In The Red

A lot of painters can relate to being in debt, but it's not meant to be so literal. Different aspects of oneself can be in debt; in debt to a spirit, in debt to other artists, or in debt to the demands of day to day life. In 2014 we drove across the country and made paintings along the way. We did a two person show then called In The Road. These were more innocent times for us, but it's worth drawing out a connection between what happened then and what we made this year

Light, space and landscape are still paramount themes in our paintings. As we've grown we've delved deeper into the metaphysical. These paintings accent, frame, and pull incidental compositions from the environment of the barn. The facture of surface and liminal space of imagination are found in the stains, cracks, and crevices of this old structure.

-Ryan Kish and Conor Thompson

The Lighthouse Reading Tour, a series of literary readings along the coast of New England, is making a stop at the shop!! Curated by authors Kel Warren and Kylie Gellatly, with special guest Lennie Newman. Fiction, poetry, philosophy and vagabonds.

Welcome back to Maine Paul !

“Paul Bergmann is a prize-fighter: sinuous, sinewy, a ballerina in a bloodspot arena.” — L.A. Record

Paul Bergmann’s new album, No Masters in Paradise, isn’t angling for approval or affirmation in the way early- and mid-career albums often do. In his relentless oeuvre-building, Paul has amassed an especially articulate kind of existentialism: what it means to persist, and to create, in a world which dies in the near distance. In No Masters in Paradise, the form of the songwriter’s ballad, in the hands of an expert, is turned inward for comfort, resisting the base lure of worldly approval.

Lisa/Liza’s catalog spans ten years, with four albums on Orindal Records, a single released through Mexican Summer’s Looking Glass, and a spate of self-released home recordings. Her songwriting invites traditional folk guitar-playing and lyricism into dream-like domains, directing memory’s imperfections toward restoration and healing.

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Warren Wine Shop welcomes Rachel Signer and her husband, winemaker Anton Von Klopper, on their first trip to Maine to celebrate Rachel’s book, You Had Me At Pét-Nat: A Natural Wine-Soaked Memoir. Signed copies will be available, as will several issues of her rigorous wine culture magazine, Pipette — for summer reading glory.

In a rare Midcoast appearance, chef Neil Zabriskie of Regards will serve something casual up for the occasion.

Rachel Signer is a winemaker, journalist, and founder of the independent print magazine Pipette. Her work appears in Vogue, Vice, The Guardian, Eater, PUNCH, Wine Enthusiast, Wine & Spirits, and Sprudge Wine. After living in New York for many years, she is now based in Australia.

Written by Joël Pommerat. Translated from the French and directed by Joanna Spinks. Presented with Invulnerable Nothings.

Contemporary vignettes, from the heartbreaking to the hilarious (with Joel Pommerat the two are not mutually exclusive), on the age-old theme of…love. Its shortcomings, its mysteries, its vital misunderstandings. But also its tentative explorations, its illusions and its violence.

“I am trying to break the play machine, theatrical attitude, artificiality.” — Joel Pommerat

Garden Party is a visceral celebration of springtime featuring Maine-based artists: Eddie Calle, Holden Willard, Julia Luft, Sophie Cangelosi, Hannah Adams, Allison Cekala and Jenna Pirello. Curated by Rachel Darke.

Work will be exhibited throughout the barn for our season opening celebration & wine tasting (while supplies last). Shop open for retail.

Image by Eddie Calle.