University of New England

Mother and daughter's art on display at UNE's Stella Maris Hall

BIDDEFORD - Landscape paintings and paintings of tomatoes by mother and daughter artists Elizabeth Woodworth and Arlee MacKnight Woodworth will be on display at the University of New England's Stella Maris Hall on the University Campus in Biddeford through mid-September. 

Stella Maris Hall is open from 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., Monday - Friday. This exhibition is free and open to the public.

Elizabeth Woodworth
Elizabeth Woodworth's paintings include black and white landscapes, as well as small color studies of buildings and trees.She has a degree from Bowdoin College, has studied painting at the New York Studio School in New York City and has taken classes through the Continuing Studies Program at Maine College of Art.

Arlee MacKnight Woodworth
Arlee MacKnight Woodworth's work features a series of square paintings of tomatoes. "I am drawn to the gestural and visual power of handling paint," says Woodworth. "Each painting is still an experiment because the color always feels new to me. I am in the process of teaching my eyes to see color because that is what I am drawn to, how colors react and form relationships, how they contrast with each other and how colors make an object. I can spend hours just looking at a tomato." Woodworth graduated from Bates College in 2007 with a degree in Art and Culture.

For more information, contact Diane Noble at (207) 284-6394.

(Press release posted July 23, 2007)