Mercedes Gastonguay’s rendering of “Moonlight over Orrs Island, ME” on scratchboard.

Lewiston artist has CMMC exhibit

LEWISTON – Mercedes Gastonguay of Lewiston is a featured artist at the Central Maine Medical Center Rotating Art Gallery during November.

A Maine native, Gastonguay is noted for her pen and ink renderings and paintings of homes and businesses. Gastonguay has been teaching art to children and adults in her Apple Sass Hill Studio for nearly 30 years. A self-taught artist, she also credits outstanding workshop instructors for much of her education. She owns and operates JMG Art and Framing Inc.

Projects have included Maine seascapes and landscapes, rustic still life, portraits, florals, religious subjects and scenes depicting her Franco-American heritage.

Her work has been displayed in Maine galleries, including the Nettie Ricker Art Gallery in the Maine State Building at Poland Spring, the Turner Center for the Arts juried exhibits and in the Tri-County Area Artists juried exhibits at USM’s Lewiston-Auburn College.

Gastonguay and her students have also been invited annually to exhibit a variety of subjects and media in USM’s Atrium Gallery at L-A College.

Her Bates College campus prints are available at the Bates College book store in Chase Hall. Gastonguay has completed a new historical tableau, titled “A la memoire de nos ancetres” (In memory of our ancestors), which is on display at the CMMC gallery through Nov. 29.

It will also be on exhibit in various galleries and prints are available at the USM L-A College campus book store and at St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center gift shot. She is the featured visual artist, along with her oil painting, in a new publication, “Voyages: A Maine Franco-American Reader.”