2025 Resident Artists
Nancy Baker Cahill, 2025
Nancy is an interdisciplinary artist, recently relocated to upstate New York from Los Angeles. Using a blend of analog and digital media, she creates immersive augmented reality and virtual experiences, video installations, sculpture, and conceptual projects that engage human senses and are rooted in drawing. Learn more about Nancy on her website (https://nancybakercahill.com/).
In the artist’s words: “Because Reach Projects was conceived of and created by an artist, one who understood acutely how precious the gifts of time, space, and setting are for artists, it has understandably had a profound impact on me and on the artists who came before me. Chris thought of everything, from the angle and amount of light that floods into the studio, to the proximity of Maine’s pristine, sparkling coastal waters and landscape, to providing the privacy and privilege of a fully furnished home for the artists. Instead of working on digital projects, I put myself in an analog drawing boot camp, which allowed me to play and experiment creatively in ways I hadn’t in years.”
Angela Dufresne and Mala Iqbal, 2025
Angela Dufresne is a Brooklyn-based artist known for paintings that explore narrative in a variety of ways. Her work has been called bawdy and defiant. Dufresne holds a BFA from Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA. She is currently a faculty member and Department Head of Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design. Learn more about Angela on her website.
About her work, Mala Iqbal says, “I primarily make drawings and paintings. They're typically oil paintings, although for many years I worked with acrylic. I have a very robust sketchbook practice, which is a kind of engine for my brain and eyes and hands. I also do a lot of collaborative work.” Learn more about Mala on her website.
In the artist’s words: “We came to Blue Hill to work collaboratively on a series of works that continue for our ongoing collaborative project called- ‘Where I End, We Begin’. Between dog walks in the various pine forests, barrens and beaches of the region, we were able to produce a series of large acrylic and gouache paintings on unstretched canvas to be installed at Galleri Undirgong in Reykjavík, Iceland. We had a blast and the stress of the previous years—though always present—was sufficiently sidelined by the tranquil settings and the fabulous community. This is the third public presentation highlighting our ongoing investigations into collective authorship and being at Reach Projects was the perfect environment to experiment with totally new technical and conceptual processes needed for the production of this work.”
Lauren Luloff and Alexander Nolan, 2025
On Sunday afternoons in June, Lubec-based artists Lauren Luloff and Alexander Nolan showed their work at the residency. For Sunsoaked or Cool, Lauren took over the studio space with an installation of her dye-on-silk pieces. See more work by Lauren here.
Alex took over the residency house and installed a show of new paintings. Of his work Alex says, ”My drawings are a paradoxical quest for truth and cannot be confronted without humor.” See more work by Alex here.
Recent Resident Artists
Lorena Mal and Pablo Rasgado, 2024
Lorena’s work combines many different media including sound, video, sculpture, photography and performance. Recent exhibitions of her work include Mexico City, New York, Charlotte, NC, Venice, Italy, Abu Dhabi and Berlin. Find out more about Lorena at her website.
Pablo reconfigures the materials of everyday life, in particular walls, to create new abstractions. He has also exhibited widely including recent shows in Los Angeles, New York, Mexico City, and Miami. You can find out more about Pablo at his website.
Elana Herzog, 2024
Elana Herzog has exhibited extensively, both in the United States and internationally. Recent exhibitions include the New Jersey Center for the Arts, the University of Kentucky Art Museum, the David Rockefeller Creative Arts Center in Tarrytown, NY, and the Morgan Lehman Gallery in New York City. You can find out more about Elana at her website.
Amanda Browder, 2023
Born in Missoula, Montana, Amanda currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She has produced more than 25 large-scale fabric installations all around the world. Amplifying multiple voices, she collaborates with local community groups and sources her textiles from local donations. While at Reach Projects, Amanda created In Times We Gather, a large scale fabric installation presented on the First Congregational Church in Blue Hill.
Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, 2023
Jennifer and Kevin are media artists whose work extends from film and video to installation and generative software. Their work often seeks to situate new technologies within our culture, using contemporary tools and questioning their impact both on the individual and on the collective culture. While at Reach They prepared work for Machine Organic to be shown at expanded Art in Berlin, Fall 2023.
