Courthouse Gallery will host “Meaning in Layers” on Wednesday, August 28 at 5:30pm. Artist Charlie Hewitt and art critic Daniel Kany will talk about Hewitt’s work and the strategies behind making art, and how the creative process, technique, and cultural meaning come together in contemporary art. A solo show of Hewitt’s large-scale abstract paintings and neon constructions are on view at the gallery through September. The talk is free and open to the public.
Courthouse Gallery is located at 6 Court Street in Ellsworth. For gallery hours and more information on upcoming shows call (207) 667-6611, or visit courthousegallery.com.
Charlie Hewitt is a nationally known Maine-born painter, printmaker, and sculptor. Hewitt grew up in a large working-class French Canadian family in the mill-working communities of Lewiston/Auburn and Brunswick, Maine. Home was a place of family, love, and faith. Life revolved around church and work, and the energetic culture of these mill-working communities became the foundation for his imagery and symbols. Hewitt’s work is in numerous private and public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; Museum of Modern Art, NY; Library of Congress, Washington, DC; and in Maine at the Portland Museum of Art, Farnsworth Museum of Art, and in the art museums at Bates, Bowdoin, and Colby colleges. Hewitt lives in Yarmouth, Maine.
Daniel Kany is an art historian, art critic, and freelance writer. More than 420 of Kany’s art criticism columns have appeared in the Maine Sunday Telegram and Portland Press Herald, and he has authored dozens of catalogs, publications, and magazine articles about art and artists. Kany serves on the editorial board of the Maine Arts Journal: The UMVA Quarterly and is an adjunct at the New Hampshire Institute of Art. He has won multiple awards from the Maine Press Association for his art criticism. Kany studied at Bowdoin College and then at Johns Hopkins University under Michael Fried and Yves-Alain Bois. An experienced curator, Kany has been a director of the Center on Contemporary Art in Seattle, Friesen Gallery, William Traver Gallery, and the Daniel Kany Gallery. Kany lives in Cumberland, Maine.
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