Art review

The Turner Prize has had a tough few years (don’t we all). There was The Covid One (2020), in which ten scholarships replaced one prize, The Collectives One (2021) in which all the shortlisted applicants were artistic collectives and, perhaps most intriguingly, The One Where All The Artists Clubbed TogetherRead More →

When Hanya Yanagihara is A little life was released in 2015, I found it essential. The cover, a black and white photograph of a man in pain (or in ecstasy?), followed me through the subway, the beach and the airport. When a friend finally gave me the book, it becameRead More →

Tessa Greene O’Brien, “Layla” Photo by Aliza Eliazarov You might not think Maine-born and raised painter Tessa Greene O’Brien and Chinese-American Jamie Chan (based in Brooklyn, New York) have much in common. Their cultural backgrounds are quite dissimilar. O’Brien is a mature painter who has exhibited widely, run a galleryRead More →

ON ENTERING Gallery 1A of the Djanogly Gallery, one sees a series of dismembered torsos – the arms of all the figures missing – of the crucified Christ in molded jesmonite, mostly white, but with gold and pink also used, and hung upside down ropes whose ends trail on theRead More →

Click to enlarge Luc Awtry Details of Clark Russell’s “Riddleville” installation The Amy E. Tarrant Gallery at the Flynn has been largely empty since the start of the pandemic. Now the spaceRead More →

You can still go to Holmegaard Værk to see ‘Picasso – A Tribute to Ceramics’ before the end of the show on October 23. A nice day trip Holmegaard Værk, which opened in the former Holmegaard Glassworks in 2020, is a new museum dedicated to glass, ceramics and design. It’sRead More →

Nestled between two unassuming buildings on Livingston Avenue in Livingston Park and accessible only by an alleyway, Dream Clinic Project Space is a haven for artists looking for a space to experiment, create and explore. explore their practice without the looming specter of capitalism overshadowing their art. visions. A largeRead More →

Ryan Adams, “Out Grow” Images courtesy of the artist New galleries seem to be proliferating in Maine. One of them, Notch8 Gallery in Portland’s Old Port, is holding its second exhibition, a group of paintings by Ryan Adams titled “Second Season,” which runs through November 12. (Next week I’ll beRead More →

“Islands” oil on canvas, by Zach Horn. Maria Skillings / Time Record. Famous for its shipbuilding and nautical artifacts, the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath has gone beyond its standards to display the work of a living artist. Artist Zach Horn has taken his love of the Maine coast andRead More →

EDMUND DE WAAL’s installation in Waddesdon is his second exhibition in the Rothschild country house, built in the style of an 18th century castle nestled in the Chilterns. The potter’s first exhibition at the Manoir in 2012 comes two years after the literary success of The hare with amber eyeswhichRead More →

Maine, 2016 Photo by Judy Glickman Lauder/courtesy Maine Jewish Museum Sometimes we don’t know what the artists themselves collect until they die. It turned out that Andy Warhol was an obsessed lover of cookie jars, eclectic furniture, jewelry, and Native American artifacts. Other times they are quite public about theirRead More →

You will forgive those of us tasked with writing about art if we have a little trouble describing the work of Malcolm Cochran. Requiem. It is, on the face of it, a work that resists categorization to such a degree that even the simple act of stating what it isRead More →

Click to enlarge Courtesy of Paul Rogers Photography “Arise” by Leslie Fry; Last year, Stowe’s annual outdoor sculpture exhibition, “Exposed,” spoke to visitors: the textual works expressed specific messages, often concerning ongoingRead More →

A rainbow dances on the pavement outside the recently moved Sarah Gormley Gallery, nestled in the city center on the High Street between Long and Gay streets. Often a symbol of hope and renewal, this cheerful addition to the gallery is not a planned installation, but rather a chance markerRead More →

The first dictionary entry for “queer” defines the word as meaning “strange; strange.” As we know, this word has taken on many other meanings, depending on who uses it and what it is intended for. Two galleries are currently showing work that gives us the opportunity to contemplate the manyRead More →

It’s a good thing Walt Whitman isn’t here to hear from America today. I expect that whatever words he chose to describe the sound of contemporary America, singing wouldn’t be one of them. Of course, Whitman also didn’t write his joyful tribute to America’s many voices at a particularly harmoniousRead More →

Click to enlarge Pamela Polston ©️ Seven days “The Wayward Bench” by George Sawyer; “Mud Season 9 Patch” Quilt by Rosalind Daniels Writing about the annual Art at the Kent exhibitionRead More →

