Spotlight: Anne Neely
November 9 - January 11, 2020
An exhibition of large-scale work from Water Stories, Anne Neely's recent solo exhibition at the Museum of Science, Boston. These paintings explore the beauty and foreboding of water, related to central themes, mostly man-made and through climate change, affecting this country.
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Spotlight: Antoinette Prien Schultze
November 9 - January 11 2020
By combining stone and wood with glass in her sculpture, Antoinette Prien Schultze’s work projects strength and stability while capturing an emotional, vulnerable quality. As she states, “This quality of opposites, strength and fragility, is a reminder of the beautiful balancing act that is ever present in nature.”
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Spotlight: Grant Drumheller
November 9 2019 - January 11 2020
An exhibition of recent work by the artist, marked by vitality, technical mastery, and color.
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Real & Remembered
October 12 - December 7 2019
An exhibition of the paintings of three artists - Roy Germon, Kathi Smith, and Timothy Wilson - whose expressive landscapes capture and convey place not simply as a visual experience but as an emotional one as well, inviting the viewer to draw upon his or her own memories of the indelible Maine landscape.
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EXQUISITE BEAUTY. The enduring legacy of grace.
September 19 - November 16 2019
Curated by Marcia Minter, this exhibition displays the Cuba-based work of photographer David Caras and the Asia-based photography of Meredith Kennedy. Although immediately recognizable as foreign, the images Caras and Kennedy capture evoke our shared humanity across cultures and the often exquisite (acute, even painful) beauty we create.
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Spotlight: Harold Garde
August 15 - November 2 2019
Lauded as “the greatest living American painter you’ve never heard of,” this exhibition of Harold Garde’s work focuses on his bold experimentation in Neo-Expressionism.
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Spotlight: Miklos Pogany
August 15 - November 2 2019
Hungarian-born Maine resident, Miklos Pogany, is a prolific artist with an impressive exhibition history and work in the permanent collections of many major museums.
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David Wolfe: Heads
August 15 - October 26 2019
An exhibition of master printer David Wolfe’s new series of portraits of both contemporaries and historical figures.
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Spotlight: Thomas Flanagan
August 15 - October 26 2019
Thomas Flanagan’s hard-edged abstractions have best been described as the physical representation of sound and movement.
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Charlie Hewitt: Left of the Turnpike
August 1 - October 5 2019
An exhibition of Hewitt's dynamic, imaginative paintings, sculpture, prints, and neon constructions. Hewitt’s connection to Lewiston, ME is the inspiration for the exhibition's title, which highlights the influence of the mill-working community on Hewitt's work.
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Ian Trask: Strange Histories
July 18 - September 14 2019
Ian Trask’s Strange Histories is inspired by family slideshows, bringing a largely obsolete narrative art form back to life. By combining found 35mm slide photography, analog collage, and assemblage sculpture, Trask creates imaginative double-exposures that transcend the boundaries of time and experience.
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Lucile Evans: A Retrospective
June 1 - Aug 10 2019
A five decade retrospective of the work of Lucile Evans (1894-1993), a fearless, emotionally complex, and extremely talented painter and printmaker who achieved an impressive career despite the marginalization and constraints faced by female artists of her generation.
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The Sartorial Self
June 1 - July 27 2019
A fun, fabulous, and thought-provoking meditation on the role fashion plays in shaping and expressing identity. This exhibition features artists Crystal Cawley, Fred Lynch, Lesia Sochor, and Gin Stone with a special appearance by Andy Warhol.
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Faculty Photography
October 22 - December 12, 2020
Curated by Bruce Brown, the exhibition showcases the work of the faculty teaching photography in our local universities. To see what’s next in fine art photography, look to those teaching the next generation of photographers.
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Spotlight: Sean Alonzo Harris - Kennedy Park
June 1 - July 27 2019
Sean Alonzo Harris’ stunning Kennedy Park series portrays residents of Portland’s East Bayside neighborhood, Cove Street Arts’ home. Harris’ authentic connection to his subjects is undeniable in his work.
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Spotlight: Tom Paiement - Entropy
June 1 - July 27 2019
Tom Paiement’s masterpiece Entropy is based upon the scientific maxim that order inevitably yields to disorder. As disorder increases, so does entropy. Yet, it is the increase of entropy that leads to transformation in the world. Paiement’s triptych explores this seeming paradox with both vitality and vulnerability.
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Spotlight: Tom Hall
June 1 - July 27 2019
A collection of Tom Hall’s soulful, haunting paintings of the Maine landscape.
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Spotlight: DM Witman - Index
June 1 - July 27 2019
With Index, Witman records what once was the flora of a small patch of intertidal marsh of the St. George River where she lives and works. Reminiscent of herbarium records, the flora are memorialized as climate change alters the ecosystem.
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Spotlight: Michel Droge
June 1 - July 27 2019
Michel Droge’s current body of work is inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses and draws parallels from this epic poem to the present day cultural and ecological exploitation of environmental and social ecosystems.
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Photographing Coastal Maine
June 1 - July 13 2019
A photography exhibition curated by Bruce Brown featuring 10 photographers spanning the entire coast of Maine.
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