Alex Rheault alexrheaultartista.wordpress.com
Education
MFA 2004 Visual Art Vermont College/Union Institute, Montpelier, Vermont
BFA 1985 Illustration Parsons School of Design, NYC
Other Studies & book arts, millinery, photography, printmaking, mediation Languages Italian and French, Intermediate Spanish
2009 Stone House, USM, Book Arts, Freeport, Maine 2002 Salt Institute of Documentary Studies, photography, Portland, Maine 1981-80 L’Accademia di Costume e Moda, Iniversita’ di Roma, Italy Teaching
Current -2015 University of New England, Art Department, Adjunct Visiting Lecturer, painting,(drawing and design, 2D & 3D) Biddeford, Maine
Current -2018 Artascope, acrylic painting technqiues, “Navigating Life as an Artist” online series 202, drawing Yarmouth, Maine
2017-2005 Maine College of Art, Illustration Department, Adjunct Assistant Professor (Chair from 2008 to 2012), (Foundation Dept. 2005, other appointments as visiting artist or adjunct) Portland, Maine
2018- 2016 Engine, Illustrator’s Youth Apprenticeship Program, Biddeford, Maine
2016 New Hampshire Institute of Art, MFA Program, Identity Seminar III, Manchester, NH
Professional Experience
Current- 1986 Curator, artist, writer, illustrator/designer, Scarborough, Maine
Current- 2006 drawing room, founder/collaborator,Scarborough, Maine
Current-2021 Aratscope, Programming Coordinator, Yarmouth, Maine
1 2012- 2009 Quimby Colony Fashion Costume and Textile Deisgn, Artistic Director, Portland, Maine
1999-1993 Executive Assistant, Wheelock Whitney, collector/writer, NYC
1988-1985 Dorothy Hafner, Surface designer, NYC
Visiting Artist
Current-2021 Woodfords Family Services, visiting artist online, Portland, Maine
2020 Grace House, Visiting artist online, Portland, Maine
2019-18 Illustration Institute, Fashion Week, Peaks and Greater Portland, Maine
Solo Exhibitions
2012 Transforming Body, drawings by Alex Rheault, Salem State University, Winfisky Gallery, Salem, Massachusetts
2010 The Erotics of the Transforming Body, Art House, Maine
2007 The World is the Third Floor, Filament Gallery, Maine
2000 Toes, Fingers and Doll Decay, First Union, Captiva
1996 Order out of Chaos, Spring Studio, New York City
Selected Two-person Exhibitions
2010 Natural Overlaps, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, Connecticut
Selected Group Exhibitions & Auctions
2021 The Art of Medning, curated by the Illustration Institute, Brick Store Museum, Kennebunk, Maine
2020 Bloom Together, Virtual Garden Party and Online Auction, Artascope
2019 Portland Chamber of Commerce, art on view, Portland, Maine Artascope, Summer Exhibit and Auction, Yarmouth, Maine
2018 UNE Art Faculty Exhibition, Engine, Biddeford, Maine
2 Alex Rheault: New Work, Campus Center, University of New England, Biddeford, Maine Renaissance, Backroads Gallery, Damariscotta, Maine
2017 Dreamy & Surreal, Macpage, South Portland,Maine ArtPM, Buoy Gallery, Kittery, Maine Lines of Thought, UMVA exhibit, CTN, Portland, Maine
2016 Out with a Bang, 3Fish Gallery, Portland Maine
Wonder, UNE Gallery,“Compassionate Touch” collaboration with graduate dental students and faculty, Portland, Maine
2015 Wake Up Alice! Portland Public Library, Portland, Maine
2013 Figurative Works by Tanya Fletcher + Alex Rheault, Sacarrappa Art Collective, Westbrook, Maine Fashionable Books and Paper, USM Glickman Library, Curated by Rebecca Goodale, Portland, Maine
2012 Boundless Ambition, Part Dedication, Part Abandon (Winter), Thompson Gallery, The Cambridge School of Weston, Cambridge, Mass In the Spirit of Carlo Pittore, Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, Maine Portes, Space Gallery, Portland, Maine and Municipal Art Gallery of Mytilene, Greece, http://tetraprojects.blogspot.com/p/projects.html
2011 Storytellers, Glickman Library, University fo Southern Maine, Portland, Maine
2009 Stone House Book Arts Exhibit, Glickman Library, USM, Portland, Maine Comic-al, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Portland, Maine The Funnies, Whitney Artworks, Portland, Maine
2008 Merhaba Baghdad, Kisim Sabti Gallery, Karada Chewed Toys Project, Patricia Carega Gellery, Samndwich, NH Six-Bee, The Garage, San Diego, CA Garden Archive, invitattion by Gail Spaien, George Marshal Store Gallery, Kittery, Maine
Talks/ Lectures/Panels
2021 Thinking is Drawing, illustration Institute, Peaks Island, Maine, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jePF1HBlFGg
2019-2017 Pecha Kucha, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
2017 Pecha Kucha Midcoast, Rockport Opera House, Rockport, Maine
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2015 Farnsworth Art Museum, Artists on Art series: Medium and Meaning, Maine, https://vimeo.com/123973050
2011 Dr. Lisa, Weavings, #12, http://themainemag.com/radio/radio- guests/alex-rheault/
2010 University of Maine Augusta, curator’s conversation on Drawing: Marks, Traces, and Imprints, Maine
2008 University of Southern Maine, The Role of Design in Contemporary Fine Arts Curricula, panelist Savannah College of Art and Design, The Art History Symposium, Contemporary artists intervening’/re-displaying museological collections, “drawing room, where community and drawing collide”, Georgia
