art current: Realism at Haynes Galleries

 

Haynes Galleries in Thomaston, Maine, presents two concurrent shows of painters Linden Frederick and Vincent Giarrano - two realists pursuing very different directions.
http://www.freepressonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=50&SubSectionID=72&ArticleID=26973&TM=61050.14

 

 

top: Linden Frederick

above: Vincent Giarrano



art current: A Dialogue with Waterfall Arts About Community

Alan Crichton and Martha Piscuskas of Waterfall Arts

(Lorna Crichton not pictured)

 

Three co-founders of Maine's Waterfall Arts on art and community.
http://www.freepressonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=50&SubSectionID=72&ArticleID=26724&TM=45031.38

art current: Four Shows at CMCA

 

The Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport opened its season exhibiting the work of Claire Seidl, Duncan Hewitt, Anna Hepler, Peter Soriano, Crystal Cawley, and Lesia Sochor.
http://www.freepressonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=50&SubSectionID=72&ArticleID=26419&TM=65415.48

above: an installation view of Anna Hepler's work

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