2024 PAI Exhibition: In the Room by the Ocean

July 19 - August 18
464 Main Street
Rockland, Maine

Gallery Hours:
Friday - Saturday 12 - 6 pm

Schedule of Performances:

August 2, 5 - 8pm
Tristan Koepke
Rori Smith

August 18, 3 - 6pm
Isabel Hunter
Kristina Loring
Heather Sincavage
Heather Lyon
Rori Smith

The Performance Art Initiative is pleased to announce their inaugural exhibition of performance base works opening July 19. In the Room by the Ocean brings together thirteen artists with ties to Maine that engage performance as part of their ongoing creative practice. The exhibition features a range of works including video, performance-based photography, text, installations, and objects used in or resulting from artistic actions. Addressing themes related to the environment, identity, trauma, mysticism, body, space, materiality, and the everyday, the exhibition highlights current ideas and methods of working that artists are exploring now to offer a close look at performance's important role in contemporary art in Maine.   

In the Room by the Ocean includes new and recent works by Bri Bowman, Isabel Hunter, Tristan Koepke, Tanja Kunz, Kristina Loring, Heather Lyon, Thalassa Raasch, Julie Poitras Santos, Merrilee Schoen, Rori Smith, Augusta Sparks, Heather Sincavage, and Meg Wolfe. The exhibition will be accompanied by live performances on Rockland’s First Friday, August 2, and will conclude with a closing reception including performances by five of the exhibition artists on August 18 from 3-6pm.