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Alice Gauvin Gallery

Founded in 2021, Alice Gauvin Gallery showcases unique and thoughtful works by contemporary artists.

We seek to support artists motivated by a desire for discovery and a dedication to craft.

11/16/2022

Alice Gauvin Gallery is pleased to present ‘The Back Room’ an exhibition of works from our inventory by Cathy Diamond, Xico Greenwald, Mark LaRiviere, Ami Mountford, Rachel Rickert, and Emily Zuch.

On view November 17 - December 31.

Please note that our holiday hours are Thursday - Saturday, 2-6PM, or by appointment.

Image: Cathy Diamond, A Gorky Dream, 2020, Acrylic and pigments on paper, 20 x 20 inches

10/20/2022

Many of Rickert's rock formation paintings are named for and depict well-known rock climbing sites/routes, where more often than not, her husband Jon is climbing nearby as she paints. Scroll to the second image for the proof!⁠
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Tune in tomorrow for the next Reel in our "Close Range Questions' series to hear the full story behind these three Joshua Tree paintings from herself.⁠
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First image: Hemingway Buttress, 2022, oil on panel, 8 x 6 inches, Joshua Tree, California⁠
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Second image: Car Trunk Still Life with Climbing Gear, Painting Gear, and Rice Cakes, 2022, Joshua Tree, California⁠
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Paintings pictured: Hemingway Buttress, Intersection Rock, & Hidden Tower⁠
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10/08/2022

We are thrilled to announce that Rachel Rickert ‘Close Range’ will be extended until November 5th!

Come by today 12 - 6pm today and see this collection of plein air paintings rooted in Rickert’s departure from her Brooklyn studio and travels throughout the United States and Europe in 2022.

Seen here are ‘Joshua Tree and Intersection Rock’ and ‘The Old Woman’

10/06/2022

Blue sky today in Portland! ✨Sharing this shot of Rachel Rickert painting in Joshua Tree, the first stop in her eight months of travel and painting that culminated in our current show ‘Close Range’.

If you are keeping your adventures local this weekend, come by the gallery Thursday, Friday and Saturday 12 - 6 pm to see more of Rachel Rickert ‘Close Range’.

09/30/2022

Perhaps the most subtly colored works in ‘Close Range, Minnewaska Road, Peterskill, Retribution and Nears are a quartet of works Rickert painted in the Shawangunk Mountains, in upstate New York. The area is widely know for its dramatic cliffs filled landscapes and classic rock climbing.

Come see these, as well as the rest of Close Range this weekend, gallery is open Saturday 12 - 6pm.

06/11/2022

Opens today! Albert Kresch: A Centennial.

"I’m most interested in propelling the color and the space – catapulting it off the surface... I do like to get space by means of color. Speaking of color, I like frank, cold and warm colors. I think that the color should have weight to it, should have a pressure. It isn’t the tint or the hue that counts so much, it’s that pressure… You say, what’s this color against that? Because of value contrast, I can use practically any color in a landscape or a still life if I get the value right. If I get the tonality and the contrast right, then I can invent the color – let's say it’s green against blue. I could make one somewhat orange-ish and the other somewhat purple-ish, but I have to get the right value of purple and of orange." - Albert Kresch, 2005, from an interview in

Come see these dreamy colors in person - we’ll be there 12:30 until 6.

06/10/2022

Oenophiles, ostreaphiles, and art lovers!

It’s our first summer open here at Alice Gauvin Gallery! To celebrate, we’ve partnered with Portland’s own Devenish Wines and the folks behind Shuck Station in Newcastle to bring you an evening of bubbles and brine.

Local wine pro Tim Woods of Devenish has curated a summery quartet of natural, small production sparkling wines, from raw, off-the-beaten path pet nats to classic biodynamic grower Champagne and rustic Italian fizz. He’ll guide you through grower-produced bubbles of all shapes, sizes, colors, and textures. Meanwhile, Brendan Parsons, the owner of Shuck Station and Blackstone Point Oyster Farm, will be offering a selection of four varieties of oyster (three farmed and one wild) to accompany this expansive palate (and palette!) of bubbles.

Come toast the start of summer with us, and while you’re here, enjoy two distinctive exhibitions of paintings from two American masters, Lennart Anderson (1928 – 2015) and Albert Kresch (1922 – 2022).

Follow the link in our bio for tickets ➡️ cheers Portland! 🥂

05/28/2022

Happy Memorial Day weekend! Here’s Lennart Anderson in Maine in 1982. Seasonally relevant archival photo of provided by

Anderson’s strong connection to Maine persisted throughout his life: he was faculty artist at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in 1965 and 1967; he maintained a close friendship with several individuals quintessential to the Maine art world, most notably ; and in 1981 bought a cottage of his own on Middle Bay in Brunswick (where this photo was taken) where he spent his summers painting until his death in 2015.

05/21/2022

We’re closing early! Hours are 12-3PM today. (If that leaves you completely lost for an activity from 3-6, check out The Gleaners and I by Agnes Varda, which is where we stole this cool film still from.)

Happy weekend Portland!

05/09/2022

We're in the Press Herald! Thank you and for another wonderful and engaging review of our show (link in bio).

"Primarily a gestural painter, [Ying Li] brings that gesturalism to her drawings. But Li also studied calligraphy in her native China, and it is apparent that she reveres the animating potential of line. Her charcoal portraits buzz with life. But what is most interesting is that the figures themselves seem to be outwardly placid, creating a fascinating tension." - Jorge Arango

Ying Li
Roger
2009
Charcoal on paper
32 x 26 inches

04/23/2022

RECEPTION TONIGHT 5-7! Come meet Rosie, the Queen of Corona ^ (by ) and have a glass of vino in good company.

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04/22/2022

We’re now selling "Lennart Anderson: A Retrospective," both in the gallery and on our website, as part of our lovely new (open-ended) exhibition of Lennart Anderson's Maine landscapes!

This is the most comprehensive publication to date on the painter Lennart Anderson (1928-2015). Anderson was described by the New York Times as one of the “most prominent and admired painters to translate figurative art into a modern idiom.” John Yau calls Anderson a “masterful colorist whose sensitivity to tonality and to tonal groupings is unrivaled,” and Hilton Kramer succinctly wrote that Anderson was a “Degas of our time.” This illustrated and scholarly publication pairs more than fifty full color reproductions of work, some never seen before, with essays by leading contemporary painters and art historians.

Get your copy of this beautiful catalogue before they're gone!

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