ARTISTS' STATEMENT

Collaboration (being two or more), started at sea twenty-two years ago.

History gave us the American genre of printmaking: The white-line color woodcut.

Books as objects offer dimension,  structure and transportability to our images.

Art, as a way of life, brought us to Provincetown, then Maine and  Provence.

Geography holds environments and inspiration, while our families anchor us.

Ars longa, vita brevis

Kim Messer Villard et Philippe Gabriel Villard

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

    To develop a pictorial collection of hand bound numbered individual impressions, with the general title North Atlantic Peninsula, and the specific title The Boothbay Peninsula Environment Presented in White-line Color Woodblock Prints; to appear in 10 numbered volumes subtitled: Tide Pools, Mycologic, Shellfish, Wildflowers, Wetlands and Amphibians, Insects and Berries, Trees and Birds, Marine Mammals and Sea Birds, Land Mammals, People and Fish.

Art Colony Editions / Villard Studios
     Geographically located amongst the peninsula’ s rich resources of nature, scholars, and fishermen,
the Villards’ studios trace contemporary and historical collaborative bridges back to the regions long-lived art colony.  These handmade artists’ books evolve from 20 years of printmaking, a lifetime interest in color theory, and the suspicion that, within diverse perspectives, aesthetics outweigh ugliness.

RESUME

PHILIPPE  GABRIEL VILLARD & KIM MESSER VILLARD
(Collaborative artists)

                           Philippe was born 1958 in Paris, France
                           Kim was born 1957 in Boston, Ma. USA

Selected Exhibitions :

2008   

Wenniger Gallery, Rockport, MA

La Galerie du Maurin, Le Rayol, France
Concours “Carnets VoyAgeuRs” Hyeres, France; (First Prize in Regional Contest Collaborative Category)
Minnesota Center for Book Arts, MN 
Columbia College Chicago Center for book and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL

2007    

UAA/APU Consortium Library, University of Alaska, Anchorage, AK
The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY    
* Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay, ME   
Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Cincinnati, OH                   
Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library, NY

2006

Center For Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, ME
Village des Arts, Collobrieres, France

2005        Les Mots Passants, Hyeres, France
                PAAM, Provincetown Art Museum, Cape Cod, MA. USA
                Maine Discovery Museum, Bangor, ME. . USA
             * Kendall Art Gallery, Wellfleet, MA. USA
2004        Penobscott Bay Maritime Museum, Searsport, ME
             * Northeast Fine Arts Gallery, Northeast Harbor, ME
                Maine Discovery Museum, Bangor, ME
                Fondation Taylor, juried Woodblock Print Show, Paris, France
                Kendall Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
2003        PAAM, Provincetown Art Museum, Cape Cod, MA. USA
               “Outstanding!” Friends of the Coast, Newcastle, ME
                Women’s show Island Originals, Boothbay Harbor, ME.  
             *  Nice Cote d'Azur International Airport, "The Art and the collector." France
                 Maine Art Gallery, "figures & faces."
                 Bangor Symphony Orchestra, "Pictures at an exhibition."
                 Kendall Gallery, Wellfleet, MA.
2002         La Fete du Vin, Domaine de la Giscle, Grimaud, France
                 Lincoln Arts, Boothbay Region Boatyard, Southport, ME
              * Douglas Gimbel Gallery, Boothbay Harbor, ME
                 Maine PBS  show @ the Governor’s Blaine House, Augusta, ME
                 Gold/Smith Gallery, Boothbay Harbor, ME
2001      * Douglas Gimbel Gallery, Boothbay Harbor, ME
2000        Volvo Leukemia Regatta, Boothbay Harbor, ME
                 Portland Museum of Art, bi-annual Print & Photo Show, Portland, ME
              * Miles Memorial Hospital, Damariscotta, ME
              * Christophers’ Boathouse, Boothbay Harbor, ME
                 Round Top Center for the Arts, Damariscotta, ME

1999         * Gold/Smith Gallery, Boothbay Harbor, ME
1998         * Gold/Smith Gallery, Boothbay Harbor, ME
                   5eme Salon des peintres, Grimaud, Grimaud, France
1997         * Gold/Smith Gallery, Boothbay Harbor, ME
1996            Provincetown Art Assoc. & Museum ‘The Provincetown Print’
                    Provincetown Art Assoc. & Museum ‘Members Juried Show’
                    Gold/Smith Gallery ‘Mermaids of Maine’
1995         * Gallery Matrix , Provincetown, MA
1994         * Gallery Matrix,  Provincetown, MA
1993         * Gallery Matrix,  Provincetown, MA
1992         * Gold/Smith Gallery, Boothbay Harbor, ME
1991         * Gallery Opera, Provincetown, MA
1990         * French Cultural Center, Burundi, Central Africa
1988         * Babalouis Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
1987         * United Nations Staff House, Kabul, Afghanistan
1986         * Evian Water Exhibit Hall, Evian, France
                    Foire Internationale de La Roche-sur-Foron, France
 
                                                                                                                                              *Solo exhibits                                                       
 Permanent/Public Collections: 

The Grolier Club, New York, NY                                                                                               
 Bowdoin College Library, Rare Books & Special Collections, ME
 Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA.
 Wellfleet Public Library, Cape Cod, MA
 Association Jean Chieze, Paris, France

 Published Exposure:
 Maine Sea Grant report, cover art & Lunar Calendar, Published 2005
 by The University of Maine, Sea Grant & NOAA
 RED HOUSE, published June 2004, Viking Press:
 Part one & two Illustrations.
 COLONIAL HOME MAGAZINE, published August 1996:
 “Traditional Treasures in Truro”
 PROVINCETOWN MAGAZINE, October 1993: Cover art.
 PRACTICAL HOMEOWNER, published February 1991: “Strokes of genius”
 YANKEE HOME MAGAZINE, published February 1989:
 “The tale of the house from the dump”