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Eloquent Observation – Tina Ingraham
August 21, 2012
June 2012 Maine Home & Design Magazine Article by Britta Konau While the items seem luscious, the application of paint is sparing. Each brushstroke is deliberately placed without hesitation, and highlights are carefully considered.
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Tina Ingraham, a Maine-based figurative painter, travels internationally painting portrait commissions, researching master paintings and exhibiting her work. Ingraham lived and painted in Italy and traveled Europe to study master paintings integral to her work, from 1999 to 2003. She received a Maine Commission for the Arts Project Grant, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and fellowships from Milton and Sally Avery and John Simon Guggenheim Foundations.
She has taught at Bowdoin College, Stephens College, Maine College of Art and Brooklyn College where she received The Charles G. Shaw Teaching Fellowship and Award for Excellence. Collected internationally, Ms. Ingraham has exhibited predominantly in New York, Boston, Maine, Delaware, Connecticut, Italy and Germany. She is represented at Greenhut Galleries, Portland, Maine, and Somerville Manning in Greenville, Delaware. Portrait commissions of note include Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain by Bowdoin College, and Myron Edward Ullman III Private Collection of Thirteen Portraits. Ingraham works from her studio in Bath, Maine.
“A look through a viewfinder divides my vision of the subject into fractions and I clearly see where strong contrasts meet. I mark those on the canvas with charcoal. I grind paint onto the palette with my knife, and with broad brushstrokes I weave large amounts over the canvas with a hunt for an overall spirit. Varied textures describe my search for spacial relationships. Distance or foreground is implied with thin washes or scraped off paint. Thick paint may identify form, middle ground or detail. As I filter through cognitive, physical and intuitive practices, my engagement with the work ceases being a record of my process. The painting materializes with a spirit of its own.”
— Tina Ingraham
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020 Sight Specific, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME
2017 Rock, Trees Sand and Sea, Popham to Blue Hill, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME
2015 Figures & Landscapes, Thomas Moser Showroom, Freeport, ME
2009 Observations, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME
2009 Natura-Naturi-Natur, Galerie im Rathaus, Treffpunkt Kunst, Munich, Germany
2007 Out of the Ordinary, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME
2006 ’96 ‘to Now, Roundtop Center for the Arts, Damariscotta, ME
2005 Façades, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME
2005 The Light of Umbria, Galerie im Rathaus, Treffpunkt Kunst, Munich, Germany
2002 Begegnungen, Galerie im Rathaus, Treffpunkt Kunst, Munich, Germany
2002 Incontri, Chiostro San Francesco, Umbertide, Italy
2001 Luminous Moments, Hubert Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 Maine The Painted State, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME
2020 Biennial Portland Show, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME
2016 A Continuum of Place, Penobscot Marine Museum, Searsport, ME
2014 On and Off the Wall: Dune Evolution, First Street Gallery, New York, NY
2013 The Painter’s Table and Art, Food and Humanity, Warm Springs Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2012 Small Pleasures, Sylvan Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2011 Gallery Artists, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
2011 From the Garden to the Kitchen, The George Marshall Store Gallery, York, ME
2007 What’s Cooking, Bachelier-Cardonsky, Kent, CT
2005 The Still Life Show, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
2003 Vessels, Bachelier-Cardonsky, Kent, CT
1996 171st Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
Awards, Grants, Fellowships, and Residencies
2015 Visual Artist Project Grant, Maine Commission for the Arts, Augusta, ME
2008 Honored and Profiled, Women Work and Community, a community-based non-profit, Governor’s Mansion, Augusta, ME
2005 Artist’s Residency, The MacNamara Foundation, Westport Island, ME
1999 The John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, New York, NY
1999 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc., New York, NY
1999 Artist’s Residency Fellowship, The MacDowell Colony for the Arts, Peterborough, NH
1998 Artist’s Residency, Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, Temecula, CA
1998 The Milton and Sally Avery Fellowship, The MacDowell Colony for the Arts, Peterborough, NH
1996 Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Brooklyn College of CUNY, Brooklyn, NY
1996 Charles G. Shaw Memorial Award for Scholarship and Art, Brooklyn College of CUNY, Brooklyn, NY
1994 Artist’s Residency Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Selected Public Collections
Brookline Bankcorp, Brookline, MA
Brown Brothers Harriman, New York, NY
Myron Edward Ullman III Private Collection of Thirteen Portraits
CEO Starbucks
MBNA Corporation
Portrait of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
Education
1996 MFA, Painting, Brooklyn College, CUNY, Brooklyn, NY
1970 BSD, University of Cincinnati, College of DAAP, Cincinnati, OH