Adele Drake is a Maine landscape painter, originally from Philadelphia, PA. Since moving to Maine in 2002 she has shown extensively including at the Zillman art museum, Husson College, Lincoln Street Art Center and The Granite Gallery.  In the Summer of 2024, she was chosen for the Monhegan artist in residence. Her work is in many private collections throughout the United States. Drake describes her paintings as a way to build a relationship with nature, a relationship that will heal and rejuvenate. 

Adele R. Drake

62 Upper Oak point Road

Winterport, Maine 04496

adrake@rsu22.us

207-542-0733

Artist CV

Education:

  • 1983 Bachelor of Fine Arts BFA in Fine Art - Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA

  • 1991 Master of Fine Arts MFA in Painting, University of Pennsylvania, Phila., PA

  • 2015-2023, Graduate Course work in IMFA, University of Maine, Orono, Maine

Recent Solo Exhibitions:

“Surface Deep”  Big Jar Books, Philadelphia, PA

“Sequences”  White Gallery, Bangor,  Maine

“Monhegan Artist Residency…”, Monhegan, Maine

Recent Selected Group Exhibitions:

“The figure Revealed”, Waterfall Art Gallery

“Alignment” David Hopkins Galley

“Yarmouth Art Festival”, St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church

“Generations Show”, The Maine Art Gallery,

“Sharing Space” Granite Gallery

“I-95 Triennial Invitation”, Zillman Art Museum

“Scofield Jazz Festival in the Barn” Lincolnville, Maine

Awards:

  • 2007 Lord Hall Gallery, Student Exhibition, Best in Show

  • 2010 Bangor Library, Bangor Arts Association annual show, 2nd place

  • 2024 Monhegan Artist Residency

Collections:

  • 2021 Edge of the Woods, Oliver Platt, North Haven Maine

  • 2023 Free to be, Ann Mc Clellan, Camden, Maine

  • 2023 Forest Bath, Doreen Maddox-Canning, Brooklyn, NY

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