"Multiple Choice B" by Diane Bowie Zaitlin, encaustic collage, 24" x 24"
Purchase prize, 2012 Mill-ennial, Saco Museum, Saco, Maine
Diane Bowie Zaitlin's mixed media and encaustic paintings reveal her fascination with the power of color, sensuality of surface, and use of a veiled narrative. Her imagery often refers to memory, choices, searching, and relationships, with a hint of landscape. She is especially attracted to the luminosity, depth, and fluidity of encaustic that allows a natural combination of painting and collage. Diane enjoys passing on her knowledge of encaustic and painting with oil and cold wax in workshops in Maine. click here for workshop page.
Recent and Upcoming Solo and major exhibits:
Rochester Museum of Fine Arts, solo exhibit, Dec. - Jan. 2016-17.
Encaustic/Works in Pigment and Beeswax, University of Maine Hutchinson Center, Belfast, Maine.Sept.-Dec. 2016
Plenty, Cynthia Winings Gallery, Blue Hill, Maine. August 2016.
Diane Bowie Zaitlin drawings at June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, Maine. 2016.
Undercurrents at the Maine Jewish Museum, Portland, Maine.
Recent group exhibits:
Water Effects, Schweinfurth Arts Center, Auburn, N.Y.
Elemental Forces at Cynthia Winings Gallery, Blue Hill, Maine.
Fall Salon, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, Maine.
Art Collective, Carver Hill Gallery, Rockland, Maine.
Black and White, River Arts, Damariscotta, Maine. Juror Bob Keyes.
Abstract, River Arts, Damariscotta, Maine. Juror Suzette McAvoy.
Celebration of Color, River Arts, Damariscotta, Maine. Juror Bruce Busko.
Maine Women Pioneers III, Dirigo at University of New England Art Gallery, Portland, Maine.
The Future of the Past: Encaustic Art in the 21st Century, at the Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, Mass.
The Power of Ten, Discover Portsmouth, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Diane has exhibited extensively including group shows at Cheryl Pelavin Fine Arts, New York City; The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Mass.; Saco Museum, Saco, Maine; ArtSpace Gallery, Maynard, Mass.; Carver Hill Gallery, Rockland, Maine; Flat Iron Gallery, Portland, Maine; Leighton Gallery, Blue Hill, Maine; Elan Fine Arts, Rockland, Maine; Greenhut Galleries, Portland, Maine; George Marshall Store Gallery, York, Maine; Brian Marki Gallery, Portland, Oregon; Redhouse Gallery, Dubuque, Iowa; Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, Conn.; Charter Oak Temple Gallery,Hartford, Conn.; Slater Museum, Norwich, Conn.
Selected solo exhibits:
2016 Diane Bowie Zaitlin drawings, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, Maine.
2015 Undercurrents, Maine Jewish Museum, Portland, Maine.
2013 Eloquent Silence, Elizabeth Moss Galleries, Falmouth, Maine.
2011 Point of Departure, Saco Museum, Saco, Maine
2008 North Dam Mill, Biddeford, Maine.
2004 University of New England, Biddeford, Maine.
Passageways, Saco Museum, Saco, Maine.
2002 Alchemy, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Conn.
2001 Exit, Davidson and Daughters Contemporary Art, Portland, Me.
1997 State House, Augusta, Maine.
1996 St. Joseph's College, Windham, Maine.
Diane received a B.F.A. from the University of Connecticut,Storrs, Connecticut and also studied at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York. She has studied at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, R & F Paints, Kingston, N.Y., and Maine College of Art.
Diane has been an artist-in-residence at schools and museums with the Maine Touring Artist Program of the Maine Arts Commission for over twenty years. She currently teaches small independent encaustic workshops at her studio in Saco, Maine.
Please enjoy viewing my work and let me know if you would like further information on purchasing artwork. If it is currently showing at a gallery, I will refer you to the gallery.
