Portland Phoenix: Elizabeth Cashin McMillen and Duane Paluska at CMCA

This is a review for the Portland Phoenix about a somewhat surprising pairing of a painter and a sculptor - the paintings seem to shout, and the sculptures, placed in the center of the space, appear to quietly think their own part.

http://portland.thephoenix.com/arts/121800-painter-and-sculptor-converse-at-cmca/

top: Elizabeth Cashin McMillen, Untitled

below: Duane Paluska, Ahab

art current: Paul Caponigro at the Farnsworth Art Museum

Review of the Farnsworth's survey of five decades of photographs by Paul Caponigro:

http://freepressonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=50&SubSectionID=268&ArticleID=12945

art current: Celebrating Robert Hamilton

There is currently a flurry of activity around the late artist Robert Hamilton, and this is a write-up of an event that happened on May 14 in Belfast, Maine.

http://freepressonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=61&SubSectionID=172&ArticleID=12667&TM=64920.27

art current: Dialogue with Dennis Pinette

Dennis and i found the portraits above extremely pertinent to our exchange about his work and Romanticism.

http://freepressonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=50&SubSectionID=72&ArticleID=12423&TM=41390.07

art current: The Portland Museum of Art Biennial

My review of the 2011 Biennial at the Portland Museum of Art. I could have written so much more, for instance about how a new, young generation is looking back at Warhol and generally art of the 1960s and 70s.

http://freepressonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=50&SubSectionID=72&ArticleID=12169&TM=33999.77

art current: A Studio Visit with Lois Anne

Another busy artist's studio on Rockland Maine's Main Street.

http://freepressonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=50&SubSectionID=72&ArticleID=11897&TM=46110.68

art current: Colin Page

Here is a link to my review of Colin Page's show at the Camden Public Library. It was a great opportunity to see really recent work - all from this winter - and to watch this very talented plein air painter develop.

http://freepressonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=50&SubSectionID=72&ArticleID=11662&TM=51664.98