2007 ICA, Maine College of Art, Thursday Night Conversation, “Does Your Artwork Reflect your Philosophy?”, Maine
Selected Curatorial Projects
2019 Charles Thompson, Seasons In Between: En Plein Air, CPortland Regional Chamber of Commerce, Portland, Maine
Charles Thpmson, Coastal Visions, Ocean house Gallery, Cape Elizabeth, Maine
2018 Christine Morgan, PelotonLabs, Portland, Maine Hot Alchemy: Felt Interactions, Ocean Hosue Gallery, Cape Elizabeth, Maine Krisanne Baker, No blue, no green, PelotonLabs, Portland, Maine Lisa Whelan, Drawings, Ocean House Gallery, Cape Elizabeth, Maine
2016 UNE, Ketchum Library, Altered Books by 3D students Spring and Fall 2016, Biddeford, Maine
2012 Night Studies: Smallworks by Christina Goodwin, Art House, Portland, Maine drawn and quartered, art house, Portland, Maine
2010 Drawing: marks, traces, and Imprints, University of Maine Augusta, co-curated with Karen Adrienne, Maine Dress Code, Maine College of Art, Maine Mongolian Postcard Project with Blair Folts, Portland, Maine
2009 envelop(e), Art House, Portland, Maine Empty the Fridge, Art House, Portland, Maine
4 Carlo Pittore Foundation, Art Auction, Portland, Maine
2008 gathering, drawing room’s third annual small works exhibit, hosted by Jameson Gallery, Portland, Maine Primordial + Space, Franklin Street Art Space, Biddeford, Maine Façade, Molly Brosnan, drawing room, Portland, Maine One Day: A print exchange between Mongolia and Maine, drawing room, Portland, Maine Picture This, with ArtVan Rolling and Artvax, drawing room, Portland, Maine
Selected Publications, Writing and Illustrations
Current-2017 Writing for exhibit description and promotion for Ocean House Gallery, Cape Elizabeth, Maine
2011 short forward, Graham Wood, calatogue
2010 “View from High Places", essay on Carrie Scanga at Vox Populi, Philadelphia http://www.tigerstrikesasteroid.com/exhibitions/carriescanga/essay.ht ml
precarious balance: formless reciprocities, essay on Susan Bickford’s Precarious Balance installation at University of Maine, Augusta, Maine http://web.me.com/susanbickford/A/press.html
2009 Phoebe, in collaboration with Jefferson Navicky, illustration, p 72
2008 [email protected] [email protected]
2005 “99 sounds”, www.amystaceycurtis.com, November
Selected Bibliography
2017 Daniel Kany, Portland Press Herald, The Union of Maine Visual Artists begins to find its mark with “Lines of thought”, 15 January 2017, http://www.pressherald.com/2017/01/15/the-union-of- maine- visual-artists-gallery-begins-to-find-its-mark-with-lines- of-thought/
Lines of Thought, UMVA Journal, Winter 2017, Cover, Contents, 26-27, 28-29, four drawings and text, Maine
2016 Daniel Kany, Portland Press herald, “As another gallery close, there’s plentuy of fresh art in Portland”, 11 Dec 2016
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Daniel Kany, Portland Press Herald, Art Review: Two Collaborative Exhibitions Push Boundaries, 6 March 2016, http://www.pressherald.com/2016/03/06/art-review- two-collaborative-exhibitions-push-boundaries/
2015 Daniel Kany, Portland Press Herald, 27 Dec 2015, Maine College of art teachers and students create many visions of one of our most recognizable characters: Alice, http://www.pressherald.com/2015/12/27/maine-college-of- art-teachers-and-students-create-many-visions-of-one-of-our- most-recognizable-characters-alice/
2010 Daniel Kany, Portland Press Herald, "Art Review: Gallery puts on splendid show of drawing-based works", October 4, p D5 http://www.pressherald.com/life/audience/gallery-puts-on-splendid- show-of-drawing-based-artworks_2010-10-03.html
http://www.lizksheehan.com/current-projects/ drawinginpublic.blogspot.com/ and http://www.cctvcambridge.org/node/67379
2009 Norwalk Plus Magazine, 28 Dec 2009, http://www.norwalkplus.com/nwk/information/nwsnwk/publish/Art/N ew-exhibits-at-Silvermine-Guild-Arts-Center_np_6966.shtml
Art New England, exhibitions section, pg 53 with image
Brandi Neal, editor, “Metamorphosis, the unique journey of 18 dolls”,front page, p18, 19 http://www.inthecourier.com/,
Ian Paige, “Exquisite Corpses”, the Portland Phoenix July 20-26, http://thephoenix.com/Portland/Default.aspx?Location=Portland
Lauren Fensterstock,”Fresh Paint, New Media, The Historic and the Contemporary: Maine, Art New England, April/May, p20
Gallery Affiliation
Current-2015 Ocean House Gallery, Cape Elizabeth, Maine 2008-2005 Filament Gallery, Maine Current-2002 Patricia Carega Gallery, New Hampshire 1998-1992 Carega Foxley-Leach, Washington, DC
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Juries
2011 Carlo Pittore Foundation, Visual Art and Figure Awards, Maine 2009 Art In the Park, Maine 2008 Anthromorph, ICA at Maine College of Art, Maine
Selected Volunteer and community service, and boards
2021 Artascope, BOD Programming Committee Coordinator and board member Current-02019 AMTA, BOD secretary Baords: Carlo Pittore Foundation, Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, Vermont College, Winter Harbor Theater Company, Parkside Community Resolution team
Collections
Private collections South Portland Public Library, Maine Portland Public Library, Maine Mobilelivre/Bookmobile, Canada Various private collections, USA and Europe
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