Sidle House Gallery’s summer programming demonstrates how adaptive reuse can create unexpected opportunities for artistic presentation. Running June 6 through July 19, the dual exhibitions “Installations” and “Revelations: Painting in Reverse” transform the gallery’s barn spaces into immersive artistic environments.
The “Installations” exhibition (a clever play on the barn’s original livestock stalls) invites artists Ian Trask, Erin Bundock, Hannah Berta, Ashley Page, Kate Gerwig, Samantha Rand and Justine Lasdin to reimagine the individual barn chambers. This site-specific approach creates what the gallery describes as “characteristic and connected worlds” that visitors can inhabit rather than simply observe.
“Revelations: Painting in Reverse,” featuring Mexico and New York-based artist Bobbi Van, introduces Maine audiences to work created on transparent surfaces. Van’s exploration of “the spaces in between sound and silence, thought and action, arrival and departure, movement and stillness” addresses liminal states that resonate with the gallery’s own transformation from agricultural to artistic space.
The exhibition’s extensive programming, including opening receptions, workshops, and a closing reception, creates multiple opportunities for community engagement. The June 21 workshop on “Expressive Mark Making” with Kate Gerwig and Justine Lasdin, and the June 28 “Mindfulness & Expressive Photography” session with Julie Fischer McCarter, extend the exhibitions’ impact beyond passive viewing.
Find Sidle House one mile from town at 20 Bartol Island Road in Freeport. Look for the small pink sign under the mailbox, come up the driveway, and park anywhere behind the barn. Ride-sharing and barn/field-appropriate footwear is always a great idea. Gallery hours: Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, 3 to 6 p.m., and by appointment at maddy@sidlehouse.com or 512-771-1149.
Courthouse Gallery Fine Art in Ellsworth is presenting three exhibitions featuring Philip Barter, Gregory Dunham, Heidi Daub and Richard Keen. “My Maine” is the first retrospective of Maine painter Philip Barter since his death in 2024. Known for his stylized renderings of trees, rivers, mountains and clouds, Barter developed a distinctive visual language through bold […]
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High Peaks Artisan Guild in Kingfield is featuring the work of multidisciplinary artist, sculptor and jeweler Samuel Goldstein throughout August. Goldstein, who lives in the Western Maine mountains, has spent more than eight years creating small sculptural pieces and jewelry from precious minerals and stones including rainbow fluorite, alabaster, lapis lazuli and Oregon sunstone. His […]
The Boothbay Region Art Foundation in Boothbay Harbor is accepting submissions for “ARTinME 2026,” its fourth annual juried exhibition celebrating large-format art. The exhibition, on view from Sept. 30 to Nov. 7, is open to full- and part-time Maine artists working in large two-dimensional formats in a variety of media and styles. Two-dimensional works must […]
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Local Color Gallery in Belfast will welcome guest artist Nell Parker for “New Topics: Spirits in the Land,” on view from Aug. 25 to Sept. 20. The exhibition features linocut and woodcut relief prints that explore animist possibilities within the local landscape through Parker’s pictorial heritage rooted in Western art history. Her work draws on […]
George Marshall Store Gallery in York is showcasing an evolving selection of work by regional artists alongside “Critters,” a group exhibition on view through Aug. 30. Among the works currently highlighted is Amanda Case Millis’ monotype “Three Mornings on Monhegan II,” inspired by one of the artist’s visits to Monhegan Island. Michael Stasiuk’s sculptural “Black […]
Dowling Walsh Gallery in Rockland is presenting four exhibitions through Aug. 29: Scott Kelley’s “The Whale,” Bo Bartlett’s “Eye of the Beholder,” Richard Estes’ “Woods and Waters” and “Sea Change: A Group Exhibition.” Kelley’s “The Whale” celebrates the 175th anniversary of Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick,” a novel that has fascinated the artist since he first encountered […]
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