Surf Point is a nonprofit organization on the coast of York, Maine that supports diverse visual artists and art workers through a residency; stewards 46 acres of coastal and forested land; hosts public programs; and promotes and shares research on our historic legacy.
Events


MAY 13 - AUGUST 27, 2025
AT THE YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
VIEW EXHIBITION ONLINE
Residents
Lilian Garcia-Roig is a Cuban-born, Texas-raised Latinx artist living and working in Tallahassee, Florida where she is a distinguished Professor at FSU. She is most known for her perceptually based, large-scale, “all-day” cumulative paintings that formally interweave the illusionist possibilities painting with its abstract material nature.
My artistic practice spans installations, performances, and two-dimensional works. The materials I work with are diverse and include: from everyday materials ; electrical cables, brooms, aluminum foil, plasticine, paper clips to botanical materials, wood sculptures and glass castings.
Em Rea (they/them) is a Philadelphia-based artist who plays with trash to make improvisational sculptures, and paintings that reflect life under capitalism and dreams of possible utopias after its collapse.
Carly Sheehan paints, sews, and assembles found materials to make works that explore feltness, memory, and her body. She is currently a lecturer at the University of Washington and living and working in Seattle, WA.
Annika Earley (she/they) makes drawings and sculptures about the demands and joys of parenthood, sensuality and sexuality, gender, and pre-teen nostalgia.
Asuka Goto is a Philadelphia-based visual artist who works across drawing, printmaking and photography. Her artist book, To Send a Telegram, was recently acquired by the Free Library of Philadelphia and was also selected as a semi-finalist for the MCBA Prize.
Like DNA strings of mestizaje, Sahagun's practice confronts contradiction — indian/conqueror, violence/unity, ancient/contemporary, and artist/artisan. In his work he conjure indigenous spiritualities to embody the aesthetics of personal histories, cultural resistance, and colonial disruption.
Lauren Marinaro is a New York-based gallerist and the founder of Marinaro Gallery.