Category: exhibitions

Jean Kigel Gallery in Back Cove Gallery presents ‘The Thaw’ 

  We have set our clocks forward. The equinox has come and gone.  We are stripping off layers. And the roads have been posted. But we must endure the thaw. During April, Jean Kigel Gallery, at 1396 Back Cove in Waldoboro, presents “The Thaw,” a series of paintings depicting that transitional season often dubbed Mud […]

Maine Farmland Trust Gallery presents the 2020 Fiore Residents Exhibit

  This past summer, Maine Farmland Trust’s Fiore Art Center offered four virtual residencies. Instead of working at the beautiful Rolling Acres Farm at the Fiore Art Center in Jefferson, ME, the residents worked from their homes, farms, gardens and studios. From January 5-April 9, 2021, the Maine Farmland Trust Gallery website will host an […]

Maine artists included in international Telephone project

More than 950 artists from across the world are creating original, interconnected artworks in a global game of Telephone. The online, interactive exhibition is scheduled to launch in April, and several Maine artists will participate. On its surface, Telephone is simple. Based on the children’s game, a message is “whispered” from art form to art […]

‘In the Abstract’ at Dowling Walsh Gallery

Dowling Walsh Gallery is hosting the group exhibition “In the Abstract” through Feb. 27. The exhibit includes works by Ann Purcell, Stephen Pace (1918-2010), Syd Solomon (1917-2004) and Kenneth Noland (1924-2010). Visit www.dowlingwalsh.com or call 207-596-0084 for more information.

Michele Ratté’s art evokes a primordial connection to the earth and sea

Artist Michele Ratté has recently relocated to Belfast from Vermont and is being featured as a guest artist at Local Color Gallery.  Ratté’s work is informed by a lifelong fascination with marine environments, both current and ancient. She uses geological and botanical references, and the direct experience of being and working in seaside locations, including […]

CMCA presents virtual exhibition ‘Shelter (Earth, House, Body, Spirit)’

The Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA) presents the virtual exhibition “Shelter (Earth, House, Body, Spirit),” on view through Feb. 20 at https://cmcanow.org/event/on-now-shelter-earth-house-body-spirit. The show features 20 artists who examine the slippery nature of what seeking cover and comfort looks like. For some, these explorations are specific and literal. For others, they move like brackish […]

Eastport Gallery presents ‘Hearts for the Arts’

Celebrate the season of love with the Eastport Gallery’s “Hearts for the Arts” community show and silent auction, Feb. 1 to 14. The exhibition, which will take place both online and in the Eastport Gallery’s windows at 109 Water St., is a “beautiful reflection of talent and love for our area,” notes gallery president Joan […]

New works by Willa Vennema at Harbor Square Gallery

Harbor Square Gallery is featuring several new works by Willa Vennema for the last show of our 2020 season. The show is open now and into the new year. Working with encaustic, Vennema manipulates layers of rich texture and color to manifest semi-abstract landscapes that reflect her memories of hiking through the Maine woods and […]

Soulful Stitching: give art and support artists

Indigo Arts Alliance is thrilled to announce that, in early 2021, it will partner with Cove Street Arts to host Soulful Stitching, an exhibition of the handmade, patchwork quilts called “kawandi” of the Siddis of India. This exquisite exhibition has been curated by renowned scholar Henry J. Drewal and scholar/artist Sarah K. Khan, fall 2019 […]

‘Small Works for Christmas’ virtual exhibit

Caldbeck Gallery presents the virtual exhibit “Small Works for Christmas,” featuring work by Sam Cady, Lise Bécu, Krisanne Baker, Dan West, Alsion Rector, Anne Alexander, John Woolsey and David Dewey. View the e-catalog at https://mcusercontent.com/c6bdac10295726afaab4a2246/files/cbd3e066-8024-4fdf-9c97-dce935aaa9e5/SMALL_WORKS_2020_ecatalog.pdf. Caldbeck Gallery is at 12 Elm St., Rockland. Gallery hours are noon to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and by […]