David Driskell, artist Photo by Christina Wnek Photography David Driskell is an artist, curator, educator, and scholar who specializes in African-American art. He has contributed significantly to art history scholarship by examining the role of the Black artist in American society. He has authored six books, co-authored four other books, and published more than fifty…
The landscape painter’s autumnal palette is on view at Greenhut Galleries in Portland. by Daniel Kany “Dune” Photos by Kenneth Woisard Photography Tina Ingraham’s “Rocks, Trees, Sand & Sea: Popham to Blue Hill” at Greenhut Galleries is an exhibition of handsome landscapes rendered in a loose, atmospheric style with a limited palette. Ingraham has…
The two artists appear to take a poignant departure in ‘Finding Values’ at the Greenhut Galleries in Portland. by Daniel Kany Henri Matisse’s paintings are deliriously appealing, yet neither their attractiveness nor their brilliance entirely explains their success. Finding the words to explain it eludes even most experts. Words, after all, follow ideas. Words…
The imaginative painters make for a lively duet. By Daniel Kany The paintings of Nancy Morgan Barnes and William Irvine make for a lively pairing. Irvine’s works are bright and seemingly simple coastal landscapes painted with a bold hand and almost cartoonish clarity. Barnes’ landscapes could pass for fairytale illustrations that may have taken…
Despite some crowding, the show is full of thought-provoking work. BY DANIEL KANY Established in 1977 by Peggy Golden, Greenhut Galleries is Portland’s oldest gallery. Frost Gully Gallery in Freeport, which opened in 1966, closed last year, making Greenhut the respected elder of the Portland area gallery scene. Greenhut is now showing “Abstraction,” a rather…
The Hudgens Center is proud to announce its upcoming exhibition, A Creative Adventure in Printmaking: Prints from the Experimental Printmaking Institute, curated by Curlee Holton. This exhibition and collaboration between artists and institutions represent an inspired effort to celebrate the creative process and the sharing of that engagement with audiences of artists, educators and students.…
I’m pleased to present this interview with painter Grant Drumheller where he talks about his background, work, process and thoughts on painting. There will be a solo exhibition at the Prince Street Gallery in NYC December 1 – 29, 2016. The Prince Street Gallery exhibition catalog has an essay by the poet Charles Simic who…
Op-Ed by CHERYL D. EDWARDS I do not advocate segregation or discrimination but I am a strong believer in the documentation and sustainability of African American art and culture. The definition of culture I employ within in this op-ed was stated by anthropologist E. B. Tylor, where he defines culture as “that complex whole which…
One day a few summers ago Joel Babb was painting in his canoe on the Nezinscot River near his home in East Sumner, in Maine’s Oxford County. He was beginning to understand why so many Impressionist and Barbizon School painters of the nineteenth century had houseboat studios: they offered a means of entering the landscape…
In Pennsylvania painter Jeff Bye’s new exhibition, Urban Exploration, the painter examines buildings—interiors and exteriors—that time has forgotten, buildings that have ceded control from their human caretakers to nature’s unrelenting, but painfully slow, grasp. His works of dusty interiors with cracked wood flooring and empty buildings with ominously empty windows evoke a sense of the post-apocalypse, but also of simple urban decay in…
