Duncan Hewitt

Hewitt was born in New York City in 1949 and grew up on Long Island. Having graduated from Colby College (BA) and the University of Pennsylvania (MFA), he worked at a Maine boatyard and foundry before becoming a Professor of Art at the University of Southern Maine. His work has been shown with prominent twenty and twenty first century artists. In 2016, the Portland Museum of Art presented Duncan Hewitt: Turning Strange, a selection of Hewitt’s work from the previous twenty years. In addition to a dozen solo shows (four at the ICON gallery) he has completed five public art projects.

( Close by, something new with forgotten meanings, silent and felt. )

"I see things that look back at me. I remake them - entering their space as they enter mine. There is a moment when different things try to connect- move together- are no longer what they seem to be. Often slow in the making, this is what I need. "

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Julie Poitras Santos

Julie Poitras Santos is a multidisciplinary artist, writer and curator. Her site-specific art practice includes video, text, installation, and public projects that include a walking component. The relationship between site, story and mobility fuels a range of work that investigates the relationship between natural histories and individual story; walking as a form of listening to site; and material agency in an age of climate change. A bridge builder by nature, she has an enduring interest in cross-disciplinary work for its potential to inspire new ways of thinking and provoke the rich terrain that occurs between things.

Poitras Santos’ work has been exhibited regionally, nationally and internationally, and her writing has been published in numerous journals and exhibition catalogs. She served as Director of Exhibitions at the ICA at MECA&D from 2019-2023 and has taught in the MFA program at Maine College of Art & Design since 2010. Prior to that, she lived in Spain from 2004-2007, where she worked as the Director of Can Serrat Artist Residency. Poitras Santos holds a BS from Tufts University in Geology and English, MFA in Visual Art from CU Boulder; and an MFA in Creative Writing from Stonecoast CWP.

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Internationally acclaimed Houlton photographer is releasing new book

BY KATHLEEN PHALEN TOMASELLI

BANGOR DAILY NEWS

Houlton photographer Lawrence Hardy was a Lights Out Gallery featured artist in January. Credit: Kathleen Phalen Tomaselli / Houlton Pioneer Times

HOULTON, Maine — Just three weeks after ending nearly a decade of heroin use, Lawrence Hardy picked up his smartphone and started chasing the light instead of his next fix.

Now the self-taught Houlton photographer, who has been featured in galleries around the globe, will soon publish “Zen Xan,” his most serious and intimate work to date. Taken over the course of a year in Aroostook County, this series of black-and-white photographs — obscure visual representations of his long battle with opioid addiction, panic attacks, depression and anxiety — ultimately represents hope, he said.

Read more about Lawrence's journey and how he was introduced to Lights Out Gallery here.

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