Category: shows
CRAFT Artists in Biennials Past and Present
CRAFT Gallery opens its last show of 2016 on Friday, October 7th, with six fine craft artists who have been included in the 2016 and 2014 Biennials at The Center for Maine Contemporary Art. Susan Dewsnap, Morris Dorenfeld, Lynn Duryea, Jan Owen and Sharon Townshend, all of whom live and work in Maine, create artworks […]
Tidemark Gallery Commemorates Hieronymus Bosch
“The Garden of Earthly Delights” is a special group show curated by Chris Augusta and Dick Koubek to mark the 500th anniversary of the death of Heironymus Bosch. While this painter was one of the most influential artists of his time and place; sixteenth century Netherlands, this show does not intend to imitate, but to […]
“Autumn Arrivals”opens at Wiscasset Bay Gallery
“Autumn Arrivals” will open on Saturday, October 15, at the Wiscasset Bay Gallery. The exhibition highlights recent acquisitions of paintings and prints by important American and European artists. René Magritte’s “Un Seduisant Naive D’eau Mer,” a colorful lithograph from 1962 by the Belgian Surrealist, shows a half-woman, half-fish creature seated on a rock with a […]
The Rock & Art Shop Presents Paintings by Jennifer Anderson
The Sohns Gallery, located in The Rock & Art Shop at 36 Central Street, presents works by Jennifer Anderson. Anderson grew up on the Maine coast painting what she loves. Her earlier works were watercolor studies of sea creatures. Anderson currently lives and paints in Brewer Maine. Her current oil paintings of the ocean are […]
Exhibitions at Don Gorvett’s Perkins Cove Gallery
The exhibition titled Rumination and the Aesthetic in Drawing | Form & Substance is the first time collaborative exhibition of the drawings of Ralph Gorvett and the ceramics of David Schneider to be held in Don Gorvett’s Perkins Cove Gallery in Ogunquit Maine. Ralph Gorvett, the brother of Don Gorvett, has had presents in Don Gorvett’s galleries in Gloucester, […]
UMaine Museum of Art announces Fall Exhibitions
Contemporary Currents: Nine New Brunswick Artists highlights a diversity of creative approaches and genres—from representational to conceptual—by artists from throughout New Brunswick. Also varied is the wide range of media in the exhibition that includes ceramic, photography, oil painting, assemblage, mixed media, sculpture and printing processes. The works in Contemporary Currents underscore the refreshingly pluralist […]
Equal Protection of the Laws: America’s Fourteenth Amendment
The Kennebec Valley Art Association (KVAA) in partnership with The Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine (HHRC) present “Equal Protection of the Laws: America’s Fourteenth Amendment”, an art exhibition which contemplates the importance of the 14th Amendment. Themes depicted relate to many areas of American society covered by the amendment: including due process, liberty, […]
Remembering Julian Sacks at Tidemark Gallery
It was a wonderful day when Julian joined our little gallery and it was a terrible day when we lost him. But he left us with such wonderful gifts; his wisdom and warm friendship, corny jokes, a special recipe for pickled herring and bright landscape paintings of the many places he loved. Where ever he […]
“Back to School Special” and “Things Remembered” at George Marshall Store Gallery
The George Marshall Store Gallery recently opened two new exhibitions for the month of September. Aptly named for the season is “Back to School Special” which features work by the faculty of the University of New Hampshire Department of Art. Also on view is “Things Remembered” by Portsmouth artist Michael Stasiuk, who combines fragments of […]
PHILIP FREY: PARALLELS at UMaine Museum of Art
From September 23 – December 31, 2016 Parallels features a new assortment of oil paintings by Maine artist Philip Frey. The artist, most known for his expressive images of the Maine landscape, provides varied glimpses of other subjects and approaches in this exhibition including cityscapes, portraits and abstract compositions. Frey explains that these works address “a […]
