New York City artist Victoria Wulff's paintings will be at Studio 53 Fine Art Gallery at 53 Townsend Ave. in Boothbay Harbor, from August 29 through September 24. A reception will take place on Saturday, Sept. 1, from 5 to 8 p.m.

Boothbay Harbor's history of inspiring many great early-modernist painters such as Robert Henri, Edward Redfield, Edward Hopper, Rockwell Kent, Birge Harrison, George Bellows, and Leon Kroll – who spent summer hours sketching and painting and waiting for the boat out to offshore Monhegan Island – led Wulff to show her work here. 

Wulff creates compelling environments for her complex, idiosyncratic stories. Hers are evocative, mysterious, and sophisticated paintings.

 "A natural mistake can evolve into fate,” Wulff writes about her work. "Emmanual Kant said, ‘From this crooked branch, no straight thing will ever be made.’ I think it fits my work well." 

Wulff grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Slade School of Fine Art in London. She won a prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for painting in 2002.

For more information, contact Terry Seaman at Studio 53 at 633-2755 or email studio53bbh@aol.com.