ABOUT
MAHATMA PROJECTS
Mahatma Projects is a studio art site for Sarah Bouchard.
ARTIST BIO
Sarah Bouchard is a multimedia artist who works with photography, paint, collage, sculpture and installation. Bouchard has exhibited her work throughout the United States and may be found in select private and corporate collections.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I am a feminist, process-driven artist with a passion for minimalist-albeit-monumental sculpture and installation. There is usually a strong conceptual component to my work, although this dense mental matter often hides beneath a seemingly formalist visual presentation.
I am primarily an introspective artist, working in solitude. I am thoroughly taken with anything involving the use of my hands, making materials integral to anything I do. I am moved by texture and pattern, as well as subtle shifts in color, light and sound. I am drawn toward unlikely juxtapositions that bring about a shift in perception.
For the past decade, I have been committed to exploring the intersection of black and white as pigment in an effort to understand the ever-present horror that is American racism.
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2019 FLUX, Corey Daniels Gallery, Wells, ME
2019 Infinite Archive: NYPL, New York Public Library, Cortelyou Branch, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Infinite Archive: NYPL, New York Public Library, Dongan Hills Branch, Staten Island, NY
2018 Infinite Archive: NYPL, New York Public Library, Kingsbridge Public Library, Bronx, NY
2018 Infinite Archive: NYPL, New York Public Library, Harry Belafonte Branch, New York, NY
2017 SELF TCELFER, Site-specific installation, Water Bear Confabulum, Farmington, ME
2017 SELF TCELFER, Solo Intervention, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
2017 Cloud Storage, Site-specific installation, Corey Daniels Gallery, Wells, ME
2016 CMCA Biennial, Juried by Christine Berry and John Yau, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME
2016 Three-person exhibition, Corey Daniels Gallery, Wells, ME
2016 Solo Exhibition, Site-specific Installation, Masonic Temple of Portland, Portland, ME
2015 Summer Exhibition, Corey Daniels Gallery, Wells, ME
2014 Critic’s Choice Exhibition, Harlow Gallery, Hallowell, ME
2014 Solo Exhibition, process, University of Maine at Farmington Art Gallery, Farmington, ME
2012 Install 1, Corey Daniels Gallery, Wells, ME
2012 Then & Now, Juried Exhibition, Rose Contemporary, Portland, ME
2011 Drawn and Quartered, Drawing Room, Portland, ME
2011 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
2010 Gathering, Drawing Room, Portland, ME
2010 Night of 1,000 Drawings, Artist’s Space, New York, NY
2007 Deconstruct, Invitational Exhibition, Katayama Gallery, Portland, OR
2007 Solo Exhibition, Play, Brian Marki Gallery, Portland, OR
2007 Interplay, Working Artists Gallery, Portland, OR
2007 Chance Encounters, Working Artists Gallery, Portland, OR
2006 Sarah Bouchard and Trevor Gray, Brian Marki Gallery, Portland, OR
2006 Juried Photo Exhibition, Rake Art Gallery, Portland, OR
2006 48-Hour Video Challenge, Visage, Portland, OR
2006 CAA/MassArt Regional MFA Exhibition, Invitational Exhibition, Mass Art Gallery, Boston, MA
2006 WabiSabi, WoodFX Gallery, San Diego, CA
2004 Open Painting Exhibition, Providence Art Club, Providence, RI
2003 Essence, The Now Gallery, Farmington, ME
2003 Nordica Celebration of Women in the Arts, University of Maine at Farmington Art Gallery, Farmington, ME
2002 Next Generation III, Juried Exhibition, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
SELECT INDIVIDUAL ARTIST AWARDS
2017 Onion Foundation grant recipient
2017 Project Grant, Maine Arts Commission
2014 Semi-Finalist, Creative Capital Award, Creative Capital
2013 Good Idea Grant, Maine Arts Commission
2011 Good Idea Grant, Maine Arts Commission
2011 Albert K. Murray Grant
2005 Albert K. Murray Grant
2004 Elizabeth Bouchard Grant
2004 First Prize, Open Painting Exhibition, Providence Art Club
RECENT PRESS
2017 Leah Triplett Harrington; “Pictures, Politics and Post-Truths: The CMCA Biennial;” Big, Red & Shiny
2017 Daniel Kany, “The biennial at Center for Maine Contemporary Art deliciously flawed and fresh,” Maine Sunday Telegram
2016 Staff Writer, “Modern Masters,” Maine Home + Design
2016 Robert Bennett Jr., “We’re/Were Podcast,” Sarah Bouchard
2015 Britta Konau, “Getting Physical: Foregrounding the material nature of art”, Portland Phoenix
2015 Daniel Kany, “In Maine’s evolving summer art season, transparency is key”, Maine Sunday Telegram
2015 Caroline O’Connor, “Lux in Tenebris: A lucent mind, a gilded future, a coded space”, Portland Phoenix
2014 A Frank Juarez Gallery and Greymatter Gallery Collective Project, 365 Artists 365 Days
2014 Daniel Kany, “UMaine Farmington Hosts Sarah Bouchard’s Appealing Exhibition”, Portland Press Herald
2013 Jaime Thompson, “Grand Temple: Q&A with Artist Sarah Bouchard”, Art Spotting Blog
2012 Daniel Kany, “Furniture-related art: Clever craftsmen reach new heights”, Portland Press Herald
2011 Daniel Kany, “MECA students deftly open door to new horizons”, Portland Press Herald
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2018 GROUNDWORK Retreat
2010 – 2016 Artist-in-Residence, Masonic Temple of Portland, Portland, ME