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| Michael
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 "(One day,) I was walking
through a snowy street…The gray light of the day and the
muffled sounds of the activity around me enhanced my mood for
seeing things I wouldn't see regularly. …Voices and faces
broke my trance, and I was put to deal with watching them as
they moved before the stage of my harbor backdrop.
In my vision of them, reckless and unconcerned, they fit
precisely into their surroundings. One, I had the slice of
harbor. Two, I had the major structures of buildings around
them. Three, I had the people all moving together at a consistent
pace with their surroundings. The implications of their inter-relationships
became an endless source for my imagination.
Yes, I could see all three, even while looking only at shoes
or scarf. No matter what I chose to see, I saw all. I had
come to a new level."
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Michael Waterman was born
in 1947 in Portland, Maine. At age four, he began painting and
drawing at his father's painting studio. He had participated
in many solo and group exhibits, won a number of awards and
even completed his first commission (a 75 foot mural) before
he finished high school in 1965. He was then awarded a scholarship
to attend the Pratt Institute in New York City for the summer
session of 1965. Thereafter, having taken First Prize in the
Scholastic Magazine National Art Competition, Waterman was awarded
another scholarship to the Art Students League, also in New
York City.
After returning home to Portland, Maine, this critically
acclaimed Maine artist has had more than 3 decades of exhibitions,
solo shows, television and radio interviews and commissions.
His exhibitions included a 1988 retrospective at Univ. of
Southern Maine which inspired art critic Edgar Allen Beem
to observe that Waterman "possesses an authentic vision
of Portland such as no other artist in the area quite manages."
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