Turbulence, Fragility, Resilience

Joanne Tarlin
May 8 – June 26, 2025

About This Exhibition

This exhibition is about life. Using imagery from her surrounding environment and experiences, Tarlin portrays her responses to chaos and crimes in the world. The wild seas and screaming winds downing trees and ripping up docks from their moorings, delicate ephemeral flowers blooming on forest floors that meet a crumbling coast, and tenacious shrubs and plants whose roots dangle in the salt water are symbolic. With these images, Tarlin bears witness and presents opportunities.

About the Artist

Joanne Tarlin received an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University and a BFA from the Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design. She lives on the coast of Maine, where she moved to in 2019 from Massachusetts. She volunteers as the President of the Union of Maine Visual Artists to help artists help each other. Tarlin is a former adjunct professor at Framingham State University. Her paintings have been juried into exhibitions including: CMCANow Concurrence, Nave Gallery WaterMarks, and The Painting Center, Flatfiles. Her art was featured in the March/April 2024 Edition of New England Home Magazine and has been written about in Maine newspapers.