CLARA YIM BOLDUC: Low Tide
August 29 – December 10, 2025
Opening Reception: August 29, 5 – 8pm
Low Tide: An Exhibition of Landscape Paintings by Clara Yim Bolduc
Re-imagine Your Relationship to the Maine Coast at LA Arts Starting August 29th
LEWISTON, Maine, August 20, 2025 – If art is simultaneously a process of creating and exploring, Auburn artist Clara Yim Bolduc leans towards exploration. Painting, she says, is an act of discovery for her, less about self-expression and more about her own efforts to understand the world around her. Visitors to Lewiston’s LA Arts Gallery will no doubt feel that intimate seeking for meaning themselves in the familiar-yet-arresting images that comprise Yim Bolduc’s Low Tide, an exhibition of landscape paintings to open on Friday, August 29th.
In this debut exhibition, Yim Bolduc presents 17 new paintings that challenge the traditional representation of the Maine landscape. Primarily utilizing a large scale (36”x48”) vertical format, and a contrast of textures, media, and styles within each piece, she invites the viewer to experience each painting with the excitement and immediacy of a newly discovered landscape.
“Maine landscape painting has an extensive, rich history, and this creates baggage, both for the artist and the viewer. You go somewhere beautiful and iconic, like Acadia National Park, and your experience is shaped by the images you’ve already seen, probably mostly photos online, and everything about these images – the lighting, the composition, the color palette – is shaped, in turn, by this long artistic tradition of how we see the Maine coast.
“I want my viewer to escape all that, and to feel the thrill of discovery; the feeling that they’re seeing something for the first time, and really experiencing it, without the integrating effects of a camera filter or the unifying effects of a computer screen.” – Clara Yim Bolduc
Low Tide runs from August 29th through October 10th at LA Arts Gallery, 168 Lisbon Street in Lewiston, Maine. There will be an opening reception on Friday, August 29, from 5 to 8pm. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday, 10am – 4pm and by appointment. To view the show online, visit www.yimbodu.com.
CLARA YIM BOLDUC
Clara Yim Bolduc lives in Auburn, Maine, where she parents, paints, and works as a hospice nurse. She has an associate’s degree in nursing from the Maine College of Health Professions, and a bachelor’s degree in art from the University of Southern Maine. She works primarily in acrylics and watercolor.
Since 1973, LA Arts, the arts agency for the cities of Lewiston and Auburn Maine, has pursued a mission to engage and inspire a vibrant community through arts and culture. The agency works with governments, businesses, schools and local arts and cultural organizations to create opportunities for community members across the generations to experience, learn, and participate in the arts. LA Arts organizes arts programs and initiatives, supports the work of local artists and arts organizations, and highlights the essential role the arts play in shaping an economically vital, socially integrated, and forward-looking future for its community. Learn more at www.laarts.org.
Located at 168 Lisbon Street in Lewiston, the LA Arts Gallery presents six exhibitions throughout the year that reflect and honor the Twin Cities community. Exhibiting artists generally have ties to LA or to Maine.
With each show, LA Arts aims to bring individuals and groups together to strengthen our community through shared experiences and deeper cultural understanding.
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