Matt Demers
Gardiner, ME
Nola Parker (b. 1987) is a self-taught painter who lives and works in central Vermont. Her work has been exhibited nationally and has been included in flat file programs with Collar Works and Ortega y Gasset Projects. Her work is in permanent public collection in San Antonio, TX, through the Salud-Arte Public Art Program. She has appeared in publications such as New American Paintings, Aether Art, and Create Magazine. She is represented by Sarah Bouchard Gallery.
Selected Works
PS
24 x 24 inches
Acrylic on panel
2026
Avoid Notes
48 x 36 inches
Acrylic on panel
2025
Let's Hear It
24 x 24 inches
Acrylic on panel
2025
![Up to Here (Recently Submerged?)
48 x 36 inches
Acrylic on panel
2023 [sold]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69df952ced2431242d7919b8/512af8ea-b593-44df-83fe-c180449c5383/MattDemers_RecentlySubmerged.jpg)
Up to Here (Recently Submerged?)
48 x 36 inches
Acrylic on panel
2023 [sold]
It Was Like That When We Got Here
24 x 24 inches
Acrylic on linen
2026
Dear Aunt Pemdas
48 x 36 inches
Acrylic on panel
2023
![Wobby Sobby (Off the Table?)
12 x 9 inches
Acrylic on panel
2025 [sold]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69df952ced2431242d7919b8/4f43cf74-24b8-4898-a4d4-0ccff3af24aa/MattDemers_WobbySobby.jpg)
Wobby Sobby (Off the Table?)
12 x 9 inches
Acrylic on panel
2025 [sold]
Beside Myself
24 x 24 inches
Acrylic on panel
2023
Reply All
24 x 24 inches
Acrylic on panel
2023
Artist Statement
Growing up in Vermont, the outdoors was a calming, reflective, and often mystical space for me. This feeling of connectedness with nature has always been a driving force in my life and work. Photographs from my daily life act as anchoring references in my colorful, acrylic landscapes. I often work from a single image but in my new work I use collected photos to create a collage of a new, fictional landscape. I use the Guerra Paint system, mixing single pigments with an acrylic medium to create a matte, yet vibrant paint. While my work can be viewed as an exploration and celebration of the natural world, it also functions as an autobiographical outlet. Through my surroundings I feel out the boundaries of my existence, the spaces that contain me and form my personal geography.
Working with themes of home, belonging, and healing, the landscape offers itself up as a mirror, revealing truths about ourselves and the world around us. Influenced by memory and experience, I aim to create a universe that is both fantastical and familiar, picturing a place not through strict realism but through its personality, mood, or feeling. I'm captivated by both the detail and variety of the natural landscape as well as the suburban spaces where nature and human society converge in a strange dance of balance, submission, or dominance.
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Resides: Gardiner, ME
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2023
Good Grief, Rochester Museum of Fine Arts, Rochester, NH
Hang in There, Baby!, Center for Maine Craft, Gardiner, ME2021
Some Antics, The Press Hotel Gallery, Portland, ME2019
Hi Hello Hi, Rochester Museum of Fine Arts, Rochester, NH
At Least For Now, Jumee Kim Gallery, Daejeon, South Korea2018
Everybody’s Talkin’ at Me, UMVA Gallery, Portland, ME
Monologue, Frank Brockman Gallery, Brunswick, ME
Nest, Unity College, Unity, ME2017
Self Portrait, Ticonic Gallery + Studios, Waterville, ME -
2023
Taking Shape: Matt Demers, Keri Kimura, Thomas Stenquist, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME2022
Good Behavior: Sophie Cangelosi, Matt Demers, Kevin Xiques, Table Bar, Gardiner, ME2015
Chaos and Quiet: Matt Demers, Allison McKeen, Harmon’s and Barton’s Gallery, Portland, ME
Long Distance Call: Matt Demers, John Carnes, Scott Minzy, Harlow Gallery, Hallowell, ME2013
Revision: Matt Demers and Allison McKeen, Monkitree, Gardiner, ME -
2026
Painted Fiction, Ticonic Gallery + Studios, Waterville, ME
Infinite Games, Club Magic, Portland, ME
The Portland Show 2026, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME2025
Impolitic, Sidle House, Freeport, ME2024
8×8, Notch8 Gallery, Portland, ME
Works on Paper, Zepster Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
NFS, University of New Hampshire Gallery of Art, Durham, NH
Next Gen, Cove Street Arts, Portland, ME
the House support itself, Lights Out Gallery, Brunswick, ME2023
Little Sparks, Lights Out Gallery, Norway, ME
Nor’easterly 2, Katzman Contemporary Projects, Dover, NH2022
Summer Blend, Katzman Contemporary Projects, Dover, NH
On the Edge, University of New Hampshire Gallery of Art, Durham, NH2021
Nor’easterly, Katzman Contemporary Projects, Dover, NH2018
Some Reliable Truths About Chairs, UMVA Gallery, Portland, ME
Art2018 23rd Annual Juried Show, Harlow Gallery, Hallowell, ME2016
Fine Print, Harlow Gallery, Hallowell, ME2014
Art.Works, Art Collector Maine, Kennebunkport, ME2013
Play, Harlow Gallery, Hallowell, ME -
2025
Hewnoaks, Lovell, ME -
2022
No Time, Ticonic Gallery + Studios, Waterville, ME -
Artscope Magazine
Decor Maine
Maine Home and Design
Maine Magazine
Kennebec Journal
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