New paintings by Jean Kigel are featured at a museum-quality retro 1950’s setting, the Brick House Gallery, 176 Winslow Mills Road, Waldoboro from August 11th to 13th. The reception is on Friday August 11th from 5-7pm.
Celebrating its 19th season, Kigel’s Annual Eastern Views is a synthesis of motifs from Maine and Asia. Continuing her new geometric-realism series, she manipulates visual perceptions, creating a dichotomy of the real and the unreal. Her seascapes capture jagged patterns of the luminous, shifting light and reflective waters of Maine. Several muses – including Clary Hill and sea creatures – appear again and again, testament to their emotional power for the artist. Featured this year is “Muscongus”, depicting the Atlantic in vibrant tones of blues, which she observed while kayaking near her studio.
In addition, Kigel will exhibit her growing attic windows series. These whimsical paintings depict colorful clusters of roof tops of an by-gone, architectural style in Mid-coast towns. “When I paint this series, I always delight and surprise myself, reshaping forms, reinterpreting colors, and even inserting magical elements like fish into the skies.”
As usual, Kigel’s show is punctuated with paintings of garden perennials; her Asian brush techniques lending a sense of “exotica” to the familiar.
An award-winning member of the Sumi-e Society of America and the Union of Maine Visual Artists, Kigel’s work is exhibited in galleries in Maine, Massachusetts, NY City, and Vermont. For more information, preview this exhibit at www.jeankigel.com or call 975-3262.
Shaw Jewelry invites art lovers and collectors to an exciting evening of art, design, and conversation from 5 to 7 p.m. July 17 at its gallery in Northeast Harbor. This lively opening marks the start of an exhibition running through July 30, featuring three remarkable artists whose work draws deeply from the natural world and […]
Sue Vittner will be a guest artist at Local Color Gallery from July 22 through Aug. 17. She will give an artist’s talk at 5:30 p.m. July 25 during Belfast’s Fourth Friday Artwalk, which runs from 4 to 7 p.m. Vittner is deeply grateful to share her artwork with others and feels fortunate to live […]
Centre Street Arts Gallery is in the heart of Bath’s downtown. Come and view our new exhibit featuring 20 Midcoast Maine artists including Andrea Galuza who is showing two new florals (acrylic on canvas). The gallery is open seven days a week. Stop by during the Art Walk from 4 to 7 p.m. when refreshments […]
For three days only, a rare and intimate glimpse into the life of John Lennon will be on view at Cygnet Gallery in Southwest Harbor. “The Lost Weekend: The Photography of May Pang” will run from July 25 to July 27, featuring candid and personal images of Lennon during the infamous “Lost Weekend” era of […]
“David Estey Reengaged” is a solo exhibit of 20 paintings by the Belfast artist, after a two-year hiatus leading the nonprofit Union of Maine Visual Artists (UMVA). The paintings are improvisational abstract images, often with narrative references, done in a variety of sizes using acrylic paint on canvas, wood panels or synthetic paper mounted on […]
View works by Carol L. Douglas’ students in the Advanced Painting workshop student show, on view July 11 at 394 Commercial St., Rockport. They share their vibrant, exciting work. Then from 5 to 7 p.m. July 17 is Disco Fever at 19 Elm Street, Camden. Shine up your sequins and dust off your platform shoes. […]
Mars Hall Gallery opens its doors for a show titled “Leo & Me Revisited” on July 18. The show celebrates the art and friendship of two artists, Leo Brooks and Elaine Reed, who met on Monhegan Island in the early ’80s. They shared their painting experience not only on Monhegan but also in the Bronx, […]
Annex Arts is honored to welcome Marwa Abdul-Rahman and Robert Dewhurst as its newest Artists-in-Residence. Marwa (painting and sculpture) and Robert (essay, biography, poetry) come to Annex Arts from Los Angeles for a full-summer residency. Their home was lost during January’s devastating Eaton Fire in Altadena, California. As a result, Annex Arts is humbled to […]
From July 15 to 26, “Healing Color” fills the Deer Isle Artists Association gallery with the joy and solace of saturated tones. A range of mediums will be on display, including painting, ceramics, drawing, fiber, glass, wood, photography and jewelry. Featured in this show are Christopher Brumfield, Ray Dinsmore, Mary Eaton, Maureen Farr, Judith Felch, […]
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