art current: Charles Wilder Oakes at Asymmetrick Arts

This is about the visionary and narrative paintings by Charles Wilder Oakes, a mid-coast Maine native.
http://freepressonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=61&SubSectionID=172&ArticleID=20647&TM=56795.1

Portland Phoenix: William Wegman at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Wegman's World is upon us: http://portland.thephoenix.com/arts/141562-wegmans-world-of-lateral-and-literal-logic/

interjections

What invariably and indisputably makes things art are the meanings we give them, which can turn a little nothing into a significant something, and give a potential liability a touch of poetry. 

– Holland Cotter

Portland Phoenix: Isabelle Pelissier

A review of Isabelle Pelissier's sensitive installation at Coleman Burke Gallery in Brunswick, Maine.

http://portland.thephoenix.com/arts/140916-lines-of-steel-and-graphite/

art current: Jesse Gillespie at Pascal Hall

Jesse Gillespie is a young artist working with found objects. His art successfully walks the line between abstraction and representation, forcing us to remain in a state of not-knowing.
 
http://freepressonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=50&SubSectionID=72&ArticleID=20349&TM=39978.46