Name: Artist Talk: Anne Buck Walter & Jaime DeSimone
Start: 2025-10-25T13:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-25T14:00:00-04:00
Location: 170 Suffolk St

Artist Talk: Anne Buck Walter & Jaime DeSimone

A conversation between artist Anne Buckwalter and Jaime DeSimone, Chief Curator of the Farnsworth Museum.
About this Event

Please join us on Saturday, October 25 at 1 pm for a conversation between artist Anne Buckwalter and Jaime DeSimone, Chief Curator of the Farnsworth Art Museum. The talk coincides with Anne's third solo exhibition at the gallery, "Lover's Knot", and comes on the heels of her solo exhibition at the Farnsworth, "Manors".

Anne Buckwalter (b. 1987, Lancaster, PA) received her MFA from Maine College of Art, Portland, ME in 2012, and her BFA from Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA in 2010. She has had recent solo exhibitions at Uffner & Liu, New York, NY (2025); Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME (2025); SOCO Gallery, Charlotte, NC (2025); Rebecca Camacho, San Francisco, CA (2024); MASSIMODECARLO, Paris, FR (2024); and Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY (2023). Her work has been included in recent group exhibitions at Sidecar, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2024); Haverkampf Leistenschneider, Berlin, Germany (2024); Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY (2024); Micki Meng, San Francisco, CA (2024); Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY (2024); Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY (2023); ICA at MECA, Portland, ME (2023); and Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York, NY (2022). Her work is in the collections of the Aishti Foundation, Lebanon; X Museum, Beijing, China; Art Museum of West Virginia, Morgantown, WV; the Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; and Zuzeum, Latvia. Buckwalter currently lives and works in Durham, ME.

Jaime DeSimone serves as the Chief Curator at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, since summer of 2022. Prior to this role, she held curatorial positions at several esteemed institutions, including the Portland Museum of Art in Maine (2018-2022), the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Jacksonville (2014-2018), and the Addison Gallery of American Art (2005-2012). She has curated over 40 exhibitions, including Joan Jonas: An Island Departure with Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson (2025, co-curated), Anne Buckwalter: Manors (2025), Ann Craven: Painted Time (2020-2024) (2025), Jeremy Frey: Woven (2024, co-curated), Emilie Stark-Menneg: Thread of Her Scent (2024), Pope.L: Small Cup (2023), Flying Woman: The Paintings of Katherine Bradford (2022), North Atlantic Triennial (2022), Carrie Moyer and Sheila Pepe: Tabernacles for Trying Times (2020), and Ragnar Kjartansson: Scenes from Western Culture (2019–20), among others. In 2019, she was the recipient of the Curatorial Research Fellowship from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. DeSimone was a scholar in the Fulbright Arctic Initiative III (2021-2023) in partnership with the University of Tromsø, Norway. She holds degrees in art history, with a specialization in Contemporary Art, from American University (MA, 2005) and Bates College (BA, 2001).