Gina Sawin’s subject is the shifting light and patterns formed by avian flight, as well as the way that a moving flock can define or suggest an infinite sky.Along with those formal considerations, her work references natural and sociological ecosystems. In her words, “Migrating birds seem to me a poignant reminder of the earth’s life cycles, and, in a metaphorical sense, the strength of the whole as a sum of parts. When I am working in my studio, looking carefully at each individual bird in the context of a community, my mind drifts to other groups getting from one place to another, seeking refuge, or the right to survive. I feel the paintings asking: will we get where we need to go?” Gina Sawin received her BFA and MFA degrees in New York at Parsons School of Design, where she studied with Leland Bell, Paul Resika, Stanley Lewis, John Heliker, Robert DeNiro, Sr. and Larry Rivers. She lives with her husband, the conservation leader Charles Gauvin, on their farm in New Gloucester, Maine. Her studio is in their large 19th century barn, from which she can watch and listen to the migrating birds which are her muse.