photo by Joyce Morrill photo by Joyce Morrill
Jean Kigel:
Watercolorist, Asian Brush, + Oil Painter
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EDUCATION
Travel to and extensive, informal study in Japan and China 1985 and 2002
MEd Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 1969
BA Boston University, Boston, MA 1967
SELECTED SOLO SHOWS
SAM SHAW GALLERY, Northeast Harbor, ME 2019
Mandala, Woodward Gallery’s Gourmet Garage Venue, Manhattan, NYC 2016
Last
Dance, Woodward Gallery’s Gourmet Garage Venue, SoHo, NYC 2016
Maine and the Marine Environment, Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Center,
Rockland, ME 2015
Seascape and Sea Creatures, Philippe Guillerm Gallery, Waldoboro, ME 2015
Black and White and a Bit of Color, Tidemark Gallery, Waldoboro, ME 2015
Sayonara, Summer Island Studio, Brunswick, ME 2013
Ode to Bowdoin Pines, Gallery Framing, Brunswick, ME 2013
Picnic Motifs, Woodward Gallery’s Gourmet Garage Venue, SoHo, NYC 2010
Magic of Maine, Woodward Gallery’s Gourmet Garage Venue, SoHo, NYC 2009
Something Fishy,
Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset, ME 2005
Japanese Ink Painting
Round Top Center for the Arts, Damariscotta, ME 2005
Through Asia’s Eyes,
Portland Parks and Recreation, Portland, ME 2005
Heritage of the Brush,
Round Top Center for the Arts, Damariscotta, ME 2001
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Portland Art Gallery, Portland, ME 2015-2017
Gallery at the Grand, Kennebunkport, ME 2015-2017
Woodward Gallery, New York, NY Fall Salon 2016
Walsingham Gallery, Newburyport,
MA
2016, 2015
Archipelago
Gallery, Rockland, ME 2016
52nd
Annual Juried Exhibition, Sumi-e Society of America, Mobile AL 2015
Art in Maine
Show, Boothbay Harbor, ME juried by Bob Keyes 2015
Hunter Gallery of Fine Art, Grafton, VT, 2016
since 2006
Portland Art
Gallery, Portland, ME 2016, 2015
Art in Maine Show, Boothbay Harbor, ME
juried by Kristin Engman 2014
Space Gallery, Portland, Maine, 2014
Art in Maine
Show, Boothbay Harbor, ME juried by Joachim Homann 2013
Art in Maine
Show, Boothbay Harbor, ME juried by Connie Hayes 2012
Floriade, Chocolate Church Gallery, Bath, ME
2012
Art in Maine
Show, Boothbay Harbor, ME juried by Lois
Dodd + Nancy Wissemann 2011
Art in Maine Show, Boothbay Harbor, ME juried by Philip Isaacson + Dennis
Gleason 2010
Spineless Wonders, Atrium Gallery, USM LA, Lewiston, ME 2009
Not Your Usual Whitebeard, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME 2007
Contemporary Print Making, Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset, ME 2006
Down on the Island, Layton Gallery, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design,
Milwaukee, WI 2001
Sumi-e Society of America, Charles Sumner Museum, Washington, D.C. 1994
Union of Maine Visual Artists Artists, Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, ME, 2012
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Introducing Jean Kigel, Sumi-e Society of America Journal 2016
Focusing on Florals, The Canvas, Jamie Thompson, Maine Home and Design 2015
Windswept Farm, Jodi Shea, Art Collector Maine 2014
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Feast of Entertainment, Dagney Ernest Courier Gazette 2013
Cover Art, If One Petal Falls, Kelly Shepherd, Leaf Press 2012
Art from the Sea, Interview, Cynthia Anderson, 2011
Pollock Bycatch, Don McManman, Pacific Fishing 2009
Maine Denizens Meet [NY] City, Jessica Block, Bangor Daily News 2009
Art
Journey, Kim Fletcher, Lincoln County Magazine 2009
In
the Arts, Philip Isaacson, Maine Sunday Telegram 2008
Cover Art, Station Maine Calendar,
Muriel Curtis, Rockland, NE 2008
In
Grafton, Stephen Jermanok, Boston Globe 2007
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Brush with the East, Nina Jamison, Eagle Times, Springfield, VT 2006
Cover Art, Prelude to Spring
Newsletter, River Tree Center for the Arts, Kennebunk, ME 2006
Cover Photo, Kathleen Galligan, UMVA, Newsletter 2006
Kathleen Galligan, UMVA Newsletter 2005
Lobsters, Lobsters Everywhere, Dagney Ernest Courier Gazette 2005
In
the Arts, Philip Isaacson Maine Sunday Telegram 2005
Cover Art, Maine Arts Commission Card, 2002
Cover Art, Journal of Forestry, 2002
Through Asia’s Eyes, Arts&Entertainment, Bowdoin Orient 2001
MEMBERSHIPS AND POSITIONS
Center for Maine Contemporary Art member 2016
Sumi-e Society of American member since 1998
Maine Arts Commission member since 1998
Union of Maine Visual Artists member since 2000
Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset, ME president of board 2001-2003
Port Clyde Arts and Crafts Society president 1998-1994
WORKSHOPS CONDUCTED
University of Southern Maine Continuing Education, Portland, ME 2005-2009
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME 2007, 2001
University of Maine Farmington, Farmington, ME 2006
Maine College of Art Continuing Education, Portland, ME 2004