Judith Allen /  Jeff Badger /  Lydia Badger /  Melinda Barnes /  Lucinda Bliss /  Allison Cooke Brown /  Eirene Efstathiou /  Richard Hutchins /  Barak Levi Olins /  Rebecca FitzPatrick /  Yeshe Parks /  Sean Foley /  Alex Sax /  Sage Lewis /  Aaron T Stephan /  Sam Van Aken / 

Jeff Badger

ARTIST STATEMENT
By creating fantastic figures who act out miniature dramas of human struggle, I hope to present an opportunity to look humorously at our own actions from afar. This work depicts a world of never-ending exigency, where there is found both wonder and loneliness.

The series of drawings of trees emerged during my wife’s recent pregnancy and the birth of my first child. I became fascinated with the daily development of our son via cellular mitosis and assignment – how certain cells are predetermined to become lungs, eyes, etc. Further, these trees can also be seen as an exploration of arboreal models of history that can be applied to both art and family.

BIOGRAPHY
b. 1976, Miami, Florida
Lives and works in South Portland, Maine

EDUCATION
Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, MA, MFA 2005
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, BA cum laude, 1998
Westminster University, London, 1997

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 Whitney Art Works (upcoming November)
2007 Mean Trees (installation), Whitney Art Works/Walker Terrace, Portland, ME
2006 I Got A Right, Whitney Art Works, Portland, ME
Everything Crash, Harbor Art Gallery, UMASS Boston, MA
2005 This is How We Float, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA
2004 Float, Hay Gallery, Portland, ME
2003 New Paintings, Hay Gallery, Portland, ME
2002 New Work, Hay Gallery, Portland, ME
2001 Jeff Badger, Hay Gallery, Portland, ME

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
Biennial Juried Exhibition, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME (upcoming)
Juried Alumni Exhibition, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Re:Format, ellO Gallery, Portsmouth, NH

2007
30 Years / 30 Cakes, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI
Tiny, curated by Bruce Brown, Whitney Art Works, Portland, ME

2006
SUPERvision, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WI (catalog)
Seeing is Believing: Perceptions of Reality, Mass College of Art, Boston, MA
LandEscapes, College of the Atlantic Beech Hill Farm, Bar Harbor, ME
Still Life, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
From the Inside II, June Fitzpatrick Gallery at MECA, Portland, ME
Funny-Scary-Happy-Sad, ubu Studio Gallery, Portland, ME
Humor?, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME

2005
New Art 2005, MPG Contemporary, Boston, MA
Annual Juried Exhibition, Essex At Center, Lawrence, MA
Art Institute of Boston MFA Exhibition, Epicenter, Boston, MA

2004
SuperSalon, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
Fire with Fire: On Myth on Contemporary Culture, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
Greater Portland and Cumberland County, Maine State Capitol Complex, Augusta, ME
Festival of The Sacred and Profane, Peaks Island, ME

2003
Juried Alumni Exhibition, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Treats, Hay Gallery, Portland, ME
Creatures, Filament Gallery, Portland, ME
Words & Images, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME
In My Backyard 3, Yarmouth, ME

2002
Paper Cut 5, Siberia, New York, NY
Plow, SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME
911: Maine Responds, Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset, ME
Opening Exhibition, SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME
Festival of The Sacred and Profane - Spot!, Peaks Island, ME

2001
Gaze, Bennington College, Bennington, VT
Festival of The Sacred and Profane (the devil made me do it), Peaks Island, ME

VISITING ARTIST
2006
Massachusetts College of Art, MSE, Boston, MA
Massachusetts College of Art, BFA Exhibition Design, Boston, MA

2005
The Dublin School, Dublin, NH
Rivertree Center for the Arts, Kennebunk, ME
Institute of Contemporary Art, In Control of Your Faculties, Portland, ME
Maine College of Art, Painting Major Seminar, Portland, ME
Maine College of Art, Sculpture Major Seminar, Portland, ME

2004
Maine College of Art, Art Camp, Portland, ME
Currier Museum of Art, AllState Art Festival, Manchester, NH
Maine College of Art, Art and Business: Networking, Portland, ME
Maine College of Art, Senior Printmaking Seminar, Portland, ME

2003
Currier Museum of Art, Art Students Honor Society, Manchester, NH
Currier Museum of Art, AllState Art Festival, Manchester, NH

2002 Muse Artist Group, Portland, ME

TEACHING
Adjunct Instructor, Southern Maine Community College, South Portland, ME, 2006-present
Adjunct Faculty, Massachussetts College of Art, Boston MA, 2007

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Interview. Café Des Artistes WERU-FM. Broadcast October 8, 2006.
Eau Claire Leader-Telegram. October 8, 2006.
“ART on the Edge.” Port City Life July / August 2006.
"Spy Food and Drunk Fish." Boston Metro, March 24, 2006.
“Photos, drawings, stills open at CMCA.” Camden Herald, January 1, 2006.
“Out of Pocket”. Portland Magazine. December 2003.
"Hot, hot heat - Parker and Badger at the Hay Gallery". The Portland Phoenix. July 4, 2003.
Review. Wolf Moon Press. July, 2003.
“Performance Art – Huh?”. Casco Bay Weekly. November 2002.
“In My Backyard 2: Art Festival Knows No Boundaries”. Portland Press Herald. July 3, 2002.
“Badger, McCreight in Hay Spotlight.” Portland Press Herald. January 3, 2002.

AWARDS
2005 Good Idea Grant, Maine Arts Commission
2004 Maine Artist Access, juried into statewide directory

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I Got a Right (installation view) , Whitney Art Works, October 2006

Blue Thicket, ink and watercolor on paper, 2007

Beseiged!, acrylic on panel, 2005

Capital (Throw it Away), acrylic on panel, 2005

Injury, acrylic on panel, 2005

Surveillance Sandwich (Ham and Cheese), mixed media, electroinc, camera, monitor, 2006

The Wrong Coach, acrylic on panel, 2005