Shannon Christine Rankin
Shannon Christine Rankin
Description: Dennis Pinette is an artist in Belfast, Maine.
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The intersecting geometries of fire, water, industrial installations, and the woods form the base for Dennis Pinette’s paintings. His work is defined by improvisation layered over direct observation. Four old buildings overlooking Penobscot Bay serve as home and studio. His wife Megan is president of the Belfast Historical Society and Museum. Their son Evan is a mariner and musician.
Mr. Pinette’s subject is landscape, brutal landscape: terrain deformed with factories or ledges molten from brush fires, forest floors painfully orange with dead leaves, waves cresting into sucking holes. He does not paint specific places as much as a complex of emotion and energy; his landscapes become fictions, concentrated and ambivalent, located beyond the real world. “I like my work best when it is on the edge of disintegrating,” he said in a recent conversation, “when the subject almost disappears, as
“I paint two intersecting geometries,” he said. “The hand of man and the hand of nature.” Within that tension he locates the sublime. ~Deborah Weisgall. The New York Times , feature article excerpt 9/21/2003
Shannon Christine Rankin
Shannon Christine Rankin