Barn Gallery | Ogunquit Art Association Launches Inaugural Digital Exhibition: “Going Coastal”

The Ogunquit Art Association (Maine’s Original Artists’ Group | est. 1928) has endured long enough to witness a good many changes in the world. And their ability, as an organization, to adapt along the way is one of the many reasons why Barn Gallery, their ancestral home, has long been one of the MUST-VISIT cultural gems in Ogunquit, Maine.

Earlier today, the Ogunquit Arts Collaborative and the Ogunquit Art Association (OAA) unveiled their most recent evolutionary advances by launching “Going Coastal” — their inaugural digital version of a Barn Gallery art exhibition.

About the “Going Coastal” exhibition at Barn Gallery | Ogunquit Art Association

As a theme selected by the juried member-artists of the OAA to commemorate Maine’s 2020 Bicentennial, ‘Going Coastal’ celebrates the past with a bold new step into the future.

Artists came to Ogunquit for the vast expanses of water stretching towards the horizon, the rugged and dramatic Marginal Way cliffs constantly pounded by Gulf of Maine waves, the weathered wood of lobster shacks dotting Perkins Cove, and the sublime quality of the coastline light glinting through salt-misted air which inspired artists like Charles H.Woodbury and Gertrude Fiske to organize the Ogunquit Art Association.

The allure of Ogunquit’s coastal aesthetics provided the fertile ground from which an art colony for all time sprouted. The work you see in this exhibition was created by artists who are the modern-day members of that very same coastal art colony. This is work by the painters, printmakers, sculptors, and photographers who carry on the unbroken, 92-year+ tradition of creating and exhibiting art as members of the Ogunquit Art Association.

The “Going Coastal” exhibition is on view at Barn Gallery, Ogunquit until October 12, 2020. Click here to learn more about the 2020 Season at Barn Gallery.

The digital version of Barn Gallery’s “Going Coastal” exhibition was made possible through the generous support of Kennebunk Savings Bank.

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