Join us at Barn Gallery on Thursday, August 20th (at 6 PM) for a Barn Gallery Talk by our two Late-Summer Exhibition Showcase Artists: Amy Hagberg (Photography) and Carol MacLeod (Photography – Painting)

Meet the artists, see their work, learn about their processes, and ask questions.

These insightful and inspiring Gallery Talks always provide further insight into our exhibitions and give attendees the chance to hear stories + learn tips and tricks from present day juried artist-members of the Ogunquit Art Association, Maine’s Original Artists’ Group (est. 1928).

This is a FREE event and it is open to the public.

ARTIST STATEMENT: Amy J. Hagberg

My Work Illustrates the way time transforms the past. I utilize analog photography as an instrument of time; marking moments by opening a camera’s shutter. The old New England homesteads I often photograph symbolize people lost within the past. The reflection images, all from a single negative, compress what is behind and what is before into a single moment of now. Our perception of today is always colored by past experience and future dreams.

I further investigate time through the slow exposures in my handmade pinhole cameras, using 8″X10″ photographic paper for the negatives. This process mirrors the life experience: sometimes a horrible failure occurs, and sometimes a surprise gift is bestowed. I also create composite images by physically combining two images. I adhere one image printed on translucent vellum over a second printed on cold press paper. This partially obscures the viewer’s gaze from the original image beneath and mimics the shape-shifting of time: the present reshaping our memory

The sculptures I construct for photographing are totum interpretations of lost people and places. Sometimes I burn these sculptures in effigy to set them free. I photograph these events with pinhole cameras, the slow exposures capturing the light of spiritual release.

The past may never be revised. But we may choose to use the past as a vehicle to create something new.

LEARN MORE: amyjhagberg.com

ARTIST STATEMENT: Carol Macleod

I am a native of Maine and have worked in the field of psychiatry and nursing education. Now, in my retirement, I happily devote my time and energy to the creative processes of photography and painting.

Photography: Themes of my work include moods, the environment in which we live, abstractions, the human figure and face, and minimalism. My most recent project with photography is dolls that I have found in flea markets, some disturbing, some just old and well used and, most certainly, loved in the past. I feel these old and falling apart dolls and their fate to be indicative our culture’s view and treatment of aging women. In all of my photographs, I integrate my instinct, inspiration and ability to ‘see’.

Painting: My body of work consists mostly of abstracts, and bird portraits. I have found in my portraits of birds, there is a bit of an unintentional self portrait depicting my mood and sense of humor. My painting technique is to use brush, palette knife, and cold wax.

LEARN MORE: paintedladiesofmaine.com

Learn more about the Barn Gallery 2026 Schedule: barngallery.org/2026-season