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MFA Thesis Exhibition Shine a Light in Dark, Dumb Times
If we can’t count on art students to draw us plebes away from mass political confusion and inane HuffPo headlines and toward thrilling, liberatory ideas, then we’re in trouble. Luckily, the Maine...
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John Sundling's 'Ghost Fence' Conjures Portland Past and Future
The first of a series of temporary public art installations throughout the city assembled by TEMPOart Portland, Ghost Fence has by now caught your attention. It's not likely the assemblage of flagging...
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Three Art Shows You Have to See This Summer
If your love of Maine art goes deeper than First Friday hangout sessions, check these compelling art shows on view while they're hot. 1. Selvedge at Able Baker Contemporary Curated by muralist and...
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Maine's Ghostly History on YouTube: HauntME Launches 4th Season
With long, bright summer days in full swing, most of us aren’t thinking about themes typically associated with autumn, like haunted houses and spirits. But as one local team of paranormal investigators...
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Optical Inclusion — Alia Ali's Immersive Installation at SPACE Gallery
+/-, a site-specific multimedia installation currently on view at SPACE Gallery, deploys artist Alia Ali’s unique blend of portrait photography, performance, and textiles to engage audiences in a...
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Art & Nomenclature — A Room Full of White Dudes at Speedwell Projects
With Speedwell Projects’ current exhibition The Loved Ones, photographs by Smith Galtney of Maine and Matthew Papa of New York City, I wondered whether I could write an objective review. Smith is a...
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A Show of Support — Able Baker's 'Selvedge' Sees Painting Through a Totally...
In a show that feels both formally radical and historically reverent, Selvedge — on view now at Able Baker Contemporary — grapples with the practice of painting through a new lens. The nine women’s...
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Remembering How to Draw at the Bowdoin Museum of Art
Using words alone, it is difficult to capture the historical arc and import of “Why Draw? 500 years of Drawings and Watercolors,” a summer exhibition at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. The show...
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The Work of Unraveling — Michel Droge's Powerful 'Hiraeth' at the Frank...
Since she first appeared as a student in MECA’s Graduate Studies painting program, I’ve been a huge fan of Michel Droge’s work. Her thick, hazy, metallic-seeming paintings held both darkness and light...
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Clits Reigning Men — 'WILD FAMILY' creates a world at Border Patrol
You wanna know about Border Patrol? I'll tell you about Border Patrol. Elizabeth Spavento came here a year or two ago to head the visual art programming at SPACE Gallery. She and her partner, Border...
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Art in the Elements: Surface First Tilts West coaxes visitors to an...
It started like any art opening: A small crowd gathered outside, many of them holding coffee due to the early hour, standing and mingling. Some were artists themselves, others were more the...
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Art & Nomenclature — A Room Full of White Dudes at Speedwell Projects
With Speedwell Projects’ current exhibition The Loved Ones, photographs by Smith Galtney of Maine and Matthew Papa of New York City, I wondered whether I could write an objective review. Smith is a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Show of Support — Able Baker's 'Selvedge' Sees Painting Through a Totally...
In a show that feels both formally radical and historically reverent, Selvedge — on view now at Able Baker Contemporary — grapples with the practice of painting through a new lens. The nine women’s...
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Remembering How to Draw at the Bowdoin Museum of Art
Using words alone, it is difficult to capture the historical arc and import of “Why Draw? 500 years of Drawings and Watercolors,” a summer exhibition at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. The show...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Work of Unraveling — Michel Droge's Powerful 'Hiraeth' at the Frank...
Since she first appeared as a student in MECA’s Graduate Studies painting program, I’ve been a huge fan of Michel Droge’s work. Her thick, hazy, metallic-seeming paintings held both darkness and light...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Clits Reigning Men — 'WILD FAMILY' creates a world at Border Patrol
You wanna know about Border Patrol? I'll tell you about Border Patrol. Elizabeth Spavento came here a year or two ago to head the visual art programming at SPACE Gallery. She and her partner, Border...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Art in the Elements: Surface First Tilts West coaxes visitors to an...
It started like any art opening: A small crowd gathered outside, many of them holding coffee due to the early hour, standing and mingling. Some were artists themselves, others were more the...
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Print's Not Dead! — The tactile ecstasies of the New England Art Book Fair
This weekend, the second annual New England Art Book Fair embalms SPACE Gallery with a parade of imaginative print works, subterranean obsessions, sociopolitical samizdat, and next-level art works....
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All that and then some — The work of Barkley Hendricks at the Bowdoin Museum...
Whenever I go to see a show by a black artist in a primarily white institution I find myself questioning whether I will be distracted by a white gaze and curatorial context. Will I resist an idea of...
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"There'll Always Be Graffiti"— Portland photographer Nick Gervin makes...
This week, Portland photographer Nicholas Gervin releases The Lines Don’t Lie, a sprawling and comprehensive 190-page photography book documenting a generation of Northeastern freight train graffiti...
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