Caleb Charland
Backscatter
Combining art with science, Caleb Charland creates visually arresting photographs of science experiments. Recreating natural processes, he calls into question man’s relationship with the natural world. Many of these pieces replicate things found in nature like his unique, one of a kind, photograms. Made from heat and dripped wax, they appear to be constellations or microscopic worlds. Some are beautiful still lives and in others, Charland manipulates nature by adding a man made element to the landscape. Charland says, The utter simplicity of this eletrical phenomenon is endlessly fascinating. The work speaks to a common curiosity we all have for how the world works as well as a global concern for the future of Earth’s energy sources.
Growing up in rural Maine, Charland spent much of his childhood helping his father remodel their family home. These experiences instilled an awareness of the potential for the creative use of materials, and the ability to fabricate his visions. Charland earned a BFA in photography with departmental honors from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2004, an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as a Trustees Fellow in 2010, and was a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2009. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is in the Collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Progressive Collection, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Charland currently lives in Maine and works at the Maine College of Art as an artist in residence.
Maggie Stark
Still/Time
Inspired by the Berlin Wall, Maggie Stark presents Still/Time as an exploration of division. Her mixed-media installations use representations of childhood playground play to examine some of the implications and associations of the Wall before and after its fall.
Maggie Stark is a sculptor, whose work with light, glass, and video explores such juxtapositions as permanence vs. transience, inside vs. outside, and motion vs. stasis. Stark was born in Kansas City and lives in Boston, MA. She has exhibited her work throughout the region, including the Nielsen and Kayafas Galleries in Boston, Dartmouth College in Hanover NH and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Portland ME. She was an affiliate of the Boston Sculptors Gallery for nine years and has held residencies at the Corning Museum of Glass, the Millay Colony and the Vermont Studio Center.