BDN publishes feature on Engman, Gilded Icon art series
The Bangor Daily News reported on Kerstin “Kris” Engman, a prolific midcoast painter and sculptor and part-time assistant professor of art at the University of Maine. Engman’s latest project, the Gilded Icon series, includes icon-style portraits of women around the world with important stories to tell, according to the article. “Each one of these is a representation or characterization or illumination of an issue, of an age-old problem, and I don’t think it’s been visually portrayed,” Engman said. She displays the portraits every Saturday at a booth at the United Farmer’s Market in Belfast and has noticed that while men and women might stop to look at them, the women do more than look, the article states. “The women want to know the stories, or they make suggestions about who the next icon should be,” Engman said.