Art teacher Shauna Merriman showed her work at the Munro Gallery at an event held at the Bobbitt Visual Arts Center. The pieces featured were “Jam”, “Leggings”, “Keller” and “Legs”, while some of Merriman’s greatest works were shown through photos (Photo by Madison Wycoff). From 3-6 p.m. Friday, the BobbitRead More →

My late summer reviews focused on two centuries of Maine artists. But a pair of museum exhibits look further. “Surrealist Play Gone Astray” at the Portland Museum of Art (until October 23) is a gem of a show about this emphatically eccentric movement, which was concentrated primarily in Europe butRead More →

Willie Little, my own little corner, 2022. Installation at Oregon Contemporary, photo by Mario Gallucci Installation by Willie Little at Oregon Contemporary, In my little corner, consists of a series of portals that transport the viewer outside the gallery’s four walls and to other times, places and corners of theRead More →

“THE Vanity of Small Differences” is an exhibition of six huge tapestries by Grayson Perry, each inspired by William Hogarth The progress of the rakess, charts a stage in the journey of social mobility undertaken by the young Tim Rakewell (an ironic reference to Tom Rakewell, the protagonist of Hogarth).Read More →

For Carolee Schneemann, the process of creating art was just as important as the finished product, a notion that connects more than 50 years of the artist’s work captured in the new Barbican retrospective Carolee Schneemann: The Politics of the Bodyuntil January 2023. From brushstrokes on his first canvases toRead More →

In a career that spans nearly 50 years, Queen Brooks has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. She received praise from writers and critics while winning all sorts of honors and awards. Combine that with her teaching career and public works, and it becomes apparent that Brooks has a resumeRead More →

Gail Spaien, “Landscape observed 7”, 2022, acrylic on linen, 48 x 48 inches Photo by Luc Demers In case it’s been missed, there’s so much going on this summer in the Maine art scene that many times I’ve written about multiple shows in a review to try and cover more.Read More →

Landon Newton, “Ordered Liberty”. Photo by Carolyn Wachnicki, courtesy of Space Two Portland institutions are commemorating anniversaries this year: Space and the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art & Design. “Assembly” at Space reaffirms the collaborative and experimental approach to art that has characterized the organization forRead More →

The early Church gathered in the homes of members to share the meal at which Christ is received. Although first-century houses looked very different from the archetypal house drawn by Western children, Richard Woods’ 2D cartoon of a terraced house, built to scale (7.5 meters high) and spanning the largeRead More →

Ellen De Mejeir, “4th Generation Bill” (2020), oil on canvas, 19.7″ x 15.7″ Courtesy of Unix Gallery It is often said that there is nothing new in art, and it certainly can seem that way at times. But there’s a lot of value in revisiting familiar genres if you haveRead More →

Posted on August 12, 2022 By Harold C. Ford “Whatever Gets You Through the Night” is the current exhibition at Mott-Warsh Gallery (MW), 815 S. Saginaw St. (corner of Court and Saginaw Streets), Flint. The exhibition ends on August 20. According to Stephanie James, Director and Curator of the Mott-WarshRead More →

Installation view of “ENCHIRIDION: driveway, spline, station” at PICA. Image by Evan LaLonde, courtesy of the artist Otherwise for the grand entrance to the sidony o’neal exhibition “ENCHIRIDION: alley, spline, station” (“E: ASR”), I don’t know where to start this story. And even though I’ve decided to start with theRead More →

James Fitzgerald, “Thunderstorm, Monhegan”, ca. 1955, watercolor and India ink, 15 x 21 inches, Promised Gift of Stephen S. Fuller & Susan D. Bateson It’s amazing to think that the painter James Fitzgerald, the subject of ‘The Odyssey of James Fitzgerald’ at the Monhegan Museum of Art & History (untilRead More →

RESEARCH has demonstrated associations between religious beliefs and patriarchal attitudes. Higher religiosity is apparently associated with stronger patriarchal beliefs. Although no religion condones violence against women, religions have been and are a powerful source of patriarchal orientations. If this is true, the British Museum exhibition “Feminine Power: The Divine toRead More →

Luc Demers, “Ambient 31 1”, 2018, archival pigment print, 16 x 16 inches Images courtesy of the artists In the popular mind, the process may get a bad rap. It involves a sort of detached automaticity or imposed order that strives to regulate or “normalize” that which is inherently variable.Read More →

Milton Avery was “a colossus of twentieth-century painting”, said Cal Revely-Calder in The Daily Telegraph. Although his name may not be familiar to many Europeans, he was a prominent figure in American art. Avery (1885-1965) began his half-century career as an Impressionist and ended it as an Abstract Expressionist. InRead More →

