Talent | Agency brokers symbiotic resource exchange between artists and art lovers. One tentacle is facilitating residencies for emerging visual artists that infuse underutilized spaces with infectious creative energy. Recently, Talent | Agency partnered with CBRE/Boulous, Property Management, which generously provided a site-specific installation space at 475 Fore Street, in Portland, Maine from 2012-2013.
Our first artist-in-residence was Rachel Manley, pictured above at work on her installation "Garden Skyline," on Fore Street. Many more images can be viewed here.
Talent | Agency most recently hosted IlaSahai Prouty, whose installation "Goldilocks Saves the World" was on view during the Winter of 2013, and is visible in the following images.
Ila Sahai Prouty at work at 475 Fore Street on her installation "Goldilocks Saves the World," Fall 2012. This is part of Prouty's larger "Dream Repeater" series. For more information on Ila Sahai Prouty's work, click here. She gave a wonderful slide talk and is a highly recommended visiting artist.
----> Talent | Agency's emerging artists-in-residence, all alumni of Maine College of Art:
Tanner Gasco-Wiggin, created a site-specific woodblock print installation "1+1=3," November, 2012. Download Press_Release_Tanner_Gasco_Wiggin
Jenny McGee Dougherty created "A Plausible Weft" during her residency from August-September, 2012. Download Press_Release_Jenny_Dougherty
Rachel Gloria Manly, in residence from May-July, 2012, created "Garden Skyline" in the windows and doors of this ground-level storefront. View images of Rachel Gloria Manly's installation here. Download Press_release_Rachel_Gloria_Manly
Jenny McGee Dougherty's A Plausible Weft, Fall, 2012.
[Reversed] process image for Tanner Gasco-Wiggin's installation, late Fall, 2012.
Stay tuned for Talent | Agency's reconstitution in some underutilized crevice of Portland, Maine or elsewhere.