Whitney River graduated from Yale University in 1995. Since then she has shown extensively throughout New England, and her drawings and paintings are represented in many private and corporate collections. She is inspired by the natural beauty that surrounds her in Maine, both in the woods and by the ocean. She uses oil on canvas and graphite on paper to render found natural objects with great detail and precision. The simplicity of her compositions emphasizes the way the organic forms interact with each other and with the space around them. Separated from their origins and presented without distraction, the viewer can focus on the individual objects, and appreciate them not only for what they are, but for what they might represent.
Education
| 1995 | Yale University, BA, art major |
| 1991/1992 | Maine College of Art |
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2024 Maine Jewish Museum, Portland, ME Granite Gallery, Tenants Harbor. ME 2023 Craignair Gallery, Spruce Head, ME Maine Audubon, Falmouth, ME 2012 Ellen Miller Gallery, Boston, MA 2007 Chase Gallery, Boston, MA 2005 Buchanan Gallery, Galveston, TX Chase Gallery, Boston, MA 2004 Chase Gallery, Boston, MA 2003 June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, ME Chase Gallery, Boston, MA 1999 Stebbins Gallery, Cambridge, MA DeCordova Museum School Gallery, Lincoln, MA: “Variations on a Theme:Circling” 1998 Sapient Corporation, Cambridge, MA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Carver Hill Gallery, Camden, ME
Jane Deering Gallery, Gloucester, MA: “Lines of Thought”2023 Carver Hill Gallery, Camden, ME: “People, Places, Plants”
Cove Street Arts, Portland, ME: “Tree Speak”
Craignair Gallery Preview Exhibition, Spruce Head, ME2022 Visionary Art Collective: ‘Ephemeral/Eternal,’ Juried Online Exhibition
MECA Collect, Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, ME2021 Annual Art Show, High Mountain Hall, Camden, ME Pen Bay Medical Center Inaugural Juried Exhibition, Rockport, ME MECA Collect, Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, ME Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA: ‘Flora,’ Juried Exhibition Harlow Gallery, Hallowell, ME: ‘ART2021,’ Juried Exhibition 2020 Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME: ‘Shelter,’ Juried Online Exhibition Annual Art Show, High Mountain Hall, Camden, ME Magnitude Seven, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati OH 2011 Round Barn, Waitsfield, VT 2009 Chase Gallery, Boston, MA 2008 Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME 2007 Winsor Gallery, Vancouver, BC 2006 Winsor Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME
Firehouse Gallery, Damariscotta, ME
Nan Mulford Gallery, Rockland, ME2004 Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME: “On Line”
Art in the Round Barn, Waitsfield, VT
George Marshall Store Gallery, York Harbor, ME
Jameson Gallery, Portland, ME
Hay Gallery, Portland, ME
Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME; Biennial Juried Exhibition
Nan Mulford Gallery, Rockland, ME2003 Chase Gallery, Boston, MA
Nan Mulford Gallery, Rockland, ME
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; Biennial Juried Exhibition
Concord Art Association, Concord, MA; Juried Drawing Exhibition
Hay Gallery, Portland, ME2002 Chase Gallery, Boston, MA
Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA
Nan Mulford Gallery, Rockport, ME
Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME: Biennial Juried Exhibition
Front Room Gallery, South Portland, ME Tristan Gallery, Provincetown, MA2001 Nan Mulford Gallery, Rockport, ME
Front Room Gallery, South Portland, ME2000 Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA: “New Work by Five” 1999 Zullo Gallery, Medfield, MA: “Eighth Annual Juried Exhibition”
Pedestrian Gallery of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL: “National Juried Exhibition of Small Works”
The University Gallery, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT: “Contemporary Visions ’99”
Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA: “Small Works”
Boise State University Visual Art Center, Boise, ID: “Re-Presentation: 5th Biennial National Juried Exhibition”1998 Art in the Round Barn, Waitsfield, VT 1997 Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery, Shelburne, VT 1995 Yale University Art and Architecture Building, New Haven, CT
Collections
| Milliman, Inc., Portland, ME CambridgePort Bank, Brighton, MA Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA Camden Dermatology and Mohs Surgery, Rockport, ME |
Publications
| Create! Magazine Issue 33, January 2023 Humana Obscura Literary Magazine, April 2022 Humana Obscura Literary Magazine, April 2021 Humana Obscura Literary Magazine, September 2020 American Art Collector Magazine, November, 2007 Duffy Design Group Online Virtual Tour, Fall 2006 Poetry East Magazine, Cover Image, DePaul University Department of English, issue number 57, Fall 2006 Boston Globe, November 2005 Portland Museum of Art 2003 Biennial Catalogue, March 2003 Maine Sunday Telegram, January 2003 Boston Globe, August 2002 Boston Phoenix, July 2002 |
