“Lost and Found,” an upcoming exhibit at the Maine Art Gallery on Warren Street in Wiscasset, is to feature three Maine artists who create mixed media narratives with materials from traditional art supplies to textiles, papers, and found objects.

An opening reception for the show is set for 4-7 p.m. Saturday, July 31. Jud Caswell will provide music.

Katy Helman, Buzz Masters, and Jennifer Lee Morrow tell their stories in a way that reflects the human spirit through symbolism and patterns and a synthesis of styles. Elaine Pew, curator of the show, was inspired to bring the work to the gallery when she first saw Masters’ work.

“The way Buzz combines fresco with collage, telling stories that involved the viewer, really struck me. I knew then that I had to show her work at the Maine Art Gallery,” Pew said in a news release from the gallery.

Masters describes her own work as an investigation of malleable nature of memory — what people hold onto and what they leave out in order to make their story. She uses wooden panels covered with her recipe of materials reflecting the genius of Italian plasterers. More recently she has been working on paper, using mixed media collage.

Pew found Helman’s work to be joyful and humorous. As Helman says of her paintings, “I mix stripes and paisleys, synthesize genres and styles. Whether obvious or not, my work is autobiographical, describing my state of mind and the current events of my life.”

Morrow describes herself as a magpie, collecting bits of paper and cloth and other objects that come into her life: “I collect the stories I hear and the ones I imagine. then through alchemy, tinkering, and stitching, I combine and alter these substances until the stories deepen and become my own.”

Masters and Morrow will discuss their work in a presentation at 2 p.m. Aug. 14 at the gallery.

For more information, visit maineartgallerywiscasset.org.

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