On May 6, 2016 “The Green Fuse” an oil on canvas painting (76×54 in.) sold for $36,000 at Barridoff Auction. It was the highest sale price for a living artist in this auction. Joel Babb’s solo show of new work will be exhibited at Greenhut Galleries this coming October. The show will be up from…
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Now in the permenant collection of the Bates Museum of Art, David Driskell’s Doorway Portfolio is on view from April 8th – August 27th. In the twelve sumptuous serigraphs in this portfolio, David C. Driskell “ … represents the doorway as a passage between two worlds — interior and exterior, material and spiritual, real and…
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David Driskell At Home in Maine Setting down northern roots By Carl Little Photographs by Rodney D. Moore Pine trees such as these depicted in Pines, a 1973 oil on canvas, have a spiritual aspect for Driskell as symbols of eternity. Maine is among the least diverse states in America—about 95 percent white according to…
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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…
DetailsA 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…
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“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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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