mixed media on Stonehenge paper mounted on hardboard, 27" x 35" - $1500 

[Will](https://www.willbyers.com) is an evolving professional photographer specializing in editorial and fine art photography and an author of holistic articles that explore culture and history. He lives in downtown Portland with his sweetheart and dog. Raised in Southern Appalachia, Will has also lived in the Green Mountains, Buenos Aires, the Free and Sovereign State of Chiapas, Patagonia, and briefly on Mount Desert Island.

“Portland’s now-dormant swing bridge has existed for well over a century, supporting freight trains and intrepid Portlanders alike. When the fog comes in, its massive frame verges on obscurity, but it will stand prominently in our daily lives for many generations more.”


Will Byers, "Swing Bridge" - ultrachrome inkjet print on archival cotton rag paper, 29" x 41" - $600

[Erin](http://www.artistamerican.com) is a social entrepreneur, a citizen scientist, and a change maker who merges science, technology, and art while incorporating Maine surroundings into the layers of her work. A 2017 recipient of a Maine Arts Commission Grant, her project “Art and Chemotherapy” collaborated with New England Cancer Specialists (Kennebunk). Nationally recognized, McGee Ferrell’s paintings are collected by private and commercial institutions. She is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and University of the Arts Philadelphia and has also studied at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, University of Louisville in Italy, School for International Training in Nigeria, and Maine College of Art. She maintains two studios: one is a makerspace for microbiology inspired interactive art, the other a light flooded room for large figurative oil paintings.

“Petri Dish Series merges non-traditional art-making materials with microbiology exploration; new genre, new audience, new responses. Reaching just beyond where I have always been awakens my drive, determination, and assiduousness as a contemporary visual maker.”

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Erin McGee Ferrell, "Petri Dish: Milkweed Series" - mixed media on wood, 30"x 40" - $4850 each

[Megan Jones](http://www.meganjones.com) is a fine art and commercial photographer. Based in Portland, she specializes in lifestyle, weddings, portraiture, fashion, and editorial. Shooting professionally for nearly twenty years, Megan has worked for magazines and institutions including DownEast, Boston Magazine, Harvard Medical, Peabody Essex Museum, Sustainable Harvest, and Always Piper.

“The Yeti series is an ongoing self portrait project of my alter ego. Yeti, wild, strange and elusive, is often on the verge of peril.”

Megan Jones, "Bridge Out " - photographic inkjet print on archival paper, 21" x 21" - $700

[Andy](http://www.andybustin.com) is a photographer with a background in geography who is most drawn to subjects that explore the relationship between people and the environment. His project Feel Good Photography aims to promote small businesses in Maine making a positive impact on the health of their communities and the environment. Recent clients include Oxbow Brewing Company, Urban Farm Fermentory, TULA Sanctuary for Everyday Healthy Living, Black Point Surf Shop, the Open Bench Project, Maine Sailing Adventures, FarmDrop, and the Mount Joy Community Orchard. 

“The sky darkened rapidly the day this photo of my friend Matt Arcara was taken. We watched as billowing storm clouds arrived overhead, consuming the sun until it felt like night. A warm and heavy wind was followed closely by thick sheets of rain and strong overhead thunder. Even as neon lightning bolts started to touch down along the coast, Matt and other local surfers were heading out to enjoy the waves. Everyone was running around in the rain and hollering back at the sky. It was an unforgettable scene, charged with that intense kinetic energy you can only find on the verge of a summer storm.”


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Andy Bustin, "Boardwalk" - photograph, 36" x 24" - $750

[Alicia Ethridge](www.aliciaethridge.com) has been living, working, and creating in Maine since 2008. Ethridge currently resides on a tidal pond, next to a creek that bends and twists through marsh banks into the thicket, a short distance from the woods and ocean. She works primarily in mixed-media collage, oil, and acrylic paint. She studied for two years with A.R.C. (Artfully Raising Consciousness) Project, which is a sanctuary for contemplative artists. She has also studied at Maine College of Art’s Continuing Studies Program. Through these courses, Ethridge helped found an artist collective, SEVEN, who meet once a month at each other’s studios to present and discuss new work or works in progress.

“These figures represent the inner emotional colors within us. What could be more on the verge than the emotions ready to burst forth?”

