Category: exhibitions
Maine Jewish Museum popup show features work by Carol Eisenberg
Maine Museum of Photographic Arts isn’t physically open yet but wants to cheer and support efforts by its neighbors. The Maine Jewish Museum is hosting a pop-up exhibit that features the work of MMPA advisory board member Carol Eisenberg and other great artists. Carol Eisenberg’s exhibit runs from Aug. 13 to Sept. 12.
Artists tell their stories with an eclectic mix of materials and genres in Maine Art Gallery exhibit
“Lost and Found,” the current online show at the Maine Art Gallery, features three Maine artists who create mixed-media narratives with all manner of materials from traditional art supplies to textiles, papers, and found objects. The show, which can be viewed at www.maineartgallerywiscasset.org through Sept. 4, is a preview of an in-person show to be […]
Meet the artists of MFT’s Bicentennial show ‘200 Years of Farming’ at virtual artist talk
To mark Maine’s Bicentennial year, this show focuses on some of the history, practices, triumphs, and challenges of farming in Maine over the last 200 years — from homesteading to dairy, potatoes, blueberries, the local food movement, and present-day changes and challenges. This exhibit encompasses a wide range of media to depict just some of […]
Downeast and Acadia featured at Blue Hill Bay Gallery
The late-summer show at the Blue Hill Bay Gallery features two studio artists whose recent works capture the quiet beauty of the Maine coast. Bonnie LaBelle details the intricate interplay of light and shadow of the sea and sky that envelop coastal scenes like our own Blue Hill harbor, which she presents as a marvelous […]
Caldbeck Gallery hosts two new virtual exhibits
Caldbeck Gallery will show two new exhibitions: “23 Watercolors from the Weskeag Marsh,” a solo exhibit by David Dewey featuring a new body of work, and “Inside & Outside,” a new body of work by Melanie Essex. Full catalogs can be viewed online. Caldbeck Gallery is at 12 Elm St., Rockland. Gallery hours are […]
Alna artist Kate Nordstrom exhibits at Carriage House Gardens
“Bunny is my essence,” says Alna-based artist Kate Nordstrom, and then, with a mischievous smile, she moves on to the next topic, how she paints. “When I’m painting, I’m playing, I’m experimenting” — with colors, combinations, forms, dream images, and intuition. And while the paintings do appear playful, they are also complex and layered with […]
‘Ed Parker: Painting the Story’ on exhibit at Gleason Fine Art
Gleason Fine Art hosts “Ed Parker: Painting the Story,” on exhibit from Aug. 20 through Sept. 22. The Southport resident is universally acknowledged as one of America’s leading marine painters working in the folk art tradition. It is also fair to say that his creations are far more sophisticated than the term “folk art” might […]
‘Back Yard Hens’ at Jean Kigel Studio
From Aug. 21 to Sept. 4, Jean Kigel Studio returns with Kigel’s bird series, this time with oil paintings of backyard hens. These paintings weigh in on the current impulse to provide for oneself as much as possible, by raising backyard hens for meat and eggs. Having grown up on a poultry farm, Kigel found […]
Dowling Walsh Gallery will host three exhibitions in September
Dowling Walsh Gallery will host three exhibitions in September, featuring work by Greta Van Campen, Sebastian Blanck, and Scott Kelley. Exhibits open Sept. 4 and will be on view through Sept. 26. The gallery will host an artist reception from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Sept. 4. Greta Van Campen is a painter from Thomaston who’s […]
‘Friends Near and Far’ to open at Carol L. Douglas Studio
This August marks the sixth anniversary of opening Carol L. Douglas Studio on Commercial Street in Rockport. Douglas has invited students who’ve participated in her classes and workshops to submit a piece to “Friends Near and Far,” which will open from 2 to 6 p.m. Aug. 15 at 394 Commercial Street, Rockport. “People often tell […]
