“The Sea’s Listless Chime,” runs from August 12- 25 at The Deer Isle Artists Association gallery. In this show, Stephanie Bartron-Miscione, Peter Beerits, Janet Cook, Jacqueline Davidson, Nat Dickinson, Jill Finsen, Rachel Gordon Bernstein, Cathy Hart, Jerry Levitt, Deborah Lothrop, Alice McKenna, Kaitlyn Metcalf, Gudrun Tarr, Paul Trowbridge, Jacqueline Wilson, and Anne Williams all demonstrate how this theme allows them to approach different mediums through diverse and exhilarating paths. Featured in the art rack will be work by Arlyss Becker, Avery Falkner, Glenn Felch, and Judith Felch.
Stephanie Barton-Miscione lives in Brooklyn, New York and Sunset, Maine. She explains that her goal is to always create a visual reality that is rich with layers of color, thought and emotional links to a sense of place: in the heart, in the head, or in a memory. She wants the objects in her still lifes to be hyper-realized and out of context, with so much detail that it is possible for the viewer to experience the objects, as though they are knowing them, not just looking at them. When that happens, a still life can become an evocative narrative. She uses commonplace objects to reach for universality.
Nat Dickinson works in both Ashville, North Carolina and in Deer Isle, Maine, and his landscapes are indicative of his love of both places. Influenced by his grandfather, he began painting on the porch of his cottage overlooking Penobscot Bay when he was just a child. That love of art led to degrees in studio art and printmaking, and to his work appearing in juried shows in Washington, DC, Maine, and North Carolina. He notes that his paintings “explore those mindful moments when we stop to see the extraordinary transformations of very familiar surroundings.”
Born in New Orleans, Kaitlyn Metcalf currently lives in Trenton, Maine. She focuses her work upon the relationship between man and the water, exploring how nautical vessels have impacted the character of Down East Maine. Metcalf’s work relies heavily upon research, as she always begins her pieces by exploring historic texts and photographs. She links vessels’ routes to nautical charts, and uses these to “make visible the romance between man and ocean.” All of her works are created on USGS chart maps using acrylic paint that are then mounted on birch panels.
The Deer Isle Artists Association Gallery at 15 Main Street, Deer Isle Village is open daily from 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM. (207) 348-2330. www.deerisleartists.com.
Harbor Square Gallery in Camden is showing new work by Thomas O’Donovan, the jeweler and artistic director who founded the gallery more than four decades ago. On view is “Revelation,” from his series The Offering, crafted in 18k gold and bronze with antique coconut heishi beads. Harbor Square Gallery is at 37 Bay View St., […]
The Deer Isle Artists Association gallery welcomes North Carolina-based painter Tony Griffin as artist-in-residence for April. Griffin’s work — deeply rooted in the tradition of the Renaissance masters — spans portraiture, figure painting and plein air landscape. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia and has exhibited throughout North Carolina […]
Waterfall Arts in Belfast opens “Make Your Mark,” an immersive, community-driven exhibition transforming the Clifford Gallery into an interactive space inspired by street art, April 18 through May 29. An opening reception is April 18 from 1 to 3 p.m. and is free and open to the public. The exhibition features participatory installations including doodle […]
Local Color Gallery in Belfast welcomes fiber artist Sarah Leighton as guest artist April 21 through May 17. Leighton will speak about her work during Fourth Friday Gallery Night on April 25 from 4 to 7 p.m., with her talk beginning at 5 p.m. Leighton grew up in Midcoast Maine, where her French-Canadian grandmother — […]
The Union of Maine Visual Artists presents “Bodies in Motion,” an exhibition of work in various media at Zoot Coffee in Camden, running April 1 through 30. The show features 19 artists: Hillary Steinau, Cynthia Motian McGuirl, Jess Lauren Lipton, Charlie Newton, Maryjean Viano Crowe, Mackenzie Martin, Jorge Pena, Rachel Robbins, Shanna McNair, Kristi Marsh, […]
Three artists are currently featured at Dowling Walsh Gallery in Rockland, spanning painting, assemblage and works on paper. Robert Hamilton (1917-2004) thought of his paintings as “a place for something to occur — little pictorial events, little plays.” In “Come Back Sweet Mama (Boy in Museum)” (1990), the avid recreational tennis player imagined a museum […]
Maine Art Gallery in Wiscasset has shaped its 2026 exhibition season around the ways artists respond to the natural world and Maine’s place in the sustainable agriculture movement. The season opens with “Art to Table: Visual Sustenance,” a juried show examining individual and communal relationships to food through works that elevate ingredients, meals and rituals. […]
Meetinghouse Arts kicked off the season with a creative conversation featuring artist Charlie Hewitt on March 18, partnering with Freeport Community Services for the evening event. Hewitt is known for his Hopeful Project, a glowing installation originally commissioned by Speedwell in 2019 that has since spread to dozens of sites. The gallery also hosted a […]
George Marshall Store Gallery in York opened “Block Party!” on March 15, bringing together artists living, working or with ties to York, Kittery, Eliot, South Berwick, Ogunquit and Wells. The open-call exhibition featured a wide variety of mediums, experimental approaches and interpretations of local landmarks. The show included work by Karen Adrienne, Marena Bach, Todd […]
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