GUEST ARTIST: JUSTIN RICHEL
Justin Richel was born in New Jersey in 1979, and resides in Maine, USA. He holds a BFA in Painting from Maine College of Art, and studied the technique of Icon Panting at the Franciscan Monastery, Kennebunk, Maine. He held his first solo exhibition at the Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts. Selected group exhibitions include: Biennial, (2007) Portland Museum of Art, Mr. President, Albany University Museum, Albany, New York, Don't Know Much About History, (2006) Artspace, New Haven Connecticut, From Baja to Bar Harbour, Transnational Contemporary Art, ICA Portland, Maine, Biennial Juried Exhibition, (2004) Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine, Portraits: A Group Show, and Small Works, Highland Artworks Gallery, Portland Maine, Exquisite Corpses Today, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, MECA Alumni Show, (2003) Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, Maine and Domestic Revival: Victoria Mansion : Seen Through the Eyes of Contemporary Artists, (2001) Portland, Maine. He holds the People's Heritage Savings Bank Endowed Scholarship and The Harvey Flaws Memorial Endowed Scholarship. Richel is currently undertaking a fellowship at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center in Massachusetts.
