Tag: art
Jill Hoy Gallery exhibition schedule
Jill Hoy Gallery is at 80 Main St., Stonington. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. July through November. Shows: Side by Side, Hoy and Imber at Edward Hopper Museum, Nyack, NY Perry Lawson Fine Art, Hoy’s Figurative Narratives, Nyack, NY Three Sones Gallery, Concord, Mass (September) Portland Art Gallery, 154 Middle St., Portland (October)
‘Letters from Home’ explores collective nostalgia
People visit the Atlantic Coast for many reasons, including nostalgia tied to its history, culture and unspoiled landscape. This is explored in “Letters from Home,” which opened May 31 at Carol L. Douglas Studio/Richards Hill Gallery, 394 Commercial St., Rockport. “We all feel the pull of memory and collective experience,” said Douglas. “These may not […]
Salt & Sand opens for season and welcomes several new artists from throughout New England
Salt & Sand Fine Art Gallery, a collective of nine artists nestled in the vibrant Kennebunk community, celebrates its second season with a wide variety of new art created by both emerging and award-winning artists living throughout Maine and New England. The gallery is located at 2 Morning Walk Lane (#8A), in Kennebunk, just a […]
Local Color Gallery welcomes new gallery member artist David Estey
Local Color is excited to welcome Belfast artist David Estey as their newest gallery member. Estey is an improvisational painter and past president of the Union of Maine Visual Artists (UMVA). He taught himself to draw and paint while growing up in Fort Fairfield and attending Crosby High School in Belfast. Estey earned a BFA […]
Four artists explore landscape, memory and meaning at Caldbeck Gallery
Caldbeck Gallery in Rockland opened its new exhibitions May 17, with a First Friday artists’ reception from 5 to 7 p.m. June 6. Featuring works by Elizabeth Awalt, Janice Kasper, Todd Watts and Susan Williams, the gallery presents a vivid and varied meditation on the natural world, interior landscapes and the porous boundary between real […]
Sidle House Gallery transforms agricultural architecture into contemporary art space
Sidle House Gallery’s summer programming demonstrates how adaptive reuse can create unexpected opportunities for artistic presentation. Running June 6 through July 19, the dual exhibitions “Installations” and “Revelations: Painting in Reverse” transform the gallery’s barn spaces into immersive artistic environments. The “Installations” exhibition (a clever play on the barn’s original livestock stalls) invites artists Ian […]
UMVA’s timely exhibition explores climate through art
The Union of Maine Visual Artists’ latest juried exhibition, “Washed Away,” addresses one of the most pressing issues facing coastal Maine communities through the lens of artistic interpretation. Running through June 21 at Portland Public Library, the show combines artistic vision with scientific understanding in ways that illuminate both the aesthetic and practical dimensions of […]
Three exhibitions explore contemporary art’s transformative power at CMCA
The Center for Maine Contemporary Art’s summer season launches with ambition, presenting three concurrent exhibitions that collectively demonstrate contemporary art’s capacity to transform both space and perception. Opening May 24 with a public reception from 3 to 5 p.m., the exhibitions offer visitors multiple entry points into current artistic practice. “Cheek to Cheek” by Nicole […]
Moss Galleries champions John Hultberg’s ‘Abstracted Realism’
The art world’s tendency to overlook significant artists during their lifetimes makes Moss Galleries’ representation of John Hultberg (1922–2005) particularly significant. The recent exhibition “John Hultberg: Angels Above Fear,” which closed May 31, offered viewers a chance to encounter an artist whose work defied easy categorization during his lifetime and continues to challenge conventional artistic […]
Archipelago celebrates ‘Elemental’ during First Friday Art Walk
The upcoming “Elemental” exhibition at Archipelago demonstrates how Maine’s artistic community continues to find fresh approaches to the state’s most enduring themes. Opening June 6 during Rockland’s First Friday Art Walk, the show features works that either draw inspiration from or utilize techniques related to the classical elements. This conceptual framework allows for remarkable diversity […]
