Essay: Carl Little Essay on Gail Spaien in Maine Arts Journal

Maine writer Carl Little published an essay on painter Gail Spaien in the Spring 2021 issue of Maine Arts Journal. The publication is released quarterly by the Union of Maine Visual Artists (UMVA). Little’s article explores Spaien’s influences and examines how living in Maine shapes her painting career.

Teaching helps Spaien articulate ideas and formal issues. “As I teach,” she explains, “I work out some of the questions that I am asking in my studio practice.” Some of the answers to those questions can be found in her remarkable art where she seeks to conjure a sense of “anchoring and suspension and gravity and light.”

Click here to read Little’s full article, Gail Spaien: Anchoring and Suspension and Gravity and Light.