Category: gallery
CMCA to host The Art Party 2024
The Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA) will host The Art Party 2024 from 6 to 9 p.m. June 28. All proceeds from the event support CMCA’s exhibitions and education programs. Reservations are required, festive attire. The evening features cocktails and an oyster bar and moveable feast. Honorees are Marcia and Daniel Minter of Indigo […]
UMVA’s ‘Life is a Carnival’ show and film will open at Waldo Theatre in July
“Life is a Carnival: from the Figurative to the Abstract,” a UMVA (Union of Maine Visual Artists) art exhibition, opens at the Waldo Theatre, 916 Main St., Waldoboro, on July 6 and runs to Aug. 4. Over a dozen artists are showing prints, photography, paintings and more in the spirit of one of UMVA founders, […]
‘Early Summer Show’ at New Era Gallery features paintings and pottery
New Era Gallery in Vinalhaven presents its “Early Summer Show” from June 22 through July 9. The show features the oil and mixed-media paintings of Elaine Austin Crossman and the pottery of Sylvia Lacey. Crossman, whose work is included in the recently published “Art of Penobscot Bay” by Carl Little and David Little, has painted […]
‘Familiars’ at gallery b is a celebration of companions
“Familiars” at gallery b in Castine is an exhibition of dogs, cats, bats and companions of all kinds. This show emerged from the peculiar phenomenon that while we love to see dogs in art and artists love to put dogs in their work, no one wanted to admit this! The show runs June 14 to […]
‘The Watercolors of Jan Kilburn and Gary Smith’ at Pemaquid Art Gallery
A long-time Damariscotta painter and instructor, Jan Kilburn’s work is well-known in the area. Her watercolors of quaint villages and local scenes often evoke nostalgia in the viewer. She seems to be drawn to the most charming aspects of life in midcoast Maine. Round Pond resident Gary Smith is a passionate painter who most enjoys […]
Shaw Jewelry features two solo exhibitions plus work by Maine jewelers
Brad Story and Norman Keyes are showcasing work at Shaw Jewelry from June 13 to July 2 and held a reception on June 13. Story’s sculptures in the show “Bird/Plane/Fish Mashup” honor the laws of fluid dynamics. Fish, birds and airplanes are the shape they are because it is efficient and functional. They are also […]
Two exhibitions from the Friends of the Maine Coastal Islands Wildlife Refuge
The Friends of the Maine Coastal Islands Wildlife Refuge is showing two exhibitions from June 14 to Aug. 2. An opening reception was held on June 14. “The Loaded Brush: Watercolors by Timothy James Standring” Over the past few years, Timothy James Standring has painted watercolors in and around Knox County. Work in this exhibition […]
Celebrating the artistic legacy of abstract painter Judith Rothschild at Moss Galleries
Moss Galleries will present a retrospective honoring the extraordinary talent and artistic vision of abstract painter Judith Rothschild (1921-1993). “Judith Rothschild Retrospective: Six Decades of Color and Abstraction” will feature 21 works by Rothschild curated by Elizabeth Moss and a leading anonymous abstract curator. The show includes paintings, collages and works on paper from the […]
MMPA to host artist talks
“In the Making,” on view at the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts in Portland, runs through July 27, with an artist talk slated for 5 to 8 p.m. June 21. The talk will feature Astrid Reischwitz (photographs and a new book), Sara Stites and Joan Fitzsimmons (a collaboration). In the book “Spin Club Stories: A […]
Blue Raven Gallery opens for Rockland’s First Friday Art Walk
Join us later this week for Rockland’s First Friday Art Walk, which will celebrate the work of our many artists featured throughout the space and in our current exhibition, The Perfect Storm, before it […]
