Ann Craven: Painted Time (2020-2024)
Often regarded as a colorist, this exhibition repositions Ann Craven within a deeper language that moves beyond her traditional motifs鈥搈oons, flowers, and birds鈥搕o explore the mechanics of painting itself. It will highlight an often overlooked conceptual framework, where seriality, repetition, and shifts in scale function as both meditative and formal devices in her paintings.
Craven鈥檚 works are a testament to the power of conceptual art and her connection to the recurring rhythms of nature, where seriality, color, and brushwork dominate her canvases from 2020 to the present. Audiences are invited to question the boundaries of painting and to engage with the ways in which Craven redefines traditional genres and styles as one of the leading painters of her generation.
The Farnsworth鈥檚 exhibition is the anchor to the celebration of the 2025 Maine in America Award, which honors Craven鈥檚 exceptional contributions to Maine鈥檚 arts and culture. This lifetime achievement award recognizes her enduring impact on the art world and her dedicated role in the cultural landscape of Maine. As part of this honor, works by Craven will be shown at additional institutions around the state, including companion presentations titled, Painted Time: Moons (Laboratory) on view May 22 through August 17, 2025 at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, and Spotlight: Ann Craven, on view May 14 to September 14, 2025, at the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine. The KHR McNeely Family Foundation will fund two underwriting scholarships for artists attending Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture this summer.
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Often regarded as a colorist, this exhibition repositions Ann Craven within a deeper language that moves beyond her traditional motifs鈥搈oons, flowers, and birds鈥搕o explore the mechanics of painting itself. It will highlight an often overlooked conceptual framework, where seriality, repetition, and shifts in scale function as both meditative and formal devices in her paintings.
Craven鈥檚 works are a testament to the power of conceptual art and her connection to the recurring rhythms of nature, where seriality, color, and brushwork dominate her canvases from 2020 to the present. Audiences are invited to question the boundaries of painting and to engage with the ways in which Craven redefines traditional genres and styles as one of the leading painters of her generation.
The Farnsworth鈥檚 exhibition is the anchor to the celebration of the 2025 Maine in America Award, which honors Craven鈥檚 exceptional contributions to Maine鈥檚 arts and culture. This lifetime achievement award recognizes her enduring impact on the art world and her dedicated role in the cultural landscape of Maine. As part of this honor, works by Craven will be shown at additional institutions around the state, including companion presentations titled, Painted Time: Moons (Laboratory) on view May 22 through August 17, 2025 at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, and Spotlight: Ann Craven, on view May 14 to September 14, 2025, at the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine. The KHR McNeely Family Foundation will fund two underwriting scholarships for artists attending Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture this summer.
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Often regarded as a colorist, this exhibition repositions Ann Craven within a deeper language that moves beyond her traditional motifs鈥搈oons, flowers, and birds鈥搕o explore the mechanics of painting itself.
This year the Farnsworth Art Museum (Rockland, Maine) has mounted three exhibitions devoted to gifted female artists of different generations.
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