art current: The Dilemma of Memory

Under the title The Dilemma of Memory, artworks and poems that address the ongoing impact of the Holocaust and other genocides have been gathered at the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine.
http://www.freepressonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=50&SubSectionID=72&ArticleID=35980&TM=50845.67




above: Leonard Meiselman, Enigma 2
below: Dorothy Schwartz, Boots

art current: Work by Dyan Berk at Miles

A hospital may not be the likeliest place to see some fresh and energizing work, but that's others' loss - Dyan Berk is showing two-dimensional work of great spirit at the Miles Memorial Hospital in Damariscotta.

http://www.freepressonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=50&SubSectionID=72&ArticleID=35802&TM=40106.2


left: Hiccup
below: Fertile Myrtle 

interjections

"…it seems like the big distinction between good art and so-so art lies somewhere in the art’s heart’s purpose, the agenda of the consciousness behind the text. It’s got something to do with love. With having the discipline to talk out of the part of yourself that can love instead of the part that just wants to be loved."

 

- David Foster Wallace

 

 

art current: CMCA Biennial

 

The Center for Maine Contemporary Art 2014 Biennial is far from representative but it includes a wide range of media and conceptual approaches.

http://www.freepressonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=50&SubSectionID=268&ArticleID=35623

above: Adam John Manley
below: Scott Davis, Jeff Woodbury

Portland Phoenix: Whoever Said Painting Was Dead?

 

Tom Hall and Joshua Ferry provide powerful counterarguments.
http://portland.thephoenix.com/arts/160163-whoever-said-painting-was-dead/

above: Ferry
below: Hall 

 

art current: A Dialogue with Two Belfast Poets Laureate

The topic of this column is not visual art but poetry. Two Belfast poets laureate, Jacob Fricke and Ellen Sander, speak to the importance of poetry, especially for youth.
http://www.freepressonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=50&SubSectionID=72&ArticleID=35169&TM=37909.69

art current: Daniel Anselmi at Carver Hill

 

All of Daniel Anselmi's two- and three-dimensional work is sophisticated, but his monotype and collage Monhegan Series is especially subtle, loose, and suggestive.

http://www.freepressonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=50&SubSectionID=72&ArticleID=34904&TM=50749.25