Sarah Bouchard Gallery | Portland Press Herald
May 8, 2022 | Eric Russell
Woolwich Curator’s New Destination Gallery Veers Far From ‘Lighthouses and Landscapes’
Sarah Bouchard’s new art gallery, located a few miles off Route 1 in the woods of this Midcoast community, is not likely to get much, if any, drive-by or foot traffic.
Those who are interested in the work displayed there will need to seek it out, but Bouchard is hopeful they will.
“It is a big risk,” she said recently from inside the space, a converted garage that is attached to her home by a covered breezeway. “But this is what I want to do, and I take the role of curating very seriously.”
Bouchard is an artist herself and worked in other people’s galleries for years, building relationships with a formidable slate of artists. In April 2020, when the pandemic hit, she lost her position at Corey Daniels Gallery in Wells and “did a complete reevaluation of my life.”
“I’ve always thought about opening my own space. It’s been a dream of mine,” she said.
