JOSEPH FIORE - THE NATURE OF THE ARTIST
ABOUT
Joseph Fiore was part of a remarkable contingent of NYC artists who made their way to Maine in the 1950s. Alongside Josef Albers, Willem deKooning, Robert Rauschenberg, Ben Shahn, and other artists, Fiore helped create an incubator for new art that helped define 20th century American aesthetics. Artist-friends Alex Katz, Lois Dodd, Charles DuBack, Rackstraw Downes, David Dewey, and Paul Resika offer insights into his aesthetics. His pictographic rock paintings are part of a collection that Maine Farmland Trust is now placing in museums. An exhibit of Fiore’s works will be held at Somewhere on Winter Street Gallery during the festival.
Richard is an independent director whose work is focused on the intersection of art and contemporary American life. Previous film releases include, J. Fred Woell: An American Vision, I Know a Man ... Ashley Bryan, Imber’s Left Hand, and 15 others, all part of the Maine Masters collection, a New England Emmy-nominated series of portraits that airs on public television. With partner Melody Lewis-Kane, their company, Kane-Lewis Productions, has worked for National Geographic, The Discovery Channel, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the White House Office of Technology Policy among many others. Kane-Lewis produced the Natural Resources Council of Maine’s 50th anniversary film Protecting the Nature of Maine, an indie doc ROCK SOLID: The Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium and the classic award-winning documentary M.C. Richards: The Fire Within. From 2007-2016 Richard served as chair of the Maine Film & Video Association.