DM Witman and Brenton Hamilton
Opening: Sunday 21 September 2025
5 – 7 p.m.
Schilt Publishing & Gallery proudly and cordially invites you for the opening of a two amazing shows full of unique hand made, early processes of photography works by the exquisite American artists DM Witman and Brenton Hamilton. The artists will be present at the opening!
DM Witman
Ecologies of Mourning, Ecologies of Restoration
A deeply personal exploration of loss and mourning, expressed with salt, silver, handmade papers and metal threads.
Maarten Schilt recently interviewed DM Witman for Lenscratch about the series which will be on show.
You can read the whole conversation here!
DM Witman is a trandisciplinary artist navigating the polycrisis employing photographic materials, video, and installation. Her practice investigates climate disruption–at the intersection of presence/absence, resiliency, and ecology–relying on both archival impulses and ephemerality.
Her creative practice is an act of bearing witness, memorial, and synthesizing that which is existentially urgent–at once both a lament for what has been lost, and a call to action to cultivate care and resilience as stewards for what remains.
Her work has appeared in more than 120 solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally.
Brenton Hamilton
New Cyanotypes
A never ending love story in blue and white.
In 2020 we published Brenton Hamilton’s book A Blue Idyll – Cyanotypes and Dreams, breathtakingly designed by Victor Levie.
Last copies of the book are available at the exhibition or online.
Brenton Hamilton is a well-known mentor, teacher on the campus of Maine Media Workshops and a leading educator and historian.
His photographs are widely collected and exhibited internationally and held in numerous permanent collections at: The Farnsworth Museum (Rockland, Maine), The Portland Museum of Art (Portland, Maine), The University of New England and the Lamar Dodd Art Center in Georgia.