Flaming Maple Painting

Leah Gauthier (b. 1963, Chicago, IL) is an intermedia artist who lives and works in Cumberland, Maine. She makes wild inspired threaded paintings and living sculpture as well as often edible community building works exploring food as an agent of social change. Her works have been shown nationally and internationally in museums, galleries and unconventional spaces including Center for Maine Contemporary Art, in Rockland, Maine; Eyebeam in New York City; Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, Massachusetts; The Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine; SoFA Gallery at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana; Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay, Maine; the National Heirloom Exhibition in Sonoma, California; GASP Gallery in Brookline, Massachusetts; 808 Gallery at Boston, University and 0.00156 Acre Gallery in Brooklyn, New York. She has been an artist-in-residence at the MacDowell Colony, Eyebeam and The Burren College of Art, and has received grants and awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Puffin Foundation, Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation and others. Leah received her M.F.A. From the School of the Museum of Fine Art Boston and Tufts University, and her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has taught at Butler University, Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Art Indiana University Bloomington, the School of the Museum of Fine Art Boston, Tufts University and Chester College of New England. She is a founding member of ||| Art curatorial collective. Artist Statement I make wild inspired embroidered paintings and living sculpture based upon my phenological observations of color and seasonal change in the landscape. I create often edible community works exploring food as cultural change.