Get out…!
March is the no-man’s land between winter and spring in northern New England and a great reason to put down the remote, shove back the computer chair and head out the door to photography shows and exhibits. If you do, you’ll find your artistic or aesthetic blood will begin to thaw along with the longer days and you’ll be all the better for it.
NEEDS YOUR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION:
The Myths: Artists’ Reception: Thursday March 8, 4-6. (Panel to include Susan Danly, Senior Curator, Portland Musem of Art.)
Review: Maine Sunday Telegram, March 11, 2012 – click here to read it!
Hours: Tues – Fri 11-4, Sat 11-5, Univ. Southern Maine Gallery/Gorham. Curated by Heather Frederick. Last day: April 4
Amy Wilton•Abigail Wellman•Rose Marasco•Cig Harvey•Jesseca Ferguson•Bev Conway•Sharon Arnold
Not a Child©Amy Wilton. All Rights Reserved
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5 Guys’ Eyes on Portland – Saturday, March 10, 6:30 – 9:30, Peloton Labs, 795 Congress St., Portland Clay Atkinson•Greg Burns•Jim Casey•George Hixon•Harold McWilliams.
THROUGH MARCH:
Portraits: Mat Thorne & Sally Dennison. Hours: Thurs – Sun 12-5, Addison Woolley Gallery, 132 Washington Ave., Portland. Curated by Bruce Brown. Last day: April 1.
Review: Maine Sunday Telegram, March 11 – click here to read it.
Pattie©Sally Dennison. All Rights Reserved.
Making Faces: Photographic Portraits of Actors and Artists. Hours: Daily, Tues – Sun, Portland Museum of Art, Portland. Last day: April 8.
LONGER:
Tanja Alexia Hollander – Are You Really My Friend? Hours: Daily, Tues – Sun, Portland Museum of Art, Portland. Last day: April 8.
Flash Forward. Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. Last day: May 4.
SOON:
John Goodman. Hours: Mon-Sat 10-5, University of Maine Museum of Art. Opens: April 6 through June 9.
Father’s Day, Coney Island, 2006©John Goodman, Silver gelatin print
Courtesy of Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston
NOT HERE, BUT NOW:
Modernist Photography: 1910-1950. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, through April 1
Zoe Strauss: Ten Years. Philadelphia Museum of Art, through April 22. Link to slideshow.
Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage. Smithsonian American Art Museum, through May 20.
Silver, Salt and Sunlight: Early Photography in Britain and France. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, through August 19. Blog Posting on this exhibit: VoxPhotographs March 13 – click here to read it.
A New Vision: Modernist Photography. Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH, through May 13.
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See you out and about!
March 10, 2012 at 11:09 pm
A little bit of a drive, but the show at University of Southern Maine in Gorham is quite rewarding and well worth the trip. Titled “The Myths”, the exhibit’s subject matter seems to be centered on women’s perception of themselves, and the 7 women artists featured each approach the subject with their own viewpoint and distinct individual techniques. The variety of method is expansive, extending from fairly straight ahead B& W photography of Amy Wilton, the small photography/mixed media collages by Jessica Ferguson, the quirky, tongue-in-cheek large cyanotype color prints of domestic vignettes by Cig Harvey, the surreal photographic self portrait collages of Sharon Arnold, Abigail Wellman’s colorfully imagined and almost cinematic photos printed on metal, Rose Marasco’s large pigment prints of metaphorical “Interiors”, both physical and mental, of magazine and mass media photos of women projected upon room interiors in her home and re-photographed to resemble dream like camera obscura landscapes, and finally, even more obscure, Bev Conway’s very fragile and extremely light sensitive women’s portraits, created from an alternative process using boiled onion chemistry, that are covered by protective velvet flaps that must be lifted to be viewed.
Altogether, this visual and technical variety makes for a highly engaging and imaginative photo exhibit, well worth a visit before The Myth moves on….
March 11, 2012 at 12:09 am
Thank you for this Dave!! It’s only 15 miles max. from Portland. Check out the Maine Sunday Telegram tomorrow for Bob Keyes’ take on it!
I so appreciate your comments on the blog…
H.