You may also sign up to receive notification of my upcoming exhibits and workshops at: diane.bowie.zaitlin@gmail.com
Purchase prize, 2012 Mill-ennial, Saco Museum, Saco, Maine
Diane Bowie Zaitlin's mixed media and encaustic paintings reveal her fascination with the power of color, sensuality of surface, and use of a veiled narrative. Her imagery often refers to memory, choices, searching, and relationships, with a hint of landscape. She is especially attracted to the luminosity, depth, and fluidity of encaustic that allows a natural combination of painting and collage. Diane enjoys passing on her knowledge of encaustic and painting with oil and cold wax in workshops in Maine. click here for workshop page.
Recent and Upcoming Solo and major exhibits:
Rochester Museum of Fine Arts, solo exhibit, Dec. - Jan. 2016-17.
Encaustic/Works in Pigment and Beeswax, University of Maine Hutchinson Center, Belfast, Maine.Sept.-Dec. 2016
Plenty, Cynthia Winings Gallery, Blue Hill, Maine. August 2016.
Diane Bowie Zaitlin drawings at June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, Maine. 2016.
Undercurrents at the Maine Jewish Museum, Portland, Maine.
Recent group exhibits:
Water Effects, Schweinfurth Arts Center, Auburn, N.Y.
Elemental Forces at Cynthia Winings Gallery, Blue Hill, Maine.
Fall Salon, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, Maine.
Art Collective, Carver Hill Gallery, Rockland, Maine.
Black and White, River Arts, Damariscotta, Maine. Juror Bob Keyes.
Abstract, River Arts, Damariscotta, Maine. Juror Suzette McAvoy.
Celebration of Color, River Arts, Damariscotta, Maine. Juror Bruce Busko.
Maine Women Pioneers III, Dirigo at University of New England Art Gallery, Portland, Maine.
The Future of the Past: Encaustic Art in the 21st Century, at the Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, Mass.
The Power of Ten, Discover Portsmouth, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Diane has exhibited extensively including group shows at Cheryl Pelavin Fine Arts, New York City; The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Mass.; Saco Museum, Saco, Maine; ArtSpace Gallery, Maynard, Mass.; Carver Hill Gallery, Rockland, Maine; Flat Iron Gallery, Portland, Maine; Leighton Gallery, Blue Hill, Maine; Elan Fine Arts, Rockland, Maine; Greenhut Galleries, Portland, Maine; George Marshall Store Gallery, York, Maine; Brian Marki Gallery, Portland, Oregon; Redhouse Gallery, Dubuque, Iowa; Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, Conn.; Charter Oak Temple Gallery,Hartford, Conn.; Slater Museum, Norwich, Conn.
Selected solo exhibits:
2016 Diane Bowie Zaitlin drawings, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, Maine.
2015 Undercurrents, Maine Jewish Museum, Portland, Maine.
2013 Eloquent Silence, Elizabeth Moss Galleries, Falmouth, Maine.
2011 Point of Departure, Saco Museum, Saco, Maine
2008 North Dam Mill, Biddeford, Maine.
2004 University of New England, Biddeford, Maine.
Passageways, Saco Museum, Saco, Maine.
2002 Alchemy, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Conn.
2001 Exit, Davidson and Daughters Contemporary Art, Portland, Me.
1997 State House, Augusta, Maine.
1996 St. Joseph's College, Windham, Maine.
Diane received a B.F.A. from the University of Connecticut,Storrs, Connecticut and also studied at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York. She has studied at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, R & F Paints, Kingston, N.Y., and Maine College of Art.
Diane has been an artist-in-residence at schools and museums with the Maine Touring Artist Program of the Maine Arts Commission for over twenty years. She currently teaches small independent encaustic workshops at her studio in Saco, Maine.
Please enjoy viewing my work and let me know if you would like further information on purchasing artwork. If it is currently showing at a gallery, I will refer you to the gallery.
You may also sign up to receive notification of my upcoming exhibits and workshops at: diane.bowie.zaitlin@gmail.com
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