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Dowling Walsh Gallery 357 Main Street Rockland, Maine
207-596-0084
www.dowlingwalsh.com [email protected]

06/04/2026

Will you accept this rose? First Friday is this Friday 4-7pm and we invite you to visit our three exhibitions and perhaps partake in a refreshment.

Gardens: Real and Imagined | A Group Show
Lauren Fensterstock | In Each and Every
Jacob Bond Hessler | Garden of Shadows

Tollef Runquist
Flower King
Acrylic on canvas mounted on panel
40” x 40”

05/30/2026

The artist and her work. Lauren Fensterstock | In Each and Every is now on view.

Encrusted with crystals, faceted glass, shells, and semi-precious stones, Fensterstock’s sculptures absorb and reflect light, suggesting jeweled meteors, lotus blossoms, grottos, and mysterious terrestrial forms. Accompanying the sculptures is a series of ink and crystal-embellished drawings she created at Civitella Ranieri, an artist residency in a 15th-century castle in Umbertide, Italy. Collectively titled “Amrita,” a Sanskrit term for “immortality,” referring to the “nectar of the gods” or “ambrosia,” these exquisitely rendered abstract images radiate energy and connection, serving as a diary of Fensterstock’s stay.

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05/29/2026

Jacob Bond Hessler’s photographs in Garden of Shadows treat darkness as both aesthetic and psychic space, “a place where pain, grief, and quietude coalesce and give rise to the fragile shoots of hope.” Deep tones and obscured forms invite close looking—slivers of light, delicate marks, and illuminated materials break through as gestures of renewal. The physicality of surface—rough, smooth, layered, aglow—recalls the mystery that soil holds and memory, suggesting that what feels barren can also hold seeds. “As the spring comes only after the winter,” says Hessler, “the ensuing dawn only appears from the inky night.”

Jacob Bond Hessler | Garden of Shadows is on view through June 27.

05/27/2026

We’re feeling beyond grateful to have three remarkable exhibitions on view! Thank you to everyone who joined us for the opening celebration, and to artists Lauren Fensterstock, Jacob Bond Hessler, and those included in our group show for entrusting us with their thoughtful and extraordinary work.

We are open Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-5pm 🪩

05/21/2026

Join us for the premiere of Jacob Bond Hessler | Garden of Shadows with an opening reception this Saturday, May 23 from 4-6pm.

Jacob Bond Hessler’s photographs in Garden of Shadows treat darkness as both aesthetic and psychic space, “a place where pain, grief, and quietude coalesce and give rise to the fragile shoots of hope.” Deep tones and obscured forms invite close looking—slivers of light, delicate marks, and illuminated materials break through as gestures of renewal. The physicality of surface—rough, smooth, layered, aglow—recalls the mystery that soil holds and memory, suggesting that what feels barren can also hold seeds. “As the spring comes only after the winter,” says Hessler, “the ensuing dawn only appears from the inky night.”

Jacob Bond Hessler
Mechanical Sun
Photograph on Aluminum
16” x 24”

Jacob Bond Hessler
Puddle of Clouds
Photograph on Aluminum
16” x 24”

05/18/2026

Join us this Saturday, May 23 for the premiere of Lauren Fensterstock’s exhibition In Each and Every and an opening reception from 4-6pm.

Encrusted with crystals, faceted glass, shells, and semi-precious stones, Fensterstock’s sculptures absorb and reflect light, suggesting jeweled meteors, lotus blossoms, grottos, and mysterious terrestrial forms. Accompanying the sculptures is a series of ink and crystal-embellished drawings she created at Civitella Ranieri, an artist residency in a 15th-century castle in Umbertide, Italy. Collectively titled “Amrita,” a Sanskrit term for “immortality,” referring to the “nectar of the gods” or “ambrosia,” these exquisitely rendered abstract images radiate energy and connection, serving as a diary of Fensterstock’s stay.

Presented in partnership with Claire Oliver Gallery

Lauren Fensterstock
I Arrange the Stars, detail, 2024
Vintage crystal, glass, quartz, obsidian, tourmaline and mixed media
14” x 22” x 19”

05/13/2026

We are rather happy to present Gardens: Real and Imagined, a group exhibition, opening Saturday, May 23 with a reception from 4-6pm.

Rachel Gloria Adams
Land Man, 2026
Cotton, linen, wool, acrylic, glass beads and thread
22” x 16”

The gallery will be closed this week for installation.

05/08/2026

Jacob Bond Hessler’s new show Garden of Shadows will premiere at Dowling Walsh on Saturday, May 23 with an opening reception from 4-6pm.

Camden, Maine-based photographer Jacob Bond Hessler is known for his expansive and meditative images of the natural and built environments. In his latest series, Garden of Shadows, he turns his observant eye to the night landscape. “As of late, darkness is no longer an absence to me—it is a vessel,” he says. “In my work, I explore darkness as a living, necessary presence, the fertile ground in which light becomes meaningful. Without shadow, brightness flattens; without loss, renewal is hollow.”

05/04/2026

We are so pleased to announce our upcoming show with Lauren Fensterstock. In Each and Every opens with a reception Saturday, May 23 from 4-6pm.

In her first exhibition with Dowling Walsh Gallery, Lauren Fensterstock: In Each and Every presents recent sculptures and works on paper by the Portland, Maine-based artist. Known for her elaborate sculptures and installations that bind our physical and metaphysical landscapes. Extravagant in their material presence and devotional labor, her works command the eye to the present moment, bringing attention to embodied experience. Fensterstock says, “I am not chasing a transcendence that rises above, but an immanence that resides within, here in the stuff of this earth.”

Lauren Fensterstock: In Each and Every May 22–June 27

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357 Main Street
Rockland, ME
04841

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