Evaluation: 9/10 ? 1 – Absolute hot waste 2 – A kind of lukewarm waste 3 – Severely flawed design 4 – Some advantages, many disadvantages 5 – Acceptably imperfect 6 – Good enough to buy on sale 7 – Great, but not best in class 8 – Fantastic, withRead More →

Amid the explosion of vibrant summer flowers, larger-than-life animal topiaries, and extensive collection of Chihuly glass, it might just be a little too easy to overlook the art exhibit. in progress in the gallery of the Franklin Park Conservatory. Don’t. It is fair to say that in many ways DialogsRead More →

Carlos Gamez de Francisco, “Flowers for Fasting”, Chromaluxe aluminum print, 45 by 30 inches Images courtesy of Portland Art Gallery When Cuban-born artist Carlos Gamez de Francisco was a young student, he, like many aspiring artists, copied masterpieces by other painters. It started with Monet. But a prescient professor toldRead More →

“Struts” sculptures by Lynn Duryea. Photos courtesy of Corey Daniels Gallery The first summer exhibitions at Corey Daniels Gallery in Wells offer an intriguing and idiosyncratic mix of media, genres and styles that, in one way or another, are all part of a holistic vision. Two shows – “13 Ceramists”Read More →

At the 1929 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Glyn Philpot showed his portrait Lady Lloyd of Dolobranplus three previously unseen depictions of a Jamaican male model: two paintings, The Triple Epiphany and Balthazarand bronze sculpture Jamaican man walking. In the 1920s, the RA was not known for the diversity of itsRead More →

LIFTING the lid off a familiar music box, but finding the figure, movement and music radically changed, is the feeling of seeing “Masterpieces of Bergen”. Gone is the image of Munch as a master of melancholy. Instead, a range of works borrow from Post-Impressionism and Pointillism, before moving on toRead More →

Installation of Duncan Hewitt’s “Ten Cardboard Pieces” at the Buoy Gallery in Kittery. Photos by Lauren Zito “I’m not sure what it is,” admits Duncan Hewitt in his artist statement about the sculptures in “nearby invisible,” his solo exhibition at Buoy in Kittery (through August 6). “I know what isRead More →

Placeholder while loading article actions Anyone taking the most direct route through the American University Museum to “Caribbean Transitions” will first encounter a mobile in Joiri Minaya which hangs several photographic cutouts in the breeze. The individual pieces are shaped like body parts, with images of women on one sideRead More →

Harold Garde, “Nude Woman” (2001), acrylic on canvas, 44-1/2″ x 55-1/2″ Photos by Dave Clough Photography Two years ago, I wrote one of my first art reviews for this article on the painter Harold Garde. The works then on display at Waterfall Arts in Belfast, where Garde maintained a summerRead More →

Click to enlarge Courtesy of the Hall Art Foundation “White Squad X” Opening the door to the old cowshed Hall Art Foundation in Reading, a visitor is confronted with – there isRead More →

“Dozier Bell” at the Sarah Bouchard Gallery in Woolwich. Photo courtesy of Sarah Bouchard Gallery Let’s be clear: Dozier Bell is a great artist. By this I mean a master, such as one whose work will be discussed and analyzed in art history curricula a century from now, just asRead More →

Installation view of Amelia Clark’s work Degree Exhibition 2022, Edinburgh College of Art **** The pandemic and its lockdowns have been difficult for everyone and tragic for too many. Nevertheless, one must have compassion for the students who have seen their education so severely disrupted at a critical time inRead More →

Click to enlarge Pamela Polston ©️ Seven days “A distance that draws us” Standing in a gallery surrounded by paintings by Bonnie Acker is highly recommended. You may find that youRead More →

Detail from Can You See My Disguise Part II by Ruby Kuye-Kline Diploma Exhibition 2022, Glasgow School of Art **** With the loss of its glorious Mackintosh building, the Glasgow School of Art, architecturally speaking, has come a long way down. In Look Back in Anger, Jimmy Porter bitterly recallsRead More →

Martha Miller, “The Visitor”, 2021, charcoal on paper, 45″ x 29″ Photo courtesy of George Marshall Store Gallery “Curate” can be an intimidating term. For those less immersed in the art world, a “curated” exhibition often comes with associations of exclusivity, snobbery, intellectual rigor, and a level of scholarship thatRead More →

