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Ink, press, repeat: Intriguing monoprints at PhoPa Gallery
At PhoPa Gallery, its “Pa” side is currently being explored with monoprints by Karen Adrienne, Kris Sader and Barbra Whitten. Their works on paper share layering and repetition of process, as well as a...
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Sweet and tart battlegrounds: The Sisters Duennebier’s Tale of Candy
Imagine Henry Darger and Joseph Cornell getting together and concocting a story of the Vivian Girls doing battle inside a box. That is more or less what sisters Nicole and Caitlin Duennebier have...
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Exploring new terrain: Cynthia Davis and Ronnie Wilson don’t rest
Some artists stick with their medium, style and subject, for a long time. Others repeatedly make about-turns into new directions. Still others keep pursuing specific lines of inquiry, going deeper and...
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Biennial of today: PMA showcases artistic process in Maine with new exhibition
“You Can’t Get There From Here” seems a doubly apt title for the Portland Museum of Art’s 2015 Biennial, the first to be selected by an individual instead of a jury. The work selected by Alison Ferris,...
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Spectral faces: Probing the human face and form
Collage of substance “at the table,” by Martha Miller.Images of the human face surround us everywhere for every sort of purpose from social networking to commercial advertising. Most interaction with...
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The PMA Biennial: Predictably strong but with few surprises
Getting There: The Portland Museum of Art Biennial lacked specific focus in its theme.Putting aside the controversy over whether a curated Portland Museum of Art Biennial honors the intentions of the...
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The art of thinking about art: Why is art so hard to talk about, anyway?
Here’s a humorous understatement from the Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy: “It is difficult to say what is meant by art.” He goes on: “And especially what is good art, useful art, art for the sake of...
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Young at art: Live-art venues try to reach younger crowd in Portland
Sarting young Portland Stage’s “theatre classes” are part of the ways the organization generates interest in the theatre arts at a young age.When was the last time you’ve been to a ballet, theatre...
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Connecting present with the past: PhoPa Gallery features Chinese transplant’s...
CHINA TO MAINE “In America,” features photographs by Ni Rong.PhoPa Gallery in Portland is showing the exhibition “In America,” featuring photographs by Ni Rong, who was born in Beijing, China, and now...
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N.C. Wyeth Caper on display: PMA exhibits recovered works of art as FBI...
MUSEUM PIECE “Go Dutton and That Right Speedily,” was one of the paintings recovered in the Greater Boston area.The N.C. Wyeth Caper, widely regarded as Maine’s most significant fine art theft, is one...
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Fort Gorges dips its toe in the artistic waters: 'A Long Wait' previews what...
Dancing among historic remnants of the mid-1800s; partying in full garb at a Halloween ball set in a piece of military architecture. Portland has seen its share of high-society fetes in distinctive and...
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Ogunquit Museum of American Art boasts hidden treasures by the sea
The original Indian settlers of what would become our state named a short stretch of the Atlantic Ocean’s coastline Ogunquit, which means “beautiful place by the sea.” The Ogunquit Museum of American...
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Midsummer guide: History bumps into current events at Pejepscot Historical...
As Pejepscot Historical Society Executive Director Larissa Vigue Picard can attest, history is not static.The Mall in Brunswick once was a swamp "filled with beavers," the historical society notes.And...
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†he Peruvian connection: Portland artist to join indigenous art exhibition
Portland artist Mei Selvage has been invited to participate in an Intercontinental Biennial of Indigenous and Millennial Arts exhibition in Piura, Peru. The Chinese native will travel there from Oct.10...
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Scott Nash opens "Picture This," an illustration exhibit and workshop open to...
A new nonprofit in Portland wants to make learning the illustrative arts more affordable and available to a wider audience, so it’s setting up shop at the Portland Public Library. Scott Nash, director...
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UNLOADED: The ICA Group Show Hits a Difficult Mark
In the U.S., there are 86 gun deaths a day. So visitors to the Maine College of Art's ICA are informed at the outset of UNLOADED, a traveling exhibition of works from national artists on the theme of...
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Resistance is Hands-On: An Interview with GET READY WEEKLY
One of the more visible and inspired collaborations to emerge after the election, the Portland-based art duo Erin Johnson and Marieke Van Der Steenhoven began collaborating as GET READY WEEKLY with the...
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Risk, Bravery, Desire: Derek Jackson's 'Ladyboy' at Border Patrol
Ladyboy is a solo exhibition featuring new works by Derek Jackson. It's the second exhibition at the new Border Patrol gallery, a studio of three modestly sized rooms in the State Theatre building,...
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The Old Masters at Work: Michael Wilson's Woodsmen at the Press Hotel
Before the advent of the lumbersexual, before the stereotype of the L.L.Bean boyfriend, Maine's first sawmill opened in South Berwick in 1634. By the end of the 17th century, the state added 50 more....
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'Being Human' with David Driskell's Renewal and Form
David Driskell explores a distinct creative freedom that Maine affords him, as stated in a quote displayed on one of the object labels of Renewal and Form, his new exhibition at Rockland's Center for...
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