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Archipelago hosts second artist reception with Abe Goodale during First Friday Art Walk

Join Archipelago on Friday, September 7th, from 5:00 pm. To 8:00 p.m., during Rockland’s First Friday Art Walk, for a second artist reception with Abe Goodale to celebrate the current gallery show, “Turning Away from the Sun.” The show, which features watercolor portraits by Goodale, also includes paintings, bronze sculptures, carved wall pieces, wood folk […]

Wish You Were Here, New Work by Garry Mitchell at SPEEDWELL projects

Wish You Were Here, New Work by Garry Mitchell September 7th to October 13th, 2018 at Speedwell Projects in Portland,  ME One day Colby art professor Garry Mitchell was looking for interesting spaces on campus for his students to draw from observation. He came upon a hall in the Geology Department where there were hundreds […]

TOM PAIEMENT 20 Years of Exploration | Greenhut Galleries

TOM PAIEMENT 20 Years of Exploration September 6 – 29, 2018 Opening reception Thursday, Sept 6 from 5-7pm Artist talk Thursday, September 20 at 5pm Grant Drumheller featured in the side gallery. Greenhut Galleries 146 Middle St Portland, Maine 04101 207-772-2693

PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART OPENS EXHIBITION OF WORKS INCLUDING RARELY SEEN WATERCOLORS BY JOHN SINGER SARGENT

On August 17, 2018, the Portland Museum of Art (PMA) opens Americans Abroad, 1860-1915, an exhibition of watercolors, prints, and paintings by American artists who travelled to Europe for training and inspiration in the late 19th century. The exhibition of 24 works by artists such as Mary Cassatt, Winslow Homer, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler, […]

Nancy Winter’s Rustic Sculpture At the Blue Hill Bay Gallery

Nancy Winter’s Rustic Sculpture At the Blue Hill Bay Gallery from September 1 to September 30 As we enter the fairest season in Blue Hill we offer fair goers a little whimsy. Comfortably tucked in amongst our many fine paintings are wonderful little rustic sculptures from the hand of Nancy Winters. For thirty years Nancy […]

Upcoming Gallery Show at Maine Farmland Trust, “I Went To the Animal Fair: Finding Common Ground”

Maine Farmland Trust Gallery’s new show, I Went To the Animal Fair: Finding Common Ground, features Belfast artist Kerstin Engman’s oil paintings on the first floor, with works by Andre Benoit, Frances Hynes, Leslie Moore, and Julie Cyr on the second floor. Kerstin’s works for this show are inspired by the animals, goods, and people […]

JESSICA LEE IVES: IMMERSED IN NATURE | Gleason Fine Art

Jessica Lee Ives (nèe Stammen) grew up in Camden, Maine. She received her BFA from the renowned Cooper Union School of Art and was named one of Glamour Magazine’s Top Ten College Women of the Year in 2003. After September 11, 2001, Ives worked as an artist-in-residence at Ground Zero in New York City, which […]

First Friday Art Walk, Rockland ME, September 7

First Friday Art Walk, Rockland ME, 5-8pm, 7 September 2018 Rockland’s Penultimate Art Walk for 2018 will be on Friday, 7 September. Many of Rockland’s galleries will be open, including (but not limited to): The Farnsworth Art Museum, Art Space, Yvette Torres Fine Art, The Strand Theatre, Craft Gallery, The Art Loft, The Gautschi Center, […]

Maine Art Hill – the last 3 person show of 2018

Maine Art Hill is having a three artist show featuring new works from Claire Bigbee, Ingunn Milla Joergensen, and John LeCours. The show will run from September 1-20, 2018 at Shows on Maine Art Hill at10 Chase Hill Road, Kennebunk, ME and is open everyday at 10am. Bigbee, a Maine resident, takes her inspiration from […]

Late-summer exhibitions | George Marshall Store Gallery

Walking into the George Marshall Store Gallery from the heat and glare of the late summer sun one is struck by the calm monochromatic tones and simple shapes of Ernest Montanegro’s, Lisa Noonis’ and Dan Dowd’s work. The first glance belies the complexity of these three artist’s sculptures, collage-paintings, and found object instillations. Most of […]