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…
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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…
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‘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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An upcoming exhibition charts his path back to painting after a cancer diagnosis. NOBLEBORO — John Whalley knew he would be OK when the dice broke his way during a game of Yahtzee. It was one of his regular Sunday night contests with his wife, Ellen, and her 93-year-old mother. The artist was in the…
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Painter Jon Imber’s death came as a shock to those who knew him and his work. Not because it wasn’t evident he was nearing the end, but because his paintings, right up until the last, were buoyant, tender, and thrumming with life, like the artist himself. Diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in fall of 2012,…
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