HEIDI DAUB was raised in upstate New York near the confluence of the Susquehanna and Chenango rivers, and is a graduate of Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, Massachusetts. In addition to current group and solo painting exhibitions, online presence, and public readings, she's produced two compilations of her paintings and poems: Eve Of A New Round (2008) and the artist catalog Pieces of Prayer (2015).
As curator and collaborator, she was guest exhibitor/reader at the Belfast Maine Poetry Festival, in 2005 and 2013: the 2017, 2018 Maine WORD. Festival, and included in two recent, (2019 and 2020) compilations of writers and visual artists published in Maine—A Dangerous New World: Maine Voices On The Climate Crisis, and Voices From The Coast: Maine Coast Heritage Trust celebrating 50 years.
Recipient of the inaugural Artist in Residence in 2018 at the Alcyon Center, she currently maintains an active studio in Blue Hill, Maine. Her paintings are housed internationally in both private and corporate collections.
"Engaged in the interplay between various artistic disciplines, my paintings evolve from a stilling and attunement, coupled with an urgency to render our interdependence with the natural world. The resultant images of coalesced line, form, color and movement are a discovery born out of the complexities of love and daily experience."
Selected Solo Exhibits
2023 Artemis Gallery, Northeast Harbor, ME (2015, 2017, 2019, 2021)
2021 Bagaduce Music, Soundtracks, Blue Hill, ME
2020 Blue Hill Public Library, The Everyday, Blue Hill, ME
2018 WORD Festival, paintings and poems, featured reader and exhibitor, Blue Hill ME (2017)
2017 Island Artisans, New Work, Bar Harbor, ME (2014)
2015 Powers Hall Gallery, University Maine Machias, Pieces Of Prayer
including original poems, Machias, ME
2014 Gleason Fine Art, Welcome Spring, Boothbay Harbor, ME
2011 Markings Gallery, To Hear The Forest Speaking, Bath, ME
Sam Shaw Gallery, Northeast Harbor, ME (2006, 2004)
Schooner Gallery, Milbridge, ME
2008 Blue Hill Public Library, Eve Of A New Round, Blue Hill, ME
Aarhus Gallery, Belfast, ME
Chroma Gallery, Guilford, CT
2006 Turtle Gallery, Deer Isle, ME
The Firehouse Gallery, Damariscotta, ME (2002-2005, 2000)
2005 Classic Framers, Westerly, RI (2001-2003)
The Grand Auditorium, Ellsworth, ME (1987)
2003 Pitcher/Masters Studio Gallery, Deer Isle, ME
2001 Clark House Gallery, Bangor, ME (2000)
Leighton Gallery, Blue Hill, ME (1987-2000)
2000 Acacia Gallery, Gloucester, MA
George Marshall Store Gallery, two person show, Elemental Play, with original poems, York, ME
1999 Saturday Cove Gallery, Northport, ME
1998 Gallery House, Nobleboro, ME (1991-1997)
1995 Thomas Moser Showroom, Approaching Intimacy- Landscape As Metaphor
including original poems, Portland, ME (1992)
1986 The Laughing Lion, Blue Hill, ME
Selected Group Exhibits
2023 The Willard Gallery, South Portland, ME (2022)
2022 Thomas Moser Showroom, Celebrating 50 Years of Fine Art and Craft in Maine
(2021~The Art of Light and Water, 2020~Pine Tree State at 200:
The Art of The Maine Woods)
Gallery B, Breaking Bread, Castine ME (2016, 2018-2020)
Artemis Gallery, Northeast Harbor, ME (2014-2020)
Blue Hill Public Library, August Show, Blue Hill, ME ( 2020, 2010-2012, 2007)
Bagaduce Music, Beckoning The Elements, with Lisa Tyson Ennis, Blue Hill, ME
10 x 8 Small Works Show, GalleryB and online, Castine, ME (2020, 2021)
2019 10 x 8 Small Works Show, Blue Hill, ME (2003-2018)
2017 Cynthia Winings Gallery, Blue Hill, ME (2013, 2016)
2016 Gleason Fine Art, Boothbay Harbor, ME (2013-2015)
2015 Blue Hill Public Library, Messages, three person show
with Avy Claire and Susan Webster, Blue Hill, ME
2014 Art Collector Maine, Art. Works. Kennebunkport, ME (2013)
2013 KPK Gallery, London, England (2012 Hidden Gems Of Contemporary Art)
2012 Aarhus Gallery, Belfast, ME (2011, 2009)
Maine Artscene Virtual Gallery, juried virtual gallery, maineartscene.com
(2009-2010)
2010 Pearson Legacy Gallery, Deer Isle, ME
2009 Leighton Gallery, Blue Hill, ME
The Powers Gallery, Acton, MA (2007-2008)
2008 The Landing Gallery, Rockland, ME and Woodbury, NY (2007)
Turtle Gallery, Deer Isle, ME (2007, 2005)
Sam Shaw Gallery, Northeast Harbor, ME (2005-2007)
2007 Galeyrie Fine Art, Falmouth, ME (2006)
Maine Audubon Art Auction, Falmouth, ME (2004-2006)
Abbe Museum Art Auction, Bar Harbor, ME
2005 Belfast Poetry Festival, original poems and exhibition, Belfast, ME
2004 International Peace Conference, University Maine Orono, Orono, ME
2002 Mystic Arts Center, Mystic, CT
2000 Montserrat College Of Art, 30th anniversary alumni exhibit Beverly, MA
George Marshall Store Gallery, two person show, Elemental Play
with original poems, York, ME
1999 Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME (1992-1998)
Montserrat College Of Art, Curator and exhibitor, Inner Landscapes-Artists and Poets
