Alexandre returns to Rockport, Maine this summer, opening its second pop-up exhibition in the former Maine Coast Artists (CMCA) building.

The 2026 season centers on Emily Nelligan (1924-2018), who spent decades drawing a single subject: Cranberry Island, Maine. Trained at Cooper Union in the 1940s, Nelligan adopted charcoal over paint for its economy, and came to master the medium for its capacity to convey depth, atmospheric contrast and deep emotion.

Long admired by other artists in Maine, where she and her husband, the artist Marvin Bileck, lived part of each year, she did not receive her first full-scale exhibition until 2000, at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Included will be a selection of early drawings, never previously exhibited, and a new text by Isabelle Dervaux, former curator at The Morgan Library. In the fall the gallery will publish a catalogue to accompany its showing in New York.