Studio 53's new exhibit, opening August 29, will feature the works of New York City artists Victoria Wulff, Ewilena Bochenska and Adrian Landon. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, Aug. 30 from 5 to 8 p.m. in Boothbay Harbor with music by maestro Aaron Robinson.

Gallery co-owner Terry Seaman said the works of these three NYC artists will be displayed in the large back room on the main floor of the gallery, while the two front rooms will feature the work of Seattle artist Mark Bennion.

Bennion is a long-time friend of Seaman and his wife and co-owner, Heidi Seidelhuber. The couple splits their time between Seattle, and their business, Seidelhuber Iron & Bronze, and Boothbay Harbor.

Bennion's work, Seaman said, bears some relationship to the works of iconic Northwest artists Morris Graves and Mark Tobey.

“Bennion's art, though more minimalist in nature, focuses on color and spacial relationships," Seaman said. "The frescoes, all 30 by 30 inches are very striking."

“Wulff's work is very personal and atmospheric utilizing imagery that seems to come to her in the process of painting," Seaman said.

She has exhibited at Studio 53 many times over the years.

Wulff is a painter in the  tradition of applying paint with exuberance and bravura, though she pictures another world — a world of intuitive knowing and mythic poetry.  She creates compelling environments for her complex, idiosyncratic stories. While particular meanings are often ambiguous, the imagery is somehow familiar, stirring memories tucked away long ago or daydreams of things that might be.  These are evocative, mysterious, sophisticated paintings. 

As she states on her website, www.victoriawulff.com, “My paintings are easel paintings, a traditional form for delineating impressions of the rituals and sentiments of humans on a fragment of canvas. I hope they demonstrate surrender to a restless and preposterous logic of immediacy, emotions, rhythms and irregularities undreamed of by recent philosophies. Through self-involved daydreaming I unearth the unruly phantoms from the inside out.”

Bochenska's work bears some relationship to Wulff's, but is more focused on color relationships than on imagery.

Landon is a sculptor working in metal with an interesting family background.

His grandfather was an internationally known equestrian. His father, Christophe Landon, is a well-known maker and restorer of stringed instruments and bows with shops in NYC, Paris and Tokyo. Adrian Landon has experience both with horses and with the construction of stringed instruments, which is reflected in the subject matter of some of his steel sculptures.

"After a year of Industrial Design at the Academy of Art in San Francisco, I decided to travel the states on my own a bit, take a step back from the arts, experience new things," Landon writes on his website. "I discovered  the nature and wildlife of the great American west, ranging from the amazing deserts of Arizona and the southwest, to the beautiful and still dry Sierra Nevada mountain ranges of California, and the overwhelmingly rich rocky mountains of Colorado, all incredible sources of inspiration."

Landon studied industrial design at the Academy of Art in San Francisco for one year and then decided to travel. He visited California, Colorado, Arizona and other areas of the southwest, he returned to NYC, inspired by his travels. Landon decided to learn the craft of welding and forging. In April of 2009, upon the suggestion of a friends, he enrolled at The Arts Students League in NYC.

This show runs through September.

For more information, visit www.studio53fineart.com or call Studio 53 at 207-633-2755. The gallery is open daily from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.