Greenhut Galleries’ “Portland Show” has set a standard for biennials in Maine, offering a consistently excellent show. It has never been a perfect show, and I don’t like every work this year, but each selected artist is worthy of consideration. Even the piece that appeals to me least, Chris Eaton’s “5th Day Slow Rider,” is…
A native Portlander, Tom Hall appreciates Congress Square as the core of the city, a hub and spokes with essential public space and stunning historic buildings. Front and center is the Portland Museum of Art, built in 1983. It’s the masterpiece of architect Henry Cobb, Hall says, and “certainly the most significant building built in…
“Focus: Printmaking” at Greenhut is a gallery-curated survey of regional printmakers. Portland features several active print shops and the outcome of these gathering points is a robust and ambitious community. That is apparent even from the first work visible in the exhibition, Jeff Woodbury’s “Guns Like Water,” a large 14-color screen print of what appears…
Kathleen Galligan’s beautiful serene pastel drawing has graced the cover of “40 Maitres du Pastel” (40 Masters of Pastel) by Pratique des Arts Magazine. This book, written and published in France, is a careful selection of master pastel painters from Degas to Redon and international contemporary artists with thriving careers using this medium. The book…
He points to black collectors and historically black colleges, like Howard University and Atlanta University (now Clark Atlanta University), which were buying work when few others were. Another force was the founding of the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1968 and pioneering exhibitions that began to change the conversation, like one Mr. Gaither organized at…
Attention to detail overflows from Alan Magee’s tool chest. Even at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, you can find yourself having masterpieces like van Gogh’s “Starry Night” all to yourself. The practice of looking very closely at individual paintings is the historical norm. (You can blame or thank Monet for the now-common-series-based gallery show.) In…
Greenhut Galleries • Portland, ME • greenhutgalleries.com • September 3–26, 2015 By: Carl Little Over the years, painter Mary Bourke has developed a signature style. Whether landscape or figure, she presents her subjects in generally warm tones, in a kind of abstracted aura that is appealing to the eye. The 28 acrylic on birch panel…
All installation view and artwork photography by Greg Staley The term “having heart” — living, working and pushing through challenges, with courage, passion and love — aptly applies to Sandra Baccus. At the heart of the term is “art” which also defines her life. Sandra Baccus touched many lives through her altruism and commitment to…
‘Visual Encounters: Recent Work’ is on display through Aug. 29. Falmouth painter David Driskell’s accomplishments, from the American South to South Africa, are already the stuff of history. But sometimes we confuse talking about art with talking about artists. It’s tempting in Driskell’s case: How many Americans, after all, have a dozen honorary doctoral degrees?…
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