Portland Phoenix: Lori Nix

Brooklyn-based photographer Lori Nix currently has a small show at the University of Maine Museum of Art. Definitely worth checking out!

http://portland.thephoenix.com/arts/133077-time-travel-in-miniature/

interjections

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

–Saul Bellow

art current: Gardiner Artists at Waterfall Arts

This show includes the work of eight artists living and working in and around Gardiner, Maine.

http://freepressonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=50&SubSectionID=268&ArticleID=17077

above: Nancy Keenan Barron

below: Karen Adrienne

interjections

The paradise for which we often long is the imagination and its projections; it represents artificial perfection. While it is the equal and opposite of confusion and disappointment, it would take the latter to imagine the former. Paradise always includes the heartache that came, that had to come, before that imagined perfection.

– Isaac Layman

art current: A Dialogue with Thomas O'Donovan

This is an interview with the founder and owner of Harbor Square Gallery in Rockland. He is an interesting character with an unusual vision.

http://freepressonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=50&SubSectionID=72&ArticleID=16909&TM=54111.76