Barbara Sullivan

A long-time University of Maine at Farmington lecturer and UMF 1996 graduate, Sullivan has worked primarily with the classical technique of fresco, giving it an ironic twist in a contemporary context.

Sullivan has been included in several biennial exhibitions at The Portland Museum of Art and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art.  In 2007, she had her first solo museum exhibition, at The University of Maine Museum, now The Zillman Museum of Art, in Bangor.  She has participated in many solo and group exhibitions in Maine and in New York, including the Morgan Rank Gallery, East Hampton, NY; “Fresh/Fresco”, at The Ernest Rubenstein Gallery; “Off The Wall” at The Hudson Guild Gallery in New York City; and most recently at Safe Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.

She has taught Fresco workshops at Colby and Bowdoin Colleges and the University of Maine, as well as the Aspen Institute during their Leonardo da Vinci Symposium in 2017.

Sullivan has received the Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant and a Pollock/Krasner Grant, and is represented by Caldbeck Gallery in Rockland, ME.