Meg Brown Payson
b.1953, Portland, Maine
Solo Exhibitions
2022. Asleep on the Dock, Press Hotel, Portland, ME
2021. Meg Brown Payson: “a silence falls with the waking bird”, Cove Street Arts, Portland, ME
2020. Shallows, Costal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay Harbor, ME
2019. Shift, The Cube Gallery, Naropa University, Boulder, CO
2014. Chiasm: New Work by Meg Brown Payson, McCoy Gallery, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA
2010. Hydrostatic Pressure, Eo Art Lab, Chester, CT
Paper Works, Walker Contemporary, Boston, MA
2009. Horizon, Walker Contemporary, Boston, MA
2008. Liquid Space, Eo Art Lab, Chester, CT
2007. Meg Brown Payson: Prints from Anderson Ranch, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, ME
2004. Felt, Barrington Center for the Arts, Gordon College, Wenham, MA
Meg Brown Payson: To Sing the World, Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, ME
2002. Meg Brown Payson New Paintings: Breath and Depth, Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, ME
2001. Meg Brown Payson: Paintings, Dana Art Gallery, Dana Hall School, Wellesley, ME
1997. Reciprocations, Eliza Sweet Gallery, Waldoboro, ME
1994. Meg Brown Payson: New Paintings and Constructions, O’Farrell Gallery, Brunswick, ME
1993. Marina: Paintings by Meg Brown Payson, South Gallery, T.H.Wood Art Gallery, Vermont
College, Montpelier, VT
1991. Water’s Edge, Congress Square Gallery, Portland, ME
1988-1990. Congress Square Gallery, Portland, ME
1987. Portland Performing Arts Center, Portland, ME
1985. Portland Performing Arts Center, Portland, ME
1982. The Art Center, Santa Cruz, CA
Group Exhibitions
2021. June LaCombe Sculpture, Pownal, ME. Featured artist.
2019. Psych Out!!!, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, NY
2017. That Third Thing, Speedwell Projects, Portland, ME
Power of Place, Wells Reserve at Laudholm, Wells, ME
Expanding Abstraction: New England Women Painters, 1950 to Now, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
2016. The Retrieval of the Beautiful, The Painting Center, New York City, NY
2015. DiCarta/Papermade, Palazzo Fogazzaro, Schio, Italy
The Art as Science, The Science of Art, Mary Cosgrove Dolphin Gallery, Worcester State University,
Worcester, MA
2015-2019. Annual outdoor exhibitions, June LaCombe Sculpture, Pownal, MEPayson, page 2.
2014. The Boston Drawing Project @ Carroll and Sons, Boston, MA
Unhinged, Pierogi, New York, NY
Prints: Breaking Boundaries, Portland Public Library, Portland, ME
2012. Pressing On, Landing Gallery, Rockland, ME
2011. Contemporaries: Artists of La Napoule Art Foundation, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
2010. Sacred and Profane: Eye of the Beholder, Portsmouth Museum of Art, Portsmouth, NH
Shared Response, Eo Art Lab, Chester, CT
Mirare, Chapel Art Center, St. Anselm College, Manchester, NH (three person)
2009. Archeology Above Ground, ICA@Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
The Boston Drawing Project: 10 Years On and Going Strong, Carroll and Sons, Boston, MA
Abstract New England: Six Perspectives, University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME
2008. Inaugural Exhibition, Walker Contemporary, Boston, MA
Road Trip, George Marshall Store Gallery, York, ME
Betwixt and Between: Color, Line and Texture, Courthouse Gallery, Ellsworth, ME
2007. Big Bang! Abstract Painting for the 21st Century, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
Graphite, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
2007 Portland Museum of Art Biennial, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
2006. 2006 Biennial Juried Exhibition, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
Playfully Exact, Cooler Gallery, White River Junction, VT (two person)
MECA/Connections, George Marshall Store Gallery, York, ME
ab-‘strak-shen, The Clown, Portland, ME
2005. Accord VI, George Marshall Store Gallery, York, ME
Water, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
2004. Natural Response: Artists from the Boston Drawing Project@Bernard Toale Gallery, Sharon Art Center, Peterborough, NH
Residents, Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA
2003. Drawing, Contemporary Artist’s Center, North Adams, MA
The Abstracted Landscape, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
Accord V, George Marshall Store Gallery, York, ME
2003-2008. Icons and Altars, New Art Center, Newton, MA
2002. 9/11: Prelude to an Apocalypse, Art Gallery at University of New England,
Portland, ME
2001. Beyond Our Vision: Contemporary Paintings and Drawings, Bemidji Community Art Center, Bemidji, MN
A Sense of Place, The Chewonki Foundation, Wiscasset, ME
2000. Land, Sea, Sky,: New Visions in Landscape Painting, Artworks at Dover Street, New Bedford, MA
Winter, O’Farrell Gallery, Brunswick, ME
Unbridled Eclecticism: Works from the Collection of Woody Dana, Art Gallery at University of New England, Portland, ME
Spring Mix, George Marshall Store Gallery, York, MEPayson, page 3.
1999. Inner Landscapes, Montserrat College of Art Gallery, Beverly, MA
Maine College of Art Faculty, River Tree Arts Center, Kennebunk, ME
10 x 10: Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Robert Clements Gallery, Portland, ME
1999-2001. Icons and Altars, New Art Center, Newton, MA
1998. Celebrating Diversity: Contemporary Women Painters, Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University,
Brookville, NY
Sanctuary, Maine Audubon Center: Falmouth, ME
Twentieth Annual Juried Exhibition, Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME
Breaking the Ice, Between the Muse, Rockland, ME
1997. Summer Salon ‘97, Robert Clements Gallery, Portland, ME
1996. Between The Muse Gallery, Rockland, ME
First Annual Small Works Exhibition, Chuck Levitan Gallery, New York, NY
1995. 1995 Artstravaganza, Hunter Art Museum, Chattanooga, TN
B.U. Visual Arts Alumni Drawing Exhibition, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
Nature and Culture/Harmony or Conflict, Nacul Environmental Design Center Gallery,
Amherst, MA
1994. Maine Festival Billboard, Brunswick, ME
1992. Invitational to Benefit the Maine Woman’s Lobby, Gallery House, Nobleboro, ME
1991. Beyond the Mantle, Old York Historical Society, York, ME
Inaugural Exhibition, Maine House, Nagoya, Japan
1990-1992. 10 x 10, Portland, ME
1990. First Annual Maine Artists Invitational Exhibition, Central Maine Power, Augusta, ME
Color ‘90, Barn Gallery, Ogunquit, ME
New Work for the Nineties, Boston University Sherman Union Gallery, Boston, MA
1989-97. Judith Leighton Gallery, Blue Hill, ME
Saco River Festival, Cornish, ME
1980. Reflections, Open Space Gallery, Bangor, ME
1979. Spectra 1, The Payson Gallery, Westbrook College, Westbrook, ME
1978. The Portland Show, Barridoff Gallery, Portland, ME