art current: Rackstraw Downes at the PMA

It may be presumptuous of me to find fault with an acknowledged "genius," but here is my personal take on Rackstraw Downes' exhibition at Maine's Portland Museum of Art.

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art current: A Studio Visit with Susan Metzger

This is the first of probably several studio visits with artists working along Rockland's Main Street. Susan is a landscape painter who abstracts and condenses landscape views into luminous bands of color.

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art current: Drawings at Caldbeck Gallery

This art current column is about a large exhibition at Rockland's Caldbeck that leaves "drawing" very losely defined. The image is graphite on Mylar by Bill Ronalds.

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