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Alicia Ethridge, "Someone Else’s Magic" - oil on birch panel, 36" x 36" - $1000

[Jaime](http://jaimewing.com) is a fine artist, printmaker, and member of Pickwick Independent Press. The printmaking process allows him to let go of control and cherish the beauty of imperfection. He believes there is something about non-digital production in a society such as ours that feels “real” and connects us to ourselves. He is interested in the use of reclaimed and recycled materials, abstractions of and around the human figure, nature, and identity.

"‘My Heart Is Floating’ depicts a figure very much ‘on the verge’: occupying a precarious space that many would consider transitional or between two realms. Whether they are between emotions, genders, or reality, they are existing on a border - and, perhaps by doing so, dissolving it.”

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Jaime Wing, "My Heart Is Floating" - lithograph, 26" x 38" - $425

[Stephen Walsh’s](https://www.stephenpeterwalsh.com/) non-objective works explore the interplay of space and illusion. With a strong interest in line and hard edge planar relationships, he uses these elements to push and pull the viewer between the second and third dimension. Working in both painting and mixed media drawing, he often employs the use of energetic mark making to build a sense of floating sculptural forms against a landscape of spatial ambiguity. Stephen Walsh was born in 1972 and graduated in 2010 from the University of Southern Maine with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting. He lives and works in Portland, ME.

“Hearing music visually. For me, music’s soundscape is a three-dimensional map floating in space, leaving traces of its history, yet always on the verge of a new path.”


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Stephen Walsh, "Soundscape" - mixed media on illustration board, 47" x 36" - $2000

[Larinda Meade](http://www.larindameade.com) uses the landscape as a means to make meaning by creating a feeling of quiet and calm while communicating her love of the landscape. Her practice is to walk, sketch, and take snapshots of what appeals to her eye. She uses these snapshots as a springboard to her image making, beginning with her first printing proof. She skillfully and sensitively combines soft ground, aquatint, and dry point to create stirring landscapes. Larinda’s work is exhibited nationally and internationally, including Washington Printmakers (Washington, DC), Sanford Gallery (Florence, MA), University of New England, (Portland, ME), and D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts, (Springfield, MA). Her work is held in public and private collections, among them the Portland Museum of Art, Wheaton College, and the New Britain Museum of Fine Art. She lives in Portland and is affiliated with Peregrine Press (Portland, ME) and Zea Mays Printmaking Studio (Florence, MA).

“As I created this work, I paid close attention to the idea of sound and landscape—the timbre.  Timbre Complete is on the verge of echoing sound and landscape. Each individual print is a image in its own right: and then - moving to the next print you are always on the verge of the next image. Although the work is seen as a whole, each component works an edge and there is an imagined space (or verge) between each component.”

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Larinda Meade, "Timbre Complete" - aquatint and soft ground, 30" x 24" - $700

[Tabitha](http://www.tabithabarnard.com) was born in Freedom, NH, in 1994. She is a photographer who grew up in rural Maine with three sisters. Growing up in a very Christian female-dominated family has had a huge influence on her work. She works primarily in digital and analog color photography, exploring themes of femininity, religion, and ritual. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Maine College of Art in the spring of 2016. In the summer of 2018, she was a finalist in the Lens Culture Art Photography awards and completed her first solo show at Speedwell Projects. She currently works as the media technician at the Maine College of Art with plans to apply to graduate school in the fall. 

“Most of my photographs document my sisters as they transition from girls to women. This piece specifically is about my youngest sister Sophie standing on the verge of womanhood. She is about to fully experience the full beauty and struggle of femininity but remains ignorant of that for now. Playing dress up in an old prom dress.”

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Tabitha Barnard, "Prom Dress" - archival pigment print, 30" x 40" - $300

[Karolyn Greenstreet](https://www.instagram.com/karolyngreenstreet/) received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts, NY, and is currently enrolled in the MFA program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her work crosses various mediums including painting, photography, and installation. She is a former co-president and a current member of The Dooryard Artist Collective in Portland.

“In ‘Alelele Falls,’ I employ my personal reminiscence of the force of a hidden Hawaiian waterfall rushing through the forest and its dissipation into a cool airy mist as a metaphor for human activities and memory, thus presenting the connection between planetary rhythms and our own existence.”



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Karolyn Greenstreet, "Alelele Falls" - acrylic on masonite, 25" x 25" - $500

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