From Maine with paintings and writings, Beverly, MA
1998 Gallery House, two person showings with Eric Hopkins and group showings
including Seven Maine Women Artists and The Spirit And Four Artists
Nobleboro, ME (1991-1997)
1996 New Arts Program, Invitational Small Works Show, Kutztown, PA
Union Of Maine Visual Artists, Interiors with original poems
Ellsworth Public Library, Ellsworth, ME
1994 Thomas Moser Showroom, Angels, Portland, ME (1993)
Publications/Collaborations
2021 Creative Maine artist interview, Jan/Feb issue, creativemainemag.com
2020 Five On The Fifth Literary Journal, fiveonthefifth.com, short story, "Missing"
Voices From The Coast: Maine Coast Heritage Trust celebrating 50 years
2019 A Dangerous New World: Maine Voices On The Climate Crisis, a collection of
poems, essays and visual art, Littoral Books, Portland, ME
2018 Album/Cover art, Fiddle Tunes for Slack Key Guitar, © Jeff Todd Titon
2015 Artist Catalog, Pieces Of Prayer in conjunction with solo exhibit of poems and
paintings at Powers Hall Gallery, Machias, ME
2014 Featured artist, 2River, summer 2014 issue, online poetry journal, 2River.org
Online publication of The Shelter, poetry/art collaboration, Split Rock Review
summer 2014 issue, splitrockreview.com
2012 Ashes To Art Project, A book comprised of images, statements and poems by
American artists utilizing charcoal from the 2012 Colorado fires.
2011 Portfolio, Montserrat College of Art Publication
2008 Eve Of A New Round, a book compilation of 29 original paintings and poems
2000 New Arts Journal, Kutztown, PA
Cover Art, Beloit Poetry Journal
Presentations
2021 Artist exhibit and talk, A Dangerous New World, Blue Hill Public Library, Blue Hill, ME
2018 Poetry reading, Maine Word. literary festival, Blue Hill, ME
Artist talk, Alcyon Center, Seal Cove, ME
2015 Artist talk, reading and presentation, Pieces Of Prayer
Powers Hall Gallery, Machias, ME
2014 Blue Hill Library Arts Series, Three Artists = Three Visions
presentation and panel discussion, Blue Hill, ME
2013 The Shelter, visual art/poetry collaboration/presentation with
poet Leonore Hildebrandt, Belfast Poetry Festival, Belfast, ME
2008 Artist talk, Chroma Gallery, Guilford CT
2006 Artist talk, Turtle Gallery, Deer Isle, ME
2005 Poetry Reading, Belfast Poetry Festival, Belfast, ME
Artist talk, The Firehouse Gallery, Damariscotta, ME
Presentation, including artist talk, and documentary I-movie
Bangor High School, Bangor, ME
2000 Discussion, artist talk, George Marshall Store Gallery, York, ME
1995 Poetry reading and talk, Thomas Moser Showroom, Portland, ME
Residency
2018 Alcyon Center, Inaugural Artist Residency, Seal Cove, ME
"From her studio days at Montserrat School of Visual Art, in Beverly, Massachusetts, Heidi Daub has doggedly maintained an independent and individualistic approach to her art that reflects a temperament derived from a thorough knowledge of and an adherence to the vocabulary of Modernism, complemented with an imaginative and innovative approach to her art that has not been seen in Maine for a long time. Her style, with its unmistakenable identity, make her paintings a challenge both to the eye and to the mind.
Daub’s paintings defy easy classification. Are they landscapes or narratives or a meshing of the two? Are they painted metaphors, symbolic narratives or even surreal experiences?
Clearly she combines elements directly taken from the natural world, but there are unexpected surprises too. She often includes elements in her ‘landscapes’ that are usually found in still lifes.
An irresistible narrative quality also informs her paintings and her motifs fairly beg to be ‘read’ as personal statement. Daub has assimilated the characteristics of Modernism so completely to her own artistic purposes; she seems to have come to it naturally. She is one of a small number of Maine artists who work with it convincingly. She has created a style that is personal, idiomatic, and singularly hers. Nature is always her starting point, always her vehicle for expressing and shaping her personal visions. Her imagery is thus always recognizable as belonging to the world of appearances, regardless of the particular configuration she may give them. And though she employs the vocabulary of representationalism, her painted language is conditioned by the grammar and syntax of Modernism and abstraction. One of her gifts is her ability to combine representational and abstract elements without making the former obvious or obtrusive.
The art of Heidi Daub is unquestionably a rare experience, the kind we are not likely to see again for some time. Her ability to translate personal experiences, thoughts, and feelings into artful images that are at once rich in poetic associations and probing in enigmatic content are what make the paintings of Heidi Daub memorable and worth seeking out."
~ Lyle Roger North