Maxine Shore
Maxine Shore, a resident of New Jersey, was born in New York, NY and educated at Chatham College and Middlebury College. Formerly a teacher of art, Maxine studied art at The Parsons School of Design, the National Academy and The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. She has won numerous awards and had exhibits of her work in New Jersey, New York and New Mexico, including at Princeton University, Bennington College in Vermont, Ellarslie Museum in New Jersey, Ghost Ranch in New Mexico and New York art galleries. Maxine’s work has also been selected for use on calendars sold commercially.Â
         Maxine is a contemporary colorist who uses color and light in an effort to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. Inspiration for her paintings often comes from travel to places near and far that spark her imagination. Working exclusively in oils, she relies on watercolor or pencil sketches as well as her camera to record images that she works on in her studio. Such was the case with the painting, Cinque Terre, which depicted a town in Italy she visited years ago. A photograph of the painting was featured in the New York Times.Â
         She is not a traditional representational painter. She is more interested in interpreting how a place makes her feel than simply reproducing how it looks. Even when a painting is representational there exists an abstract dynamic below the surface. Exploring the interplay of colors, shapes, patterns of lights and darks, and composition all contribute to the final outcome.Â
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