Known for her pictures of Maine’s libraries, the painter turns her attention to the backsides of cities in a show at Greenhut Galleries in Portland. BY BOB KEYESSTAFF WRITER Share “Outbound” by Alison Rector, a painting of the railroad station in Springfield, Massachusetts. Photo by Jay York, courtesy of Alison Rector Alison Rector spent much of the past…
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Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Henry Isaacs packing up his wheelchair and heading off to Nepal to paint Mount Everest is that this upcoming once-in-a-lifetime adventure won’t even be the most remarkable thing that’s happened in the painter’s life. Isaacs, a Maine artist who paints lively and wildly colorful landscapes, is resisting the effects…
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By Dan Kany Maine Sunday Telegram February 24, 2019Greenhut Exhibit Shows Bleak Future for the Planet, but Bright One for Gallery Portland has seen a recent blossoming of art venues, but the gallery scene has shifted to Rockland, which has more than 20 commercial galleries. Portland’s growing strength includes multiple museums, academic galleries, nonprofit kunsthalles…
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Greenhut Galleries owners John Danos and Kelley Lehr announce a new community arts space in East Bayside, opening this spring. 71 Cove Street Portland’s East Bayside neighborhood might never be called an arts district. But with the prospect of a second new community center opening this spring with an arts-centric mission, it might become an…
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For the past 10 years, painter, author, and illustrator Daniel Minter has raised awareness of the forced removal in 1911 of an interracial community on Maine’s Malaga Island. GORHAM, Maine — Near the entrance to OTHERED: Displaced from Malaga at the University of Southern Maine Gallery, in Gorham, is a drone photograph of Malaga Island…
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Picture Book Biographies to Dazzle a Fact-Loving Child By Julie Just Nov. 9, 2018 At a literacy center in Brooklyn where I volunteered a couple of years ago, I was often surprised by which books would catch a child’s eye. It was not always the ones with bold jackets or zany titles, as I somehow…
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Written by: Bob Keyes Photo courtesy of Tom Paiement Tom Paiement’s studio on the third floor of an old building in downtown Bath includes a former Masonic meeting hall. He paints in one room and hangs his finished paintings in the hall, which offers wall space as plentiful as any gallery in Maine. He’s enjoyed the…
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The Museum of Fine Arts recently acquired one of his cityscapes. by Bob Keyes, staff writer Artist Joel Babb poses for a photo in his studio in Sumner on August 24. Staff photo by Gregory Rec SUMNER — It was on the streets of Rome where Joel Babb became a painter, and it was above…
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