art current: New Sculpture by Andrew White and Jared Cowan

 

Rockland's Asymmetrick Arts has a terrific show of sculptural work by owner Jared Cowan and Andy White up. Andy especially shines with some really impressive, powerful pieces.
http://www.freepressonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=50&SubSectionID=72&ArticleID=34382&TM=54850.94

Andrew White:
above - gaston, 2014, wood, paint, rubber
below - untitled, 2014, steel, wood, rubber, lead, aluminum

art current: Quilts from Gee's Bend at the Penobscot Marine Museum

 

A rare opportunity in Maine to see quilts made by African American women in the Alabama town of Gee's Bend. http://www.freepressonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=50&SubSectionID=72&ArticleID=34137&TM=57306.36

top: Lucy Mingo
bottom: Stella Mae Pettway

art current: Barbara Sullivan at the Caldbeck

 

Fresco artist Barbara Sullivan is taking her medium of choice in new and exciting directions.
http://www.freepressonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=50&SubSectionID=268&ArticleID=33839&TM=58115.1

 

 

Portland Phoenix: Richard Tuttle Print Retrospective

The Bowdoin College Museum of Art has mounted Richard Tuttle's first print retrospective.

http://portland.thephoenix.com/arts/159113-inquiry-under-pressure/

 

art current: Dianna Rust at Jonathan Frost

Photographer Dianna Rust specializes in historical and alternative processes. This show at Rockland's Jonathan Frost Gallery and Frame Shop is a great opportunity to see cyanotypes and lumen prints from three of her series.
http://www.freepressonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=50&SubSectionID=72&ArticleID=33556&TM=43463.72

art current: Monhegan, The Unfailing Muse

 

This year marks the quadricentennial of Captain John Smith's 1614 landing at Monhegan Island, 12 miles off the coast of what is now Maine. One of the events celebrating this occasion is the exhibition The Unfailing Muse: Monhegan at the Island Institute's Archipelago Fine Arts Gallery, Rockland. It is an eclectic show of work by 26 artists with a connection to the island.
Pictured here is Leo by Mike Stiler and a detail of the installation Go Inside the Stone by Kate Cheney Chappell.
http://freepressonline.com/ 
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art current: Hands On at the Maine Media Gallery

 

Rockport's Maine Media Workshops + College just opened new studios for book arts and alternative process photography. In conjunction with that event, their Maine Media Gallery is showing a small group of works mostly by faculty members. Images are of work by Rebecca Goodale, Peter and Donna Thomas, Alan Vlach, and Anastasia Weigle.
http://freepressonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=50&SubSectionID=72&ArticleID=33062&TM=37716.36