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Spence Guerin lives in his hometown, Melbourne, Florida. He was a full-time resident of Alaska 1974-89 and maintains a studio fifty miles from Anchorage. A stepvan mobile studio enables him to work on location away from home for extended periods of time, as he has done from coast-to-coast. Spence Guerin works in painting, drawing and printmaking media, mostly landscape, some still life, some figurative, including portraits -- working from direct observation on location. He sometimes engages in irreverent commentary (see funky) for this disturbing yet hopeful era in American and world history that enfolds us all. AWARDS include: Academy Award in Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters (see Award text below); Artist Fellowship Grant, Alaska State Arts Council; and Artist Fellowship Grant, National Endowment for the Arts. |
"Spence
Guerin is a contemporary artist who brings the American nineteenth-century
tradition of naturalist painting convincingly into the 21st century.
Mr. Guerin paints from direct visual experience with camera-like
precision. He chooses to paint scenes that are often complex, such
as a Florida swamp with its juble of wild and bewildering vegetation,
of which he makes structured sense. He captures the views he chooses
to paint with the light and atmosphere so tangiblibly depicted that
the viewer of the painting experiences a hallucinatory sense of being
unexpectedly in the space of the scene. Though he is brilliant at
creating the illusion of a real place, it is his strong sense of
pictorial structure that makes him modern."
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American
Academy of Arts and Letters
New York City May 19, 2004 |
Other
Selected Awards |
National Endowment for the Arts Artist Fellowship Grant for Painting Alaska State Arts Council Artist Fellowship Grant for Painting Purchase Award, Childe Hassam Fund Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letter, New York City (now American Academy of Arts and Letters) Purchase
Award, Florida Biennial II, Florida Gulf Coast Art Center, now Gulf
Coast Museum of Art, Largo FL |
Alaska Airlines |
Alaska State Museum |
Exhibitions
& History
since 1995 |
2013 Art from the Heart of Florida, invitational exhibition of eleven Central Florida artists, Sept. 20 thru Jan. 11, 2014 at Crealde School of Art, Winter Park FL. Curated by Executive Director Peter Schreyer and Henry Sinn, Director of Painting and Drawing. Artists include: Marc Barrett, Suzanne Camp Crosby, Charles Eady, Michael Galletta, Spence Guerin, Charles Hazelaar, David Hunter, Spencer Pettit, Sean Sexton, Anna Tomczak, and Roberto Torres. Completed first small View of Melbourne painting along the Indian River Lagoon, on same day dead dolphin #49 was pulled out of the polluted and dying lagoon Initiated work on series of small paintings at Kissimmee Prairie Continued portrait drawing series in Florida Printed some etchings at Michael Kemp's in Micanopy FL, rekindling interest in intaglio printmaking ----------------------------------------- 2011-2012 First visits to Kissimmee Prairie and other natural Florida areas Continued portrait drawing series in Florida ----------------------------------------- 2010 Working on painting commission in Alaska Alaska-Canada Hwy drive to Alaska, added another Kluane Lake painting to the Al-Can Series Continued portrait drawing series in Florida Publications: “Studio Visit” juried artist catalog competition, Open Studios Press, Spring 2010. ----------------------------------------- 2009 In a New Light: Selections from the Gulf Coast Museum of Art Collection", on view May 22nd - October 6, 2009 at the Florida International Museum Liquid
Muse (Florida's American Heritage River: The Art of the
St. Johns Region) an exhibition of 45 Florida artists,
includes Spence Guerin's Tootoosahatchee, travels to: Publications: “Studio Visit” juried artist catalog competition, Open Studios Press, Spring 2009. ----------------------------------------- 2008 Aug.30-Oct. 19, public reception Wed. Oct. 2 -- Liquid Muse (Florida's American Heritage River: The Art of the St. Johns Region) an exhibition of 45 Florida artists, at Thomas Center Gallery, Gainesville FL. Exhibition includes Spence Guerin's Tootoosahatchee and Managed Marsh. Thurs. Sept. 18: artists Sean Sexton and Spence Guerin speak on Art and Agriculture in St. Johns River Basin, Harn Museum of Art, University of FL, Gainesville FL. Thurs. Oct. 2nd: Liquid Muse public reception Fri. Oct. 3rd: All day events include panel discussion 1-3pm with artists Sydney McKenn, Margaret Ross Tolbert and Spence Guerin, speaking about their work, the St. Johns River, and public water resources. 