Portland Phoenix: Piecing Together Meaning

 

This is a review of the exhibition Remix: Selections from the International Collage Center on view at the Bates College Museum of Art.

http://portland.thephoenix.com/arts/157404-piecing-together-meaning/

Radcliffe Bailey, Untitled, 2009, blanket;
Courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York

art current: A Dialogue with the Couple Behind Caldbeck Gallery

Cynthia Hyde and Jim Kinnealey opened their Rockland, Maine, gallery in 1982, which gives them a good perspective on the town's art scene.
http://www.freepressonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=50&SubSectionID=72&ArticleID=30754&TM=57668.53

art current: A Greenleaf and a Gamble

 

Rockland's Farnsworth Art Museum has two wonderful sculptures installed outside their education center. Between them, Ken Greenleaf's Structure Nights (1987) and Edwin E. Gamble's Long Reach (1974) cover a great range of artistic inspiration, formal vocabulary, and surface treatment.

http://freepressonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=50&SubSectionID=268&ArticleID=30336

top: Greenleaf; above: Gamble



 

Portland Phoenix: Back to Basics

The small exhibition Regarding the Forces of Nature at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art gathers work by 11 women artists.
http://portland.thephoenix.com/arts/157117-back-to-basics/

‘Double Cherry Blossoms’ Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 40 1/8 in., 1973, by Alma Woodsey Thomas (1891–1978). Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

 

art current: A Dialogue with Harold Garde, part 2

 

Second part of the conversation with Harold Garde, which focuses on advice to artists starting out.
http://freepressonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=50&SubSectionID=72&ArticleID=30129&TM=51862.93

art current: A Dialogue with Harold Garde, part 1

 

At 90, artist Harold Garde has some valuable insight into what it takes to get your work out there.
http://www.freepressonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=50&SubSectionID=72&ArticleID=30001&TM=62011.71

Portland Phoenix: Alice Spencer and Heather Perry

Alice Spencer and Heather Perry both look toward another culture and time for inspiration. They are currently showing together at Aucocisco Galleries in Portland, Maine.
http://portland.thephoenix.com/arts/156768-other-cultures-and-times/?page=1#TOPCONTENT

above: Heather Perry
below: Alice Spencer