Gina Sawin

Gina Sawin received her BFA and MFA degrees in New York at Parsons School of Design, where she studied with Leland Bell, Paul Resika, Stanley Lewis, and John Heliker, and Robert DeNiro, Sr. and Larry Rivers. The influence of these painters, who uphold a tradition of representation based on modernist principles, is evident in Sawin’s bird paintings. Facing a classic painterly challenge (of the western tradition) - a planar balance of two- and three-dimensional space – she captures the abstract patterns created by birds in a moment of flight while keeping them moving in and through real space.

Sawin lives and paints on a farm in Maine. Her work has been exhibited in, among other places, New York City, Washington, D.C., Sun Valley, Jackson Hole, and several Maine galleries. A partial list of exhibitions follows.

EXHIBITIONS, selected
Solo
2022 Blue Mountain Gallery, along with a Centennial Tribute to David Sawin
2018-2012 Blue Mountain Gallery, New York
2008 Audubon Society, Greenwich CT
2007 Flanagan Fine Art, Portland, Maine
2005 Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA
2001 The Arsenal Gallery, New York
1997 Studio Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1995 The League of Conservation Voters, Washington, D.C.
  Tom Veilleux Gallery, Farmington, ME
1994 Studio Gallery, Washington D.C.
Group
2023 Wendell Gilley Museum, Southwest Harbor, Maine
2023 Artemis Gallery, Northeast Harbor, Maine
2022 “Human, Nature” Alice Gauvin Gallery, Portland, Maine
2021 Thos. Moser Showroom, Freeport, Maine
2019-2018 Artemis Gallery, Northeast Harbor, Maine
2017 “Thinking Big” Blue Mountain Gallery Artists, Westbeth Gallery, New York
2015 Blue Mountain Gallery, New York
  Isalos Fine Arts, Stonington, ME
2014 Blue Mountain Gallery artists at Long Island University, New York
2010 Parsons MFA Alumni, Prince Street Gallery, New York
2007 Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, ME
2004 Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA
  The Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset, ME
2003 The Gleason Gallery, Camden, ME
2002 The Painting Center, NY
2000 The Art Showcase at the Bond Traders Association, New York
1998 College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME
PUBLICATIONS
  Gina Sawin is discussed/mentioned in the following articles and books
2022
 
 
Human/Nature at Alice Gauvin Gallery
artnewengland.com/human-nature
pressherald.com/art-review
2010 The Art of Dahlov Ipcar, p.112, Carl Little, Downeast Books
2006 The Art of Maine in Winter, Carl Little, Downeast Books
2005 Maine Homes, Boats, and Harbors, “Creatures Great and Small”
2000 Catalogue Essay, Donald Davis Art at The Bond Trader’s Association, NY
1995 Art in America review, solo show at Studio Gallery, Carl Little
EDUCATION
1985
 
 
M.F.A. (painting), Parsons School of Design, New York
studied with Leland Bell, Paul Resika, John Heliker, Robert DeNiro Sr., Stanley Lewis
Visiting artists: Larry Rivers, Nell Blaine, Lennart Anderson
1979 B.F.A., Parson School of Design
1974-1975 Barnard College