Category: exhibitions

Why Draw? 500 Years of Drawings and Watercolors at Bowdoin College

The Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) will present the first-ever survey of the Museum’s extensive collection of drawings, widely considered the oldest public collection of works on paper on the continent, illuminating the foundational and evolving role of drawing within Western artistic practice. Titled Why Draw? 500 Years of Drawings and Watercolors at Bowdoin […]

Dowling Walsh Gallery presents Construct

Construct, a group exhibition curated by Anna Queen, is built around the theme of social and material construction. The artists included use painting, sculpture, printmaking and collage to examine construction through various materials. Whether through repurposing imagery or materials, creating imagined scenarios, shifting a ubiquitous object, or abstracting a familiar scene, each artist is restructuring […]

Maine Farmland Trust Gallery shows “Inside View”

    Maine Farmland Trust Gallery shows “Inside View” of Barns and Farm Houses   Belfast. Machias watercolorist Margaret LaFarge has lived in Maine since 1980. Her intimate paintings transport us across time and space, into the rooms of farmhouses with which LaFarge has a special connection. “These are primarily homes I have lived in,” […]

Upcoming Events at Harlow Gallery

UPCOMING  EXHIBITIONS Hector Arrache Retrospective & Sale On View: April 19-28, 2017 Opening Reception: Friday, April 21, 5-7pm A retrospective exhibition and sale of works by Maine physician, poet and artist, Hector Arrache. He passed away unexpectedly in April of 2016. Arrache’s family has generously donated a large body of his work to the Harlow […]

Maine: The Way Life Is at Greenhut Galleries

Greenhut Galleries is celebrating its 40th year anniversary ALL YEAR, and what better way than to throw a full gallery invitational exhibit honoring the state of Maine. We are pleased to announce our upcoming exhibit of paintings by 50 local artists in our new biennial fondly titled: Maine: The Way Life Is. It’s easy to see […]

Three New Shows at CMCA

Piper Cub Who can do anything better than this propeller? Can you? —Marcel Duchamp, speaking to Constantin Brancusi in front of an airplane, 1914 The most noticeable thing about artist Mark Wethli’s Piper Cub is that it’s incomplete; the abstract framework of an airplane rather than one that’s ready to fly. Piper Cub’s identity is […]

MFT Gallery presents “In Dialogue with Nature”

  In Dialogue with Nature is currently on display until March 24th, with artist talks and a closing reception on Friday March 17 at 5pm. New work by MFT Gallery artists Julie Cyr, Dahlov Ipcar, Sheep Jones, Christopher O’Connor and Lou Schellenberg on the second floor.   Belfast. In the summer of 2016, four artists […]

PMA reopens with “Lights Across Congress”

The countdown to the unveiling of the new PMA begins at 6 p.m. on February 3 with Lights Across Congress, a special event that will bring together more than 20 community organizations, businesses, and supporters to present a massive 130-foot-wide cinematic projection on the museum’s façade, promising to be the Maine arts event of the […]

Greenhut Galleries’ “Abstraction”

Kayla Mohammadi   Abstraction abˈstrakSH(ə)n 1. freedom from representational qualities in art 2. an invitational group show of 25 Maine artists at Greenhut Galleries in Portland February 2 – 25, 2017 Please join us! Artists reception, Saturday, February 4, 1 – 3pm Daniel Anselmi, Chris Beneman, Grace DeGennaro, Ingrid Ellison, Tom Flanagan, Alison Goodwin, Ken […]

Harlow Gallery presents The Venn Project

On View: February 3 – March 11, 2017 | Opening Reception: Friday, February 3, 5-7pm The Harlow Gallery presents The Venn Project, featuring the work of Pamela Hetherly, Anita Morrissey, and Nancy Keenan Barron. The Venn Project is on view February 3 – March 11, 2017 with an opening reception on Friday, February 3, from […]