FRANKLIN STREET ART SPACE

FRANKLIN STREET ART SPACE
A contemporary art gallery focusing on emerging and established practicing artists whose work demonstrates a willingness to experiment with form, medium, materials, concept and subject matter.

FSAS is a joint effort by Russell Persson and Tammy Ackerman. The gallery opened in October 2007.

Visit our Flickr to see photos of openings and events. Open late for Biddeford's ArtWalk every last Thursday of each month.

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APRIL08 SHOW:

Bear Kirkpatrick & Celeste Lambert: Photography and Intaglio/Woodcut Prints
Opening reception Friday, April 11 from 5-8PM.

Taiga by Celeste Lambert, intaglio print

Celeste Lambert | Artist Statement

Zinc plates are the topography of my prints. There is a connection between the chemical weathering which carves and shapes land formations and that which forms an image on a zinc intaglio plate. As rock records the trespass of water, so metal records the trespass of acid. When I am working on a plate, covering some areas with acid-resistant ground, exposing others, carving and scratching, and then scraping and burnishing, I imagine how these acts parallel the forces which have shaped landscape. Scribers cut and carve through ground; tributaries, fissures. The recessed areas of intaglio plate hold the image, the hidden, incipient landscape. The ink is forced into these places. What was once below is now above. The process correlates to the shifts of rock and earth through geologic time. Plates of lithosphere move apart, magma rises forming new crust, plates collide, subduction occurs, mountains rise, and mountain erode.

I combine multiple etched plates and woodblocks into a single print. The stratum records the topographic features of a period of time, a layer of ground, a plate. It is customary in printmaking to do editions of printed image, with each print as close to identical as possible. I do not do editions of my work; each print is unique. My prints are impressions of a place in time, and like a natural land formation that is shaped by a series of forces acting upon them, their creation cannot be replicated. It is the time of working, shifting ground, building for which I have chosen printmaking. It is watching prints begin to shape their land. They ask for more earth, more time, more layers; each one wants to be the evidence of grandeur of prehistory, to speak of the time before geologic time.

Untitled, Bear Kirkpatrick, 2008.

Bear Kirkpatrick | Artist’s Statement

Nature terrifies me. All those screaming birds. All that rot. The blasting sunshine or a hard wind or thick ice. Nature can seem like a heavenly flower-burst of blood and death. A beast that is both thought and felt, something with a dual nature that will not mix within us. We seem to experience nature both as a mental conception and as a kind of physical rapture. Aristodle takes his scientific stab but not after Plato took his philosophical one, and they do not speak to each other, except in some kind of over-the-shoulder glance taken from where their own fear lives. Take a walk among trees and try not to feel. Try as hard as you can not to impose taxonomy and genome. My work splits by this split because I do not know which nature to shoot. I can feel one and think the other, and only in moments of stasis will they blend just slightly. They separate again as soon as I look at them. As soon as I think of them.

Beark Kirkpatrick and Celeste Lambert
Artists Celeste Lambert and Bear Kirkpatrick of Kittery, Maine.

GALLERY SCHEDULE

NOVEMBER : Sara Crall | Observations Of
DECEMBER : Biggest Little Art Show

MUSIC SCHEDULE

NOVEMBER 8: CANCELLED. David Wax Museum with South China 8:30pm.

REVIEWS
PORTLAND PHOENIX: "When ordinary is extraordinary : Gil Corral’s questions and answers in Biddeford" by Ian Paige, September 25, 2008

PORTLAND PHOENIX: "An Informal Formalism," a review of Jared Radding's show by Ian Paige of the Portland Phoenix, 02/20/08.

REVISED REGULAR HOURS:
SATURDAY NOON - 6P AND BY APPOINTMENT

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41 FRANKLIN STREET • BIDDEFORD ME 04005 • MAP