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About Ed Nadeau
Artist Ed Nadeau is a native of Maine whose paintings depict the land and people of his home state in various incarnations. He graduated from Syracuse University in 1980 with his BFA in painting and from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1986 with his MFA in painting.
Assistant Professor Nadeau teaches 2d-design, painting and drawing at the University of Maine in Orono and has taught advanced courses in Figure Drawing, Nature Drawing, Materials and Techniques for Painters and the Senior Capstone. His area of research is the history, manufacture and use of traditional artists materials such as substrates, gessoes, oil paints, temperas and waxes along with current advancements of new technologies and materials that can be adapted for artists’ uses.
His paintings have been exhibited widely, including the Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland Art Place, School 33 Art Center, the Park School, the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport, the University of Maine in Orono, Whitney Art Works in Portland, Maine, and the Drawing Center, NYC. Currently Courthouse Gallery Fine Art in Ellsworth, Maine represents his paintings. His works are held in many private collections both nationally and internationally.
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EDUCATION:
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, Mount Royal School of Painting, MFA Painting, 1986
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, College of Visual and Performing Arts, BFA Painting, 1980
EXHIBITIONS:
Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, “The Untold Story”, Ellsworth, ME, September 2013
S. Tucker Cooke Gallery, UNC Asheville, Asheville NC, “Drawing Discourse”, National Juried Drawing Exhibition curated by NY artist Susan Hauptman, January 2013
The White Gallery, Husson University, Bangor ME., “Terra Ferma: The Pine Needle Paintings”, one person show, August-October 2012
Maine Farmland Trust, Belfast Maine,“Cycle of Life:Compost Paintings” May 2012
University of Maine, Lord Hall Gallery, “Maine Drawing Project”, October, 2011
Maine Landscape, “River Arts”, Damariscotta, ME, August, 2011
Courthouse Gallery FIne Art, “New Work”, Ellsworth, ME, September 2011
Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, “Maine Folklore”, Ellsworth, ME, October 2010
George Marshall Storr Gallery, “Pleased to Meet You”, York, ME, June/July 2010
University of Maine, Lord Hall gallery, “Faculty Exhibition”, October 2009
Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, “Small Works 2008”, Ellsworth, ME, December 2008
Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, “Maine at Work”, Ellsworth, ME, August 2008
Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, “Maine Flora: A Celebration”, Ellsworth, ME, May 2008
University of Maine, Lord Hall gallery, “Faculty Exhibition”, October 2007
Elan Fine Arts, Gallery artist, Rockport, ME, May 2005- January 2007
Whitney Artworks, “Solo exhibition”, Portland, Maine, November- December 2005
University of Maine, Carnegie Hall gallery, “Faculty Exhibition”, Orono, ME, October 2005
Whitney Artworks, “Grand Reopening Exhibition”, Portland, ME, August 2005
Nan Mulford Gallery, “Summer Exhibition”, Rockland, ME, Summer 2005
Center for Maine Contemporary Art, “Surviving Winter in Maine”, group exhibition curated by Bruce Brown, Rockport, ME, Winter 2005
Park School gallery, “Family Sublime”, Baltimore, MD, Fall/Winter 2004
University of Maine, Carnegie Hall gallery, “Art Now”, faculty exhibition, Orono, ME, October 2004
Clark House Gallery, “New Paintings”, Bangor, ME, Winter 2003
University of Maine, “Northern Observations”, narrative paintings of the 1980’s, Carnegie Hall gallery, Orono, ME, Fall 2003
