Category: Portland

5th Annual Portland Fine Craft Show

  Join us Saturday, August 24 from 9am-5pm for the 5th Annual Portland Fine Craft Show on Congress Street (between State and High Streets). The Show is free and open to the public, and features 100+ juried exhibitors from Maine and the Northeast exhibiting baskets, ceramics, fiber, furniture, glass, jewelry, leather, metal, mixed media, paper, […]

Spotlight Artists at Cove Street Arts

Cove Street Arts in Portland present works by: Harold Garde Described by former LACMA curator Dr. Edward Robinson as “the greatest living American painter you’ve never heard of,” Harold Garde’s career spans seven decades, and his work is included in many important museum collections. A New York Abstract Expressionist in the 1950’s and ‘60’s, Garde […]

Greenhut Galleries Presents Rising Fog: Maurice Freedman in Maine

  From August 8-31, Greenhut Galleries in Portland is proud and honored to present Rising Fog: Maurice Freedman in Maine, with an opening reception on August 8 5-7.  This is the gallery’s fifth solo exhibition of the work of American Modernist painter Maurice Freedman. This survey spans 45 years of the artist’s distinguished and prolific […]

Cove Street Arts Presents ‘Charlie Hewitt: Left of the Turnpike’

  Cove Street Arts, located in Portland Presents ‘Charlie Hewitt: Left of the Turnpike ‘  an exhibition of Hewitt’s dynamic, imaginative paintings, sculpture, prints, and neon constructions. There will be an opening reception on August 1 from 5-7. Living in Yarmouth and working in Portland, nationally renowned artist Charlie Hewitt grew up in Lewiston, ME. […]

Cove St. Arts Presents ‘Strange Histories’ by Ian Trask

  Join us at the Opening Reception on July 18th from 5-7 for Ian Trask’s Strange Histories. The reception will be a great opportunity to talk to Trask about his process and narratives.  Strange Histories will be showing through September 13th.     Using vintage slides, Ian Trask creates his own stories. By combining found […]

Cove Street Arts Presents “Strange Histories”

  Opening reception for Ian Trask, Strange Histories, July 18th 5-7PM at Cove Street Arts in Portland. Using vintage slides, Ian Trask creates his own stories. By combining found 35 mm slide photography, analog collage, and assemblage sculpture, Trask creates imaginative double-exposures that transcend the boundaries of time and experience resulting in “strange histories” – […]

Greenhut Galleries Presents Joel Babbs’ “To the Green Woods and Crystal Waters”

Greenhut Galleries in Portland is proud to present Joel Babb’s To the Green Woods and Crystal Waters on view from July 5 – August 3, an opening reception will be held on July 11 from 5-7 and an artist talk on Saturday July 20 at 1:00 pm.  Joel has been very busy of late, and not […]

Current Exhibitions at Cove Street Arts

Current Exhibitions at Cove Street Arts in Portland Lucile Evans Retrospective June 1 – August 10 Lucile Evans (1894-1993) was a fearless, emotionally complex, and extremely talented painter and printmaker who achieved an impressive career despite the marginalization and constraints faced by female artists of her generation. The exhibit spans five decades (1930s to 1970s) of […]

You’re Invited: Maine Crafts Portland’s One Year Anniversary Party

  Please join us during the July First Friday Art Walk on July 5 from 5-8 to toast our first year of success! We will be celebrating with the opening of IN THE BAG: a group exhibition in the flex space featuring seven MCA members making bags of various interpretations, media, dimensions and utility.  Thank […]

Recent Works by Margaret Lawrence at Greenhouse Galleries

From June 6-29, Greenhut is pleased to present a solo exhibition of 23 oils and 5 gouaches by long-time Greenhut artist Margaret Lawrence. Work featured includes landscapes continuing the artist’s recent explorations of the interplay between water, land and sky, as well as a spring fresh meditation on flowers, contemplated deeply through texture and abstractions […]