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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!
About the artist
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.
Witman received her MFA from Maine Media College and she holds a BS in Environmental Science from Kutztown University. She splits her time between the Borderlands of South Texas and Midcoast Maine. She is currently an Associate Professor of Photography at University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.
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.About the artist
For over three decades, Brenton Hamilton has created a sustained body of work, largely concentrated within historic process. Especially gum bichromated forms, platinum, the embellished cyanotype, and collodion on black glass, during these decades, he has produced a unique body of work. Shaping a large catalog of embellished stories using the vocabulary of surrealism, revealing his thoughts and musings and life's upheaval.A well known teacher often on the campus of Maine Media Workshops, he is a leading educator and historian. Brenton's work is collected and exhibited internationally and held in the permanent collections of: The Farnsworth Art Museum, The Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine and The University of New England and the Lamar Dodd Art Center's permanent collection in Georgia and recently, the Colby College Museum collection. The photographic work is represented by TILT Gallery in Scottsdale, AZ and frequently shown in Maine at The Page Gallery in Camden and also exhibits work at Maine Museum of Photographic Art, Portland, Maine. In January, 2017, The University of Maine Museum of Art, installed a mid-career retrospective of his decades of practice. His work has been supported by the Maine Arts Commission and commissioned by Maine's, Portland Museum of Art. In 2022, Hamilton began lecturing at The University of Texas in the Lower Rio Grande Valley on subjects in photography and visual culture.
The show will run until January 31st, 2026.