The George Marshall Store Gallery is thrilled to open its 2023 season in collaboration with Surf Point Foundation— a residency program for artists and art professionals on the coast of York, Maine. A More Human Dwelling Place is the premier showcasing of works by alumni from the program’s launch in 2019 through their 2022 rotation. Myron M. Beasley, vice chair of the Surf Point Foundation board of directors, and Associate Professor of American Studies at Bates College is curator.

A More Human Dwelling Place celebrates Surf Point Foundation and the George Marshall Store Gallery’s mutual goals of fostering meaningful connections within the visual arts community. The exhibition includes works in fiber, fresco, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture, as well as works by SPF co-founder Beverly Hallam. The show’s title is inspired by James Baldwin’s 1962 essay, “The Creative Spirit,” in which he writes,

“The role of the artist, then, is to…make the world a more human dwelling place.”

  • Myron M. Beasley, Ph.D. is a professor, curator, and artist writer. He is the author of Performance, Art, and Politics in the African Diaspora: Necropolitics and the Black Body (2023). His curatorial work includes the first Haitian Biennale (2012), Dark'art (2016), Print Post Power (2018), and Re.Past. Malaga (2018). His research explores the intersection of cultural politics, art and social change. He has garnered distinguished awards and fellowships by the Andy Warhol Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, The Davis Family Foundation, the Reed Foundation, and Dorathea and Leo Rabkin Foundation.

  • Surf Point Foundation provides time, space, and support for the visual arts community to think, connect, and create. They offer three-week, live-work residencies to nominated artists and art professionals throughout the year in a boldly Modernist home on the coast of York, Maine. The program was founded by local arts patron Mary-Leigh Smart and artist Beverly Hallam.

    Learn more at surfpointfoundation.org

Proceeds are shared between Surf Point Foundation, George Marshall Store Gallery, and the artists.

Download the Exhibition Catalogue here.

Karen Adrienne (ME)
Dalia Amara (NY)
Bryana Bibbs (IL)
Matt Bodett (IL)
Cole Caswell (ME)
Caleb Cole (MA)
Dennis RedMoon Darkeem (NY)
iliana emilia García (NY)
Bryan Graf (NY)
Beverly Hallam (ME)
Séan Alonzo Harris (ME)
Anna Hepler (MA)
Isaac Jaegerman (ME)
Gregory Jamie (ME)
Erin Johnson (NY)
Kathleen Kolb (VT)

Crystalle Lacouture (MA)
Joe Mama-Nitzberg (NY)
Mary Mattingly (NY)
Antonio McAfee (IN)
Tyrone Mitchell (NY)
Danielle Mysliwiec (MD)
Tessa Greene O'Brien (ME)
Lisi Raskin (NY)
Daniela Rivera (MA)
Christophe Roberts (NY)
Jessica Straus (MA)
Barbara Sullivan (ME)
Don Voisine (NY)
Shiao-Ping Wang (NH)
Beatrice Wolert (NY)