Jean Kigel
Jean Kigel photo by Joyce Morrill
Media: Asian brush painting, watercolor, hand-pulled prints
Selected Solo Shows:
Woodward Gallery Venue, Gourmet Garage Street Level Windows, SoHo, NY
Picnic 2010, Maine Magic 2009
Round Top Farm Gallery, Damariscotta, ME Annual Eastern Views, 2010, 2009
Sea Studio Gallery, Tenants Harbor, ME Annual Eastern Views 1998 - 2008
Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset, ME Something Fishy 2008, Unexpected Fruits 2005,
A Taste of Asia 2002, Sumi of the Sea 1998
Tidemark Gallery, Waldoboro, Alewives and the Asian Aesthetic, 2007
Round Top Center for the Arts Japanese Ink Painting 2005, Heritage of the Brush 2001
Arbor Street Gallery, Portland Parks and Recreation, Portland ME Asian Brush, 2005
Gallery Framing, Brunswick, ME Eastern Views Brushwork 2004, Spirit of the Brush 1999
Bowdoin College Moulton Union Gallery Through Asia’s Eyes 2001
Waldo Theater Gallery, Waldoboro, ME Splendor of Spring 2005, Sumi by the Sea 2001
Port Clyde Arts and Crafts Society, Port Clyde, ME Oriental Brush Paintings 1988
Archipelago Fine Art Gallery, All Things Bright… Rockland, ME 2011-2012
Tidemark Gallery, Real Art, juried by Ken Greenleaf, Waldoboro, ME 2011
Realism, juried by Lee Nessler, Waldobor0, ME 2010
Realism Conceptual to Traditional, juried by Sam Cady, Waldoboro, ME 2010
Realism curated by Sam Cady, Waldoboro, ME 2010
Art in Me., juried by Lois Dodd and Nancy Wisseman and John Wisseman 2011
juried by Philip Isaacson and Dennis Gleason, Boothbay Harbor, ME 2010
River Arts Gallery, Works on Paper, curated by Suzette McAvoy, Damariscotta, ME 2011
Tools of the Trade, curated by John Arden Knight
Black and White curated by Dan Kany, Damariscotta, ME 2011, 2010
Food curated by Bruce Brown, Damariscotta, ME 2010
Atrium Art Gallery, Spineless Wonders curated by Robin Holman, USM, L/A, ME 2009
Camden National Bank, American Artist Appreciation Month Exhibit, Thomaston, ME 2009
Aarhus Gallery, 44 Degrees Parallel Belfast, ME 2010, 2009
Phelps Gallery, Grafton, VT, Exhibition at Grafton 2011, 2010,2009, 2008, 2007
New England Equine Art Experience, Heart of the Horse, Vassalboro, ME 2009
Archipelago Gallery, Rockland, ME 2009 continuous since 2006
Hunter Gallery of Fine Art, Grafton, VT 2009 continuous since 2006
LA Arts Gallery 5 at Lyceum Hall, Lewiston Maine 2008
Maine Maritime Museum, Bath Maine 2008
Harlow Gallery, Hallowell, ME 2011 continuous since 2005
College of the Atlantic, Not Your Usual White Bread, Bar Harbor, ME 2007
University of Maine MTD Exhibition, Bangor ME 2007
Irving Gallery, Kennebunk, Maine Summer in Maine curated by Anne Zill 2007,
Prelude to Spring curated by Anne Zill 2006
Chocolate Church Arts Center Juried shows, Bath ME 2007 continuous since 2002
Deer Island Art Association Gallery, Deer Island, ME Postcards 2007
Maine Art Gallery Contemporary Print Making 2006
University of New England Payson Art Gallery, Westbrook, ME 2005
Blaine House, Augusta, ME 2004
Goodman Gallery, Crested Butte, CO, 1999 continuous since 1994
National Building Museum, Washington, D.C. Corner Store 1999
Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Layton Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Up on the Island, Down on the Main 1998
Charles Sumner Museum, Washington, DC Sumi-e Society of America 1994, 1993
Patuxent Art League Juried Show at Montpelier Arts Center 1994
Rock Creek Park Art Barn, National Capital Area Chapter of Sumi-e, Washington, D.C. 1993
Slayton House Gallery, Columbia, MD 1991
Olde Towne Gallery, Portsmouth, VA 1091,1990
Chevy Chase Center Gallery, Chevy Chase, MD 1989
Montpelier Cultural Arts Center, Laurel, MD 1984
Goodman Gallery, Crested Butte, CO, 1994 continuous since 1999
Howard County Center for the Arts, Ellicott City, MD 1993
Spectrum Group at Art Center: New Arts Alliance, Columbia, MD 1993
Woodend, Audubon Society, Wheaton, MD 1990 continuous since1988
Montpelier Cultural Arts Center Juried Shows, Laurel MD 1988 continuous since 1990
Publications:
Down East Magazine Art from the Sea, Christine Anderson, November 2011
Lincoln County Magazine Art Journey, Kim Fletcher, August 2009
Bangor Daily News Lifestyle Maine Denizens Visit the City: The Sea-life Artistry of
Waldoboro’s Jean Kigel Makes a Splash in New York, by Jessica Block, 2/10/2009
Review Lincoln County News, Renee Lauzon, August 2009
Pacific Fishing Magazine, image, June 2008
Review Maine Sunday Telegram by Philip Isaacson, In the Arts 9/3108, 9/1/105
Cover Station Maine Calendar International Seamanship, Rockland, ME 2008
Images and articles, Union of Maine Visual Artists, Midcoast Chapter, 7/08, 8/06, 5/05
Review, Lincoln County News, Kay Liss, 7/009, and 1/24/07,
Introductory Essay for solo Eastern Views, Gan Xu, PhD, Maine College of Art July. 2006
Cover Off the Coast: South and North American Poets, June 2006
Boston Globe review by Stephen Jermanok 2007
Lincoln County News review by Kay Liis 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005
Metro New York Chapter Awards, Sumi-e Society of America 2004
Cover Inner Tapestries, Dec/Jan 2004/2005
Cover of American Journal of Forestry, April/May 2002
Maine Arts Commission’s Journal 2003
Memberships and Positions:
Sumi-e Society of America continuous since1988
Union of Maine Visual Artists continuous since2000
Boothbay Regional Arts Foundation continuous since 2005
Guest Speaker, Union of Maine Visual Artists, Midcoast Chapter, 07/08, and 02/06
President of Maine Art Gallery’s Board of Directors, Wiscasset, ME 2001 - 2003
President of Port Clyde Arts and Crafts Society 1998 - 1994
Selected Asian Brush Workshops Conducted by Artist:
River Arts, Damariscotta, Maine 2010
University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME 2009 – 2005
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME 2007, 2001
Round Top Center for the Arts, Damariscotta, ME 2006 continuous since 1995
University of Maine Farmington, Farmington, ME 2006
Bangor Arts Society 2006
Maine College of Art, Portland, ME 2004
Education:
More than twenty years of personal, intensive study of brush painting through
travel to Japan and China and study with international masters in the U.S.A.
MEd Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 1969
BA Boston University, Boston, MA 1967