PRESQUE ISLE — Recent oil paintings by Littleton artist Frank Sullivan will be on display at Morningstar Art & Framing in Presque Isle this month.
The public is invited to an opening reception with the artist on Friday, Sept. 4, from 6-9 p.m. as part of the monthly First Friday Art Walk.
ART SHOW — Oil paintings by Littleton artist Frank Sullivan will be on display at Morningstar Art & Framing in Presque Isle this month. The public is invited to an opening reception with the artist on Friday, Sept. 4, from 6-9 p.m. as part of the monthly First Friday Art Walk.
The exhibition will be on view at Morningstar Art & Framing during regular hours, Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m.-5:30pm and Saturday from 10-4.
Sullivan is a full-time artist with a BA in visual arts from the College of the Holy Cross. He also studied printmaking at the American University on a graduate fellowship and later studied Graphic Design and Illustration at the School of The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and figure drawing at the Worcester Art Museum. After working as a graphic designer, illustrator, art director and art instructor in Massachusetts, he moved to Aroostook County in January 2006 to focus on his art full-time. He converted an old potato house on his property into a studio and gallery where he currently displays his work and teaches classes in drawing and painting throughout the year. He also teaches drawing and art appreciation classes at Northern Maine Community College. He has won numerous awards for his artwork and his work hangs in private collections throughout the country. He has found the agricultural landscape of Southern Aroostook County particularly inspirational to his work. Although working from a landscape tradition, Mr. Sullivan’s paintings focus on capturing qualities of light, weather conditions and times of day, utilizing bold colors and a painterly application of materials which emphasize the act of painting and the working properties of the artist’s materials, rather than descriptive details of the subjects.
