Portland Phoenix: Sophia Narrett at SPACE

 

Sophia Narrett's aqueous paintings and intricate embroideries draw on Romanticism, literary works, song lyrics, music videos, and reality shows. 
http://portland.thephoenix.com/arts/154192-sophia-narretts-update-on-the-romantics/ 

 

art current: Susan Headley Van Campen and Scott Kelley at Dowling Walsh

 

 

These two solos at the Dowling Walsh Gallery in Rockland, Maine, are a study in contrasts.
http://freepressonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=50&SubSectionID=72&ArticleID=26188&TM=32147.56

 

 

above: Scott Kelley

below: Susan Headley Van Campen



Portland Phoenix: Changing Parameters

I have taken the current rather unusual exhibition schedule of thirteen three-day two-person shows at Portland's Aucocisco Galleries as an occasion to reflect on the changing structure of the global art world.

http://portland.thephoenix.com/arts/153956-andy-verzosas-re-thinking-at-aucocisco/

top: Amy Ray; left: Tanya Fletcher

art current: Sublime Monotony at Aarhus Gallery

It may sound like an oxymoron but Sublime Monotony at Belfast's Åarhus Gallery offers up some pretty great work.
http://www.freepressonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=50&SubSectionID=72&ArticleID=25913&TM=48609.02

above: Clint Fulkerson
below: Gabriella D'Italia