Ascend Hotel Collection
Meet the Artist
Nancy Keenan Barron
South Gardiner, Maine
Language Before Words
A lifelong Maine artist, Nancy Keenan Barron was born and raised in Farmingdale, Maine. As early as she can remember she has been a maker. She didn’t call it art. She called it drawing, painting, playing. It was her go-to activity. Nancy considers herself a student of the arts with “classes” starting on the closet walls of her childhood bedroom that became a spaceship with the help of a crayon. A formal education followed with art lessons in Mrs. McGrail’s basement. For two hours on Saturday mornings she would get lost with pastels, paint and charcoal. Later, while at the University of Southern Maine Nancy learned that all the fun she was having for years drawing and painting had its own language. Words like gesture, mood, line, color, contrast and undulation are some of the ideas she works on developing in her art, and tries to convey such ideas in practice. Nancy currently works her craft, painting, making mixed media works and assemblage sculptures at her home studio near the banks of the mighty Kennebec River in historic South Gardiner, Maine.
GOMA exhibit piece(s), prices and locations:
Elders, Indian Point (Georgetown): $800, Timberline Level Center Hall
Benson Street Bog: $800, Timberline Level Center Hall
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