George Lloyd: Amuse Bouche
September 17 - November 7 2020
Our first artist-in-residence, George Lloyd, has been hard at work, and we had hoped to exhibit the fruits of those labors this fall, but then a global pandemic hit. A full exhibition has been rescheduled to next year, but, in the meantime, we offer an appetizer - an amuse bouche.
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Distilled
August 20 2020 - October 17 2020
Featuring the captivating work of photographers Cynthia and John Orcutt, curated by Bruce Brown. The Orcutts beautifully document fragile spaces, both natural and manmade.
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Jon Imber Retrospective
August 6 - October 10 2020
A dazzling retrospective of the always brilliant and ever-evolving work of the late, great Boston and Maine based painter, Jon Imber (1955-2014). Early in my career, the content was the subject; the paint was the means to tell a story. Today, the paint itself is the conveyor of whatever it is that I need to say. ~Jon Imber, 2012
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Singular and Serial
July 9 - September 19 2020
Inspired by Catherine Kernan's book Singular and Serial: Contemporary Monotype and Monoprint, our eponymous exhibition, curated by Kernan, Chris Beneman, and Jane Goldman, brings the book into the gallery space, including monotypes and monoprints from two dozen artists featured in the book,
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Lin Lisberger: Gravity
June 11 - September 12 2020
Combining work from two of her series, Who’s the Victim? and Ladder and Bridge, Lin Lisberger explores fundamental forces that we often feel but do not fully understand, which more and more draw us into opposition.
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Architecture
June 11 - August 15 2020
Featuring David Clough, Jean Noon, Donald Peterson, Liv Kristin Robinson, Sarah Szwajkos, and Brian Vanden Brink, Architecture features beautifully constructed photographs of stunning and varied buildings. The exhibition is curated by Bruce Brown.
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DM Witman: Index
Reminiscent of herbarium records, DM Witman’s Index series records the flora of a small patch of intertidal marsh of the St. George River where she lives and works.
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Distilled
August 20, 2020 - October 17, 2020
Featuring work by photographers Cynthia and John Orcutt, curated by Bruce Brown.
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Floriography: The Language of Flowers
June 1 - August 1 2020
Our first post-lockdown exhibition, a stylistically diverse burst of floral-themed works by four talented female artists, couldn’t feel more timely, more life-affirming, or more richly evocative of spring’s unwavering optimism and the force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Artists: Eileen Gillespie, Beverly Hallam, Maret Hensick, and Marjorie Moskowitz.
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Gardenship: First Voyage
February 27 - July 3 2020
A vast, empty warehouse sat in the brown fields of Kearny Point waiting for someone with a vision to give it new life. An intrepid crew of thirteen Maine artists accepted the challenge, relishing the opportunity to build a new creative community out of an old navy yard. From little more than this notion and the space, Gardenship was created.
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Portland 2020
February 6 - June 6 2020
Our city, long noted for its rich and vibrant history, is developing a diverse and vital future and is thus the perfect subject to explore as we celebrate Maine’s bicentennial.
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Spotlight: Grace DeGennaro
January 16 - April 4 2020
Bridging Eastern and Western thought through ancient uses of pattern, symmetry and iconic symbolism found in traditional forms such as Byzantine mosaics, indigenous weavings and Tibetan mandalas, Grace DeGennaro’s work possesses a meditative quality evoking stillness, balance and harmony.
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Spotlight: Marc Leavitt
January 16 - April 4 2020
Informed by Hinduism, Buddhism, Zen, Tantric art, and the writings of Krishnamurti, Marc Leavitt’s Mithuna Series is an ongoing sequence of abstracted figurative paintings of multinational same-sex couples. Marc regards this vibrant, boldly colored body of work both as a humanistic expression of love and “a taking away of boundaries and violence.”
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Charlie Hewitt Prints
A new series of woodcut prints from Charlie Hewitt inspired by iconic New England images and the region’s connection to the sea.
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Eva Goetz: Think A Bot It
December 14 2019 - February 22 2020
Colorful and playful, Eva Goetz’s Think A Bot It installation is a space for wonder and discussion. Large friendly robots wave with coded messages and signals requesting that we HELP and STOP, LOOK and LISTEN, asking us to engage and think about the possibilities (and dangers) in our technological future..
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Paperwork
November 9 2019 - February 1 2020
An exhibition, curated by Bruce Brown, featuring works on paper by four artists: Karen Adrienne, Kathleen Florance, Frank Mauceri, and Munira Naqui. These artists employ painting, drawing, monotypes, and computer print processes to explore exciting, contemporary uses of one of our oldest materials for conveying thought and emotion.
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The Light We Share
November 23 2019 - February 1 2020
Curated by Bruce Brown, the exhibition features the work of five photographers working in Midcoast Maine: Paul Caponigro, Dirk McDonnell, Ni Rong, Eleanor Owen Kerr, and Anna Mikuskova.
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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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