Courthouse Gallery Fine Art presents a retrospective of Alison’s silkscreen prints.

May 1 – May 28, 2025

Alison Rector: Silkscreen Season on a Maine Farm

Artist’s Reception: Wednesday, May 7, 5–7pm

Artist’s Talk: Saturday, May 10 at 2pm
with Alison Rector and Carl Little

Silkscreen Season on a Maine Farm is the first exhibition of Alison Rector’s entire collection of silkscreens to date. Rector created the silkscreens over a 35-year period after she and her husband moved to Maine in 1990. The show and catalog with an essay by Carl Little place Rector’s silkscreens in context with Maine’s longstanding tradition of printmaking, as well as documenting this remarkable record of the back-to-the-land experience. Catalog available.

“The subjects are autobiographical, the artist notes, many of them inspired by an occurrence or encounter in her life on a Maine farm. She and her husband Eric moved from Boston to Monroe in Waldo County, Maine, in the summer of 1990, exchanging urban life for rural. They wanted, she says, “access to land and to grow things and have animals.” Over the next thirty years they embraced the homesteading life, raising sheep, cows and chickens, growing hay, and making apple cider and cheese. “We did a little of everything in a back-to-the-lander kind of way,” Rector recalled.” — Carl Little

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