 Contact Information:
Buddy Swenson
127 Fletcher Street
Kennebunk Maine 04043
(207) 985-4203
E-mail:swensonswenson@hotmail.com
Biography:
Gerald "Buddy" Swenson is a native of Connecticut.
He graduated from the University of Connecticut in 1969 and then spent
a year painting in Mexico. He received an MFA in 1970 (Inst Allende).
Swenson moved to Aroostook County, Maine, in 1972 and then to Kennebunk,
Maine, in 1983, where he lives today. Swenson's early paintings were
abstract expressionist, and he went on to include landscape, realism, and
social and political concerns in his varied body of work. In the
early 90's, Swenson produced a series of Art Furniture pieces (The Shrines)
that were exhibited and sold at the Stein Gallery in Portland, Maine.
He has been a member of and exhibited with The Union of Maine Visual Artists
since the early 70's.
Nine years ago we were led into a war in Iraq, based on lies, at a terrible cost to the country: over four thousand military personnel killed and many thousands maimed physically and/or psychologically; over one hundred thousand Iraqi civilians killed and the complete destruction of a sovereign nation that offered no threat; over a trillion US dollars spent; the implementation of torture and the erosion of our civil liberties.
Opening--first friday art walk March 2, 2012 5:00-8:00 2012
Pottery at Rocky
Mann Studio Potter Gallery, Hulls Cove, Maine
Work in the Davistown Museum Permanent Collection
Entry for Portraits in a Time of War |
Commissioned by God (Four panel Christian door)
2006
Paint and collage on wood ~ 29 3/4"w X 79 1/2"h |
Crab Table
2006
Mixed media ~ 30"h X 25"d
Angle 2 Angle 3 |
#45 Plow Plane
Shellacked Plaster Casting |
Entry for Portraits in a Time of War
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Work in the Davistown Museum for Sale
Eating the Enemy
Watercolor ~ 13"h X 14"w {framed}
$250
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Hammer
Shellacked plaster
9"h X 17 1/2"w {framed}
$300 |
Thumbs Up Series #1
Ceramic
4"h X 6"w X 2"d
$30 |
Talking Heads
Ceramic
4"h X 7 5/8"w X 2"d
$30 |
Thumbs Up Series #3
Ceramic
4 1/2"h X 6 1/2"w X 2"d
$30 |
Thumbs Up Series #4
Ceramic
7 5/8"h X 7"w X 2"d
$30 |
Thumbs Up Series #5
Ceramic
10 5/8"h X 8 1/4"w X 2 1/2"d
$48 |
Blood in the Water I 2006
Paint on board ~ 16"h X 14w {framed}
$750 |
Talking Heads #2
Ceramic
4 5/8"h X 8 3/8"w X 2"d
$30 |
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Blood in the Water II 2006
Paint on board ~ 18"h X 16"w {framed}
$850 |
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