1-3 pm at Santa Fe CommunityCollege, Gainesville FL. Liquid Muse exhibition will travel in Florida in 2009 to Jacksonville, DeLand, Tallahassee and Palatka. Publications: “Juried Exhibition in Print” New American Paintings, Vol. 76, Southern Edition, June 2008. ----------------------------------------- 2005-2007 Working on private commissions in Alaska, Oregon and Florida. ----------------------------------------- 2004 Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City Made in Florida: The Contemporary Landscape (four artists: James Couper, Miami; Jake Fernandez, Bradenton; Sean Sexton, Vero Beach; and Spence), The von Liebig Art Center, Naples, Florida Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters Group exhibition, Tatistcheff Gallery, New York City Tiny Works, Project Gallery, Wichita, Kansas ----------------------------------------- 2003 Group exhibition, A Fall Landscape Show (four artists: Melanie Parke of Michigan; Stephen Dinsmore of Nebraska; Stanley Lewis of back east somewhere; and Spence Guerin) at Wright Gallery, Northport, Michigan, all of October Group exhibition, The Contemporary Landscape, Mira Mar Gallery, Sarasota, Florida Received Donor Award, 16th Annual Northern National Art Competion, Nicolet College, Rhinelander, Wisconsin Group exhibition, Tatistcheff Gallery, New York City The Spice of Life (Five Florida Artists), invitiational exhibition at Backus Gallery and Museum, Fort Pierce, Florida Publications: “Juried Exhibition in Print” New American Paintings, Vol. 46, Southern Edition, June 2003 ----------------------------------------- 2002 Received Peninsula Fine Arts Center Award (the highest honor) at Biennial 2002, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, Virginia 64th Annual National Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings and Photography, Society of Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida October International Competition 2002, Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, Florida Locations & Light, Crealde School of Art, Winter Park, Florida. Landscape Paintings by Pennsylvania Artists Scott Noel and Jeffrey Reed and Florida Artist Spence Guerin ----------------------------------------- 2001 Ten New Artists, group exhibition, Tatistcheff Gallery, New York City 63rd Annual National Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings, Society of Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida Art Encounter 2000ne, First All-Florida Jured Exhibition, Naples Art Association, von Liebig Art Center, Naples, Florida Honorable Mention, 2D/3D Fine Art Juried Exhibition, Alliance for the Arts, Fort Meyers, Florida Invitational Salon Exhibition of Small Works, New Arts Program, Kutztown, Pennsylvania Tiny Works V, Project Gallery, Wichita, Kansas ----------------------------------------- 2000 62nd Annual National Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings, Society of Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida Realism 2000, 12th Annual National Juried Exhibition, Cultural Center of Fine Arts, Parkersburg, West Virginia The Contemporary Landscape, Mira Mar Gallery, Sarasota, Florida Invitational Salon Exhibition of Small Works, New Arts Program, Kutztown, Pennsylvania Tiny Works IV, Project Gallery, Wichita, Kansas ----------------------------------------- 1999 Third Annual Tiny Works Invitational, Project Gallery, Wichita, Kansas Florida and the Southeast: The Gulf Coast Museum of Art Collection, Gulf Coast Museum of Art, Largo, Florida Benefactor Award, Northern National Art Competition, Northern Arts Council and Nicolet College, Rhinelander, Wisconsin. Juror: Christopher Brown, painter Open Spaces-Private Places, Seven Florida Landscape Painters, Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, Florida Invitational Salon Exhibition of Small Works, New Arts Program, Kutztown, Pennsylvania ----------------------------------------- 1998 Tiny Works Short Stories, 2nd Annual Invitational Exhibit, Project Gallery, Wichita, Kansas "My Cousin Spence" at my cousin Bryant's, San Francisco Texas National 98, SFA Gallery, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas; Juror: Martha Mayer Erlebacher, painter. Second Annual National All-Media Competition, Ridge Art Association, Winter Haven, Florida; Juror: Mark Ormond, Curator, Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Florida Group Exhibition, Florida Collectors Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Invitational Salon Exhibition of Small Works, New Arts Program, Kutztown, Pennsylvania Solo exhibition, Resurrection Bay Galerie, Seward, Alaska ----------------------------------------- 1997 Florida Competitive Exhibition, Part 2, Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, Florida; Juror: Frank Thompson III, Curator, Asheville (NC) Art Museum Donor Award, Tenth Northern National Art Competition, Northern Arts Council and Nicolet College, Rhinelander, Wisconsin. Juror: Philip Pearlstein. Inaugural Exhibition, Project Gallery, Wichita, Kansas National Spring Open Juried Exhibition, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, Pennsylvania Invitational Salon Exhibition of Small Works, New Arts Program, Kutztown, Pennsylvania Reality Check (Alaska Realism), Decker/Morris Gallery, Anchorage, Alaska ----------------------------------------- 1996 45th All Florida Exhibition, Boca Raton Museum of Art 61st Annual National Exhibition, Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, New York National Small Works Exhibition, Schoharie County Arts Council, Cobleskill, New York Invitational Salon Exhibition of Small Works, New Arts Program, Kutztown, Pennsylvania |
Selected
Group Exhibitions before 1995 |
American Drawing Biennial III, Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William and Mary Cheekwood National Contemporary Painting Competition, Cheekwood Art Museum, Nashville Tennesee, Honorable Mention Award Halpert Biennial, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina Hal Katzen Gallery, New York City Orlando Museum of Art Biennial Juried Exhibition, Orlando, Florida |
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