CV
Born: Seattle, Washington
Resides: South Portland, ME
Vinalhaven Press, Printmaking Workshop 1995
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture 1991
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts – Diploma Program 1976
Radcliffe College, B. A. 1967
2024 Networks, Sarah Bouchard Gallery, Woolwich, Maine
2023 A tribute to June Fitzpatrick, Maine Jewish Museum, Portland, Maine
2007 Reflections, Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, Maine
2005 Rinsed, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Congress Street, Portland, Maine
2002 The Renunciation Series, June Fitzpatrick Gallery at MECA, Portland, Maine
2000 Millennium Haiku, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, Maine.
1999 Vivien Russe, New Work, Unity College Art Gallery, Unity, Maine.
1998 Relative Values June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, Maine.
1997 Nature and Icons UMF Art Gallery, Farmington, Maine.
1996 Covers June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, Maine.
1995 Focus Changing Executive Gallery, Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, Maine.
1994 Rotations June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, Maine.
2022 You Take the Cake, Sarah Bouchard Gallery, Woolwich, ME
2019 Harvesting the Image, Wishcamper Center, USM Portland, ME
2018 Art in Maine, Robie Andrew Hall, USM, Gorham, ME
2018 Ant Farm at the Nexus of Art and Science, St Marks School, Southborough, MA
2017 Vivien Russe and Mary Hart, AVA Gallery, Lebanon, NH
2016 Art of the Hand-Pulled Print: Peregrine Press at 25, Portland Public Library, Lewis Gallery, Portland ME
2015 Ant Farm at the Nexus of Art and Science. UNE Art Gallery, Ketchum Library, University of New England, Biddeford, ME
2014 Ant Farm at the Nexus of Art and Science, Atrium Art Gallery, Lewiston-Auburn, ME
2014 Recent Acquisitions and Selections from the Permanent Collection, UNE Art Gallery, Portland, ME
2013 Spectrum: Mary Hart and Vivien Russe, Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, ME
2012 Land, Sea, and Sky: Contemporary Art in Maine, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
2011 Shift, Vivien Russe and Mary Hart, Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, ME
2007 140 George Marshall Store Galley, York, Maine
2006 Maine Printmakers 1980-2005 Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
2005 Water, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
2005 The August Show, The Coppershed Gallery, Warren, ME
2004 Group Show, The Coppershed Gallery, Warren, ME
2000 Peregrine Press Group Show Greenhut Gallery, Portland, ME
1999 Accord III, Old Historical Society, George Marshall Store Gallery, York, ME
1999 Seeing Money, Portland Old Town Arts and Cultural Foundation, Portland, OR
1998 Annual Juried Exhibition Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME, and The Barn Gallery, Ogunquit, ME
1998 1987-1997 A Skowhegan Decade, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
1998 June Fitzpatrick, New York Exhibit, New York, NY
1998 Hearts on Fire, curated by Rosemary Frick, Robert Clements Gallery, Portland, ME
1997 Accord II, Old Historical Society, George Marshall Store Gallery, York, ME
1997 The Juried Show: Maine Debuts Since 1979, Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME
1997 The First Group Show for Gallery Artists, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, ME
1996 Skowhegan at 50: The Maine Legacy Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME, and Maine College of Art, Baxter Gallery, Portland, ME
1995 Plethora of Prints, Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME
1995 Summer’s End Frick Gallery, Belfast, ME
1995 Maine Abstract Art 1995, Danforth Gallery, Portland, ME
1994 Selected Prints from Peregrine Press, Cry of the Loon Gallery, South Casco, ME
1993 ‘Use of Pink in Art, curated by Mary Hart, UMVA Gallery, Brunswick, ME
1993 Paint, curated by Nicols Fox, UMVA show at Ellsworth Library and The University of Maine Augusta, ME
1993 Group Show ICON Gallery, Brunswick, ME
2014 The Ant Farm project awarded the Artists in Communities Grant from the Maine Arts Commission
1991 Bingham Painting Fellowship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
1995 Painted Banner, Maine Festival, Thomas Point Beach, Brunswick, ME
Ants and art: An alluring alliance at the Atrium, Jim Thatcher, Sun Journal, May 5, 2014.
Born from science and nature come The Ant Girls, Bob Keyes, Maine Sunday Telegram, April 27, 2014
Keep your hands dirty, Ant Girls dig up monolithic statement, Nick Shroeder, The Portland Phoenix, April 23, 2014
Marin and New Maine Art @ The Addison, Edgar Allen Beem, YankeeMagazine.com, posted January 4, 2012.
43 Maine Artists, The Art Issue, Maine Home Design, April 2008
June Fitzpatrick Gallery at MECA/ Portland ME, Rinsed: New Paintings by Vivien Russe, Carl Little, Art New England, August/September, 2005
June Fitzpatrick Gallery/ Portland, Vivien Russe: Millennium Haiku, Shirely Jacks,
Art New England, August/ September 2000.
Money’s the root of Russe’s collages and therein lies the satire, Philip Isaacson,
Maine Sunday Telegram, June 7, 1998.
Artist Vivien Russe works with quilts, covers and colors, Anne Geller,
Franklin Journal, February 2, 1997.
A ‘Capitol’ Show, ‘Skowhegan at 50’ in Augusta honors Maine’s premier art school
Lynn Ascrizzi, Sunday Sentinel, February 16, 1997
First group show connects Fitzpatrick’s roster of gallery artists, Philip Isaacson,
Maine Sunday Telegram, February 23, 1997.
Festival’s picture is really a big painting Amy Sutherland,
Portland Press Herald, August 2, 1995.
Vision, decision loom large in Maine artists’ abstractions, Philip Isaacson,
Maine Sunday Telegram, April 23, 1995.
Process and Progress; Maine Coast Artists show track two, Philip Isaacson,
Maine Sunday Telegram, March 12, 1995.
Peregrine Press puts together a fine print show the volunteer way, Ken Greenleaf,
Portland Press Herald, April 28, 1994.
Cry of the Loon Art Gallery, South Casco, Selected Prints from Peregrine Press
Barbara Sullivan, Art New England, Aug./Sept. 1994.
Artists answer museum’s call for ornaments Amy Killinger,
Portland Press Herald, Dec. 2, 1993.
Much to Ponder in Paint, Laurie Schreiber,
Bar Harbor Times, May 13, 1993.
Frost Gully Gallery, Portland Autumn Group Show, Pat Davidson Reef,
Art New England, Nov. 1990.
A Different kind of landmark, Philip Isaacson,
Maine Sunday Telegram, June 18, 1989.
It’s what you don’t see that makes the difference, Edgar Allen Beem,
Maine Times, June 9, 1989.