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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 |
2010 • Working on painting commission in Alaska and 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:
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Feb. 15-Mar.31, Alexander Brest Museum, Jacksonville
University, Jacksonville FL.
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Apr. 15-May 30, Tallahassee Museum of History
and Natural Science, Tallahassee FL.
- Aug. 3-Sept. 9, Florida School of the Arts, St. Johns River Community College, Palatka FL. - Sept. 15-Nov. 23, Museum of Florida Art (formerly Deland Museum of Art), Deland FL.
2008
2005-2007
2004
2003
2002
2001
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1999
1998
1997
1996
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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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