Clark House Gallery, “Gallery Artists’ Current Work”, Bangor, ME, Summer 2003
Clark House Gallery, “Into the Woods”, Bangor ME, Fall 2002
Clark House Gallery, “Rotations”, Bangor, ME, Summer 2002
Clark House Gallery, “Paintings in Wax and Oil”, Bangor, ME, Fall 2000
Clark House Gallery, “Maine Landscape: 12 Painters” Bangor, ME, Spring 2000
Creative Arts Workshop, “New England Artist’s Trust Congress V”, juried exhibition curated by Dan Cameron, senior curator, New Museum, NYC, New Haven, CT Spring 1999
Clark House Gallery, “The Landscape: Two Views”. New paintings by Ed Nadeau and Micheal H. Lewis, Bangor, ME, Fall/ Winter 1999
Clark House Gallery, “Contemporary Landscape: Oils, Pastels, Photography & Assemblage”, Bangor, ME, Summer 1998
Villa Julie College, “Baltimore Collects: George Ciscle”, Baltimore, MD, Fall 1998
Between the Muse Gallery, “Studio Work- Emerging Artists”, Rockland, ME, Spring 1997
Center for Maine Contemporary Art, “The Juried Show: Maine Debuts since 1979”, Rockport, ME, Spring 1997
Husson College, White Art Gallery, “One person exhibition”, Bangor, ME, Spring 1997
Ellsworth Public Library Gallery, “Roots; Ethnicity in Maine”, Ellsworth, ME, Spring 1996
Center for Maine Contemporary Art, “1995 Juried Exhibition”, 17th Annual Exhibition, curated by Chris Crossman, Frederick Lynch and Joanna Gardner-Huggett, Rockport, ME, Spring/Summer 1995
School 33 Art Center, “Growth and Atrophy: The Empathetic Landscape”, Baltimore, MD, Winter 1993
School 33 Art Center, “Exhibition of New Paintings” Baltimore, MD, Fall 1992
Semmes, Bowen and Semmes, Attorney’s at Law, “Group Show”, Baltimore, MD Fall/Winter 1991
Tuttle Gallery at McDonough School, “War and Peace”, juried exhibition, McDonough, MD, Winter, 1987
Maryland Art Place, “Landscape: Three Perspectives”, juried exhibition, curated by Bill Dunlap, John Pfahl and Michelle Stuart, Baltimore, MD Fall 1988
School 33 Art Center, “Drawing Surveyed” juried exhibition curated by Martha Beck, Director, Drawing Center, NYC, Winter 1987
School 33 Art Center, “Sweet land of Liberty”, juried exhibition curated by Brian Wallis, adjunct curator, New Museum, NYC, Summer 1986
Baltimore Museum of Art, “Maryland Biennial”, juried exhibition curated by Gracie Mansion, Director Gracie Mansion Gallery, NYC, & Mark Rosenthal, Curator, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, Winter 1986
COLLECTIONS:
Bill Swislow, Chicago, Illinois
Dr. Ann C. Reardon, Bangor, Maine
Bangor Savings Bank, Bangor, Maine
George Ciscle, Baltimore, Maryland
Betsy Evans Hunt, Cape Elizabeth, Maine
Greg Lipton & Sara Crisp, Cumberland, Maine
Debbie Chatfield, Rockport, Maine
Robert Roth, Chicago, Illinois and Stonington, Maine
Robin Garcia, Bangor, Maine
Meghan Donnelly, Old Town, Maine
Shane Smith, Old Town, Maine
G. Armstrong, Austin, Texas
Timothy and Debbie White, Stillwater, Maine
Lee Cummings, Glenburn, Maine
GRANTS AND HONORS:
Maryland State Arts Council, Visual arts fellowship recipient, 1987
REVIEWS:
Carl Little, “Ed Nadeau: New Paintings”, Art New England, June/July 2004
Ian Page, “Whitney Wonderland,’Tis the season for surreal”, The Portland Phoenix, December, 2005
Jeff Badger, “New Work” by Ed Nadeau, Irene Stapleford, and Diane Wiencke at Whitney Artworks, the bollard, November 20, 2005
BOOKS AND ONLINE PUBLICATIONS:
More Paintings of Maine, by Carl Little, Published by Downeast Books, Spring 2006
Vice-Versa, Online quarterly journal, published by the University of Hawaii, Manoa English Dept. Issue #4 Summer 2006 View at: www.hawaii.edu/vice-versa
ARTISTS ONLINE REGISTRIES:
The Drawing Center, NYC
www.drawingcenter.org/
Artists.de: The German online gallery for fine arts, Germany.
http://en.artists.de/
Artists Space NYC: Irving Sandler Artists File Online.
http://www.artistsspace.org/