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MMPA Gallery is temporarily closed while we fundraise
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Our temporary mailing address:
MMPA
1 Overlook Dr. Gorham, Maine 04038
207.298.7712
contact.mmpa@gmail.com
portfolio Submissions
Send us an email with PORTFOLIO SUBMISSION in the subject line and
A link to your website
6-36 jpegs (small files, 1500 pix, long edge)
Bio (2–3 sentences)
Artist Statement (3-5 sentences about the content of the work.)
An image list (Artist, title, edition, date, medium, size, price. Please number your jpegs and the list.)
Send it to contact.mmpa@gmail.com Typically we exhibit mid and late career artists but we love to look at everything.
A donation of $100 with your submission is required. Please click on this link to make your donation.
Please note that works at the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts’ exhibitions are for sale (unless specified). MMPA receives 50% of the proceeds which helps support our operating expenses.
PORTFOLIO REVIEWS
We promote established, mid-career, and emerging artists from Maine and a far with a focus on concepts, innovation and cross-boundary practices. Often it’s the portfolio submissions and reviews that we gain artists.
To schedule an appointment for a 45 minute review, send us an email to contact.mmpa@gmail.com with PORTFOLIO REVIEW in the subject line
A link to your website
A short bio (2-3 sentences)
3 dates a month ahead that work for you.
Typically reviews are done in person or via zoom at 4:00 on Tu, Th or Friday afternoons. contact.mmpa@gmail.com. The cost is $175. per session. We will contact you with a confirmation.
In house reviewer, Denise Froehlich is an experienced museum leader with a demonstrated history of working in the fine arts industry. Skilled in directing, curating, Art History, theory, and contemporary art. She is a strong arts and design professional with a Master of Fine Arts in Photography, and undergraduate degrees in photography, art education and Art History. Froehlich is also an arts consultant who has helped shape the portfolios and careers of the very best.
Secondary Market Artwork for Sale
The MMPA gallery also offers services such as collections management & development, advising in acquisitions or sale at auction, and the sale or consignment of individual works and entire collections.
Send us an email with an image list (number 1-100, artist, title, date, medium, size, condition, price and a jpeg/pic of the piece).
We’ll set up a meeting and talk about what you’re hoping to part with and what it’s worth. contact.mmpa@gmail.com / 207.298.7712
Judy Glickman Lauder, New York, 2015, Inkjet print, 16 x 20 inches
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Luc Demers, Color Cast Dichroic 4, 1/3, 2025, Inkjet print on cotton paper mounted to aluminum, 30.5 x 22 inches, $2,900 each
My art practice is a meditation on, and an investigation of photography through photography. I am interested in photographs as objects of history, science, and art. I am interested in how we use photography to remember, to inform, and to explore the visual world around us, to preserve the world that we see, and to reveal a world only visible through photographs. I strive to make photographs that not only expand my understanding of the visual world but also expand my understanding of how we see and how photography functions as a medium of seeing.
In Color Cast: Dichroic, I am continuing my observation of how color is reflected and bent out of light. I am moving from a gathering of found light to a studio study using strobe light, where I use dichroic glass fragments to split, reflect, and cast light of different colors onto sketchbook pages. Dichroic glass, used for various scientific and industrial applications, including photography, is coated with a microscopically thin layer of material that reflects small parts of the visible spectrum and allows the rest of the wavelengths to pass through. This is the same principle at play when we observe colorful bands on the surface of oily water. This phenomenon is also known as thin film interference or disruptive optics. -L.D.
Luc Demers is an artist living in Southern Maine. In the early nineties, he studied art at USM, completing the BFA program with a concentration in photography. In 1994, while continuing to pursue his personal work, he began working as a commercial photographer. In 2010, he earned his MFA in Visual Art at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Currently, Demers is an exhibiting artist, freelance art documentation photographer, and Associate Professor of Art at The University of Maine at Augusta.