Category: openings
Landing Gallery opens its season with Lisa Kyle solo show in Rockland
Landing Gallery in Rockland opens its 2026 season with “The Quiet Light of Maine,” a solo exhibition of new paintings by Lisa Kyle, on view May 1 through May 31. Kyle’s opening reception will be held during the First Friday Art Walk on May 1 from 4 to 8 p.m. The paintings depict moments of […]
Blue Hill Bay Gallery opens its season with ‘Seasons of Maine’
Blue Hill Bay Gallery in Blue Hill opens its 2026 season with “Seasons of Maine,” a group show running from late April through mid-June that explores the ways artists portray the natural world. The gallery is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Featured artist William Marvin presents a series of works capturing […]
Courthouse Gallery’s Stairwell Show opens in Ellsworth
Courthouse Gallery Fine Art in Ellsworth kicks off its 2026 season with “The Stairwell Show,” a pre-season online preview of exceptional small works by gallery and guest artists. The show can be viewed online now and in person from May 12 through Dec. 23. The stairwell at Courthouse Gallery is a lofty space with a […]
‘Imagining an Archipelago’ connects island histories at Colby College Museum of Art
Art connects islands across thousands of miles in “Imagining an Archipelago: Art from Cuba, Guam, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Their Diasporas,” on view July 11, 2026 through June 6, 2027 at the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville. The exhibition brings together approximately 50 works by more than 40 contemporary artists — spanning […]
New work by Thomas O’Donovan on view at Harbor Square Gallery in Camden
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., […]
Waterfall Arts in Belfast opens interactive street art exhibition
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 […]
‘Bodies in Motion’ opens at Zoot Coffee in Camden
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, […]
Dowling Walsh Gallery in Rockland highlights Hamilton, Sears and Hayes
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’s 2026 season explores the natural world and Maine’s food culture
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. […]
‘Block Party!’ in York celebrates regional artists
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 […]
