EMAIL:
colecaswell(at)gmail.com
GALLERIES:
Sunshine Amagansett. 303 Main Street, Amagansett, NY, 11930 http://www.sunshineamagansett.com
Maine Museum of Photographic Arts. 15 Middle Street, Portland, ME, http://www.mainemuseumofphotographicarts.org
Corey Daniels Gallery.
2208 Post Road
Wells, Maine 04090
http://www.coreydanielsgallery.com
STUDIO LOCATION:
Peaks Island, Maine.
Nomadic most of the year – 1983 VW Vanagon with portable darkroom.
BIO:
Cole Caswell researches the remnants and patterns in our landscape that reflect contemporary strategies of survival. Through strata of observation, technology, subjectivity, and his surroundings, Caswell investigates geography and its impact on our perceived ability to survive. He uses traditional, historic and digital photographic media to investigate our present condition. For most of the year Cole is working and living in a nomadic format traveling throughout the county exploring our ability to subsist within the contemporary environment. Caswell travels in an 80’s VW camper van with a portable darkroom mounted to the back and uses alternative photographic process to create works while in the field. When the warmer weather returns to Maine he migrates towards his studio on Peaks Island off the coast of Portland. In 2009 Caswell started offering Tintype portrait commission to the public under the project name AGNO3lab which is still actively being invited to various venues from wild hog BBQs in the everglades of Florida to the Colby Art Museum in Maine. Constantly working on many types of projects Cole has collaborated with the arts collective Spurse, The Nation Park System, and The Kohler Center for The Arts. He currently holds adjunct faculty positions at Southern Maine Community College, and Prescott College in Arizona – where he develops and teaches photography courses remotely. In addition to these teachings Cole has lectured at the Maine Media Workshops, Kohler Arts Center, Syracuse University’s School of Architecture, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University and the Bakery Photo Collective.
CV:
2020
Lush Hush, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, Maine.
Cyanotype, Cove Street Arts, Portland, Maine. (In Progress for Fall 2020)
Boom, Gem Gallery, Peaks Island, Maine. (In Progress for Summer 2020)
Faculty Photographers, Cove Street Arts, Portland, Maine.
2016
The Source, CMCA Biennial, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, Maine.
Escape Routes, John Michael Kohler Center for the Arts, Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
Sheboygan Project, River Walk and N14th, Sheboygan Wisconsin.
Thwampsing, Sunsystem Press, Palmdale, California.
Branching Out, CMTV Gallery, Portland, Maine.
2010
Interior Arachnid Territory Tracking Kit, Spurse, Experimental Geography, Museum London, London, Ontario, Canada.
Photographing Maine: Ten Years Later, Center For Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine.
We Are X / wearex / Wax, Gorilla Store Front and Tintype Studio, 157 High Street Portland, Maine.
Interior Arachnid Territory Tracking Kit, Spurse, Experimental Geography, The James Gallery,nThe Graduate Center at CUNY, New York, New York.
Patches Within Proximity, The Geographic Observatory, Area Gallery, University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine.
Interior Arachnid Territory Tracking Kit, Spurse, Experimental Geography, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine.
2008
Open, Hatch Gallery, Brunswick, Maine.
ITTY/BITTY Invitational, YES Gallery, Warren Rhode Island.
Wearex Factory, Sacred and Profane, Peaks Island, Maine.
First Traces, Center For Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine.
Runway Earth, Roger Williams Botanical Garden, Providence, Rhode Island.
Species, Gem Gallery, Peaks Island, Maine.
Interior Arachnid Territory Tracking Kit, Spurse, Experimental Geography, Richard E. Peeler Art Center , DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana.
Imprint, GEM Gallery, Peaks Island, Maine.
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, Maine.
Sprout, GEM Gallery, Peaks Island, Maine.
Oil, Three Fish Gallery, Portland, Maine.
Spring Thing II, AS220, Providence, Rhode Island.
Treading Lightly, Waterfall Arts Center, Belfast, Maine.
2007
Fall show, GEM Gallery, Peaks Island, Maine.
Free For All, Space Gallery, Portland, Maine.
Annual End of Year Show, Gem Gallery, Peaks Island, Maine.
2006
Annual Polaroid Show, Space Gallery, Portland, Maine.
Extended Views, Edwards Gallery, Holderness, New Hampshire.
2005
BFA Graduate Exhibition, Art Institute of Boston Main Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.
Landscape Within Reason, Marran Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Community, Jamaica Plain Art Market, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.
PRC Student Exhibition, Photographic Resources Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
2004
PRC Student Exhibition, Photographic Resources Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
2003
Next Generation, The Center For Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine.
2019
Chasing Shadows, Sun System Press.
Gestures From Wilderness
2018
Artifacts of Motion, Sun System Press.
Swamp Fire, Sun System Press.
Burn Rate, Sun System Press.
Drifter, Sun System Press.
Passage, Sun System Press.
2016
The Island, Cumberland Island Conservancy, Conveyor Arts.
2014
Maine Art New, University of Maine Press (Prospective)
Brink V1, Lexi Lee Sullivan, BCA press.
Night Market, Dark Rye, Detroit.
2012
Hawk and Handsaw, Unity College Press.
Eat Your Side Walk / The Cook Book.
2011
Conveyer Magazine, Mapping.
2009
Beloit Poetry Journal, AJB Publishers.
Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism, Nato Thompson, ICi.
2017
Maine College of Arts, Senior Portfolio, Portland, Maine.
2016
Kohler Artist in Residence, Kohler Center for The Arts, Sheboygan, WI.
2014
Boston Center for the Arts, Street Murals, Boston, MA.
2011
Montclair Grad Program, Practices – A tour of the Dismal Swamp, Metuchen, NJ.
Institute of Contemporary Art, The Forest, Portland, ME.
2010
Bakery Photo Collective, Recent Watersheds, Westbrook, ME.
Tyler School of Art, Photographic Process Overview, Philadelphia, PA.
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Collaboration, Boston, MA
University of Southern Maine, Inspection Processes, Portland, ME.
2009
Syracuse University School of Architecture, Visualization, New York, NY.
2018
Artist Project Grant, Maine Arts Commission, Portland, ME.
2017
Artist Project Grant, Maine Arts Commission, Portland, ME.
2016
Artist Project Grant, Maine Arts Commission, Portland, ME.
Exhibition Artist In Residence, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI.
2014
Maine Arts Commission, Artists Project Grant.
Largo Canyon Artist Residency, Wild Mustang Training Facility, Northwestern New Mexico.
2010
Good Idea Grant, Maine Arts Commission.
2008
Albert K. Murray Fellowship, Albert K. Murray Fine Arts Fund.
2007
Albert K. Murray Fellowship, Albert K. Murray Fine Arts Fund.
2006
Maine College of Art Restricted Scholarship.
2005
Art Institute of Boston Merit Scholarship Award.
Rockport College Portfolio Merit Award.
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