Welcome to Wet Paint in the Wild, an extension of Annie Armstrong’s gossip column in which she gives art world insiders a disposable camera so they can give us a glimpse of their mad industry corner. I’ve long suspected that my old friend Jameson Johnson might be the most dynamicRead More →

Placeholder while loading article actions Long before ragas, chicken tikka or Bollywood films were exported from India, international demand for textiles from the subcontinent was strong. These items did not simply move from local bazaars to distant markets involuntarily. Many decorative fabrics were made expressly for customers in places asRead More →

Placeholder while loading article actions The kind of person depicted in the National Portrait Gallery’s “The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today” is quite different from those typically depicted in such institutions. The subjects of the show’s 42 portraits are not rich, famous or politically powerful, and are less likely toRead More →

Thaddeus Radell, “Prodigal Son”, 2022, oil pastel, graphite and wax crayon on Bristol paper, 18 x 24 inches Photo by Erin Little It’s always surprising to me how people rank art genres (or almost anything) as good or bad or better than – especially when it comes to abstraction versusRead More →

Click to enlarge Courtesy of Kelly Holt “Gratitude in Time of Loss #1-611” by Daryl Burtnett While some recent arts have reveled in an ex-pandemic ethos – there’s more to life thanRead More →

Natasha Mayers, “Oil Wars”, acrylic on canvas, 18″ x 24″. Photos courtesy of Station Zero Satire is a powerful weapon that can cut like a knife. It deploys ridicule to expose the absurdities at the very foundation of our ideas, carrying the potential to cut through illusions and propaganda andRead More →

Click to enlarge Pamela Polston ©️ Seven days “Thomas Armory I” by Kehinde Wiley The narrative is now familiar: the museum closes during the pandemic, takes stock of itself during itsRead More →

Deputy Landis, “mp13.14” Photo by Gary Lowell There are many well-known art venues in Portland that regularly appear in this column. But smaller, quieter spots off the beaten path are also worth seeking out. Two of them have been around for a while, but have new shapes. Ocean House GalleryRead More →

Click to enlarge Pamela Polston ©️ Seven days “Cardboard slave kit, mix of freedmen” by Roberto Visani When the pandemic arrived in 2020, Roberto Visani didn’t just lock himself in withRead More →

New to the Indigo Arts Alliance? So run – don’t walk – to the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at Maine College of Art & Design. The vitality this organization brings to our community and to the Maine art scene is vividly displayed in the exhibit “Visions of Our Future;Read More →

Thirty people standing in a room all look different. The abstract portraits of 30 people from the Nuquist Gallery of the TW Wood Gallery are also all unique. Instead of physical characteristics, these abstract portraits consider what lies inside their subjects – layers of emotions, stories, dreams – through color,Read More →

In his brilliant 2012 book ‘Far from the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity’, Andrew Solomon offers a theory of ‘vertical’ and ‘horizontal’ identities. Vertical identities are inherited down the line; i.e. parental expectations, culture and ethnicity, socio-economic status, etc. But, especially for children with physical, mental andRead More →

Thirty people standing in a room all look different. The abstract portraits of 30 people from the Nuquist Gallery of the TW Wood Gallery are also all unique. Instead of physical characteristics, these abstract portraits consider what lies inside their subjects – layers of emotions, stories, dreams – through color,Read More →

Click to enlarge Installation view of ‘The Return’, an exhibition by Romina Gonzales at the Visitor Center in Newburgh. On the right, “Sibilant III” (on the ground) and “Desert Spring” (on the wall). ArtistRead More →

Click to enlarge Courtesy “Nine Pins” by an unknown maker The pandemic has had at least one good result: accessibility to museum collections. Shelburne Museum is among the institutions that have successfullyRead More →

For centuries, artists have used series as a way to explore the phenomena of nature, light, time, space and color. From 1890 to 1891, Claude Monet related his perceptions of light on 25 canvases representing haystacks in the fields surrounding Giverny. Josef Albers began painting hundreds of variations on theRead More →

It really isn’t hard to grasp the gist of “Nyeema Morgan: Soft Power.” Hard margins. (until May 14), the show that kicks off the spring art season at the Grant Wahlquist Gallery in downtown Portland. At least superficially. Even those unfamiliar with art history will recognize iconic paintings such asRead More →

By Charles Giuliano Strict beauty: prints by Sol LeWitt is an irresistible opportunity to immerse yourself in an important aspect of the artist’s work Strict beauty: prints by Sol LeWittat the Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, until June 11. “In conceptual art, the idea or concept is the mostRead More →

