Portland Phoenix: Rose Marasco at the Portland Museum of Art

Photographer Rose Marasco's first museum retrospective shows off her endless inquisitiveness.
http://portlandphoenix.me/2015/04/29/arts/art/from-invention-to-the-ordinary-five-decades-of-photography-by-rose-marasco/

Portland Phoenix: Michel Droge at the June Fitzpatrick Gallery

The show ranges from large atmospheric abstractions and small cartoonish narratives to darkly moody etchings.

http://portlandphoenix.me/2015/04/15/arts/art/it-all-adds-up-michel-droges-tiny-catastrophes-matter/

 

art current: Bearing Fruit at the Maine Farmland Trust Gallery

A spirited collection of ceramics by Anne Alexander, multi-media objects by Leah Gauthier, photographs by Jacinda Martinez, and fiber art by Julie H. Rose.

http://www.freepressonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=50&SubSectionID=72&ArticleID=38055&TM=42151.74

from top: Rose, Martinez, Gauthier, Alexander

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