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!