Exhibit Reception: Gordon Carlisle "Panorama"

York Public Library presents "Panorama," featuring the work of Eliot artist Gordon Carlisle. The show runs July 2 through August 29, with a reception and artist talk July 9 from 5:00 to 7:00 PM.

Gordon Carlisle has been actively involved as a visual artist in the greater Portsmouth area since 1982. A graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute (BFA, printmaking), he makes his living as a visual artist, creating not only Public Art murals and paintings but theatrical set design, portraits, graphics and illustration as well.  He was a member of Portsmouth's Mural Works for ten years before starting his own business in 1994.

To date, Carlisle has completed over 40 Public Art commissions across New England. Sixteen have been Percent for Art grants in Maine and New Hampshire, and two were New Hampshire Community Arts Residencies. Included among these have been commissions for hospitals, health clinics, veterans and nursing homes, colleges and schools, state agencies, discovery centers, restaurants, courthouses, a youth development center, a planetarium, a dance hall, a bank, a seafood export company and the cities of Skowhegan, ME, and Manchester and Somersworth, NH. Additionally, he has participated in ten major church, courthouse and library redecorations and restorations around New England.

In 1999, Carlisle was awarded a New Hampshire State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship for his accomplishment as a muralist.

With eleven solo and over fifty-five group exhibitions under his belt, this award winning artist continues to produce a wide variety of art in his studio in Eliot, Maine. These include paintings in oils and acrylics on a variety of surfaces, watercolors and drawings on paper, repurposed Paint-By-Number paintings, collage and assemblage. Carlisle is currently featured in ten collections, and his work has been exhibited across the United States.

This exhibit will convey the forty plus year “panorama” of Carlisle’s visual art output, including Public Art, theatrical design, paintings, collages, and illustrations.

"Panorama: Gordon Carlisle" runs July 2 through August 29, with an opening reception and artist talk July 9 from 5:00 to 7:00 at York Public Library, 15 Long Sands Rd., York, Maine, open Monday-Thursday 10am-7pm, Friday 10am-5pm, and Saturday 10am-2pm.