Portland Phoenix: Salt, Silver, and Sun: Historic Processes by Photographers Today

This beautiful show at Portland's PhoPa Gallery explores how contemporary photographers use historical processes.

http://portlandphoenix.me/2015/04/01/arts/art/past-and-present-perspectives-contemporary-photographers-click-with-historical-processes/

Kari Wehrs, Alex

 

art current: Recent Acquisitions at the Farnsworth Art Museum

While there are many more recently acquired artworks on view throughout the galleries of the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, this review focuses on James Fitzgerald's depictions of Mount Katahdin.
http://www.freepressonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=50&SubSectionID=72&ArticleID=37841&TM=39394.37

Portland Phoenix: Karen Kraven at MECA's ICA

 

Canadian Karen Kraven explores the difference between appearance and substance encountered daily.

http://portlandphoenix.me/2015/03/18/arts/art/nothing-is-what-it-seems-karen-kravens-inquiries-into-deception/

art current: The Coast & the Sea - Marine and Maritime Art in America

 

This exhibition at the Portland Museum of Art was organized by the New York Historical Society and has been touring the country.
http://www.freepressonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=50&SubSectionID=268&ArticleID=37575

Robert Havell Jr. (United States, born England, 1793-1878), View of Hudson River from Tarrytown Heights, circa 1842, oil on canvas, 22 x 30 inches. New-York Historical Society, Gift of Harry Peck Havell, 1946.179

art current: A Dialogue with David Troup

 

One of the many hats David Troup wears in midcoast Maine is being a company member of the Everyman Repertory Theatre.

http://www.freepressonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=50&SubSectionID=72&ArticleID=37132&TM=46710.46

art current: Richard Lee: Paper Trails

 

Richard Lee was passionate about handmade paper.

http://www.freepressonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=50&SubSectionID=72&ArticleID=37344&TM=39575.91

art current: 3D Contemporary Works at the Farnsworth Art Museum

 

Rockland's Farnsworth Art Museum has installed a wide range of contemporary sculptures from their permanent collection in one gallery. Artists include Leonard Baskin, John Bisbee, Eric Hopkins, Louise Nevelson, Celeste Roberge, and Brian White.

http://www.freepressonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=50&SubSectionID=72&ArticleID=36929&TM=49456.45

above: John Bisbee's Zero; below: Celeste Roberge's Northern Archives: Geographies