Jocelyn Lee was born in Naples, Italy and received her BA in philosophy and visual arts from Yale University, and her MFA in photography from Hunter College. In 2013, she received a NYFA Fellowship, and in 2001 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship.  Having recently moved to Maine, Lee is using the Maine landscape as a backdrop for her nude portraits of women. She embraces what others see as vulnerabilities providing new perspectives on our notions of beauty and sexuality and celebrates the cycles of life and death in all nature. Lee taught photography at Princeton University from 2003-2012 and at The Maine College of Art from 1993-2001. She has been a visiting artist at Yale University, Bowdoin College, Mass College of Art, and New York University. Her work has appeared in many national and international publications, as well as being included in both private and public collections around the world from The Portland Museum of Art; Portland, Maine to Maison Europeen de la Photographie, Paris, France.

An extensive traveler, artist Henry Isaacs tells stories about the sometimes-quirky genesis of his paintings. Through his many gallery and museum exhibitions, Henry Isaacs is one of New England’s best-known landscape painters. Isaacs works from observation, interpreting the three-dimensional world into two dimensions, often limiting his work to unfinished “notes” and allowing himself room to invent and express his personal experiences. Isaacs attended The Putney School, Boston University, received his BFA in painting from Rhode Island School of Design, and his H.Dip.FA in printmaking from Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. He has taught Art since the 1970’s, has received many grants and awards, and his work is included in a number of public and private collections throughout the country.

Freelance writer Dan Kany is an art historian, critic, musician and author of “Travel Notes: Paintings by Henry Isaacs”, a book about his very good friend, painter Henry Isaacs. “Travel Notes” follows the trail of how Isaacs has come to paint the way he does by focusing on the myriad small paintings Isaacs does both in preparation for his larger works but also as a mode of their own. Isaacs calls these small paintings "notes." The book explores Isaac's process, techniques, inspiration and greatest influences. As Kany explains, "Humanism and moral urgency certainly fuel Isaacs' painterly output, but so does his love of painting and culture- that shared community space of people."

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