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BIO: Artist Ed Nadeau is a native of Maine whose paintings depict the land and people of his home state in various incarnations. He graduated from Syracuse University in 1980 with his BFA in painting and from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1986 with his MFA in painting. Assistant Professor Nadeau teaches 2d-design, painting and drawing at the University of Maine in Orono and has taught advanced courses in Figure Drawing, Nature Drawing, Materials and Techniques for Painters and the Senior Capstone. His area of research is the history, manufacture and use of traditional artists materials such as substrates, gessoes, oil paints, temperas and waxes along with current advancements of new technologies and materials that can be adapted for artists’ uses. His paintings have been exhibited widely, including the Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland Art Place, School 33 Art Center, the Park School, the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport, the University of Maine in Orono, Whitney Art Works in Portland, Maine, and the Drawing Center, NYC. Currently Courthouse Gallery Fine Art in Ellsworth, Maine represents his paintings. His works are held in many private collections both nationally and internationally. He is currently working on a series of portraits titled, “Big Box Images: Portraits of the American Consumer”, which now include an extended array of portraits of people from all walks of life created through the interrelationship of manipulated computer imagery and traditional painting and drawing. EXHIBITIONS RESUME: Born: 1958, Waterville, Maine EDUCATION Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, Mount Royal School of Painting, MFA Painting, 1986 Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, College of Visual and Performing Arts, BFA Painting, 1980 TEACHING University of Maine, Assistant Professor of Art, 2000 to present EXHIBITIONS Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, “Solo Exhibition”, Ellsworth, ME, September-October 2010 George Marshall Store Gallery, “Pleased to Meet You”, York, ME, June-July 2010 Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, “Small Works 2008”, Ellsworth, ME, December 2008 Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, “Maine at Work”, Ellsworth, ME, August 2008 Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, “Maine Flora: A Celebration”, Ellsworth, ME, May 2008 University of Maine, Lord Hall gallery, “Faculty Exhibition”, October 200 Elan Fine Arts, Gallery artist, Rockport, ME, May 2005- January 2007 Whitney Artworks, “Solo exhibition”, Portland, Maine, November- December 2005 University of Maine, Carnegie Hall gallery, “Faculty Exhibition”, Orono, ME, October 2005 Whitney Artworks, “Grand Reopening Exhibition”, Portland, ME, August 2005 Nan Mulford Gallery, “Summer Exhibition”, Rockland, ME, Summer 2005 Center for Maine Contemporary Art, “Surviving Winter in Maine”, group exhibition curated by Bruce Brown, Rockport, ME, Winter 2005 Park School gallery, “Family Sublime”, Baltimore, MD, Fall/Winter 2004 University of Maine, Carnegie Hall gallery, “Art Now”, faculty exhibition, Orono, ME, October 2004 Clark House Gallery, “New Paintings”, Bangor, ME, Winter 2003 University of Maine, “Northern Observations”, narrative paintings of the 1980’s, Carnegie Hall gallery, Orono, ME, Fall 2003 Clark House Gallery, “Gallery Artists’ Current Work”, Bangor, ME, Summer 2003 Clark House Gallery, “Into the Woods”, Bangor ME, Fall 2002 Clark House Gallery, “Rotations”, Bangor, ME, Summer 2002 Clark House Gallery, “Paintings in Wax and Oil”, Bangor, ME, Fall 2000 Clark House Gallery, “Maine Landscape: 12 Painters” Bangor, ME, Spring 2000 Creative Arts Workshop, “New England Artist’s Trust Congress V”, juried exhibition curated by Dan Cameron, senior curator, New Museum, NYC, New Haven, CT Spring 1999 Clark House Gallery, “The Landscape: Two Views”. New paintings by Ed Nadeau and Micheal H. Lewis, Bangor, ME, Fall/ Winter 1999 Clark House Gallery, “Contemporary Landscape: Oils, Pastels, Photography & Assemblage”, Bangor, ME, Summer 1998 Villa Julie College, “Baltimore Collects: George Ciscle”, Baltimore, MD, Fall 1998 Between the Muse Gallery, “Studio Work- Emerging Artists”, Rockland, ME, Spring 1997 Center for Maine Contemporary Art, “The Juried Show: Maine Debuts since 1979”, Rockport, ME, Spring 1997 Husson College, White Art Gallery, “One person exhibition”, Bangor, ME, Spring 1997 Ellsworth Public Library Gallery, “Roots; Ethnicity in Maine”, Ellsworth, ME, Spring 1996 Center for Maine Contemporary Art, “1995 Juried Exhibition”, 17th Annual Exhibition, curated by Chris Crossman, Frederick Lynch and Joanna Gardner-Huggett, Rockport, ME, Spring/Summer 1995 School 33 Art Center, “Growth and Atrophy: The Empathetic Landscape”, Baltimore, MD, Winter 1993 School 33 Art Center, “Exhibition of New Paintings” Baltimore, MD, Fall 1992 Semmes, Bowen and Semmes, Attorney’s at Law, “Group Show”, Baltimore, MD Fall/Winter 1991 Tuttle Gallery at McDonough School, “War and Peace”, juried exhibition, McDonough, MD, Winter, 1987 Maryland Art Place, “Landscape: Three Perspectives”, juried exhibition, curated by Bill Dunlap, John Pfahl and Michelle Stuart, Baltimore, MD Fall 1988 School 33 Art Center, “Drawing Surveyed” juried exhibition curated by Martha Beck, Director, Drawing Center, NYC, Winter 1987 School 33 Art Center, “Sweet land of Liberty”, juried exhibition curated by Brian Wallis, adjunct curator, New Museum, NYC, Summer 1986 Baltimore Museum of Art, “Maryland Biennial”, juried exhibition curated by Gracie Mansion, Director Gracie Mansion Gallery, NYC, & Mark Rosenthal, Curator, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, Winter 1986 COLLECTIONS Dr. Ann C. Reardon, Bangor, Maine The Warhol Foundation, New York, New York Bangor Savings Bank, Bangor, Maine George Ciscle, Baltimore, Maryland Betsy Evans Hunt, Cape Elizabeth, Maine Greg Lipton & Sara Crisp, Cumberland, Maine Debbie Chatfield, Rockport, Maine Robert Roth, Stonington, Maine Pauline Samuda, Kingston, Jamaica Natalie and Stephen Arsenault, Veazie , Maine Lee Cummings, Glenburn, Maine Robin Garcia, Bangor, Maine Armstrong, Austin, Texas Meghan Donnelley, Old Town, Maine GRANTS AND HONORS Maryland State Arts Council, Visual arts fellowship recipient, 1987 REVIEWS Carl Little, “Ed Nadeau: New Paintings”, Art New England, June/July 2004 Ian Page, “Whitney wonderland,’Tis the season for surreal”, The Portland Phoenix, December, 2005 Jeff Badger, “New Work” by Ed Nadeau, Irene Stapleford, and Diane Wiencke at Whitney Artworks, the bollard, November 20, 2005 BOOKS More Paintings of Maine, by Carl Little, Published by Downeast Books, Spring 2006
Email me Ed Nadeau Orono, Maine 04473 ed@ednadeau.com Current Show Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, Ellsworth, Maine mailto:ed@ednadeau.commailto:ronald.nadeau@umit.maine.eduhttp://www.courthousegallery.com/http://www.courthousegallery.com/shapeimage_5_link_0shapeimage_5_link_1shapeimage_5_link_2shapeimage_5_link_3

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