The Hidden Real
Alan Bray, Tonee Harbert, Greg Jamie, June Kim, Anne Riesenberg, and Shoshannah White
First Friday Art Walk reception March 6, 5-8 pm
In Philip K. Dick’s novel Ubik, the past manifests as a force seeking to resurface and interrupt (and sometimes disrupt) the present. In the real world, remnants of the past cryptically make themselves known — the way Roman mosaics appear under farm fields, stone walls appear deep in the Maine woods, seashell fossils emerge in the Swiss Alps, or buffalo nickels show up in your change. The way dreams reconfigure places and circumstances that yearn to come to the surface, to come alive again and impinge on waking reality. Many artists engage with what arises from this intricate matrix; The Hidden Real presents some artists working consciously with this material.
The artists include Alan Bray, Tonee Harbert, Greg Jamie, June Kim, Anne Riesenberg, and Shoshannah White; curated by Andy Graham.
Artist bios
Alan Bray grew up in Monson, Maine and currently lives in Sangerville, He is a graduate of the University of Southern Maine and the Villa Schifanoia Graduate School of Fine Arts in Florence, Italy. He has exhibited throughout the U.S. and his work is in numerous public and private collections including the Portland Museum of Art and the Farnsworth Museum. Alan is currently represented by Caldbeck Gallery and Garvey Simon Gallery in N.Y. See more at alanbray.com; caldbeck.com; garveysimon.com.
Tonee Harbert is a photographer and videographer living in Roswell, New Mexico. After spending 30 years in Maine. In 2020 he completed the year-long Roswell Artist-in-Residence program in New Mexico, and is currently the Director of the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art in Roswell. For his current fine art work he uses a plastic “Diana” camera to capture mysterious landscape photographs.
Harbert co-authored with Carolyn Chute, a book entitled Elmer Walker: Hermit to Hero. This photography project was featured on CBS Sunday Morning. Harbert has contributed to other photography books, including Maine: A Peopled Landscape, and Homeless in America. Harbert’s photographs have been exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Portland Museum of Art, Roswell Museum, Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Danforth Museum of Art, Farnsworth Art Museum and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art. In 2013 he won a New England Emmy award for video. He received a degree in Visual Communication from Ohio University in 1986.
Greg Jamie is a visual artist, musician and film programmer living in Portland, Maine. He works in watercolor and pencil creating fantastical, fairy-tale adjacent story-images that allude to dark magic and symbolism without indicators. There is an interest in an invented, non-specific mythology that adheres to an internal logic of naturalism. Beasts and humans exist side by side in bright abstract landscapes, often captured mid- transformation.
Greg has shown work over the years at Portland Museum of Art, Cove Street Arts, CMCA, New Systems, Mayo Street Arts, Able Baker Contemporary, George Marshall Store Gallery, and in other contexts. He has a BFA in Film from SUNY Purchase and is the film programmer at SPACE. He is also a musician and released a solo album in 2025 called Across A Violet Pasture on Orindal Records.
June Kim’s practice began as a quiet act of longing. Originally using the camera as a shield to “possess” those she was too shy to approach, she has since evolved that impulse into a profound study of the threads binding all living things. Working through stark monochrome photography, painting, and installation, Kim explores the thin veil between life, death, and the suggestion of alternate realities.
Her work serves as an exercise in empathy and spiritual interconnectedness. Whether capturing the primal silhouette of her huskies, a haunting landscape, or the ghost of a human figure, Kim seeks to reveal a shared, universal pulse. By intervening on the photographic surface with paint, she disrupts the mechanical distance of the lens, transforming a detached observation into a tactile search for the unseen.
Kim received her MFA from Pratt Institute and has exhibited internationally in New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Seoul, and Busan. Currently a member of the faculty at the College of the Atlantic, she splits her time between the rugged landscapes of Maine, New York, and California.
Anne Riesenberg is a multi-media artist from Newcastle, Maine.
Shoshannah White is an interdisciplinary photographer currently based in New Mexico. Her photographic work often spans painting, sculpture and public art installation. Shoshannah’s research-based, non-linear approach has led her to various sites to create projects focused on natural phenomena and ecological systems. Works exist as objects for exhibition, editorial content and installation pieces.
Shoshannah is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow. Her work has been exhibited at institutions including Bowdoin College Museum of Art, the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, George Eastman House, Maine Jewish Museum and the Roswell Museum. Her work has been featured in publications including The Wall Street Journal, Der Spiegel, MIT’s Climate-X, and Scientific American’s online edition. Shoshannah has completed artist residencies in the United States, Canada and Norway, and has been a visiting artist at academic institutions including Dickinson College, Harvard University’s Research Forest and Hercules Dome Ice Core Conference. Her work is represented by Corey Daniels Gallery in Maine, Richard Levy Gallery in New Mexico and has work available in Canada at Stephen Bulger Gallery.
Cover image: June Kim, Love Sacrifice. Acrylic on paper. 24 W x 18.5 H x 1 D inches
Inline image: Alan Bray, Relic, 2023, Casein on panel, 20 x 16 inches.