Following that, he worked as a private engineering consultant for fifteen years, followed by eight years as an associate real estate broker. He then joined the City of Bangor Engineering Department in June of 1960 and was appointed as City Engineer in 1962, a position he held until his retirement in 1992. After graduating from the University of Maine in 1956 with a B.S in Civil Engineering, he worked for the Army Corps of Engineers at Bangor’s then Dow Air Force Base during its conversion from a moth-balled WWII airbase into a modern Strategic Air Command base. John was born and raised in Bangor, and is a life-long resident of the area. However, high-quality prints may be available.
John Frawley - Grandkids, Pets, and Schoodic Cyr Gallery Opening reception: Wednesday, June 8, 4-6 pm. Outside Bangor, I have had work at the Schoodic Arts Center, The Maine Open Juried Show in Waterville, and the Morini Gallery in Mansfield, MA. I have been involved with the Bangor Art Society and have exhibited at many places in Bangor including The Rock and Art Shop, Top of the Nine Gallery, Eastern Maine Development Corporation, 11 Central, The Arts Exchange, and this will be my second solo exhibit at the Bangor Public Library. I live in Orono and work as a Life Enrichment/Activities assistant at Dirigo Pines Retirement Community. With this added space came the opportunity to both work large and to work on multiple paintings at one time. In 2020, I found myself with more room to explore my painting. Every painting teaches me something new that I did not realize about myself. After many years of not producing any art, I started experimenting with painting. My work explored both small-scale environments and large installations that explored language and memory in a spare and minimal way. While there, I worked primarily with stone carving and cast paper. I studied sculpture at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. I hope their conversation will echo in a way that will somehow bring you in. These vignettes are the result of delving into images of the past and animating them through color and joy.
The colors I am using will beg to be brought into another piece or a movement will beg to continue to another painting. I have found that, although deeply entrenched in the work that I am doing, the energy of other pieces collected in the room give their life to the current work that changes as I continually curate. The work I have been doing lately has been on large swaths of fabric that I move to different locations of the studio. Inquire at the reference desk.Īs an emerging painter, I find that my work keeps getting larger as I get comfortable with the media. Jennifer de Lannée - Colliding Conversations Stairwell Gallery