“Maury Colton: Variations,” “Jessica Straus: Homesick” and “Midsummer” will open Aug. 1 during the ArtWalk from 5 to 7 p.m. at Triangle Gallery in Rockland.
Maury Colton began his artistic career many moons ago as a child on the beaches of South Portland. He nurtured his fascination at the Portland School of Art, the Concept School of Visual Studies, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the Royal College of Art. The 14 paintings on view at the Triangle Gallery represent Colton’s present moment along his journey of exploring expression of fracture, of broken things.
“I am kind of looking for a universal force underneath everything,” Colton says.” And so I see that in fracture … but fractures and rocks or even tumbledown buildings, whatever they are, there’s a universality about that. It’s something that can be understood through any language. People know if something’s broken, people can understand the idea of fracture.”
This exhibition will be on view until Aug. 31.
“Midsummer” will continue an ever-changing exhibition of work by gallery artists. August’s show includes work by Oliver Solmitz, Caroline Sulzer, Ed Nadeau, Don Peterson, Marc Phares, Jennie Campbell, Gene Gnida, Conrad Guertin, Deanna Jacome, Mark Little, Susan Metzger, Carter Wentworth, Marc Leavitt, George Pearlman, Karen Jelenfy, Kingsley Parker, Talya Baharal and Alan Clark. This collection will be up through Aug. 24.
Black humor, longing and regret are at play in Jessica Straus’s exhibition “Homesick.” With a sense of irony, Straus depicts Earth as a resource-hungry planet wandering the universe, unable to recognize and protect its most fragile and precious natural resources.
Straus takes the journey even further, to a future when humans must flee a devastated Earth to settle on far-flung, arid worlds. Her masterfully carved figures are stand-ins for everyman and everywoman who gaze longingly earthward from the moon, Mars and the starfields. Straus makes us wonder if we must arrive at the “End Times” to get ourselves to focus on the most critical of human issues, the survival of our habitable planet.
Straus’ show will continue through Aug. 17.
Triangle Gallery is at 8 Elm St., Rockland. Summer hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, and 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday or by chance or appointment. For more information, call 593-8300 or go trianglegallery8elm.com or Instagram @trianglegallery8elm.
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