Lina Puerte and Alexis Duque, 2023
Lina is a New York-based artist whose work builds on her Columbian-American heritage. Her sculpture, tapestries, installations and handmade paper paintings explore the relationship between nature and the human-made, as well as themes including indigenous cultures, agricultural systems, and the legacy of colonialism. Alexis was born in Medellin, Columbia, and currently works and lives in New York. His work includes incredibly intricate drawings and paintings that explore consumerism, urbanization and the lives of migrant workers.
Eve Sussman and Simon Lee 2019, 2022
Working across multiple media and disciplines, internationally recognized artists Eve Sussman and Simon Lee continued to develop their socially engaging performance work through hours of conversations and interviews with local residents, along with experiments in public spaces. Eve and Simon returned to Reach in August of 2022 to work on a new performance that will be presented in Pamplona, Spain.
By both going out into the towns of Blue Hill and Brooklin and inviting people we met into the studio, we came up with numerous methods to grow our performance piece.The residency at Reach Projects gave us a great opportunity to experiment with a public theatrical intervention in a small community, taking it far from the usual context of the art world.
—Eve Sussman and Simon Lee
Brian Knepp / Natalie Andrew 2019
Typically, Brian Knep and Natalie Andrew work independently with very different practices. Natalie, who while at Reach was simultaneously an artist-in-residence at Acadia National Park, works with ceramics and living organisms including slime molds. Brian regularly makes large-scale, interactive installations for museums across the country and was the first artist-in-residence at the Harvard Medical School. They used their time at Reach Projects to work together on a new collaboration that will bring together the ceramics and video technology. More information about Natalie can be found here. More information about Brian can be found here.
Lenka Clayton and Phillip Andrew Lewis 2021
While in residence, Lewis and Clayton worked on a permanent public artwork for their hometown, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. For Darkhouse Lighthouse, the artists have taken a burned out row house in the Troy Hill neighborhood and transformed it into a working lighthouse. More information about Lenka and Phillip can be found here.
Our time with Reach Projects could not have come at a better moment. Immersing ourselves into coastal culture while searching for marine artifacts was a hugely inspiring experience directly related to our current ongoing project Darkhouse Lighthouse. We were able to acquire unique materials from Blue Hill and surrounding areas, and then relocate them back to our studio, where they will soon become a part of a permanent installation. The residency provided a freedom from our everyday lives and a perfect break from routine. We reflect on Blue Hill, Maine fondly, and hope to return again.
—Phillip Andrew Lewis and Lenka Clayton
Saya Woolfalk 2021
During her time in Blue Hill, Saya prepared for her exhibition at The Newark Museum of Art. The show, entitled Saya Woolfalk, Tumbling into Landscape runs through Summer 2023. Born in Japan, Saya is a Brooklyn based multimedia artist who uses science fiction and fantasy to re-imagine the world in multiple dimensions. She has exhibited throughout the world, and her work is held by the Whitney Museum in New York and the Nelson Atkins Museum in Kansas City among many other institutions.
More information about Saya can be found here.
Michael Waugh 2021
Michael is a New York-based artist known for his meticulously rendered drawings using micrography, employing tiny, handwritten words to form the image. Waugh often incorporates whole texts such as Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations and bureaucratic documents such as the Mueller Report. Michael gave an introduction to his work and opened his studio to the public on August 22nd. At that time, local residents were able to see his process and examine the wooden boat and oars that he had made several years ago while in residence at the Wooden Boat School, the surface of which is completely covered with his tiny handwritten text. More information about Michael can be found here.
Marina Zurkow 2022
Zurkow is a media artist focused on near-impossible nature and culture intersections, researching “wicked problems” like invasive species, superfund sites, and petroleum interdependence. She has used life science, bio materials, animation, dinners, and software technologies to foster intimate connections between people and non-human agents. During her residency, she hosted a performance of A Liquid Wanting on Naskeag Beach. More information about Marina can be found here.
Maria Calandra / Erik den Breejen 2022
While Erik and Maria approach painting from very different perspectives, as an artist couple, their work has very interesting points of confluence. They were thrilled to take full advantage of the spectacular natural environment of the Blue Hill Peninsula. While in residence, the artists prepared work for a new exhibition at Turn Gallery in New York, and showed their work in Blue Hill at the Cynthia Winings Gallery. More information about Maria can be found here. More information about Erik can be found here.