In 2016, Quartz, an economic analysis organization made up of journalists, surveyed 20 museums in seven countries to determine how much work by 13 major artists was on display and how much remained in storage. Among their finds? “Overall, only 44% of the artworks included in the survey were onRead More →

As I get older, I wonder more and more about the place of family in my life. When I was younger, I was sure the purpose of being young was to escape where I came from, to become something bigger. Now, the more I distance myself from my family, theRead More →

The new Burrell collection will be open to the public on March 29. The Burrell Collection, Glasgow **** On March 29, the Burrell Collection reopens after a £68.25million refurbishment and six years of closure. The operators of Glasgow Life hope the new Burrell, repaired, relocated and fitted out for theRead More →

The word “garment” comes from the Old French word “guarantee“, a single garment, which derives from the Old French “garnish”— arm, arm, protect. Jump into 20th century Manhattan and the term “garmento” appears, slang for someone who works in the garment industry in the Garment District, the 1930s west ofRead More →

Many artists that the “Art World” has never heard of are only as good as the artists who take the trouble to make themselves known. To satisfy yourself, check out the exhibition of 20 paintings by Evanston artist Joan McLane. Artist Joan McLane. (Photo by Rebecca McLane) McLane’s paintings, representingRead More →

The idea of ​​a fabric-based show was in the air, says Laura Hughes. But it was an old photograph posted to Instagram by the Springfield History Museum – an image of people gathered around a quilt – that sparked the idea for “Quilt Bloc”, now on display at Ditch ProjectsRead More →

I Enjoy My Food, 2022, by Stephanie Dulson RSA New Contemporaries, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh **** Two major events feature in the Royal Scottish Academy’s busy calendar: the Annual Exhibition and New Contemporaries, which features works by artists selected by Academy members from the degree exhibitions of the five artRead More →

The current exhibition at Alice Gauvin Gallery, Portland’s newest commercial art gallery, is titled “Human/Nature” (until March 26). As with its last release, Gauvin brings together the work of multiple artists under one grand theme: nature’s ability “to threaten, comfort, nurture and impress – and through it all, somehow possessRead More →

I can’t remember what social media platform I was on when I first saw Pat Boas’ installation of wallpapers and paintings. The work is at Oregon Contemporary as part of the exhibition “Hallie Ford Fellows in the Visual Arts 2017 -2019”. Yet the moment I saw the abstract patterned wallpaperRead More →

Kurt Cobain at MTV’s Live and Loud, Pier 63, Seattle WA, December 13, 19931993 printed 2010color photographyAlice WheelerAmerican, born in 196127 x 40.5 in.Gift of Clinton T. Willour in honor of Greg Kucera and Larry Yocom.Courtesy of Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle.© Alice Wheeler Before leaving for the opening of kurtRead More →

Dana Schutz, The autopsy of Michael Jackson2005.Oil on canvas; 60 x 108 in.Collection of Vicki and Kent Logan.© Dana Schutz.Courtesy of the artist and Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York. The possibilities of painting Like the Denver Art Museum concurrent exhibit, Become Van Gogh, Dana Schutz: If the face had wheels,Read More →

Urban construction sites have a longstanding (and often ignored) ban on affixing advertisements and leaflets to the temporary construction barriers and plywood barricades surrounding them. This ban usually boils down to the simple directive, POST NO BILLS. In his latest exhibition at the Peggy R. McConnell Arts Center in Worthington,Read More →

What could a house on fire, a silhouette of a pumpkin and a hypnotic spiral have in common in a gallery? These amusing elements find root not just as occult curiosities, but as seminal tropes in twelve new paintings by Portland-based painter Olivia Faith Harwood. Currently playing on Fuller RosenRead More →

DANCE: Drawn from within, ‘Unveiled’ touches the soul Katakali Jana | Published on 19.02.22, 00:36 As dancer-choreographer Srijaini Ghosh (pictured, left) chose to assert her individuality while forging connections between epic, legend and her own classical training, one experienced the exquisite joy of watching a visceral performance which looked likeRead More →

The line is arguably the most fundamental tool in art, the cornerstone of drawing and painting, and an indispensable device for conveying perspective, depth, and dimension. Abstract expressionism is a possible exception, although even some of this depends on the line for its rhythm and energy (see Jackson Pollock). PaulRead More →

IN 2020, as an in-demand muralist, Lakwena Maciver (Features, August 28, 2020) created large-scale paintings on two public basketball courts in Martin Luther King Jr. Park, Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Working with the main forms of the components of the court, its bold and vibrant design combines geometric patterns with acidRead More →