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A year-long celebration winds down

Drawing to an end
Throughout 2011, June Fitzpatrick has done more than her share in highlighting the medium of drawing in the context of the state-wide project "Where to Draw the Line."

By: BRITTA KONAU | December 14, 2011

They, and Gideon Bok, are nothing but subjective

Time and perspective
Commonly artists prefer to work away from public scrutiny, shielded from revealing the awkward phases of creation, to emerge with a finished work of art that will last, if not for eternity, at least for quite a while.

By: BRITTA KONAU | November 23, 2011

Intricate works on paper by one of Maine’s best abstract artists

Complete in themselves
Geometric shapes like rectangles and circles have been the formal ingredients of some of the most sophisticated abstract art.

By: BRITTA KONAU | October 26, 2011

Abstract artists look at craft

A show of hands
Abstraction is currently getting a lot of attention in Portland.

By: BRITTA KONAU | September 28, 2011

Multiple layers of looking

One beautiful head and another's questions
Dan Dowd's installation "Anna Hepler's Head" fills the cavernous space of the Coleman Burke Gallery with photographs and three-dimensional objects that light-heartedly ask serious questions about artistic observation and the transmission of visual information in general.

By: BRITTA KONAU | August 31, 2011