A trio of exhibitions opens Aug. 1 at Old York’s George Marshall Store Gallery and runs through Sept. 6.
While many venues have not been able to reopen due to COVID-19, the gallery has in place approved protocols and a reservation system to control the number of visitors in the gallery at any one time.
The exhibitions give the viewer a multitude of mediums to explore: photography, painting, drawing, sculpture and mixed media.
“Seaweed Sensations” brings together the work of three, well-established Maine artists who investigate the tangle of meanings in seaweed. Seaweed washed ashore after a storm or clinging to a rock in a tidal pool may be taken for granted as common along the Maine coast. As explored by Celeste Roberge, Marjorie Moore and Ron Leax, seaweed is complex and can be a harbinger of changes currently taking place or those yet to come. The works of art emphasize the elegance and fragility of the many different types of seaweed.
The show includes a video and other materials from the Maine Seaweed Council.
With “Calling the Birds Home,” Cheryl St. Onge portrays the constant love between herself and her mother. Cheryle uses an 8×10 view camera or the camera in her phone to take poignant photographs of her mother who has vascular dementia. On good days, laughter comes easily to her mother. Other days, she does not recognize her reflection. The photographs are narrating this journey that they are both on. St. Onge lives in Exeter, New Hampshire, and is a past recipient of the New Hampshire Charitable Artist Advancement Grant.
Portsmouth-based artist Amy Brnger paints to record the region where she lives. With “Tour of Seasons,” her curiosity and interest are evident in her paintings, be it a bouquet of local flowers or the parking lot of an industrial park. Her quick, decisive brush strokes capture the ever-changing organic forms that captivate her. Everyday scenes that one may regularly walk by are seen with a new eye, reminding us that beauty is everywhere and an appreciated antidote during these challenging times.
Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, but closed weekdays from noon until 1 p.m. Reservations to visit the gallery can be made on the gallery website or by calling curator Mary Harding at 207-752-0205. The gallery is at 140 Lindsay Road, York.
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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